amy: mohamed nasheed, former president of the maldives and climate justice champion. recently survived and recovered from an assassination attempt in may. he is now speaker of the parliament of the maldives. as he talks to us from glasgow, there is a large slowly rotating globe that is suspended over the climate u.n. hall. coming up, was due to the prominent british climate lawyer farhana yamin. she was arrested after gluing both of her hands to the ground outside the shell building in central london. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. as closed-door negotiations continue at the u.n. climate summit in glasgow, climate activists are taking to the streets outside the cop demanding united states and other large polluters agree to drastic cuts in carbon emissions to save the world from a climate catastrophe. on wednesday, police arrested at least five people as hundreds of extinction rebellion members held a protest against cporate grnwashing athe cop. turn now to one

. >> brangham: mohamed nasheed is the former president of the maldives, and now speaker of parliamenttry was experiencing, he famously staged a cabinet meeting underwater. his country has to spend half its national budget adapting to climate change. >> if the plet heats about 1.5 degrees, that's a death sentence on the people of the maldives. the maldives and many low-lying islands and many coastal areas will find it difficult to survive, and we will have large amounts of people on the move. many climate refugees. and i think the instability that would create would be far worse than addressing the issue right now. >> brangham: janine felson is another veteran of these climate summits. she's the deputy head of the delegation from belize, and also the lead negotiator on climate finance for the alliance of small island states. >> climate change has very, very different impacts across the globe. but for countries that are already in vulnerable situations, they are existential impacts. these extreme events can take away years and years of what people who are already vulnerable have taken t