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Images show Berlin's Brandenburg Gate splattered with orange paint after activists from the "Last Generation" ("Letzte Generation") environmental collective spray-painted the six pillars of the emblematic monument to warn of the urgency of global warming and demand a change in the German government's policy. The movement is calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels by 2030 at the latest. Police arrested around ten activists near the gate, some of whom were still sitting on the ground, handcuffed. IMAGES
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, climate activists from the collective 'Last Generation' scale the Brandenburg Gate and display a banner calling for 'survival for all'. It is the latest in a series of civil disobedience actions from the environmental protest group -- including targeting paintings in museums -- to draw attention to the fight against global warming. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
Demonstrators gather in front of the Paris City Hall to take part in worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming at a crunch UN climate summit. IMAGES
Washington (USA), Oct 13 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Michel Reynolds) Hundreds of climate activists gathered in front of the White House to ask US President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop all new fossil fuel projects.
Bogor, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).-Indonesian activists gathered at the Ciliwung river to collect waste ahead of World Cleanup Day.World Cleanup Day will be observed globally on September 18, with litter cleanup and waste mapping activities. (Camera: BAGUS INDAHONO)SHOT LIST: ACTIVISTS CLEAN THE CILIWUNG RIVER IN KATULAMPA DAM, BOGOR, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA.