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While in Los Angeles, teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attends a school strike and climate action rally. IMAGES
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
Pilgrims begin arriving for the start of World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. The week-long event is the world's largest Catholic gathering, with around 300,000 people expected to attend this year. World Youth Day kicks off on Tuesday and Pope Francis will attend on Wednesday, his first trip overseas since undergoing surgery. IMAGES
People march in Parkland, Florida to demand tighter firearms laws to curb devastating gun violence plaguing the US, where Republican politicians have repeatedly blocked reforms. March for Our Lives, which is organizing demonstrations around the country, was founded by survivors of the shooting at a Parkland high school in 2018. IMAGES
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
Greta Thunberg speaks in Glasgow at Friday's For Future Scotland mass climate protest. The climate activist called this years' COP26 conference 'a failure' and a 'Global North greenwash festival'. SOUNDBITE