On the climate most of us might not have but it could be a bit louder yeah definitely. Canada is sixteen years old and first got involved in the fridays for a future initiative three months ago he set up a group for his district if in a bag during the hamburg rally its his job to report for the groups Instagram Account. So hows it going youre gonna school good the first story has already had thirty nine hundred views. I was bored and. Im young older from pin a bag im going to take you along to the demo in hamburg enjoy a few smiles. And initial photo documents the huge crowds the Instagram Account has more than fifty thousand followers only once a photo of gratitude to post hes hoping to talk to or to my dismay thats gretta i want to get a photo of the. Guard stand around her to hold back the crowds. Gretchen is a huge role model for everyone here shes been on strike every friday for more than six months now. And oleg gets his photo. And for us journalists there is a chance to squeeze in a quick interview with the young star. What is your impression about the stomachs ration here and i think its very big and its very very fun to be here with all these people im very proud to stand with the german students here because they have made history become very huge gemini and i think thats very good. Ok guys let the man through. It is to speak at the rally normally in english lessons on a friday morning now hes about to address a crowd of thousands he just has a few more seconds to study his speech then hes on. One good morning im really glad to be here. From the pretty big district its so cool to see so many people here demonstrating for more action on Climate Change. Its pretty depressing how politicians are ignoring our demands. But i promise you we can do this because were not just another Climate Initiative a movement were the last dam cry for help of a whole generation that did not. Care for germanys traffic policy and Agricultural Policy is a joke just like the german governments climate protection policy in general thats why were here so things finally change. Smile. To one. Everyone were reporting live from the train and were just on our way back from hamburg the demo was amazing with nearly ten thousand people. I credit was there too caught a glimpse of her it was great now were even more motivated and refined and now were going to berlin for the power on conferences where well be meeting with others from all over germany to make plans for the future polish annoyance minds of the. Luna young ola and james are representing their cities in the fridays for future movement. And they are certainly in demand. At this job because i had an invitation today to eat pizza with the social Democrats Parliamentary Party leader. But i turned it down because i needed to pack up and so on its just business like being when they invite you to eat a piece or is it just to discussions as if its a Discussion Group they always do it apparently pizza Party Politics with. A few months ago they were just regular School Students now they are important attending conferences and rallies its a whole new role for them in. The off. Time. The conference starts with a game to get to know each other. But. I doubt. That. The conference is very practical the first subject how to respond when schools dont cooperate. I just heard from the School Director youve all got to stay behind after class. As there are no groups representing fridays for future all over the world in germany theyre active in more than three hundred towns and villages still many of them feel like a lone voice. In the us you know its funny only one in our school whos even slightly motivated to do something about Climate Change so im here to take a stand and start a business. But i. Normally the activists keep in touch through whatsapp and video conferences most of them only know each other from the internet now in small groups they discuss how to organize the strikes and how to deal with the press and politicians they also brainstorm for new ideas. So coming up here you can easily spend an entire weekend just on this do you think you can fathom what you were chief of more than in several weeks worth of whats up chats what. A few days later i visit yarnell at home hes supposed to be doing homework for biology but fridays for a future keeps getting in the way. Hes preparing for the next big demo is being organized through chat groups. Since coming out of school two hours ago hes received more than seventy new messages on his phone. Here in forty groups. That be my guess. As of i got this phone in december and since then ive received one hundred nine thousand messages. In less than three months the sixteen year old has changed from a regular teenager to a full blown environmental activist yarnall his mother supports the protests but its not always easy. You know when can we eat at five theres a telephone conference at six theres another telephone conference at seven the next one would need. To have ten minutes somewhere in between when he can eat with his family. Feeling. In the last few months dinner conversations have centered largely on Environmental Issues and all his family only visor gannett food and eats meat just once a week. But giving up the car has proved too difficult for the Family Living here in the countryside. Little comedy because he keeps telling us its not good and hes right i have to drive a lot for my job and my car is bigger than it needs to be which im now ashamed of but i drive forty thousand kilometers a year from my job so theres conflicting priorities. Of the balance for. Preparations for the Big International action day and all and his fellow activists are hoping to get five hundred students out on the streets in their small town. Two hundred demonstrations have been registered throughout germany thousands of posters have been painted and posted on instagram registering the demo organizing suitable loudspeakers handing out flyers it all takes time the young activists are investing many hours of their free time and still some politicians accuse them of simply wanting to skip school. As if the desired mycenae id say that most of the students at the protests dont want to just miss school gotti offensiveness the voice they want to do something for their future. Thats whats important to them on the shelf youve got many of them have read up a lot of Climate Policy to find out what they can do themselves and what the politicians need to do from what i was depleted to. The strikes are proving a challenge for schools all over the world that young all is School Virtually all the older students were missing on the last strike day they have to catch up on what theyve missed but its not marked as an absence in their school report. Not all german schools are taking a relaxed approach. To School Director niels hold whos in understands his students commitment and up until know the strikes have only been happening every few weeks. When he has no help if the op a school was empty every single friday then wed have to think about want to do. That we would i would or would i but i think there are limits and we would have to impose some kind of sanctions so that we dont have a scenario where we only have a four Day School Week when we feel tired. But on this friday the strike went ahead at nine am this students gathered at the local market instead of going to school. They marched along with four kilometer route through the town hall a set the pace for the School Students and a number of adults to watch the match i ask why you joined the march. On the course my daughter has no time shes gone. Exams coming up. If we think its good that weve come from kind of their former teachers here we totally support it. Were delighted that the young people are so dedicated. Yet yet that task on friday i should table i that the students stop at a local school and challenge the students there to join them right there hoping to further swell the crowd. And sure enough a number of them come along. Others are more interested in enjoying their break time. The set is its mega so far its exceeded all our expectations and way more people than last time more people are coming from each school says island of im its an amazing atmosphere totally awesome i just cant stop smiling right now oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh im across the can i just have your attention weve counted up and we have over five hundred people here thats mega youre all amazing yes i guy. In the end the pain of that march reaches nearly a thousand people worldwide students and adults in one hundred twenty three countries took part in the strike oh marching for the climate and the future of the planet. It. Was. Crimea a fascinating melting pot of peoples and cultures. A place thats filled with history and has witnessed the rise and fall of empires i am strategic territory that has been fought over for centuries i am to the residents of crimea use their identity by a crimea through the ages i am fifteen minutes on d w. Doesnt control. Officer my t. 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