London CNN — British actress Emma Thompson on Friday climbed aboard a pink boat that has occupied one of central London’s main traffic intersections for the past five days as climate change activists protest in the UK capital. Since Monday, the British-based Extinction Rebellion group has orchestrated non-violent mass protests, crippling some of city’s major traffic routes – including at …
More than 500 protestors have now been arrested in London over the last four days, the latest of whom by an army of 100 or more police officers who swarmed into Oxford Circus at around 4pm to detain Extinction Rebellion activists who have brought central London to a standstill all week. Pictured: An Environmental campaigner confronts a police officer at …
