dozens of demonstrations organized throughout France

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4:56 p.m. : In Nantes too, thousands of young people marched in the streets, can we see in these photos published by the Nantes in common Twitter account. Picture Picture (NANTES IN COMMON)

4:50 p.m. : In Stockholm (Sweden), they were also numerous to follow the activist Greta Thunberg. In a video posted on his Twitter accountyoung activists are seen jumping and shouting “we are unstoppable, another world is possible!”

4:46 p.m. : As part of the Climate Peril Strike Day, hundreds of Australian school children gathered outside Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official residence in Sydney to demand action on global warming.

(Muhammad FAROOQ / AFP)

3:00 p.m. : These marches for the climate come as record temperatures for the season were recorded simultaneously at the level of the two poles at the end of last week. In Antarctica, temperatures exceeded seasonal norms by more than 40°C, and deviations of more than 30°C were also observed in the Arctic. “This is unheard of !”, according to Gaétan Heymes, forecasting engineer at Météo France. “Even if the climate in Antarctica is more changeable than in France, the temperature difference could be compared to a heat of 35°C in March in Paris“he explains to franceinfo.

2:38 p.m. : The day starts well in Carhaix (29) with a gathering of a hundred people for a die-in, a chalk workshop, dances! #PeopleNotProfit die-inPeople dancing behind a banner (YOUTH FOR CLIMATE FRANCE)

2:37 p.m. : Today is a new day of youth mobilization against climate peril. Marches and demonstrations are organized throughout France, at the call of the Fridays for future movement. Actions are carried out on all continents, including Antarctica.

2:03 p.m. : It’s 2 pm, it’s time to take stock of the news.

• A Russian military chaplain was killed in Russia by Ukrainian fire. He was in a village on the Russian border, near Kharkiv, the Orthodox Church said. Follow our live.

• Whether in Nantes, Angers, Besançon, Montpellier, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse… Marches have started as part of a world day of youth action. Follow our live.

The number of job seekers (categories A, B and C) is down slightly (-38,900 in February, compared to December).

• In Corsica, the village of Cargèse is preparing to bury the independence activist Yvan Colonna, fatally attacked by a fellow prisoner while he was serving his sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac. All over the island, tributes have multiplied.

12:14 p.m. : Climate marches are currently taking place in several cities around the world.

09:39 : My article with mechanics and motorists from Vendée is part of our operation “Les focuses de franceinfo”, an exploration of four themes that are little covered in the presidential campaign, including the carbon footprint of transport.

09:38 : “The car is a money pit.”

Despite a strong attachment to the car, mentalities are beginning to evolve in the Herbaria sector. By economic opportunism, more than by ecological conviction, the bicycle, carpooling or even the electric car are gaining ground.

(PIERRE MOREL / FRANCEINFO)

09:37 : “I always have customers who prefer to have a big car and eat potatoes all week.”

In this corner of the Vendée bocage, very attached to the car, half of the households have two vehicles. “The Vendéen is very independent, he likes his freedom, and therefore his car”assures the various right mayor, Véronique Besse.

(PIERRE MOREL / FRANCEINFO)

09:35 : Between soaring fuel prices, car maintenance costs and injunctions to pollute less, motorists are not celebrating at the moment. What encourages them to change their habits? With the photographer Pierre Morel, I went to take the temperature in a garage in Les Herbiers, in Vendée. Report.

(PIERRE MOREL / FRANCEINFO)

09:29 : Hundreds of schoolchildren gathered outside the Australian Prime Minister’s official residence in Sydney in a global climate strike. The schoolchildren notably protested against the support of the head of government, Scott Morrison, for the exploitation of coal, which contributes greatly to greenhouse gas emissions.

(Muhammad FAROOQ / AFP)

09:00 : We take stock of the news:

• In Ukraine, the situation in the city of Mariupol, on the Sea of ​​Azov, which was heavily bombarded, is further deteriorating. Ukrainians denounce deportation “en masse” inhabitants to Russia. Follow our live.

Joe Biden is traveling to Poland, to the town of Rzeszow, about 80 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. He will meet American soldiers stationed in this region and give a speech on the war in Ukraine.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally ordered and supervised the firing of the country’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the state news agency reports.

Following the call of Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, a new Global Youth Climate Strike is being organized around the world today.

07:36 : Young New Caledonians gathered in Nouméa, on the occasion of the world march for the climate. Among the slogans on the placards: “You broke my (h)Earth”, “Do you want your Earth, blue, rare or well cooked?” “Earth is the only planet where kouign-amann exists! So let’s save it”, reports New Caledonia The 1st.

06:50 : At the initiative of the Fridays for Future movement, a new day of youth mobilization for the climate takes place today, with rallies organized all over the world. Protesters prepared posters in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Australia…


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