Extinction Rebellion: Saving the world or wasting police time?
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceProtest group Extinction Rebellion's fight against climate change is making headlines - most recently when they stripped almost naked in the House of Commons. The Victoria Derbyshire programme went behind the scenes with the group, which urges people to break the law to save the world.
We filmed members as they blocked traffic in central London - playing cat and mouse with the police - and as young members glued themselves to the entrance of a fracking conference.Group founder Roger Hallam says he has spent years studying how to achieve social change "The police will go to government and say, 'We're not doing it anymore,'" says Mr Hallam."They're not there to start arresting 84-year-old grannies or 10-year-old kids, there has to be a political solution."The group's headquarters is in a slightly unexpected spot, the top of a corporate building in Euston which also houses a construction company and a fashion brand.
They are also taught what to do when they are arrested - how to make it more difficult for police to pick them up and their legal rights once they get to the police station.The Taxpayers' Alliance says their behaviour is"clearly irresponsible and wasting police time".
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