Police begin to remove climate activists who glued themselves on top of a Dockland Light Railway train at Canary Wharf station in east London as part of the ongoing climate change protests in the capital on Wednesday April 17, 2019.
Its unclear just how much disruption that has caused - but more than 300 people have now been arrested after 3 days of protests in London over climate change.
Today, activists have halted trains at Canary Wharf-a financial hub of the city-with two protesters climbing a train vehicle and another supergluing his hand to a train window.
The protest saw more than a thousand people block off central London's Waterloo Bridge and lay trees in pots along its length.
Police officers then climbed up onto the train roof to unstick the protesters before removing them.
The protesters call themselves "Extinction Rebellion", and are part of an global group of climate change activists committed to "showing the world" they "will not idly stand by while the earth burns" according to the official website.
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Superintendent Matt Allingham responded to the demonstrations on public transportation saying, "We will not tolerate any activity which disrupts the millions of passengers who rely on using the rail network in London".
"This additional pressure is deeply damaging to London's economy and reputation", said Jace Tyrrell, chief executive of the New West End Company, which represents businesses in the area. Police have made almost 300 arrests in connection to the activist's multi-day protest so far.
Police carry away a climate change activist blockading Waterloo Bridge on the third day of an environmental protest by the Extinction Rebellion group, in London on April 17, 2019.
XR say this set of protests will take place in at least 80 cities and more than 33 countries, including the US, Denmark and Australia.
Sixty-two people were also arrested at an offshoot protest near New York's City Hall at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday.
In Oxford Circus, dozens of activists flocked around a bright pink boat, daubed with the words "Tell the Truth", as police vans gathered at the corner. Come to London to stay - this is not a one-day march. Adding that if Darwin were alive today, he would be "appalled by the huge extinction we are causing. the worst extinction event in 65 million years". "We're here because we don't want violence - to ourselves, to the world, to anything".
"It's going to take everything we've got to get there".
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