Several arrested as climate activists block major highway in The Hague

Climate activists from the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion blocked traffic at a major entry and exit point to the city of The Hague.

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00:00Several climate activists from Extinction Rebellion were arrested after they blocked a part of a major highway in The Hague on Saturday.

00:09Authorities had banned the protest and police erected screens to try to stop protesters reaching the road on foot.

00:16However, several hundred demonstrators managed to reach the highway.

00:20The police used water cannons to force an end to the blockade.

00:24In recent years, this section of the A12 highway has been regularly blocked by Extinction Rebellion.

00:30It's a long-term protest.

00:34You have to keep going, keep going, keep going to get the fossil subsidies abolished.

00:42You see the fires in Los Angeles.

00:45It's wrong everywhere.

00:47And we have to react much, much faster to the climate crisis.

00:51Some fossil subsidies had previously been abolished, but the new Dutch government is planning to reintroduce them.

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