The Latest Breaking News from Luetzerath

Germany's Greens party can weather disapproval from its environmentalist base over its role in approving the demolition of a village to expand a coal mine if it uses that concession to accelerate other climate policies, activists and analysts say.

Greta Thunberg was carried away from an environmental protest by police after rejoining opponents of a coal mine expansion. Protests against the destruction of a small village in Germany to make way for the expansion were stepped up today, with the Swedish climate activist joining a march near the site.…

Activists march in Luetzerath against a plan to tear down the village to build a coal mine extension.

Around 6,000 protesters - including climate activist Greta Thunberg - marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned the forced removal of protesters from an abandoned village in western Germany as outrageous during a visit to the site, where demonstrators have dug in to try to stop the expansion of a coal mine.

Above the din of bulldozers and the shouts of hundreds of climate activists facing off against riot police in the western German village of Luetzerath on Thursday, two violinists bid their own farewell to the place set for demolition.

Riot police backed by bulldozers removed scores of activists from buildings in an abandoned village in western Germany on Thursday in a second day of confrontations over the expansion of a coal mine.

Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to hold out against its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine

Protestors who had camped out in trees and tents were seen "screaming" as they were forced out of a village yesterday to make way for a controversial new coal mine