Climate group reports influx of support as Extinction Rebellion protests continue

Protesters’ boat becomes focus of action as Emma Thompson and Greta Thunberg give movement impetus

The siege of the Berta Cáceres started started shortly after noon when police in high-vis jackets surrounded the bright pink boat in Oxford Circus, central London, with two cordons and then steadily peeled off the Extinction Rebellion activists stuck to it.

Officers with angle grinders cut through the bars below the hull of the vessel, named after the murdered Honduran environmental activist, which protesters had chained and glued themselves to.

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