UK News Tube delays: Extinction Rebellion causes rush hour chaos

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Chaos broke out the Tube today after Extinction Rebellion climate protesters caused severe delays and disruption on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and Jubilee Line.

Furious commuters dragged a protester from the roof of a Jubilee Line train at Canning Town station in dramatic scenes as they appeared to attack him.

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Meanwhile commuters into London’s financial districts faced a morning of rush hour misery.

Transport for London (TfL) said there is no service from Bank/Tower Gateway to West India Quay/Poplar on the DLR while it deals with the protests.

Extinction Rebellion protesters pulled from top of Tube train after protests disrupt morning commute for thousands

Hundreds of angry commuters could be seen shouting at the activists to get down , while others hurled objects at them. In one clip, a man can be seen dragging one of the activists off the train to the floor by his foot. © @CharWilkoo/PA Wire Extinction rebellion protesters were pulled from the top of a Tube train in Londont this morning. A member of TfL staff appears to intervene to stop people from attacking the male protester. There are delays on the Jubilee line and Docklands Light Railway following the incident.

Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a nonviolent global environmental movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the

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Extinction Rebellion protests had also shut down services on the Jubilee Line from North Greenwich to Stratford, although as of 7.50am TfL reported only minor delays.

The climate change protest group had aimed to shut down the stations of Shadwell, on the DLR, and Canning Town, on the Jubilee Line.

At least one protester glued themselves to the roof of a DLR train at Shadwell station, with Extinction Rebellion calling the disruption “necessary to highlight the emergency and immediate action needed to avert climate catastrophe”.

The protests sparked fury among some commuters, however, and resulted in apparently violent scenes at Canning Town when an activist was dragged from the top of a train to the platform.

Extinction Rebellion’s decision to target London’s tube follows a day of protests in the centre of the Square Mile on Monday, when activists demanded banks stop funding the fossil fuel industry.

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Extinction Rebellion Tube ban – are the protesters banned and what disruption have they caused ? But rush - hour commuters appeared to have reached their wits end after a week of chaos caused by the climate change group's London protests.

Organisers said: "The international rebellion begins and Extinction Rebellion will be bringing London to a standstill for up to two weeks. A spokeswoman for The Royal Parks said Extinction Rebellion had not asked for permission to begin the protest in Hyde Park and that camping is not allowed.

The protest group said today’s actions are “intended to bring further economic disruption to the capital as part of the ongoing campaign to convince the government to take meaningful action on the climate and ecological emergency”.

“We do not want to be doing this,” the protest group said. “We are at the end of the business as usual line, it is time to stop harming the world in which we live and begin repairing.”

British Transport Police (BTP) warned Extinction Rebellion against taking such action yesterday.

Assistant chief constable Sean O’Callaghan said: “Disrupting Tube services could create a dangerous scenario where some trains are stuck within tunnels with hundreds of passengers on board. Likewise, trespassing or obstructing Tube services could create a serious hazard to protesters.

“Nevertheless, we will have a number of additional officers on patrol, in particular those trained in protestor removal. Those who are responsible for unlawfully disrupting the network can expect to be arrested for obstructing the railway, a very serious offence which could lead to imprisonment.”

Extinction Rebellion admits tube protest was 'a huge own goal'

Extinction Rebellion called the clashes between protesters and commuters at a tube station on Thursday “regretful” as the group admitted the incident was “a huge own goal”. Ugly scenes erupted at Canning Town early on Thursday morning after eco-demonstrators climbed on top of a train at the east London station. Viral footage showed one of theExtinction Rebellion protesters kicking a commuter in the head as people clambered to tear him from the roof of the carriage.XR spokesperson Fergal McEntee told LBC’s Nick Ferrari on Friday morning that he thought the strike had been a “huge own goal”.

EXTINCTION REBELLION protesters have sparked travel chaos in London this morning on the underground and DLR. One person tweeted: “ Extinction Rebellion sat on trains at Shadwell. You are not giving any sympathy to your cause by stopping people getting to work.”

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O’Callaghan added that the Tube is one of London’s greenest transport networks, saying Extinction Rebellion has contradicted the point of its own protests by targeting the London Underground.

Some of the UK’s biggest banks have defended themselves against Extinction Rebellion’s protests. Santander said on Monday that it is “one of the leading providers of green finance in the world, raising close to €50bn [£43.4bn] between 2015 and 2018”.

More to follow.

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