Protesters broke through security lines and entered the venue of the COP30 UN climate talks on Tuesday night in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.<\/p>\n
BBC journalists saw UN security staff running behind a line of Brazilian soldiers shouting at delegates to immediately leave the venue.<\/p>\n
Videos posted online showed people storming the COP30 entrance shouting and carrying placards reading “our forests are not for sale”.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian government told the BBC that the protesters appeared to be from indigenous and political groups. <\/p>\n
Protesters crossed the first security barriers of the venue and were then prevented from getting further in, the UN told the BBC. <\/p>\n
Videos on social media showed tussling between protesters, some wearing what appeared to be traditional indigenous dress, and security guards. <\/p>\n
It is highly unusual breach of security in a conference that usually has strict protocols.<\/p>\n
A security guard told the Reuters news agency he was hit in the head by a drum thrown by a protester. <\/p>\n
The COP30 talks are hosting delegates from almost 200 countries, including senior politicians from across the world.<\/p>\n
They are being held in Bel\u00e9m on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, which is home to dozens of indigenous groups.<\/p>\n
Many are vocal critics of the environmental damage caused by climate change and deforestation.<\/p>\n
An indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community told Reuters, “we can’t eat money,” and that they were upset about development in the rainforest.<\/p>\n
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers,” he said.<\/p>\n
The meetings have been dubbed “the Indigenous peoples COP” as the Brazilian organisers have promised to put them front and centre of the talks.<\/p>\n
Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva told the opening of the summit that the world must “defeat” climate denialism and fight fake news.<\/p>\n
President Lula said “COP30 will be the COP of truth” in an era of “fake news and misrepresentation” and “rejection of scientific evidence”.<\/p>\n
At the opening ceremony, members of the Guajajara indigenous group, in traditional dress, performed a welcome song and dance for assembled diplomats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters broke through security lines and entered the venue of the COP30 UN climate talks on Tuesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}