Angela Merkel stands behind climate truants

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the students who demonstrate weekly for a better climate during school hours.

'I totally agree that schoolchildren are taking to the streets for the protection of the climate and are fighting for it,' Merkel said in a podcast.

Pupils go to the streets every week in Germany under the motto FridaysForFuture, following the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. He walked this week in a protest march in Hamburg. 'Politicians and people in power have been away for too long to do nothing to stop the climate crisis,' she said.