From the BBC World Service… The U.K.’s target for lowering carbon emissions has been criticized as unobtainable. Activists shareholders at the Barclays bank’s annual general meeting. Plus, we look at the rise of female gambling addicts.
A climate change activist in a hammock occupying Oxford Circus in the busy shopping district of central London on April 18, 2019 uses a megaphone on the fourth day of an environmental protest by the Extinction Rebellion group. - Nearly 300 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said on April 17.