Throwing Soup on a Painting

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A man set himself on fire in New York to draw attention to climate change. He died, but his wife said it didn't work and the news cycle moved on. She says her group is not just throwing soup on a painting; they also scale dart for bridge hundreds of feet into the air and shut that bridge. The way I see it is like there's a brick wall that is the current system," she says. "It seems completely immovable, completely impenetrable"

Tensions are simmering in London as climate protesters turn up the heat on their soup-flinging activism. Rishi Sunak’s government is attempting to keep the situation from boiling over.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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