Around 6,000 demonstrators, including Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, have gathered in western Germany to protest the clearance of a village to make way for the expansion of a controversial coal mine.

Protesters marched through Keyenberg, close to the demolished village of Luetzerath, chanting: "Every village stays" and "You are not alone". Police said some activists attempted to break through barriers around the Garzweiler coal mine, with a group entering the mine.

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