It's the campaign group, the Extinction Rebellion,
which has brought Regent Street to a standstill this afternoon.
There's got to be at least 2,000 protesters here
and just behind me, they've managed to bring down a pink boat
which has literally been drilled into the floor.
We are just here facilitating the peaceful project at the moment.
We're literally going around and talking to them.
As you'll see, there's lots of officers around, we're chatting to the protesters…
So far, they've had music and then they've gone and had their sort of festival in the road.
I'm missing meetings continuously today.
I've had to drive all the way round,
as Bayswater Road's closed.
I'm half an hour late for a meeting already.
I've got a meeting at one o'clock, which I will not be there for.
Everybody has to go to the low-emission zone now.
I'm a minicab driver, if I pay 25 pounds and I get 20, what's the point?
People need to understand the effects of climate change.
And people need to be aware of them.
And if this is what it takes, that's what it takes.
In terms of perhaps repelling people away from environmentalism by causing this mad disruption.
You see all the marchers, you know, there's loads of them and people will get out there
and maybe have a good time or maybe have a rumble if they're that way inclined
but does it change anything?
So the idea of, you know, civil disobedience, is that it should change things.
We've been building a bench for people to basically sit around and just hang out and chill out.
I was just passing by and I've seen him struggling with the bench,
I wasn't actually part of the protest and I decided to help out really
because I'm a tradesman so I can do it.
So why not, got nothing else to do
and I trust in it, it's serious stuff.
Protecting our planet is important, do you know what I mean?
I'm working but because of this protest we kind of stopped.
We're waiting for deliveries today.
Because of the protest, they can't get in, in time.
They've been sent away.
I'm collecting skips, just here.
Yeah.
It slows everything down.
which is good in some ways.
If you slow the work down, they'll start notice, don't they?
Government will lose money that way.
Government are doing nothing about it and our kids are going to grow up into what?
They've got to grow up out with something, don't they?
If we don't do nothing now, it will never happen.
I think the idea is to get it out of the area so …
I've got people in the hotel waiting for the stuff I've got on.
But obviously I can't get to it now with all this lot.
Horrendous.
And the police are just stood there, watching.
If this was anything but caucasian people, there would have been armed police officers,
and a big problem.
Just letting you know.
I've seen people smoke weed over there
but it's a problem when anyone else does it.
Because it's all right for 500 odd people to be standing around, screaming and making noise
but one group of black boys can't go shopping
without being stopped and searched about a million times by a million different officers.
Literally.
It's not right.