Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones and coming up we'll be hearing from a former Prime Minister of Iceland who is worried about the future of her native language.
The younger generation is really surrounded by all sorts of material, mainly in English.
They're playing video games, they are watching TikTok videos,
YouTube stuff, and of course all this is just one click away.
And it's good that they learn to speak English.
However, when we don't have the same amount of material in Icelandic,
it's very difficult to compete.
Defending Icelandic a little later, but we begin in Brazil.
And that is the sound of thousands of protesters on the streets of Belém,
as the UN's Climate Conference COP30 takes place there, reaching the halfway stage now.
Some of the protesters included indigenous Brazilian communities,
youth groups, climate activists from across the world.
And here's some of what they had to say.
I wish world leaders would understand that there is no point in exploiting more oil,
more mining, because the forests get no longer endure abuse.
the climate is not negotiable.
Why don't we want more projects that kill our Shingu River?
It is dying.
And they still want to build more mines.