By Jack Newman For Mailonline
Published: 22:51 GMT, 9 March 2019 | Updated: 22:52 GMT, 9 March 2019
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Climate change protesters have poured 200 litres of fake blood outside Downing Street, covering children in the red liquid.
Around 400 members of Extinction Rebellion protesting the Government's inaction on environmental matters marched from Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square armed with buckets of fake blood.
Police watching the protests did not make any arrests as the protesters wanted to make 'viscerally clear' the seriousness of potential ecological dangers.
Climate change protesters descended on Downing Street and poured 200 litres of fake blood on the ground
The blood, representing 'the blood of our children' was made of water, food colouring, cornflour and syrup
Extinction Rebellion hold the Government responsible for a lack of action on environmental problems
The blood, made from a mixture of syrup, food colouring, water and cornflour, symbolised the 'blood of our children' and Extinction Rebellion hold the Government responsible for 'sending our children to their deaths'.
The group said they were prepared to risk arrest for the protest.
Paolo, 61, a translator, said: 'We are here to mourn the
