A reporter captured the bizarre moment a council meeting was invaded by climate change protesters dressed in swimming costumes.
Campaigners marched into the chamber at a meeting of Derbyshire County Council on Wednesday.
Councillors had just sat down to begin discussions, according to DerbyshireLive .
Burton Live's local democracy reporter Eddie Bisknell shot footage of a group of protesters from Extinction Rebellion who were carrying banners saying "If not now, when?"
There were also shouts from the protesters calling for, "Climate justice now".
Councillors at the meeting at County Hall looked on in shock as the protest took place while they were about to begin a debate on special educational needs funding.
Some councillors walked out, although others sat and watched the protesters as they shouted and chanted.
Council officials then evacuated the chamber, with councillors and the press asked to leave.
A second video showed the protesters being escorted out of the room while still shouting. The meeting resumed when the protesters left.
A spokesman for the county council said: "We have procedures in place to manage public presence at our meetings.
"Our council meeting today was briefly interrupted by climate change protestors and resumed immediately when they left."
It has not yet been revealed officially why the group targeted the county council and this meeting. Extinction Rebellion has been approached for comment by Burton Live.
Mr Bisknell told Burton Live: "A member of the public asked a question about progress towards cutting carbon emissions and they had clearly arranged all this to link in with the questioner."
The group has a strategy of 'non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience – a rebellion' because members believe mankind is heading for extinction.
It wants governments to declare a "climate and ecological emergency" and take immediate action to address climate change.
Some activists have previously glued themselves to trains and to the entrance of the London Stock Exchange. Some marched on Heathrow Airport and others chained themselves up.
