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Salla (Finland), Feb 14 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Juanjo Galán).- The remote town of Salla, in Finnish Lapland, has become world-famous thanks to an original campaign on social media that aims to raise awareness on climate change through a false candidacy to host the Summer Olympics in 2032.The campaign, called "Save Salla, save the planet", has gone viral and has already reached more than 250 million people through social media since its launch in late January, according to its promoters. SOUNDBITES OF ERKKI PARKKINEN, SALLA MAYOR.
US President Donald Trump has been furiously and hysterically tweeting about various states' ballot-counting processes. He's argued that votes still being counted in vital battleground states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania should be dismissed. However, HuffPost reports he's been dished out the same condescending advice from the same young environmentalist he gave it to. Greta Thunberg tweeted that Trump should 'chill,' 'work on his Anger Management problem' and watch a 'good old fashioned movie with a friend. Trump originally used the 'anger management' line against Thunberg in December 2019 after the teen was named Time’s Person of the Year.
According to reports, Donald Trump has shown Barack Obama's letter to him on inauguration day to Oval Office visitors and others visiting his private White House residence. It has become customary in the US for outgoing presidents to leave letters for their successors with every president doing it since George H.W. Bush wrote one for Bill Clinton.
An unmanned Delta 2 rocket lifts off from California carrying a NASA satellite to measure how much water is in Earth's soil, information that will help track climate change. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).