Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks

Activist says authorities have 'handed a megaphone to the corporations and taken the megaphone away from the social movements'

French authorities are enforcing "unprecedented restrictions on civil society" at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said.

Klein said the ongoing talks were a victim of austerity as the French government had failed to provide adequate state funding, leading to heavy sponsorship by corporations. Meanwhile authorities have imposed a ban on mass protests around COP21, as the conference is known, in the wake of last month's terror attacks in Paris.