Cop29 and climate activists outside European courts: photos of the day – Tuesday

Baku, Azerbaijan

Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Nick Hague deliver a speech via video link during the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference Cop29

Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Baku, Azerbaijan

Britain’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, speaks at a panel on funding for indigenous people at the Cop29 UN climate summit

Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

The Hague, Netherlands

Supporters of Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth) react outside a Dutch court as it rules in Shell’s appeal over a 2021 court order to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts

Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Edinburgh, Scotland

Climate activists, Greenpeace and Uplift hold a demonstration outside the Scottish court of session as the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing begins. The Rosebank oil and gas field is located in the North Sea, 80 miles (130km) off the coast of the Shetland Islands

Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Benetússer, Spain

A store front is adorned with a sign reading ‘To the people, thank you for everything’ as the area recovers from last week’s widespread flooding. A week after the floods, Spanish authorities confirmed that at least 214 people had died, mostly in the Valencia region

Photograph: Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images

Ilagan, Philippines

A swollen river inundates farm fields and houses at a village in Ilagan town, Isabela province, a day after typhoon Toraji hit. The Philippines issued fresh weather warnings as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago

Photograph: Villamor Visaya/AFP/Getty Images

Sleman, Indonesia

Hindus perform a Pradaksina procession during the Abhiseka ceremony, a ritual to clean and sanctify the purification and sacralisation of Prambanan temple, to commemorate its 1168th anniversary, in Yogyakarta. Prambanan temple is a 9th century Hindu temple complex and a Unesco world heritage site

Photograph: Devi Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

A worker begins the restoration of The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht) by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn at the Rijksmuseum. The first step in the restoration process is the removal of the varnish from the painting

Photograph: Eva Plevier/EPA

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hindus sit together in front of oil lamps and candles, and pray to Lokenath Brahmachari, a Hindu saint and philosopher, as they observe the Rakher Upobash festival at a temple in Dhaka

Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

Rome, Italy

Coins are tossed into a small pool in front of the Trevi Fountain which has been emptied to undergo maintenance work

Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Cullercoats, England

People on Cullercoats beach, North Tyneside, at sunrise

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA