millions of dollars she also has the highest name recognition of all the alternatives. and he's already a player on the global stage. she's become a leading voice on abortion rights. one of the key issues of the campaign and his prioritize finding solutions for the migration crisis of the us is southern border . but most crucial level, perhaps. in the weeks after the debate, i think companies showed harris had a great the chance to buy a winning the election is riley prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to washington d. c. where he will deliver a landmark speech to the united states congress. ahead of the trip messing yahoo, thank to biden for his contribution to us as well. relations following the president's decision to end his re election campaign. and then send you

a who also said as well will be the united states strongest ally in the middle east . regardless of who is elected in november, dw, corresponding to abraham and jerusalem has more on what to expect from benjamin netanyahu. his visit to washington as well. this is of the visit was obviously planned well before us president biden's announcement to and his a bid for a 2nd term in office. it also comes after a time of really for us to relations between nothing yahoo and biting over israel's conduct of the war in gaza. and more specifically, israel's incursion on rough which the united states had been a quite critical of after you know, sort of more or less unconditionally supporting israel, following the attacks of october, the 7th. and now we're seeing missing yahoo strike a more unified tone given,

given the biden's announcement. he's a good match and yeah, i was expected to address congress and there was a lot of speculation, but that speech would try to play up a, his perceived a, his perceived lack of support from biden's. but we're now hearing, but that speech to congress is likely to strike another uh, you know, more of the, of what we've heard today. more emphasis on the unity and everything that biden has done for a israel. at the same time. this comes at a kind of more or less a low point for that's an yeah, who's popularity, the war and it's not on the 9th month now. and with hostages still being held in gaza. we even saw protesters at the airport here in israel as a the prime minister was leaving, calling on him to try and find another deal that would bring back the remaining

hostages and, and the war in gaza. so considering all those factors just briefly, if you could ask you brought this out and tell us where this leaves us and is really relations, i don't think this is likely to have a huge effect on is really american relations look. even though there have been critical statements coming from washington towards ben, antonia who administration in the conduct of the war, the united states still remains, israel's biggest ally, not just when it comes to providing weapons that have of course contributed to the war in gaza, but also the providing diplomatic cover for israel in international forums like the united nations security council. and so even though there are disagreements, i don't think this really marks a huge departure from the iron clad american support for israel a and to a very large extent, the war. but thank you so much for that. that is our correspondent to abraham in

jerusalem we can bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines, japan is experiencing record high temperatures as the capital tokyo hit 38 degrees celsius. the weather is expected to get even warmer and it's predict at the country could see it's hottest day and a decade. according to an advisory authorities have our citizens to take precautions to prevent heat stroke and stay hydrated. police in greenland have a rest and prominent anti whaling, environmental as paul watson on an international warrant issued by japan, police escorted watson office ship shortly after a dock to the capitol nuke his foundations of the arrest may have been linked to one of his previous anti wailing interventions, 5 people have been killed in a shooting at a nursing home in eastern croatia. police say the gunman fled the scene, but was later arrested. authorities are investigating the motive behind the attack

. or the bank would actually student a group leading protests against civil service. hiring rules have set a 48 hour deadline for the government to meet its demands. they are calling on authorities to restore the internet withdrawal curfews and released obtains protesters more than a 100 people have been killed in classes. the unrest again after the government re introduced a controversial quote, a system where 30 percent of civil service jobs were set aside for the families of veterans. the supreme court drastically scaled back the quote as to 5 percent. look at the latest on the story from that test name, julio, a banquet that she journalist living now in exile in sweden. welcome back to dw, i'd like to start just with an update on the situation. what are you hearing from your contacts in bangladesh? how's the situation there actually comes down as that footage a we just saw suggest it has thank you to the situation has come down

a little bit. we have seen, i mean, we did not see any major flashes interesting dot com but uh, on the other hand uh, i mean people's lives are really, really disrupted. i mean we, we are hearing reports that hospitals are a block bang, so run and go to the blog there. as you know, there are thousands of injured people seeking medical care right now more by the money, the bottom of the chic on him. he's very much dependent on the money that is not working for me. phone connections locally, even though not working. so it's very, very disruptive. it's, it's very, very fluid. i'd have to say that communication has been difficult to, hasn't it? i understand that there has been a nationwide internet blackout in bangladesh for 5 days. now, why do you think the government is restricting the flow of information this way as

well? this is not really surprising because whenever government seen saltisha of the crack down on their own for pollution, they very often cut down shut down internet connections. i mean, we have seen that elsewhere in crush me. for example. you mean the indian look a little bit because she the, whenever there is a crack, don't protest is there the indian government trust on the internet? so similar things are happening. the model of the freight and all of that. but just government when they think that they're going to print, don't very prove to be on the protest is and they don't want the world to really know in real time what is happening in the sense that that whole role of information by just cutting the lawyer having it quite literally sense i want to ask you, um, we've mentioned that the supreme court's decision to change this controversial quota system. so we've mentioned that decision, it is accommodating students demands in a way do you see this as

a victory for the protest movement? because it is a victory, the supreme quote, the judgement or the direction actually confirms what the students have always been saying. they have been saying and claiming that it is not is truly about the quotes . it is actually the executive branch of development that has the authority that has the legal follow to do what do or each one's ridiculous. so even if you look at the like verbal decision that came to disappear include yesterday the quote is seeing exactly the same thing. the government is free to do whatever he wants. the 5 percent a one percent of you know of the most indeed is that the court has mentioned the government is free to use and revise tools. so it is always, that's exactly what the students have been seeing. so the quote really was not an issue. i mean, if the government wanted to dig good, have accepted the students,

3 lead you to meet very valid demand on the want instead of, you know, going into indiscriminate kings of this protest. so is that what this is really about here? um, are there other specific demands that the students have as oh, right now, the movement has completely moved be on the demand for reform to go to the scene. government jobs right now, they're demanding, for example, the resignation of the home. and it's the resignation of the, one of the most senior leaders of the routing on the part, the, the, the of the transportation and the soul. but because they're the one shape i've seen, the prime minister has sales to take full responsibility for all of the motors gives an april of jobs to the nation. they want all the police chiefs who have come on responses you do with the feelings to be fired and i'm in there like a set of 90 months. i know they're not going through that, but those are the major

d months right now. they have and i think these do, mom is a truly have widespread public support inside and outside and can you help us understand how the student protest movement is organized? do you think this is a force that could potentially be politically active in the long term? beyond just this, it is a very good question. i mean, the people who are leading the movement of contract and all of the car in strategical things where some of them, where the leaders of a grass roots movement that we saw in 2000 the deep. okay. and do these were school students and, and they were protesting their where demanding for safety ongoing that issue routes . and that movement was also due to the suppressed. so, i mean, those kids that we saw in 2018 come out in the streets saying that we do not

want to be any longer feed on the streets because of this a terrible safety situation, invalid issue. these are the same people who are extra now organizing and leading these movements. uh, it is a very good christian. i think. i mean these are like a new generation of activities. bundle of dish is with this being the bar to the new generation and they are becoming pretty engaged on some of the most bonding issues in the country. said, well thank you so much for taking the time to share your insights with us. i'm afraid i'm afraid that's all we have time for now. we very much appreciate your time though. that is, it does need a little a banquet sheet journalist joining us today from sweden. so thank you. and just before we go, a very quick reminder of our top story. us president joe biden has ended his re election bid after weeks of pressure from fellow democrats over his agent fitness

by that has endorsed vice president kinda le harris to take on donald trump is november selections. we have time for, for now. you can find more on our website, dw, dot com. i'm glad richardson, thank you so much for watching the

building on the move, the scientists are researching the potential. can it be used as a raw material to produce glass for it? the construction would begin on earth, only natural satellite and the moon could one day be a normal place to live tomorrow today

next on the traditional cultures. and you'll find me what role does culture play versus modernization? we're asking applicant cultures at risk of being erased in the quest for globalization africa was that tough to forget? it starts. this is all they have told us, nothing else has been sold to us. okay. okay. can you, do you think that so if it comes to contributing to this piece of interest in the 77 percent and 60 minutes on d. w. the drawing on innovative senior living alone, we don't expect much living with them anymore. this is not a good environment,

not for me. not for my children without civil rights and with no prospect. but what can we do in david shutter stock august 3rd on dw, the. the final approach recorded by the onboard camera on the chinese chunk o 6 lunar pro, as it landed on the far side of the moon in early june 2024. also on board was an instrument belonging to the european space agency, a sub which for the 1st time detected the presence of negative ions on the lunar surface. that will help scientists to better understand the chemical composition of moving the stuff us, which is also called regulus blankets the surface of the moon. the lunar pro brought to p loads of it, back to earth. one day regular might be used to build and count post on the moon,

the office, and more on this edition of dw science magazine. welcome to tomorrow. today. it might be boston literally. but the moon is in vogue again. even the powdery layer of the moon dust on the surface, holds hidden treasure for ultimate, on the moon, this just re decimal, the regular hazel need some difficulty gets the source of rule materials that we could exploit to be built. and that's something you couldn't. somebody, we could build the streets on the moon, on landing sites, where rockets could longdon take off again from light on. stop motion inside, excuse me. we want to make use of that roll material. what's called the only one that's available to us to build infrastructure on the main streets habitat. so all the things we wouldn't want to bring them on for the adamant at the technical

university of. but then students are testing how this sons energy might be harnessed to build routes on the moon. using a bit of artificial mean dost, on sizes came up and the system has a solar sensor, which means the lens higher level to the sun set 2 mirrors of directing the lights, the ground. god often wouldn't picked up. the energy from just a few rays of sun are enough to mount the sand team. we'd like to see a system under rugs on building roads from watched on the moon. dusk becomes astonished. instead of whirling around and cutting up kids and all that, i'm screaming so bad in research is i can't figure out how named us could be used to make things like gloss and brakes. bringing payloads from the s to the moon is precipitously expensive. this computer, there are a lot of providers who want to transport things to the move to it, which would cost about a 1000000 euros. a key load. i remember, you know, the substances to recreate moon dust in on this can be found. the volcanoes light

plus salt and felt spot, which should be as strong as possible. he didn't of i came chamber at 1400 degrees celsius. the material tends into a lot, are thoughts resulting most and mean reckless looks promising. because one of the new ones done this yet with this you've done it in a vacuum and it's really impressive when mainly hoping to build habitats. how's these like structures the solar cells on the maintenance of the possibilities of and some moon dust is more granular. i'm not quite as smooth interest as dusty on this home i'm and looks like we have 2 main ingredients, bustle containing material on the notes assignment of old tonic material. they can be mixed together to create various luminous soils. moon dust contains no volta, but at 1500 degrees celsius can still make brakes with the monthly lock. the oven used to meet your brakes would have to be broad on a copy built on the moon. but

a 100 kilo oven could process and produce many times the material included in generating energy on the moon is also feasible. in theory, the sun shines very brightly and never, no clouds. so electricity could be produced using solar cells along with the brakes . the students in berlin have been able to make gloss to the gloss, needs to be as light people as possible. then it can be turned into a some of the so here at the university of puts them so that the glass needs to be as thin and transparent as possible. yeah. come on. we have one, we one chip which is pearl guide. so the styles on main gloss with more so the gloss with the mind moulton made on the noun, and then a micro millimeter layer of the world sky would be applied to it. the pearl street is a synthetic crystalline material that can be dissolved into a solvent. in

a vacuum chamber, it can be sprayed and then even co tons of cut off. then some copper is applied at a lower temperature for all sky office. many advantages over the use of silicon and back home and out of space that's cause make radiation which can sometimes not can awesome. i would replace them to fix that leads to a dfcs that damages the so to sound full but pearls guided. so sullivan hope that if an optimist is slow, she could just fly back into position. so the, so the cell could remain functional for decades, even you know, to space the finish. so the cell is made of 2 glass plates with a layer, referrals sky t in the middle. now they'll see if it works in a vacuum. the soda side is placed on to an occupational some a moment later, it's generating electricity. yeah. wow. 10 percent. wow. yeah, so is leaving a soda, so then we throw one t low of pearl sky onto the me,

and that would give us a full 100 square me to layer 3. volleyball court was done, which could generate $500.00 killer watts of power researches all over the world, developing new technologies for exploring space, the biggest private competitive for luna. so the sales is blue origin founded by jeff, but he's also the admin can shop on it. so they were able to build a silicon so to solve it with an efficiency of 6 percent. oh, these 10 percent. so we're doing better than blue origin, yet that that blue are region in this race to the main, the goal isn't just to plant a flag or collect a few pieces of land wrong stink for guns, klein, i'm fine with the very small scale loss. and then using the energy from the 1st so the south will make the next one is my room and eventually have a small town on the moon us, which would continue to grow. somehow for century,

often the 1st lunar landing people are aiming even higher. they want to live on them in the germany ranks among one of the top 3 most popular countries to study and in the world one and 5 students. and for many universities come from abroad. what many of them don't realize just split, it can take a bit of time at 1st to true. feel at home here i always saw germany as a paradise. but my 1st day here in berlin, i good luck. my name is leg i am from cuba. i mean, i've exchange here and burden a nice 30 architecture. i say we're starts and expectations, and this is how i see germany. now. we have the assumption of thinking that germany is the birthdays because of the way that they reconstructed themselves because of

their technology. because of the products that they do and i can picture living and burning. it's not that much a part of those. it's not that easy to find the job as you would say. it's not that's clean, that's the one thing it is. now i can see the more real phase of learning maybe more casual, less formal. but that's what i like actually from the city. all of those aspects you would think about germany. so my reality and some are not the 1st day that i arrived here, they went to a coffee shop. i didn't know that it was a sketchy place to be in berlin. 3 guys approach were asking for money. i said they had no money, but then they took lights. and at that moment they gave them the money. i started running the this my dad is the german,

my parents both what to me and my brother to learn some german. they thought that having the 3rd language would be amazing plus your life the can you to let the difference is that they bullshit the study. and that's how you learn. they pushing, especially in architecture, you're under of almost the command of the teacher. and you're in germany, you're more free to do what you want to find your own bed the monday than i expected. i have time, but i didn't expect to have to in germany. i was expecting for something way more intensive in germany. they enjoyed the process more, they use the free time to learn by themselves. the,

there's no much competition between students being too loose. we were like trying to compete to get a better rate than the other or whatever the german people are sometimes run fish, especially in the industry. it's riding the bike. they are quite grumpy. yeah. they've cream to me because of the writing, so slow or making it, sir, and they're all way. so yeah, it's good coverage for the knowing german living in berlin. it's important. i think you have to learn at least the basics of the german thoughts. i know respect basically if they're really interested in knowing what i'm doing here as i think they're nursing those students

. they like to talk. they like to ask questions about where i come from the german. so i've been pretty me really well here, and they're really accepting me. so yeah, i feel like, oh, the chile is especially interesting, the scientists, in part because of the extreme variation and it's landscape snow covered mountains in the andes. strange glacier formations in the south. and the to come a desert, one of the most parched regions in the world. here astronomers use high tech telescopes to observe the skies. and there's also a rather special power plant here. the set of domains that the plant is located in the after comic desert of western shit. a 10600 mirrors are directing solar radiation to the top of the tower. the mirrors here are replacing solar cells.

they're concentrated light keeps up molten salt. it's pumped to the top of the tower, where it reaches temperatures of more than $500.00 degrees celsius. the salt stores the heat, allowing the true buttons at the towers base to generate electricity, even when the sun is in china. what does is it on my cell? i mean this technology allows us to store energy over a long time, then think what the road us see the money we can put her on it and 24 hours a day. 7 days a week, lou to a contract and then we'll see how this technology will help us in our fight against fossil fuels, especially gas and polls. incredible. and one of the biggest obstacles to renewables is storage. that's where fossil fuels have a key advantage. molten salt could be the game changer, a continuous controllable source of energy that can be stored to balance out nature's unpredictability. the mixture of salts matters to here at the university

of onto full gas. the researchers are working to optimize the recipe and further boosted storage capacity. or the these days we use a mix that's called solar salt because it's made of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate and need that i believe that that makes is especially well suited to storing heat inputs and which allows us to stay online 24 hours a day and even when there's no incoming solar energy to line it keeps on in an insulated tank, the super heated solid can store energy over weeks and months very efficiently. the researchers believe a thermal battery could be used that we used for about 30 years. in principal various salts could be used for the mixture, depending on cost and local availability. all those factors play a role in optimizing the solar solved recipe. its cost effectiveness and its properties, but there's another problem. salts are very corrosive. whichever

thing at the federal youth. and so there's still plenty of room to advance this technology in terms of the storage materials and the materials used for containers like as tanks on pipes and empty homes, that they all bring their own challenges in which we have to investigate. it totally must be things like corrosion via and help them. once you realize you don't have during the compression you and the convention process, you consume that the mother in the molten salt bridge. the gap at night corps on cloudy days and the sunlight in the attic come, a desert is sons usually intends to take them together. settled only now though it could generate round the clock emission free green electricity. and that in turn, could make it economically viable to produce green hydrogen at scale, which the e. u was banking on as the energy of the future move on to imports. 10000000 tons of a renew with hydrogen in 2030, which is a lot at the moment. this is not available at the world market. green energy could

help transform regions that have little economic cloud into a kind of gold mine. and even shift global power relations. this unassuming container could help make chile a global leader in green energy. it might be small, but it's the world's 1st immobile green hydrogen plant. it's being tested in various locations in the desert to identify the best places for green hydrogen factories. to see about an hour job is mainly to generate a map that will allow us to identify areas meet where green hydrogen generation could be generated especially efficiently. or sometimes we want to mark this on square electricity that could be generated from hydrogen friction. please don't like industrial electric, splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen takes a lot of energy and of local air and water conditions make a difference. the factors like the metric pressure, temperature, and climate conditions affect the efficiency of the process of young either

consumer. today, most of chiles electricity still comes from coal fired power plants. the country wants to make the shift away from coal. in i'm got most north of until for gas. the plans are under way to convert the 1st power plant to a molten salt facility. the planning phase has already been completed, if the swimming pool, but if this is an example for coal fired power plants, the worldwide will get anything, you know, defense and the, during the conversion with mine, we'll reuse a lot of, of what meant like this control really like the turbine, it's in the generator road, that's the big advantage of our project. in that loving dec i might get and they get the people get to in the future. these turbines will operate using liquid solved, solar energy will heat the molten salt during the day. the project manager believes the conversion could spark a global green energy revolution. a base water se has a very big bench, etc,

etc. because that eventually every set of electric power plant can be transformed into m o, 's and so the, so plants, the molten salt energy storage solutions could also be useful in europe, for example, to smooth down fluctuations in the availability of wind and solar energy. the 1st projects are in the works, but one challenge remains. the power grid will 1st have to be adapted to renewable energy vs and d, as in tina, a alone instead of 10 to 20 percent of renewable energy use. last, as he said, we had to throttle the energy input. uh, that's due to lack of the capacity in the transmission grid. and the way in which we mean the great, i mean, and also do talk under an investment instead of somebody soon. conditions in july aren't entirely applicable to the rest of the world, but the re think that's happening here can help spark new scientific insights, technical solutions and investment opportunities. and fact my role send

a signal to the rest of the world. we state and she lane and easter island also called robin noise, which lies 3500 kilometers from the mainland. the island is famous for its giant, ancient human figures, carved into stone at 1st glance. revenue, it is a paradise. but the waters off the coast have a huge problem with the plastic waste. a curious more it your peers up or the camera. it's vision is poor, otherwise it would have been able to see what's headed its way. even 20 meters down the waters near easter island or caused by the we as the islanders call. it are beautifully clear at 1st glance because they're actually full of micro plastics. marine biologist come up here and we'll go pick them. you are studying the impact of plastic waste on marine ecosystems as i'm probably not going to get the

problem because all the animals eat it rather than yep, that's bad for them. and later when we the fish, we also read the plastic so close to the image is what i mean. they're focusing on a specific senior species. this population has been declining dramatically. the reasons are still unclear, but what is apparent is that more and more micro plastics are accumulating and then we found that christian, it was higher and there aren't that many anymore will take it to the lab to study it at the beach in the shadows, at the same is why sketches due to burns and a team of volunteers are getting to work in a spot where towards strongly bask in the sun there marking out an area where the clear, the plastic, that washes unsure here every day. there's huge amounts of it. and it's a problem all the way up and down the food chain. some pieces had visible bite

marks on them where they look at these marks made by certain cases that people don't. as the shock coils colonize the plastics in the ocean. and that attracts the 1st fish. you just click on the sun as soon as small fish are on the plastic to big fish like sharks come to eat them and they end up eating the plastic to cool. man. bless the micro plastics or plastic particles with a diameter of less than 5 millimeters. and up everywhere they float to the top of the bucket where they fished out. and just over half an hour they've collected 8 kilos. the plastic arrives here from all over the world carried by ocean currents and gathers into 5 enormous board texas, a plastic called gyre. one shy or is in the south pacific and easter island has the misfortune of being situated near the edge of it. have i knew waves recycling center can't handle all the plastic waste manager alexander to key shows us an area outside, piled high with trash, fish from the ocean. mike,

you live here beside me that being even more than anger and sadness, i almost said i feel pity, simon, that we mortal beings on this planet aren't able to come together and recognize what a problem this is, vicky this is really my they those industrial nations especially need to clean up their act, the mayor of god, when we tells us being so he's done what's wrong to call a country develop. if it produces garbage, they use a country is only really developed when it thinks about what it's leaving behind for its children. it gives me of almost all the got them on what sort of equals the sea urchin fished out of the ocean is now in the laboratory. it's contaminated to what do you see? black plastic the plastic fibers don't break down. instead they accumulate inside fish and other sea creatures affecting the entire marine food chain are

going to enjoy, like we found plastics and other marine animals to including in the intestines of fish on the plastic. or let's see, urchins are a species that helped keep the clips and quarrels clean the even. there are no eating plastic. it's an alarming development. the marine biologists are worried are the most likely that we have to change our consumption habit, recycle and dispose of plastics properly and keep it out of the ocean. sea glass can also mean the earth is weeping. we have to stop put on the brakes that can't go on like this, and that is the plastic the so you'd see the marine biologist on easter island. want to raise awareness around the world. the plastics washing shore here on the pipeline. we are everyone's problem. there's hardly anywhere in the world that's free of plastic nowadays. even at remote rio shingles, a tributary of the amazon river study has shown that 80 percent of freshwater fish

have micro plastics in their stomach. whether that's also true for the parents that live in the rain forest here is on a known box. or if your to hear us had a different question, why are parents able to talk birdie say this guys this class, to see why compared speaking an atomic which became the answer is fairly simple. birds have a special voice box which lets them producer found. it's called the syringe and it's located deeper in the airway than the lowering susan humans sitting though in the airway with a tricky a branch towards the lungs. the ceilings is lined with a lastic membrane whose tension and position can be controlled super new sound. the

parents which have unusually large and muscular tongues, can modulator vocalizations to create an enormous range of sounds. anatomy is one aspect, but parents are also sever. are among the most intelligent animal species i can put on quite a show. and parents can also learn to imitate voices and sounds in the wild pirates often live in large groups, having a characteristic localization makes it easier to locate their off spring or make power. it's also imitate a variety of sounds and the pitch of their mates and birds and their flock. the parents can also learn how to imitate many other sounds and sequences of sounds, which is how they learn foreign languages like human speech.

the can you verbs a so you can, you shoot me, can you shoot, can you call the parents can their new words throughout their life, but that doesn't mean the oldest parents have the largest repertoire. african grey parents are the most talkative of all, which is part of what makes them so popular. very good. let us read, why do you have a science question then send it to us as a video, text or voice message? if we answer it on the show will send you a little surprises to thank you. so come on, just ask that wraps it up this time on dw science show. thanks for joining us and hope to see you again

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