chocolate's by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an agreement made a centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia. but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to several times since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen when large parts of eastern ukraine were taken over by russian backed forces and where fighting continues. crean's leadership headed by president petro poroshenko who's been attending saturday's ceremony accuses the russian controlled side of the church of spreading pro moscow propaganda

a charge russia denies if you feel that the you dear ukrainians this is a historic a feat this is a great day i'm sure that it will go down in history for river. the document authorizing this operation known as the tomas will be taken back to train on sunday the author talks christmassy a celebration is to be held in kiev the following day a celebration the church is leaders in russia may not share what matters are disease. as the add on al-jazeera. violence and u.s. troops on standby the disputed presidential election democratic republic of congo suffers another setback. plus the dependable donkey under threat in nigeria tell you what's being done to stop them dying out.

by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello again and welcome back well we are watching a storm system here across the levant over the next few days is going to cause a few problems notice the clouds are here coming across parts of central iraq here's your forecast map on sunday you can see where those showers and snow areas are right there where baghdad's going to be seeing a mostly cloudy day in one thousand degrees but as we go towards monday that system makes its way down here towards the southeast and it will be passing quite close to parts of kuwait city where expectancy seem rain up here towards iran though it could be snow in the higher elevations and we're also watching what is happening out here towards the west very heavy rain continues for syria parts of lebanon as well as into jordan over the next few days well for the gulf not looking too bad for most areas actually temperatures are going to be on the rise here in doha twenty four degrees is our expected high as we end the day here on sunday but by the time we go towards monday it is going to go up to about twenty six over towards

twenty seven and now looking to bad for down here to a slow with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly we are looking at some very heavy rain across parts of madagascar over the next few days the forecast map all along the east coast is green showing very heavy rain there and as we go towards monday the increase in flooding risk continues for them. the weather sponsored by cats on race. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as favorites i enjoy the taste of it and. between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen alone we start tripling in use among us high school students and head to head. first is conventional. do you think it's my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no one else is there.

a lot again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. government shutdown is dragging into its fifteenth day with another round of talks failing to break the deadlock president donald trump tweeted that there was no headway made but vice president mike pence says the meeting with democrat members was productive. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned the syrian government the withdrawal of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons bolton is preparing to meet israeli and turkish leaders about trump's decision to pull out roughly two thousand u.s. soldiers from soon. union leaders in hungary are calling for

a national strike and more protests over a new labor law it raises the number of extra hours employers can demand delaying overtime pay. voters in the democratic republic of congo will have to wait another week to find out the preliminary results of last month's presidential election they were expecting an announcement on sunday but the head of the election commission says it's counted less than half the votes. it's been delay after delay and patience is wearing thin people in the democratic republic of congo were first promised election results on sunday now some time next week. joseph kabila has clung on to his presidency since his term ended two years ago despite that he says he will step down after seventeen years in power he hopes emmanuel rahman son is shaddai would take his place a man who played

a role in the violent suppression of opposition protesters in two thousand and seventeen chad hari is up against two main opposition front bonus for more oil executive martin face and the son of the late opposition leader felix just. the united nations security council held a closed door meeting with representatives calling for transparency in the election results we call on all actors for call and restraint the olding of these consultations underlines the will of the security council to maintain a very attentive monitoring of the electoral process but opposition members are suspicious of delays due to possible results tampering. but correlation. against any attempt to change the results posted in front of the polling stations and hold it responsible for all consequences.

it's been the election fraught with issues there's been violence on the streets out of vote he was caught up in three opposition strongholds benny but temple and he'll be him. government officials say it was due to security concerns and in a poll outbreak that many saw that as an excuse to disrupt elections and just days before the election a blaze broke out in a warehouse in the capital. disjoint thousands of voting machines the u.s. is now gearing up for possible widespread arrests and position military personnel in neighboring. the white house says its imposition to support the security of united states citizens personnel and diplomatic facilities in. delays in elections have in the past led to club church on the streets but international pressure is building with the un african union and the u.s. now calling on the government to ensure

a peaceful democratic transition nor about unmanly al-jazeera. voters in a democratic republic of congo will have to wait another week to find out the preliminary results of last month's presidential elections they were expecting an announcement on sunday but the head of the election commission. says it's. beg your pardon that's a mistake there will move on for now the un's special envoy is back in yemen trying to convince both sides in the war to fully comply with a cease fire agreement there's hope the warring sides will agree to meet later on this month possibly in kuwait catcha nope as hard diane reports. an attempt at piecing together a broken ceasefire the u.s. envoy martin griffiths is back in yemen carving on war inside the truce they agreed to months of negotiations back within weeks he was met by cancer patients who

demand the sunnah airport be reopened they are among the thousands of patients who cannot travel out of yemen for life saving treatments one of the many consequences of the ongoing war like a national leader. we would like to tell the world that they are those who are besieging us in saunas and in the rest of the provinces. there are those who prevent us from water and medicine equipment facilities and medical devices every day we have six thousand passengers who cannot leave this airport. there have been reports of attacks and repeated violations a mother and her child were killed in the residential area of time at least sixteen people were injured by who they are tillery shelling. on friday at least fifteen people were killed in clashes between yemen's u.a.e. backed forces and locals in the southern province of sabra or far cry from the expectations of a cease fire agreement signed in sweden on december eighteenth so. this

was in the port city of her data the lifeline to deliver aid to the rest of the country protesters are calling on the un to enforce a full ceasefire and for yemen's government to follow it the accuse the saudi led coalition of carrying out well altitude flights over the city but the blame goes both ways the coalition accuses who the fighters of remaining in three ports despite a previous agreement to leave. amid negotiations and unstable agreements the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history continues with more than fourteen million yemenis on the brink of famine. after yemen griffith's plans to visit saudi arabia to meet with exile yemeni president abdullah rubble months to hardy. u.s. secretary of state mike pump alle the schedule to stop in riyadh and the u.a.e. next week the war in yemen will likely be at the top of the agenda was another

attempt to enforce and ultimately save a fragile cease fire with lingering optimism that both sides will comply cards here llopis with a young al-jazeera. iran is pushing for peace in afghanistan while the u.s. considers withdrawing its troops from the conflict there the iranian deputy foreign minister met with president bush of kabul. briefed the president about recent talks with taliban representatives in tehran the taliban are believed to control nearly half the country and the been behind many attacks targeting government forces into is a lecturer at university he says the afghan and iranian governments need to forget their troubled past and move forward to ensure a last thing. after the conference in afghanistan you see a lot of conducive political environment in the the current iranian delegation was

dubbed ganesan is part of the larger process you can understand that the iranian government in basad in afghanistan just to put it to say that they have influence over iran the taliban leadership shanghainese just what it did in afghanistan in just that the national security adviser afghanistan here sure that can go in that we would like to can wean a meeting between the have been going in the taliban leadership and they will not act like saudi arabia so as long as we see the change in the american in washington unions that rhetoric toward afghanistan as long as we see here the shift of the a in the afghan government that taliban in the afghan government will be sitting to each other in iranian with part of that and i think we have to forget about the past because iranian has been blamed by a lot of money which is entered into in afghanistan but we have to forget the past and in just move forward with up optimistic hope both half can come in in the daniel goleman are just living in the middle of hope and fear they don in

government is trying to juggle a political bodies and they would like to sure that if taliban leadership is part of the future afghan government they should be having very badly by the relation with the taliban leadership and that the same time they say that if you are not they're not part of the political settlement between the taliban and the afghan government i think they will have a very bleak and very dark future. the new leader of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly is vowing to challenge president nicolas maduro when he's sworn in for a second term next week one of those says madugalle is an illegitimate leader because opposition candidates were barred from contesting last may's election on saturday twelve latin american countries plus canada. that they will not recognize his new government. the donkey could soon become an endangered species in northern nigeria hundreds are sold in rural markets every week with a growing demand for their meat and hide but as are many dreams reports there's now

a push to protect the remaining stock. these animals are heading to the market it's certain that most of them will end up on someone's dinner table and the heights processed for export locals say the rush for the beast is driving the numbers down but all the dealers are bothered about is price drop. or leg to fall maybe because of lack of money but the fact is you don't see. what the park is doing is not impressive at all. he says there are thousands in the wild where he gets some of his stock. forty don't use are sold of every week in this rural market on average what prices ranging from fifty to one hundred fifty dollars per head. in northern nigeria long commute is not the many but the high is

that valuable to traders who come here to buy and with more and more don't is being killed there but it's having been done by the elderly because younger people have moved to cities to find work. former owners such as mohammad more to regret they sold their animals. the life is tough without it don't you get used to the help you get from. old people like me are used to living with them that's our source of transportation. a member of parliament who says the animals may soon join the growing list of critically endangered species is pushing for a law to save the remaining struck. their fate may lie in the hands of small time breeders such as a couple. breeding a donkey is tough and easy at the same time the pregnancy is long nearly a year feeding it is hard work and. it probably will take more than people like him to save the animals neighbors such as newsy have already stopped exports of live

donkeys. it's questionable whether that and other measures will be enough to save the dependable dog here. but you grease. nigeria. for the first time since the rally switched continents to south america the race will take place in just one country or is government has invested millions of dollars in the event and is now hoping for a financial as well as a sporting payback ariana sanchez reports from lima. furrowing mountains riding along beaches or through the moving dunes of the dhaka rally launches a new edition in just this latin american nation challenging competition in one of the world's roughest to rains that dakar officials say will bring great benefits to the country a place been if it has been the media impact is great one thousand two hundred hours of international media promotion and one hundred ninety countries and over

seventy t.v. channels it's huge and it gives a lot of opportunity to promote tourism in the country between face that nearly six million dollars to hold the competition here but the government says the images of the two seen around the world is equivalent to nearly two hundred million dollars in advertising. on one hand is the economic impact generated by the event itself the rally's development leaves us sixty million dollars in consumption of goods and services and there's a lot of spending from people along the rally's road nearly five hundred drivers and riders will meet every five thousand kilometer mainly on the father that's a region of the country but one of the challenges to preserve the roots an ancient sites. civilizations thousands of years old lived and disappeared there many critics say the competition could in danger priceless heritage the government says it's mapped out forty four archaeological sites and eco systems to protect our park

rangers an archaeologist. will guard d.c. areas. even though you try to keep far away from evidently cultural areas you called know what might be on the ground and not expect to find traces of ruins that's a risk but the real impact on the route of the people who don't respect impose limits thousands of peruvians are expected to follow the drivers along the way experts see these spectators could become the main threat to the ancient sites during a much loved and much criticised competition but in a sense a sign to see that. thousands of families have lined the streets of madrid to catch a glimpse of the annual three kings parade floats carrying the kings lead the possession which marks the christian festival of a different and spanish considered celebration more important than christmas.

this is al-jazeera it's going to round up of the top stories the u.s. government shutdown is dragging into its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock white house officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government and estabrook has more from washington vice president mike pence jarrett questioner of the president's son in law and close advisor and kiersten nielsen who is the secretary of homeland security met for about two hours on saturday afternoon with congressional aides talking about this government shutdown the vice president said that these talks on saturday were productive however president truck tweeted that the two sides really didn't make much headway now the vice president is going to be continuing these talks tomorrow while president trump is going to be meeting with some of his senior aides at camp

david presidential retreat treat. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned the asset government the withdrawal of american troops from syria is not a green light to use chemical weapons orton's preparing to meet israeli and turkish leaders about charges decision to pull out roughly two thousand u.s. soldiers union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests over a new labor law last month the government introduced what's being called the slave law increases the number of extra hours employers can demand or delaying overtime payments and then gyptian policeman has died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo two other officers and an onlooker were injured in the last hour comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas. early results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election there have been delayed by a week an announcement was expected on sunday fewer than half the votes have been

counted french ministers have held an emergency meeting after the first yellow vest protests of the new year turned violent they began a weeks ago in opposition to a rise in fuel tax but now include why the demands for reforms those are the headlines techno is up next. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has codebase i legal protest i will start to police to this horse to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice for votes for lots of different reasons what's the difference types of bricks join the global conversation on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world

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investigates who ever bought this cow way more than they bargained for yes they did it's everywhere in clubs street corners in cars they say it's safe and can help break the cigarette happen if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly. what's really inside those pieces you never know what you're getting doctored crystal deal worth is a neuroscientist who specializes in nicotine studies she'll bring us the latest research what happens to your lungs when those metal particles go and sit and read to davison is an environmental biologist and they're going to be around the corner they went through there really quickly we got them she's off the coast of california where drones are taking some incredible images of migrating whales as this technology becomes available to more people and we're going to see more research is using that i'm filled tor is an entomologist that's our team no it's do some science.

hey guys welcome to techno on phil tours joined by maria davison and dr crystal deal worth no bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as the cigarettes or vapor that's an industry that seems to really be exploding i mean you're seeing it everywhere and a part of me wonders if this might be because of some misinformation about maybe that's that's my sense in our doctor crystal dorthy of your ph d. in the study so we've asked you to keep a tab on this there's a lot of academic research is being done on the safety of the use of these devices but it can't really keep up with a growing industry. i enjoy the taste of the. facts of what smoking does call them vapors or fathers are

competitive cloud chasers all are welcome at crystal vapor one of thousands of vacant shops across the country since techno first reported on the wii ping phenomenon in two thousand and thirteen the industry has taken off life wildfire revenue is estimated to reach three point five billion dollars this year doubling its. twenty thirteen according to a recent poll ten percent of all american adults of a thing that's an estimated twenty million people when it comes to kids well conventional tobacco smoking among them is dropping to record lows east cigarettes are a growing concern that the centers for disease control between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen alone we saw a tripling in use among us high school students to the point where it was about thirteen point five percent of u.s. high school students who use these products within the past thirty days from the early generation of cigarette lookalikes techno first reported on personal vaporizing devices known as mobs have gone high tech beings come a long way baby we've seen the shift move from pens and tanks at least culturally

to what we call cloud trees and devices from mechanical mogs to basically box models what's going on right now it may sound confusing but the basic mechanics are pretty simple there's a battery powered out of my zip that heats up a liquid mixture known as juice entered into vapor which the user inhales. when we first met researcher i'm an equal humans should wrapped up a study that found harmful metal particulate in the vapor from earlier models of east cigarettes following the evolution of the industry she's updating her study so the original study we had looked at a cart of miser style cigarette and we had detected high amounts of ten present in the criticizer parts do you still finding heavy metal particulate in the vapor we are still finding that yes because it's going in the people's lungs what happens to your lungs when those metal particles go in and lation of metal especially things like ten can cause stenosis and that could constrict the bronchioles and you know the airways in the lungs across the hall at u.c.

riverside they're studying one of those compounds research or a lot of is bogus to nicotine concentrations and refillable. in this case the solution tested is tennessee cured by red oak a fluid made by johnson creek enterprises and online seller at the liquids and accessories. a bunch of them and just run most of them to the accuracy of the label and in this case this is eighteen micrograms per milliliter so this big be considered in concentration so the test here is we'll see how much it's measuring from the speak and we'll compare that to what's on the label and as you can see from our control it was a lot higher so we know for sure that it is nicotine and recent paper that we published we found out that this specific sample was fifty nine percent higher than its advertise able to ever bought this way more than they bargained for yes they did techno asked johnson enterprises about its nicotine labeling discrepancy they

offered this statement between twenty eleven and two thousand and twelve there was a noticeable improvement in our manufacturing process including in process controls and analytical methods for testing nicotine concentration with greater accuracy while the company's stated claims point to a step in the right direction the red oak sample that they manufactured with the fifty nine percent higher nicotine discrepancy was purchased for the u.c. riverside study online in february two thousand and twelve well within the range of johnson creek stated internal improvements in controls and accuracy but they're not alone currently u.c. riverside is evaluating a new batch of liquids from a variety of vendors and polyphony results continue to suggest large discrepancies in nicotine labeling throughout the industry just based on all the research that we've done you never know what you're getting it could be higher nicotine contribution it could be lower and although lower my sound better that's going to mean that you need smoke more just to get what your buy is normally used to researchers are also concerned about the content of the hundreds of flavored liquids that fuels the number one seller is from animal this is

a cereal fruit loops flavored with a little bit of milk. a lot of the flavors that are regarded as grass generally regarded as safe that is a term that's given to fly. bring products that can be ingested what's happening to these flavoring products when they're being aerosolized at these high temperatures and inhaled into the long you have chemical reactions that can break them down into a lot more toxic chemicals known as carbon compounds a prime example being formaldehyde that's a very common when everyone's heard of formaldehyde and everyone should know it isn't good so in a head to head comparison versus conventional cigarette which one do you think is healthier my opinion i think they're both dangerous i think the narrative that most people are missing is that the public health opponents to vapor have lumped in vapor with the evil tobacco folks that they fought you know back in the eighty's in

the ninety's and so they've decided that this is the exact same thing cynthia is the executive director for the smoke free alternative trade association called safira of a ping lobby group we need to dispel the idea that these products paper products are the same as combusted tobacco products because they're not so we need to look at any time that anyone is using a vapor product they're not smoking and that's a win for everybody these is cigarettes they don't contain the seven thousand plus chemicals that conventional cigarettes have and that's always a plus but on the flip side they do have their own set of compounds that you're being exposed to unfortunately we're going to have to wait for the long jetty studies but if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly i there to me they're equal the food and drug administration which regulates tobacco is still reviewing vaporing regulations travis padgett has been smoking since high school today he baits to cut down on tobacco use it was it was just. a different you might make it

now a microbiology major at u.c. riverside travis is babying for science participating in a study that measures his intake puff duration volume and frequency when you get out here you're going to have a science degree why not wait for a sigh. it's way now before we know if it's safe well i mean it's either a vapor a smoke cigarettes and we already know cigarettes are bad so roll the dice exactly it's a roll of the dice so. that people that are choosing a thing over conventional cigarettes are choosing the unknown over the know and they know that conventional cigarettes and give them cancer there's a chance that it's better and so they're rolling the dice with that but they're still gambling with their own how and sometimes adults are making more informed decisions with and you have all these kids well absolutely i mean adolescents there are still in a stage of brain development they're not as capable as adults of making good decisions and they're uniquely sceptical to addiction and usually we've got

regulations in place that help protect for specifically those kind of cases but here it's so new you know you know the regulations aren't they haven't kept up obviously that's a major concern all of the regulations of protections that we have developed for tobacco products conventional cigarettes are not there when it comes to the things will go as fascinating topic and i'm sure crystal you'll keep us up to date on this but to understand you when we're watching that i got to go whale watching using drones in the sky so a little bit like spying but it's a great way to observe whales that we normally wouldn't be able to see and we don't really disturb them at all. most times when you see images from a drone something is exploding usually defense station from the air these are the military drones in service around the world. closer to home in california they're also used for important peacetime missions like assisting firefighters by mapping out hot spots during raging wildfires and much has been reported about the use of

drones especially when it comes to military applications drones may even become the delivery system for consumer goods but today off the coast of san simeon california researchers using drones like this one here behind me for a spec tire. killer use all in the name of science this is the peters walk of life station this is a very unique piece of property because it sticks out into the migratory corridor or of the northbound gray whale cows and calves a picture perfect location for researchers to fly a science drone to get an unprecedented bird's eye view of what swims below right now. but in the distance online. for twenty two years wayne perry men and a team from noah have been here from march until may counting and collecting data on great whales migrating north from the breeding grounds of mexico to the arctic

a trip of six thousand eight hundred miles this point is kind of a focal point for them and we're able to see them very very well they pass often within one hundred meters of the beach so it's a great place to count animals great whales swim close to land as protection against their main predator killer whales even so it takes a sharp eye and strong binoculars to spot the northern migration once they do it's go time for a one of a kind unmanned aircraft named mobley. to the rights to the right now move there in the middle of the frame the right keep on going out on the service economy of the frame good come down a little bit of the i'm getting to the right as i'm underwater know a scientist and pilot john durban is tracking a mother and her calf from a distance of about three quarters of a mile out from where he stands john's wife and co researcher holly fernbach is under the towel that shades a control panel giving her

a real time video feed that aids in guiding the flight so when they come up next i'm going to move out of the matter picking out mark out at the very right. now it's split second timing for john to remotely trigger the camera to take high definition photographs of the whales i go. maybe around the corner they went through the really quickly we got there we did well the gap. this is really it's all we have a flying a camera now we're trying to make inference about size and shape of whales but taking photographs is cool photogrammetry so this is a camera and we want to get above the whales. mobley was built by don the way at a cost of twenty five thousand dollars it may look like a hobby a stream project but in fact it's packed with many high tech systems to do science

so it's called a house a car because it has six motors and six rotors if it's not being told what to do wants to see how we're going to be stable when we air. behind a finish and photos taken from the eye in the sky give scientists a better look at the overall health of the whales a female who has been eating a lot and she spat her whip relative to her length will be different than a female who hasn't eaten very much so we can take just those two measurements and with those two we can get an index of condition index of fat miss for that female peri min says this season many of the northbound lactating female gray whales observed appeared more robust than in previous years data that is important for many reasons will health give scientists a snapshot of the balancing act between food sources natural predators even climate change we're getting to the point now where we really can talk about how climate change in the arctic is impacting this population now there's less ice and it's

then or there's more photosynthesis going on in the wintertime because like can penetrate and what we want to do is kind of understand that dynamic of what's going on. recently john durban and the no a team took mobley to canada. to study killer whales taken from one hundred feet above this video the first of its kind gives scientists a clearer picture of the health of northern resident killer whales in these images the whale on the right appears robust and in good condition while the whale on the left is then and in poor health scientists believe this will later died because it was no longer spotted with its pod. killer whales report because the competing with this fish would try to understand all the getting enough food as this technology becomes available to more people we're going to see more research is using it safer research safely animals i think it's

a win win. from an emotional perspective just being able to see these incredibly beautiful species out in their natural environment we'd never be able to do that and we don't have to disturb them to see them but in terms of the overarching story i mean a scientist you can collect data on two things what is and what's changing and it seems like this method allows them to collect data that's sort of speaking to both of those objectives they're studying what is now and when things change we'll know yeah and i mean that also speaks to the importance of having these long term data sets right because you have to be able to establish a baseline which i think they're doing very well you know with twenty two years worth of data and now with the changes of climate change you know that that's a really powerful set a date it to to give us a sense of what's what's on the horizon. you are going to tell us about a unique to where you took a little unusual lab into tray here you know it's basically

a lab full of trash and ford invited us to check out the ways that they're making the auto industry will be greener so clearly a lot of environmental incentives here at play and you know obviously when you use recycled materials over new ones you're going to be saving a little bit of money but they also found some new ways. to solve some old problems using some very cool methods so saying look. it's taken over a century but today car manufacturers are getting into high gear when it comes to killing green from hydrogen fuel cell cars to electric plug ins and hybrids mileage is going up and with the least ten percent of vehicles environmental impact in the assembly process manufacturing is going green to. companies like toyota g.m. volkswagen ford and honda are all stepping up eco friendly methods with zero waste factories diverting millions of pounds from landfills reusing water recycling

sludge and going solar power and it's not just assembly take forward eighty five percent of its cars are renewable recyclable or compostable everything from recyclable aluminum bodies and engine parts to solely from seats in fabrics made from five million was cycled plastic bottles and this is where the ideas percolate the materials research lab at ford headquarters in dearborn michigan what would you say is the craziest thing that you guys work with when you think those are they hook ups yes oh these are cigarette filters it's a cellulose yes a tape fiber and so we're looking at that fiber as a reinforcement for plastics debbie moleski start of the lab back in two thousand and one was soil foam oil was about forty dollars a barrel and so nobody saw a reason to use plant based materials even though there was an environmental improvement when we launched our soil base foams oil was about one hundred fifty

dollars a barrel and so suddenly what was a very poorly received idea was very well received instead of a petroleum base the foam and every seat in north america is made of michigan soil and now the labs. testing algae oil with its more global reach plastics researcher ellen leak gave techno the first public look at this newest experimental phone rang and have you had in search back then this one. and that acts like the egg and the plan everything you have there and then i'm going to have you add the following which in our case is water i'm going to mix this up. and then we'll see the foam start to react. and better go bacon until a cake so you can see all the gas bubbles all ready for we use this to kind of evaluate our formulation and how fast it comes out why is it important that this

reacts fast how fast you can meet make each part is really important for manufacturing because you want to be able to make things in a timely manner are we talking a matter of minutes per phone seat or seconds or less than that ford is aiming to make their plastics at least twenty percent bio based this actually making the plastic stronger yes it does. these parts are later in ways i can show you one that is made from camp versus glass and it's about a thirty percent weight reduction so if we continue to do this we will improve fuel economy as well ford says it's already diverted more than thirty million pounds of plastic from north american landfills with materials as diverse as we grass coconut hair shredded jeans and millions of dollars of greenbacks a lot of people don't know as money isn't actually paper it's a blend of cotton and linen try to grind it down into a smaller fine and right research engineer just simply look curious showed me how it's done well it's crime some wanting to use a crime grinder there's

a shuttle that goes inside and using magnets it turns the magnets on and off and it will move the shuttle back and forth between the two metal ends smashed the money using liquid nitrogen around liquid nitrogen to look at nights and all just cool the money down to a brittle so it's easy to smash turn on the machine. oh yeah. how dare morning then it's meant to do with plastic and formed into poets you melt them down and then you formed them into things like this right and this is a coin trick that is a coin to your money money back into your vehicle what is this tomato fibers these are actual skin leaves and stems from the tomato plants from hines's ketchup production they process millions of pounds of tomatoes every year and they have a lot of left over why is this a good product for us to use we can use this to reinforce our plastics to make them

stiffer but then at the same time we can start in fact the lab is in the very early stages of testing but to me to be responsibilities you can samples been melting and mixing plastic extruding it into pallets and molds for testing you would mention part of the test is actually the smell you know if they're driving a lot and they may not want to smell tomatoes because they might get angry. so what's your big end goal for all of us we all have kids and we want to make sure that there's a green nice planet for them with materials that they can continually replenish i don't want them to depend on petroleum as their only source of materials. sitting between you guys is of course ten thousand dollars worth of cash but unfortunately it is old cash shredded would normally go to the trash but in this case they're reusing it making coin trees and this idea of closing the materials

loop you know going as much as we possibly can towards zero waste and manufacturing it's not just lip service anymore it's happening and it makes total business sense i think it's so interesting to see like that cross industry collaboration like catch up and ford motors. these aren't really two companies that i would think would work together in this way i mean i as a chemist i think a lot about it is a green chemistry like you want all of the by products of your chemical reactions to be used for their reactions and that's kind of like how i think about it but this is really created when your doctor can. defer to me in the past not only catch up on car interactions when i spilled ketchup and my car been there from the california coast all the way over to detroit we've covered a lot of ground today guys and some pretty interesting topics so thanks for that level up more for you next time on techno see this dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes at the al-jazeera don't go home slash techno. expert contributors on twitter facebook instagram google plus and more.

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this is live from doha also coming up delays fears of violence and u.s. troops on standby another setback in the disputed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo. ukraine's newly formed orthodox church is granted independence in a split from russia provoking anger in moscow. unions in hungary call for a national strike against a new labor law. well the united states government shutdown is dragging on for its fifteenth day with another round of talks failing to break the deadlock white house officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government vice president mike pence says the meeting was productive and the two sides will meet again on sunday president donald trump is

refusing to sign a bill to fund the government until he gets more than five billion dollars to build his mexico border war and estabrook has the latest from washington. vice president mike pence jared cushion or the president's son in law and close advisor and curious to nielsen who is the secretary of homeland security met for about two hours on saturday afternoon with congressional aides talking about this government shutdown the vice president said that these talks on saturday were productive however president trump tweeted that the two sides really didn't make much headway now the vice president is going to be continuing these talks tomorrow while president trump is going to be meeting with some of his senior aides at camp david presidential retreat meanwhile this afternoon house speaker nancy pelosi announced that house democrats are going to be meeting next week to pass individual

appropriations bills that would reopen some agencies including the department of treasury and the i.r.s. so the government could begin processing income tax returns and get income tax refunds back in the hands of americans now this shutdown is going into its fifteenth day if it goes another week that would be three weeks and it would make it the longest shutdown in u.s. history political analyst eric ham says the partial shutdown is going to have a devastating effect on workers and their communities. if this shutdown goes another week this will be the first time within the shutdown that federal workers are not receiving paychecks and so think about that you have now that the holidays are over college students are going back to school and you have parents who are not working and so the question becomes do they pay mortgages or do they pay college

tuition do they pay for groceries or do they pay utilities and so these are some of the bread and butter issues that people are faced with now as this shutdown continues to lome and they hear the president say that this shutdown he could take the shutdown for a year or four years that i'm sure has many workers hitting the panic button on how they were actually survive going forward because when you look at those eight hundred thousand employees many of those eight hundred thousand employees are not within washington d.c. they're scattered throughout the country and so think about small businesses think about food trucks that may set up around government offices or building and though those are small businesses and now that those workers aren't coming into the office that's putting a crimp on small businesses opportunities to earn as well so we're not just talking about a hundred thousand employees going without paychecks we're talking about the residual

small businesses and other entities that will not be getting paid as a result of these federal workers not working and so i mean it's a ripple effect and i just don't think either the president or even congress really understands what's at stake and i think we're going to really see the pressure ramp up next week when we see government workers start losing paychecks the u.s. national security adviser john bolton has warned syria's government the withdrawal of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons he's arrived in israel and will meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu on saturday before traveling to ankara turkey. promised to take the lead in the fight against iso in syria but reportedly wants american military support to continue even after the u.s. pullout mohammad out o. has more from gaza on the turkey syria border. top on turkey's priority least is that is a moment of kurdish y.p. the fighters who have fought alongside u.s.

troops in the fight against yourself told them many times before the most effective force against but to talk to them nothing more than a terrorist organization an extension of the kurdish workers but the p.k. k. and want them just a mill on the disk and were taken out of territory and they were near turkey's border with syria actually turkey doesn't want to hear y.p. decontrolling and they're part of syria and has been on a war footing in recent weeks saying they will carry out an attack on the tom the city of mumbai with a view of removing the white media from the attack you'll want just to call on else support from the united states wants u.s. troop withdrawal process is complete but u.s. officials of tend to form on a clear timetable several times turkish officials would now expect john bolton when

he visits uncle on tuesday to come up with a clear timetable for troop withdrawal. voters in the democratic republic of congo will have to wait another week to find out the preliminary results of last month's presidential election they were expecting an announcement on sunday but the head of the election commission says it's counted fewer than half the votes were a burden manley has more. it's been delay after delay and patience is wearing thin people who democratic republic of congo who first promised election results on sunday now some time next week. joseph kabila has clung on to his presidency since his term ended two years ago despite that he says he will step down after seventeen years in power he hopes emmanuel rahman son is shaddai would take his place a man who played a role in the violent suppression of opposition protest in two thousand and seventeen chad hari is up against two main opposition front bonus for more oil

executive martin face and the son of the late opposition leader felix just. it is the united nations security council held a closed door meeting with representatives calling for transparency in the election results we call on all actors for call and restraint. the olding of these consultations underlines the will of the security council to maintain a very attentive monitoring of the electoral process but opposition members are suspicious of delays at you to possible results tampering. coalition. against any attempt to change the results posted in front of the polling stations and hold it responsible consequences. it's been the election fraught with issues there's been violence on the streets out

of vote he was caught up in three opposition strongholds benny but tembo and he'll be government officials say it was due to security concerns and in the polling outbreak that many saw that as an excuse to disrupt elections and just days before the election a blaze broke out in a warehouse in the capital kinshasa disjoint thousands of voting machines. the u.s. is now gearing up for possible widespread arrests and position military personnel in may bring. the white house says it's imposition to support the security of united states citizens personnel and diplomatic facilities in. delays in elections have in the past led took blood shed on the streets but international pressure is building with the un african union and the u.s. now calling on the government to ensure a peaceful democratic transition. nor about a manly al-jazeera. and egyptian police officer has died while trying to defuse

a bomb near a church in cairo police were called to the eastern suburb of nasr city when a suspicious package was found on a roof top two other offices and an onlooker were injured in the blast it comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas egyptian christians have been targeted in a string of attacks in recent years that your family is associate professor of political science at long island university she says there are often more attacks in egypt around the holiday season unfortunately seen a pattern of targeting churches before christmas just as happened last year with the last a terror attack being the killing during its child's baptism back in november. we don't know who is taking claim for this and we also know that there was an attack on a tourist bus just last week exactly a week ago from tonight and so is turning see an uptick and targeting of civilians

we look at the pattern of terrorist behavior they start with attacking the state or symbols of the state security apparatus for the police and in egypt that's what and surveyed them not just a terrorist organization that folded into ice all started doing back in two thousand and thirteen they then ask to attacking those seeming to be in cahoots or sympathetic to the state and that's when we saw the attack on susi shrines last just around this time last year because those were supposedly families that were wild state they then escalated that now attacking civilians and one terrorist here speaking to attack civilians and mass what it's meant to do is to actually chill society so that they act for political change now we don't know if i'm sorry too much has done this because no one has been credit but we do know is that during the holiday suits and during the peak time of egypt's tourist time period we're seeing

an uptick in terrorist attacks and that is way too but i just chill society but attacks. the orthodox church of ukraine has officially split from its leadership in russia the ecumenical patriarch in istanbul the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence robin mattson reports. for the simple sweep of appin ukraine's orthodox churches gained their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate two russian religious leaders and deepening of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author talks church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with

money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. accord.