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for a tooth that mm hm. and the international intake option excellence award bought. now for your hero lou. hello, i'm mary. i'm realizing on the just
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a quick look at the main stories are following this, our, the us justice department is released a heavily redacted version of the document that justified the f. b i. search of donald trump's home officials entered the full presence, florida stay on the 8th of august as part of the probe into whether he did legally remove documents from the white house. the affidavit was used to gain approval for the search and fish has more from washington. earlier this year, donald trump and his team were cooperating with federal authorities and the national archive to return documents that had been taken from the white house when donald trump left there. when they got 15 boxes, they went through those documents and find there was some highly sensitive documents there. now, using intelligence sources and also people that they spoke to witnesses names of which have been redacted from the affidavit, they decided that they needed to go back in and do a thorough search of morrow logwood. and as strike on the capital of europe,
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his northern tegra region is killed at least 4 people according to the head of a local hospital strike happened in the city of mckelly to grind tv showed images of damage, buildings and injured people. being tended to my medical personnel, central government denies any civilians were killed and says it only targets military sites. pakistan is declared a national emergency after months of record monsoon reigns large parts, the country have been devastated and 130000000 people affected causing what the government has described as a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. or here, millions of household bracing for an 80 percent rise in their energy bills from october. on average. that means a rise of around $2300.00 a year to just over $4000.00 the surgeon, food fuel and energy cost is being blamed on the worn ukraine and the corona virus pandemic. the drug company we're done or is suing pfizer in biotech, accusing them of coping. it's technology to make that corona virus vaccine. the
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firm says it's rivals cove at 19 shot infringes on patent it file several years ago . the more done are and bought a vice biotech maxine of both based on m r n a technology which mcdonough claims as it's we'll be discussing that dispute in the news hour in about 25 minutes time. do join me for that. us rise, is the program coming up next bye for now? ah ah, the composition of the and i reprise is changing the source of the toxic emissions all around us. every year, 7000000 people die from air pollution,
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making the world's biggest environmental killer. and then does the dire effects of global warming, driven largely by an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. in 2015, 195 countries signed the 1st comprehensive legally binding pledge to reduce emissions. some countries the currently not putting through in the promises but elsewhere. the commitment to finding ways to clean the air we breathe remains high . i'm guillory to robbie and fashion forward me lot with a cement not only looks shake but it also cleans the air and i'm also bid in iceland to fill one geothermal power plant, taking their green credentials to new levels. ah, it is released by the world health organization so that 80 percent of city dwellers
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are breathing badly polluted air. and this will only get worse as society becomes more urbanized. italy is one of the most polluted countries in europe in 2012. it had the most pollution related deaths on the continent with over 90000 people in the country dying prematurely owing to bad air quality. mm. like most european cities, malone is highly polluted. i've come here to meet a team of engineers who created a prod that could revolutionize unhealthy urban environments. milan a glamorous city famous for design and fashion has long been working on ways to combat it's air pollution, with architects looking towards buildings for solutions. amazingly, this incredible work of architecture is cleaning the pollution in the surrounding air as i speak. and rico berella is the innovation director for the company that designed this building the palazzo italia. this is amazing. yes. what
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a beautiful building. these it combines that to completion of the line one being you know, but he's also in the environment and also very good in the state. and we are very proud to be able to contribute to retention. i swear i wash man. yeah. you can see this is a really good start. yeah, we have an inside of the concrete, the idea that allows the sunlight to reduce pollution. the building is made up of cement that includes an active ingredient or catalyst called titanium dioxide. when uv rays hit the cement, they react with this catalyst to break down pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in the air. the toxic chemicals are turned into harmless products such as nitrate, which are later washed off the building by rain and absorbed in the ground. so this really is a living building that's constantly interacting with this environment. yes,
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exactly. when you have the pollutants, they are transform into harmless products. what kind of pollution are we talking about annoying nitrogen oxide? this one for oxide to carbon dioxide. what they come from combustion to that's cars, car in this gina industry. these are the major pollutant that can be destroyed by this. what kind of impact are we talking about me? how much pollution is being sucked from the air as we speak? yes, these are 9 pounds and the square meter of these concrete active concrete, this can clean their alpha equivalent to exhaust gas from $100.00, these at car or almost $300.00 for on gasoline cars. so i think is a significant impact. and this is the impact of just one building, one person who would greatly benefit from a city made of the cement is resident laura tournament, laura chow, chow. or,
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you know, she suffers from severe asthma due to the heavily polluted air here, which is now affecting her mobility for laura. you are a true milanese woman. you've lived here your entire life. celia. so go synthetic with. when did you 1st start to notice that the pollution in the city was really affecting your health? my queen the showing me fine for me job it probably mid this bit of seal on the, on the bottom teeth quite a buffet. a jewel on modern glue matter, please be. it'll be in there with the baby boom. which was are you starting to hear of more and more cases like yourself? seen a little move, so please don't see on the with. it's not just the elderly who are affected. studies have shown a direct correlation between air pollution and asthma and children and across northern italy. air pollution shortens the life of citizens by an average of 14
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months. i mean he pulled a mold golf, marty awful globally. many more people now die early from pollution related diseases than from malaria. and h, i. v, combined massive of borgia is head of the innovation lab at italia, mentee the company who makes the air cleaning cement. hello, i'm guillory. i'm russel, nice me well today. thank you so much. do i get to her lab coat? yeah. with working with me. thank. hello. hello. hi. there we go. both local, we are now repairing the field to fill this piano on the floor, the mafia inside spawn. okay. let's say it happened. he told sherman t or constantly experimenting with new ideas and consistency. oh, nice a slow,
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but experimentation doesn't always go to plan with where's the mob? i can hope that's what's happening and no offense or anything. but i think this is a good time to be putting the lab coat on. oh, okay. look, a nice love. there we go. look, look, look, look, he's coming to this move. you're using. what is it made of plastic? yeah. is it plastic? because whole material has to be smoothed and the cement is able to read the smoothness would plastics and to replicate the what is the need to be so smooth? for 2 reasons. first, one for the step decreases. second one because mute as the freeze counted, use the piece of pollutants that to remain attached to the ser fees and they can easily washed out by the rain. so if it was porous, they would find little nooks and crannies to hide in with
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a smooth surface when it rains, it just easily washes off except you're right. okay, producing cement accounts for 5 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. this put a catalytic cement may produce the same emissions while being made, but it reduces pollutants within a 3 meter radius by more than 20 percent. oh, it's small games like this that you really make a difference. i believe that this material can contribute to, to solve the problems over to pollution. for sure is not only this material, but yes, it could contribute. we'll see what i want to find out what proof the team has that this cement actually does clean the atmosphere. this is a plastic policy. this part of the town is, has been hooted that we've the photographic smith. this is it represent the sun. and so when the, the light, we thought on the sun to relock 3 to 430. and we also elect the, well, you can buy me inside the spot. so let's check it out. yeah,
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you can check this number or the number of the pollutants if muster this is monitoring the gas. yes. the level without to pick up a little reaction. me 150098 now because the, the actual stuff did the, the pollute duncan decrease as it's the u. v. raise that cause the reaction even on a cloudy day, this cement is still reducing pollution. look how much has gone down. 40 percent 40 percent of gone down in 10 minutes. we are going to get the 50 percent over the duction the pollution. but can see that if that the few colder 15 percent over town with his photo catholics man. but you can use that 50 percent over the police tend to see if he documented may have come up with an innovative product, but it is expensive. one, paving company devised it cheaper, more practical application for it. melissa needy has collaborated with ital to
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mentee and devoted an entire factory to this special cement before the mantel dance. of course. well, we know it for the job. it bobby man conflict with okay, just a thin layer of the photo catalytic material. it's added to the surface of each tire . now, when you're down with me, i might have met. you show me. okay. your sounds great. massimo has invited me to visit a health center where his brakes are paving the new car park. fernanda are you misty? don't love the owner that bobby meant to photograph political mcdaniel majority down the road,
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yet protected for san antonio. it opened south off was to put also known. so for the name of but it is either model constructing foot catalytic paving this close to traffic the prime source of city pollution insures its effectiveness. and here they are. are all of these for to take a little graphical group of human thought c for to politic? okay. vienna did is i thought crestmarc clinic of west poppy mantle in a pose. ottawa, sac cushion, shabbier law shall bernard's or not to rather the lock. what can we help? she okay. was it a 2nd impossible. it had impossible. poor vienna in through door toys or ended up on me. that's when a photocopy ticker. like walk, oci. hello, this is all. this is exactly like tetris. i'm so glad i invested all empowers as a child playing that video game. got it. these are, you know, the, the sidewalks and the rows that we walk and drive on all through our lives. and this
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could have a massive impact on human health. she said, pretty well more table for guanasha, armando, because he's more still think rural geo the cordova. even walmart, roberta did his apo crystal the mantel got and then i'm dan from new york people he thought to put on 1000 ica for laura that i'm the answer that along with milan, isn't the only city using this technology from the new air force headquarters at shall the go airport to paving in chicago. the application of this cement is on the rise with innovations like this applied widely enough. our urban environments could become a lot healthier. ah, countries around the world, the aiming 1st reading future. ah, the zealand investing heavily in renewable energy, taking high energy and thermal costa ricans, tanius environmental dreams into reality. running on renewable energy alone for 2
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months and 2016. no ways the 1st country to commit to 0 deforestation. antis plans to bomb the sale of all fossil fuel costs within the next decade? well, baton is the only country to have succeeded in becoming fully cobb and negative our entire country image. just $2400000.00 tons of carbon dioxide a year. whereas our poorest is secret 2 or 3 times it amounts to we are a huge carbon sink, and therefore i choose to use the wood carbon negative we don't have a choice, but to come together as one would as one be posed to addressed d, escalating threats of climate change, it is urgent that we use the technology, the wisdom, the resources are combined resources to tackle this global problem once and for
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only in oh i some might not be the largest island in the world, but in a fight to talk carbon emissions. this unlikely environmental champion is punching well above its weight. it's unique volcanic geology doesn't just creek breathtaking scenery, but is enabled 100 percent of its electricity to be generated by renewable sources . much of which is due some ice and is the only country in the world to the t. i'm here at the edge of the arctic circle where scientists are combining geothermal activity with a new technology to try and help ice and become carbon neutral for good for this is kept and const eh, if they're very famous restaurant in these parts,
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they apparently they cook on geothermal energy and i've been told the kid is randa back. wow, it's a maybe everything's gonna taste like egg. i don't know is. this is hello. all right, i only hi. how are you? welcome. good. thank you. thank all is here. yeah. you're not boiling water. this is steam that's coming. yeah. yeah. come from the really, this area has got hold on to hear that go straight down into the ground. yeah. we are lucky. warm up the building. we have power and the water in the things to never taste. and now we take one more step into the actual use of the green power. we'll learn to make food with it. i mean everything. the cook tastes like eggs up to the smell of egg stems. from the sofa underground released with the steam while i made
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sure up the good iceland ones oiled appendix started to use renewables after being hit by the oil crisis of the 1970s full hasn't been back. so we just have to open this year, assembled manya, bill and there's like this. and now we are giving the $170.00, so it is steam coming in here and this pipe and in between here. and now it's boiling already. oh wow. 10 to 15 seconds the boil. i mean, that's fantastic. obviously as a business, it's free energy. you love it. yeah, i mean, do you think about environmental impact to your business afterwards or not in the beginning? yes. so the personal plug in the beginning, but after you think about it, maybe you do it a good thing. maybe you're helping out the, to say the world, little bit them say, planet, you know, maybe there's a lesson in that as well, but it doesn't really matter what, what a new this amount of at the end of the day it is an environmental where exactly,
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that's the environment where all of the things helping not be friends with it. you have to think so big. do you thermal activity underground is also being used on a larger scale. this volcanic island of by salt lake rock is powering geothermal energy plants all over the country with the capacity to supply all of the countries domestic electricity, headless, 80 geothermal power plant is iceland largest facility. ok, so we're looking for a burke who are 6 percent. he said geo chemist with icelandic energy expecting us to go be him all the way. i better estimate how that goes. go goes all the
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energy being created. right. it's very so on any other kind of safety whether it was nuclear, coal need some few. well, yeah, that was the theme to exit from the ground from the by adding geothermal to their already advance hydro capacity. iceland became world leaders in renewable energy. basic question. how does it, you know, several times where in very short drill a hole into the ground. and be thrilled down to maybe 2 to 3 kilometers. and there the theme is over pressure, right? and it comes by its own pressure through the production. let me collect the theme of the surface and there you produce powers. just that just like that there will be enough heat in the question. for millions of years to come, we are only using, tying a fraction of the heat that is being generated in the earth every day. the potential
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of deceit is so big the plans have been discussed for helping to supply the u. k. with geothermal energy from iceland it might be fully renewable. but downside in the process of accessing the steam nuts in the turn, gases like carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide are also brought to the surface 8th. absolutely. while there's a day, i mean i've never seen any kind of specialize this before. and of course, when you compared it to more conventional kind of coal gas stations, the emissions absolutely minimal. but there are emissions. so we're going to go me another g o scientists here. and he's going to talk to us about a really exciting new aspect to the project called car fix. in big unison as a geochemistry car fix. brutal. hey,
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thanks. say this is my got any pollutants emitted from the plant a captured and sealed underground informal rule. and we can tell us about conflicts or is conflicts, how facts involved comes from the power back into the fault. we wanted to do our past trying to solve this problem. the increase concentration will shield to an office and we don't want to get stuck here. wow, this is great. it really feels like another planet here. this is fantastic gas emissions had transported from the main energy plant pipes to these geometric ports where they're rejected into the ground. i think that we're the reason that's
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nice. yeah. so what are we doing in this wonderful a little this is what we call a reintroduction. well, basically what comes from a once we have produced editors of the hot water and gas, we need to dispose of that somehow. if we would not be captured, music would lead to us. okay, okay. and contributing to climate change. it was re injecting the waste products of water and gas into the ground enables the carbon dioxide and hydrogen. so play to permeate the volcanic or the salting rock. and transformed into stone. we have an example of a beautiful example of what the flows through the rock, fixing this youtube in these rocks. you have these coverage and these paws filled up with couple minutes. you're turning air pollution into rock. ready ready
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ready ready the car fix project replicates the natural process of weathering. ready instead of taking hundreds of thousands of years to turn into stone. ready conflicts a teacher in just 6 months. ready ready show me how successful project as we 1st have to break the weather again to take a sample gas in which liquid is a viable cost in our project this year to i think we should just close it. great. because you can feel the heat of that and then apply. now we take this off and we have unless i use back in the lab, the sample is ready for analysis. if debris injected gas,
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it's of successfully turned into stone and the sample should only contain the naturally occurring background levels. carbon dioxide in h to s or hydrogen itself, right? okay, here we must of this here do and the and the it to us. this is a more sample of the steam that we collected and we turn it on. so what are you hoping to see here? because obviously it is a background level of c o 2 already. yeah. what we're hoping to see is that the c o 2 levels in the team does not rise above the back on the left, okay? it is the concentration of c o 2 in the sample. and here is the concentration of hydrogen sulfide into something which is about the same level as the back on. okay . the gases have turn to 2 stores, rocks. for me, this is what a cool approach to, to lowering the gas emissions. this isn't necessarily locked to geothermal. energy is it that you have a relatively pure stream of sheer to which you can capture this all in water. that
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you can take that water and be injected into the ground. as long as you have favorable compensation in your area, approximately 5 percent of the consummate and then you have the ocean, a grid sheets which is all puts off my feeling is that more people should build up mo, company shipping them will industry should beula will potentially mr. people over the well a dedicated to reducing appellation. the innovations a diverse how it by wind alone, the 7 me to, to dutch design tower and china sucks in the local smoke filled and compressing the particles, the permission to be recycled as jewelry and american company has found weight
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convert carbon dioxide into plastic penance, which are then used to build carbon negative furniture and entrepreneurs in india with device to produce the catch is 95 percent of the home for pollutants emitted from vehicle an exhaust pipes. the suit is then converted into inc, ah, these technologies might be reducing pollutants in the atmosphere. was highly with financial and political commitment to produce and clean energy will ask atmosphere hathaway and chunks of the center. and we are the ones traveling the act from mile. where are the media don't go, we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. but there's been some flooding on indonesia, sumatra, and west papua islands. here's the forecast on saturday, april 1, by the way,
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still heavy falls in the forecast across sumatra, west java, that western side of borneo and rain, of course for us who the wavy and west papua. now there is some good news for the yangtze river valley. those temperatures across central and eastern portions have come down with these showers in storms and that wind off the east, china's sea. so for the 1st time in more than 2 months, day time highs in shanghai are below 30 degrees. beautiful day on sunday, but then that misty will pick up once again on monday for your temperature is actually where they should be for this sub the year. japan's main island of honju get in strike with some solid bands of rain into a hole kado as well. but's plenty of sun in tokyo, with a hive. 33 degrees down under. we've got some showers across the coast of new south wales breezy for the coast. of queensland and that weather maker given as gloomy and breezy conditions in w. a. perth has a hive 18 degrees across both islands in new zealand. the wet weather is starting to peter out, but still some showers in the forecast for good. been in both. wellington and
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christ church have set records for just how much rain they've seen this winter season, but it's dry for now. enjoy. catch you later. ah, indonesia, your investment destination, the world's 10th largest economy, is busy transforming, ready to be your business partner with a robust talent pool, politically and economically stable and strong policies. being the power house, indonesia is confirmed by the g. 20 presidency. bringing opportunities for you invest indonesia now ah, this is.

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