the world health organization want in 2015 that processed meat and red meat could be linked to certain cancers. but what about these meat substitutes are they really help. on the whole these products have a lot of benefits studies have shown that red meat is quite problematic appears to be linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer especially if you don't lot of it in general and you need to pay attention to the ingredients used in these alternative products sometimes they use quite a few additives stabilizers i'm also fires flavorings sometimes even flavor enhancer. so consumers need to take a close look at the meat alternatives on offer but we know that cutting back on meat would bring many benefits to our health animal welfare and the environment

it's time to rethink the way we eat and change is in our hands. so there's the case for substitute meat but of course livestock animals are raised for more than just their flash take leather perhaps one of the biggest animal products out there of course there already is fake leather usually made of plastics or we're about to show you is an alternative form from indonesia it's not made of plastic it's not even made of plants it comes from a fungus. mushrooms are the main ingredient in the. shoe. leather look at not from animal hides but rather mycelium component of. mycelium has properties similar to real less toxic chemicals are not needed to produce that small companies around the world have begun to use this. the material is breathable flexible. competitive animal mysel of leather is having

a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share with less water we don't have to kill anyone can do physical farming so we can save some space and it's also it's really last carbon emission. mushrooms mixed with sawdust to generate the like fabric. just a few days the tightly woven mycelium membrane forms on the outside of the blogs it can then be harvested and 10. this requires just a fraction of the water needed in traditional liver production less than 110th. this has caught the attention of she retaining. their industries one of the biggest contributor for carbon emission and we see that as as long as we keep selling. leather footwear and as the cells grow we keep damaging the environment

and it came to a realization that we need to find the so sustainable solution. to the mushroom shoes can compete with real leather in terms of longevity remains to be seen costs for fungal leather shoes are higher than for those made of traditional leather. but the risen a guru is up to mystic his order books are filled up through the year 2027. write a clever alternative there now the report mentioned the problem of water consumption and other making a traditional animal other uses 10 times more water than the production of that fake leather from mushrooms according to some estimates the cost in water for a q. of coffee is a whopping $19000.00 leaders a similar alfre a queue of cotton why is that farm crops use up water through irrigation of course but agriculture and processing also contaminated water. supplies that then can't be

used and most of us are aware of this level of water usage because we simply don't see it but the hidden or virtual water behind our products is just as real as the water we drink. what is virtual water. let's take genes as an example it takes around 8000 liters of water to make one pair that's $53.00 bathtubs full how come growing the carbon uses most of the water it's a very thirsty plant if the rains failed cotton fields have to be irrigated. and if the cotton is to be spun into jeans it also needs coloring rinsing and bleaching that pollutes a lot of water. virtual water is the unseen water that goes into the manufacturing of our product. nearly 19000 liters for one kilo of coffee 184 liters for a kilo of tomatoes and about 15000 liters for one kilo of beef. in

a country with adequate natural water resources high consumption isn't a problem unless of course a lot of it gets polluted but in many regions water is scarce or supplies have been depleted by producing certain goods the water level in the aral sea has dropped 18 meters because of irrigation in cotton fields it's turned parts of was back you start into a salty toxic waste land. tomatoes a cultivated in the parched reaches of southern spain using water piped into enormous greenhouses. and in brazil where there's a shortage of drinking water the country's huge coffee plantations are never short of a drop coffee is a major export for brazil. europeans import beans water guzzling goods and by extension all the virtual water needed to produce them seen from this perspective someone living in germany uses 3900 liters of water a day slightly over the global average but cooking showering and laundry make up

only a small part of that most water used here is a virtual water hidden in the products around us. well from the invisible water in our products to something else we don't notice in our farm foods pest control what was once exclusively chemical based has been getting a 2nd look in many countries as concerns grow about insect die offs the effects of pesticides and runoff and groundwater and the health of the consumer it's enough to make your head buzz or at least rethink your approach to pest control methods and that's exactly what happened to one bug killer in germany it made him redesign his family business. i can sleep well ali i've got warnings on my products from. my uncle skeptical. because i worry about my future but if it's come before congress this is for come out.

like his father before him. house makes household insecticides the family run firm have been operating in the same way for decades until these 2 artists called its purpose into question. the. something made me rethink and look at insert. wreck house and the artists joined forces they organized an event to raise awareness for insects and their preservation. in. the village residents ended up collecting 992 flies one lucky specimen eva one a prize the fly erica was treated to an all expenses paid spa weekend with her owner's

flight included. all day as we've been out and about with erica not one person has given us funny looks or called us a bit loopy to get. the event prompted hum's to trick wreck house to put his company's future on the line he's invested around 2000000 euros in the conservation of insects and other small creatures. the project also includes setting up green groups to compensate for the animals his products have killed. the roof of his. has also become a home for insects. by products kill insects makers by i don't see a contradiction in making insecticides one of the same time helping insects. from killer to save really or is this just a marketing ploy. because these days products that can buy used environmentally

friendly credentials tend to sell better. because this can marketing guns and then this isn't about marketing i want to see the market regina's device i've seen in the mornings on my product. each product has a big label about the dangers involved for them. houses now introduced alternatives that he feels more comfortable with such as this live trap for fruit flies. the insect is attracted to the side and then trapped in the cylinder to escape unharmed. as for the rest of us aren't really going for those products because it's not obvious why i should say fruit flies. his company has seen turnover drop by 25 percent his profits are falling even more so wouldn't simply selling the phone be the

logical business move. because selling would mean surrender and giving up responsibility whole video from out of congress and they would only benefit my rise but i just carry on with insecticides carted out of the himself by starting a business and i have the leverage to generate awareness and show this transformation is possible so the sadness of the times for months on the biggest red house is keen to demonstrate his commitment to that message as he piles up the company car park to create a new insect oasis thanks but he can't say for sure when his own metamorphosis will be complete. it. not your average bug killer there but maybe a sign of the times more and more consumers are taking a 2nd look at how they interact with animals whether the ones on their plates or buzzing in their backyard that's it for us today it made thanks for watching and we hope to see you again sir.

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you. this is news live from berlin with the u.s. election only 2 weeks away intelligence officials say iran and russia have meddled in the upcoming vote. and moscow of accessing voter registration details and say iran is behind e-mails sent to threaten american voters to go live to washington. in a mock shift for the catholic church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights

and christianity also coming up defiance after a deadly crackdown on protesters take to the streets again in lagos nigeria. gunshots in the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting allegedly by nigeria's security forces . now i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program where just 2 weeks to go before the u.s. presidential election intelligence officials. leave that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote the accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at american voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained voter registration details with the goal of

interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received e-mails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didn't vote for donald trump you don't need correspondent is in washington covering events for us. can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran and russia got their hands on voter registration data they use that information the iranian groups did to send these threatening e-mails as you mentioned and as you said in those e-mails that said vote for president trump or else now these e-mails were actually signed by the group the proud boys this is the white supremacist group some of our viewers might remember that the president refused to denounce in the 1st televised debate and this is a group that does support the president but that was a false flag tom there is a lot of information we don't know at this point to tell you what that is that's

crucial we don't know which groups were behind this we don't know if voter registration databases themselves were accessed because that would also be a really key here and we don't know what the intent was the f.b.i. director said the intent was clearly to hurt president trump but if you think about it if democrats were intimidated from going to the polls and perhaps didn't cast their ballots that certainly would hurt shoebite and so we are hoping for more information to be revealed in the coming days remember those a fallout of a foreign interference in the last election campaign but now the director of national intelligence is reassuring americans that they can be confident that their votes are secure. that's absolutely right the director of national intelligence saying really for americans your votes are safe and secure no votes have been tampered with here and the f.b.i. cyber security officials they have been warning about these threats all year long that means they have been monitoring for these threats all year long because precisely what we saw in 2016 the interference by russia now something to keep in

mind is that the u.s. election system is actually very decentralized it's administered on a state and on a county level so if it is difficult for foreign adversaries to effectively attack but misinformation disinformation certainly taken very seriously it doesn't mean tampering with a vote but certainly can change the way of voters decide to cast his or her ballot ok and we will have to leave it there so we saw misconduct in washington thank you . the f.b.i. and men came as campaigning entered its final and frantic stage ahead of the upcoming vote president trump was cheered by supporters in the battleground state of north carolina and while the democrats brought the biggest brought out their biggest stars to stump for biden. hello philadelphia. cheers and tongues for former u.s. president barack obama at a drive in rally as he hit the campaign trail for joe biden democratic nominee and

his from ice president obama didn't mince words when it came to current president donald trump. i get that this president wants full credit for the economy here now . and 0 blame for the pandemic. but you know what the job doesn't work there i want to waiting at the television doesn't fix things obama highlighted by his contribution to his own presidency and he urged voters to show up we can't be complacent i don't care about the polls they're all bunch of polls last time didn't work out because all those folks stayed at home. i got lazy and complacent not this job not in this election. in some places that has been easier said than done as early voting started many people waited in line for hours and some counties reported blackouts of voting sites or faulty mail in ballots

still a record 42000000 americans have cost early ballots already according to the u.s. elections project. at a campaign event in the battleground state of north carolina president trump rallied his supporters and painted a dystopian picture of the u.s. under joe biden sleepy joe biden is headed control of his party overture socialist communist marx's and left wing extremists. and they're filled with hatred very limited range most voters have already made up their minds but the 2nd and last presidential debate on thursday night is a last chance to win over the undecided. early on wednesday president trump showed his discontent at the choice of topics for debate and the decision to mute microphones to avoid interruptions after a chaotic 1st debate i think. and i think it's very. good about our. foreign affairs and i think that. very. hard.

for parents are very. terms comments perhaps setting the tone for his final sparring match with his challenger. pope francis has said that he supports civil union laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this breaks from the vatican's traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome film festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism climate change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael a laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the catholic church michael good to have you on the program how have the pope's comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u.s.

. it's been a welcome statement to many of you got blacks who feel like they don't really have a home in the church they've been impressed by the pope's willingness to shift the church's attitude toward gays and lesbians and they see this as yet another example of him wanting to make the church more welcoming is even if he isn't changing church teaching the church is not playing to change is teaching our marriage or views on gay relationships is the blue pope saying we should be more welcoming and allow gay and lesbian people to have the same kind of civil rights as other people morton and how has this affected you personally michel. yeah i've been reporting on l.g. issues in the catholic church for a decade now recently produced a podcast about the church's response to hiv and aids the talk to a lot of catholics and i've heard overwhelmingly that to her in pain experienced by l g t catholics historically especially at the height of the aids crisis when the church

was really cracking down on a push for gay liberation in the church that even having a change in tone is a welcome relief i certainly understand that as someone who you know kind of struggles with some teachings from some church leaders having someone in and. they talk about the need to welcome people to remind them that god loves them as much as god loves any of christians or other people so it is sort of a welcome shift in our rhetoric that we're hearing from the vatican and the one that pope francis has been pushing now for going on 7 years so if we look at this as progress so should the pontiff prepare for backlash. i think that the ticket is scrambling a little bit there has been some push back in the united states from. bishops who are a little more conservative in their politics kind of saying that they want the pope

to clarify what he means by this pointing out that the church's view on marriage is that it is a union between one man and one woman so there is some pushback and i think what we'll probably see in the cup in coming days is the vatican kind of weighing in saying you know the pope has talked about this before when he was archbishop what is are is he try to fight same sex marriage law by suggesting that maybe civil unions were the way to go that the church is not changing its teachings even if the pope wants pastors to be more welcoming so they're already is sort of the struggle to put these words into context and to remind catholics that even if the pope changes how he talks about this issue it doesn't change what the church teaches about the issue. we'll have to leave it there michael o'laughlin many thanks for your time here thank you germany's health minister a young band has tested positive for the corona virus he's currently in self isolation and is reportedly experiencing cold like symptoms the announcement came

just hours after spann attended a cabinet meeting with chancellor angela merkel as health minister he is a prominent figure in efforts to control the virus now let's take a look at other developments in the cope of the global pandemic. spain has become the 1st western european country to record 1000000 corona virus infections doubling its tally in just 6 weeks astra zeneca and oxford university say their vaccine trial will continue despite the death of a volunteer in brazil regulators say there are no concerns about the safety of the brazilian trial russia's president vladimir putin says he is not planning to impose any blanket restrictions to contain the pandemic he's comments come as russia reported a record new daily death toll. the security situation in nigeria's largest

city lagos appears to be deteriorating with reports of buildings on fire roll blocks and protesters defying a curfew to demonstrate on the city streets the arrest follows the violent crackdown on protesters in lagos on tuesday amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed by gunshots at 2 gatherings. more shots fired at protesters and this despite the global outrage following tuesday's shooting of peaceful demonstrators in the nigerian capital of lagos military forces had reacted to protesters defying a curfew by turning the street lights off and shooting into the crowd killing and wounding dozens. i believe i would also like to. think that now we have before us i said if. it was

me i refuse to pay for what you think syria if you make shooting i think that protests have spiraled dramatically over the past 2 weeks they were initially triggered by anger at police brutality especially at abuses carried out by a notorious anti robbery squad called sars but beyond the problem of police violence nigeria's youths are calling for sweeping changes an end to systematic corruption and widespread unemployment. here and we do it why not listen well it seems we're trying to walk out. the last couple of days of violence have made waves beyond nigeria's borders demonstrations of support by the large nigerian diaspora were held in london and in south africa on wednesday numerous stars have also begun speaking out. for you.

some people. you know. thank you for telling me what is going on back i mean a. government. into the water. it is in sending military to the streets. on protest us. as some buildings including a television station in lagos lay in flames today nigeria remains a tinderbox of deep economic and social grievances. the artist banksy is known for his graffiti paintings that spring up overnight on buildings all over the world but now it's his parody of a monet masterpiece that's gone under the hammer the artwork show me the monet trash is the familiar water lily pond seen with consumer garbage there's even a traffic cone floating in the water one lucky snapped up to work for $8400000.00

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