electric cars that need to be recharged all germany's food for use to generate solar power. they cover the country's energy needs. it's a company that builds solar parks across europe. and solar systems are important, but they won't cover our energy needs on their own. you have to set priorities 1st, you have to figure out which roofs are technically suitable. and then you have to figure out which ones of those are financially viable. solar energy is expected to see significant growth in germany. by the time the last coal fired power station is switched off and 2038, there was have to be 5 times as many rooftop solar systems and parks are there are

now to cover energy needs. solar energy would then account for a quarter of the country's power. i would post the number of orders for new solar park is growing fast. what's behind the boom? in the last decade, solar modules have decreased in price to around a 10th of what they were originally. we can now produce electricity in germany for $4.00 to $0.06 per kilowatt hour. you can't do that in a coal fired plant or nuclear power station, even after the initial investment has been paid off. back to germany because the owner of park project 10 years ago, the operating company was one of the biggest nuclear power producers in the country . they still burn coal fired plants, but that will soon be a thing of the power these

new energy sources will have to fill the gap. they've become a central pillar in our portfolio. since 2012, we've seen growth in all new and renewable segments, including wind both offshore and onshore, as well as solar. these technologies will account for about half of our output by 2025. the solar panels made in china. just keep on coming on day as it's hoped to, the park will be in operation by the end of the year. like washing machines and dishwashers. smartphones also seem to give up the ghost right after the warranty runs out. the child can burn a hole in your pocket, but is it a coincidence? or does it have more to do with clever sales strategy known as planned obsolescence?

decided to find out you probably know that heart stopping moment when your phone breaks, your photos messages, contacts. when was the last time i saved a backup? basically our whole life is on these things which makes it so annoying when they break. but it happens all the time. what's interesting about the smartphone is pretty much everything. it breaks literally me to have all these things built to break. so we keep buying new ones. ok, i think and we're going to find out what happened to all these broken phone. well, they create massive environmental problems. but let's start at the beginning. this is my old phone. it died a couple of years ago because the battery couldn't hold a charge anymore. but today, despite all the comes in the world united in this body,

i'll try and fix it. this is a repair kit i ordered online for $25.00 euros. that's the battery that we're trying to get into the phone. it comes with all the tools you need. pair of tweezers, the suction cup, screwdriver, the manual. well, we'll see about that from our let's take a look at just how crazy we are about smartphones. we buy around 1500000000 of them every year. when you factor as really must be cheering. a lot of people actually believe they're inflating this thing called planned obsolescence. it was invented to stimulate the economy during the great depression in the us. the basic idea is that the quicker a product breaks the sooner people will replace it with a new one. and some companies really did start to shorten the lifespan of the products. the filaments and light bulbs, for example, were made thinner,

so that they were going out after of just 1000 hours, instead of double that and nylon stockings were designed on purpose to tear more easily. even though it's actually a pretty strong material. one time that's a problem for manufacturers because your economic model repeats and repeats and repeats. so it's the same true for smart phones. are they designed to break the air with planned obsolescence is that there is intent, there is a smoke filled room with evil people. there's a more, ha, ha, we're going to make these things die and 18 months, i'm not sure it works that way. well, instead, the way that this works is that the marketing people are saying the problem is, i don't put any effort into making this thing last longer than lifespan. the original battery, let's take a look at apple. they were sued because people noticed their phones got a lot slower after the installed a software update. and guess what's in 2017,

apple admitted this was true and later agreed to pay a settlement. but they said that the threat of the phones to extend their lifespan, not to get people to replace them. is this really true? maybe the thing is companies and might be doing this, but it's extremely hard to actually prove it. well, i want to talk to them about this. i reached out to the 3 biggest smartphone producers, a lot of them replied. but even if we can't be sure about planned obsolescence, it's got other ways to sell more phones. biggest advance in the history of the day and the most advanced i phone, we've never created every release of a new phone model is basically saying the one you bought last year is now olds. get a new one. so you maintain your position in consumer society by what you own or what you're,

how you present yourself. if you don't have the pieces of life, this is psychological obsolescence. convincing people, they need a new phone, even though they have one that works perfectly fine. even if you don't care about the latest fashion and would love to keep your old phone forever, let me tell you, they are quite hard to repair. this is the step that open the case. there's a cable that's in there, the one kind of hold it with your hands. if you don't pop it completely open, you just crack it open a little bit. ok. ok i think imagine if you bought a car and the tires that came with it could not be replaced. so when the tires were out, you had to get rid of the car and get a new car. we would not put up with this. this would be crazy, and yet that's the situation that we have a smart phones. turns out the cable that i broke, it's not that important,

but this is really hard. there are tiny screws that you need special screwdrivers for. and the biggest challenge, i think this is removing the old battery, which is glued into the case, making things how it all impossible to repair. that's another strategy to get people to replace them more often. that it's coming off. all that's left to do now is piece the whole thing back together. by the way, you're going to void your warranty. the moment you open up your phone so before you attempt to repair anything, be absolutely sure you know what you're doing. not like me. so it really closing up here, which makes me think i reassembled something wrong. going to break it now. this is going in well up to this point and went pretty well, but i just can't get this thing to shut. how hard do they want to make it?

i think and feed it. yeah, that thing is not powering on anymore. i tried for hours and couldn't replace something as simple as a battery. most likely what is happening is that you have a loose cable. that's my remote, it is tech support. i think you can still get this thing running if you, if not, i don't feel bad about taking it in your repair shop as in the furniture or you could just throw it out. i mean, that's what a lot of us do and not just with our phones, nobody speaking in general, only less than 20 percent of this is properly recycled. the rest poses a real danger to the environment. the people who process it or it never leaves the home, leaving in

a very limited this world. all this material is not available. this is for disappointing consumers, consumers or point me. in fact, i think at the end of the day, everyone needs fingers want to believe we are in a completely unsustainable electronics industry. and it's all of our fault that we get that we can, that we should and we must do better, couldn't agree more. all those useless cables packed away in boxes, a time over devices that become obsolete. it's easy just to dump them. but what about recycling them? at least all refusing to buy them in the 1st place?

that's a little hot, but it would save you a lot of money than always having to keep up with the latest trends. the economics of going green. i've been fizzling, seen it enter

the conflict zone with tim sebastian, british prime minister blair's johnson is on the file once again, not least for members of his own conservative party. my guest this week here in london is one of his junior m.p.'s been moffo lami elected to parliament 3 years ago. can mr. johnson the whole team's current slide in the opinion,

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limiting the last cultural diplomat starts nov 16th on d w. this is david lee, news live from berlin. germany has haas words for china are accusing beijing of undermining freedom in hong kong. that says, hong kong's pro-democracy opposition lawmakers resigned on mass after 4 of their call. the ousted underneath chinese little also on the program cuts on the horizon as the e.u. agrees to buy 300000000 doses of corona virus vaccine developed by german and u.s.

drug makers deliveries could begin as soon as the end of this scene. i'm anthony. how it welcome germany has criticized china for the dismissal of 4 pro-democracy opposition. politicians in hong kong's legislature, several of their fellow lawmakers resigned in solidarity also to the chinese parliament, passed a law allowing the island's chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. now, beijing has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law. opponents say it spells the end of the territory's fight for a hold on its democratic rights. who get that way if they were the last remaining pro-democracy law makers in hong kong,

now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by beijing. it is yet another blow for their pro-democracy movement or to go that they got all the decision made by the national people's congress today. it is extremely ridiculous. it shows that the central government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawmakers. he told d.w. that despite the setback, they are not giving up. but i think he can still feel the passion, local community in the hearts of people, the aspirations or the rule of law and progress. i think that is not going to go. they defended the new resolution and denied its restricting hong kong special

freedoms. they were implemented in 1997 after the city was handed back to china from british rule. true or not. tell me where you went, you think can do this year before. it is a necessary measure. in order to maintain the rule of law in hong kong. and the constitutional order of the special autonomous region where you it is rational and reasonable and in line with the constitution and laws. as you've been to the recently moved to clamp down on opposition, voices in hong kong by imposing a national security law. after months of anti-government protests, hong kong semi autonomous status was originally guaranteed until 2047. but for some the end date has already arrived. or for more on this,

we're joined by data. billy's choice in hong kong joyce, germany has joined other international observers in criticizing beijing's pressure on hong kong. lawmakers. is that likely to have any effect though? it is not likely to be a practical act, but it is certainly on the international no attention that the troll democracy or the pro-democracy camp have valid to fight on. but what if any options lift for the movement? what the they have at their disposal? options are pro-democracy and this now that you know pro democracy and all the space agency and the fair share and he won they could be incorrect.

so participating in the election be a fairly effective way to carry on with the democracy as fall of the to see movement on the street. it is also very dangerous. now, the sweeping national security law in beijing in july i have more broadly speaking, hong kong has reacted to the imposition of this new law from china. this created 5 beijing while 6 practice because there were rumors that beijing what disqualified pro-democracy, lawmakers and then hong kong people also quite shocked that beijing

paradigm shift in the hong kong political alliance because there will not be any meaningful opposition in the a legislature and you know in the future, joyously reporting from hong kong. many thanks. ok, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. you know, many of protesters have taken to the streets for a 3rd day calling for the resignation of the prime minister. the demonstrations come after he gave up large parts of the disputed new going to region in a peace deal with azerbaijan. and political talks on libya's future have achieved a breakthrough, according to the un's acting in voice for the country. at the talks in tunisia, the disappearance reached a point on a road map to parliamentary and presidential elections within i think months the

talks, the latest push to end almost a decade of violence in libya, the united kingdom has become the 1st country in europe to record more than $50000.00 coronavirus related deaths. it's a milestone and now she is with the united states, brazil, india, and mexico. the government imposed a month long, 2nd lockdown in england last week. well, the european commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 vaccine developed by germany's biotech and u.s. pharmaceuticals. giant pfizer vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of coded 19 infection. biotech says it could start shipping the vaccine to e.u. countries. by the end of the year. the e.u. health commission commissioner rather says the e.u.'s, setting up a health union to improve the response and coordination of member states in the

future of the process. or to talk some more about the critical issue of global distribution. we're joined now by right, jill silverman in miami. she's a policy fellow at the center for global development in washington d.c. . right. so thanks to you just published an article titled vaccine breakthrough to refute news for the west, but in low and middle income countries, terms and conditions apply. what do you mean by that? well, so it's great to be with you tonight. thank you for the opportunity to talk. so what we mean is that there's several issues that we see in terms of how this vaccine news will impact low and middle income countries. so as you say, the european union has in to deal for $300000000.00 doses of this vaccine the united states is entitle to up to $600000000.00 doses total of this vaccine. other wealthy countries have also deal to ensure their supply of this vaccine. but most

lower middle income countries, with a couple of small exceptions, including a rue and close, and ecuador, have not, they do not have existing contracts to secure their supply to this vaccine. and the companies are saying that there we're seeing perhaps 1300000000 doses, by the end of next year, we need to keep 2 doses for a vaccination course for it to be effective. so that 650000000 people, that's not enough for the entire world. and right now, a small number of countries are counting, the vast majority of that projected supply, rive. the world health organization for their part has a short day w. and then interview on monday that to even distribution to include the developing world to do you see it that way? there may be a limited distribution to the developing world, but there are several issues for why this axiom is unlikely to be distributed in mass to the developing world. so 1st is the total supply of the vaccine.

$1300000000.00 doses is not enough to go around by my back of the, on the lookout and 6 wealthy country purchasers. and one of those is the european cut union are accounted for over 1100000000 of those services. so there's just not that much left after those countries are accounted for. the other major problem is that even if lower middle income countries could get their hands on, the fact in this vaccine needs what's called an ultra cold chain. that means it needs to be stored at negative 70 or negative 80 degrees celcius. this requires specialized equipment, specialized transport, specialized distribution networks. so this the logistics where this have been in progress have been planned for many months in europe and the united states. but the enterprise of ensuring this altar cold chain in most low and middle income countries with be a nonstarter, except perhaps in some major cities. virtual superman policy fellow at the center, for global development in washington. d.c., thanks so much for your time. thank you. now out of

a story of bravery and the basketball in somalia, it takes courage for women to play the sport. many of them face death threats from extremists and anger from their own families simply for playing the game. they love basketball practice in mogadishu. in blistering heat, it's a tough routine for the all female team. however, it's not only these conditions that make it hard. most of the girls come here against the wishes of their family. and there's also the constant threat of attack by gunmen who think women should not play sports publicly. while out of mogadishu is risky, we cannot openly say we are going to play. but we put our playing clothes and shoes and bags and carry them like that to the field. and we pretend we're going to school or university. mentioned me despite the insecurity with no government. that

carriages also taught us that we still love playing basketball or hit the house or not. katherine is some man and the coach is happy to have a space to play at all. now and no one supports us that gives us equipment. and we do not have anyone supporting the players with uniforms balls and shoes. we even do not have a proper court judge or match the local commissioner, however, backs them and offer the space for free. other than that, it's enthusiasm and dedication that keeps them going. before islamist attacks urged somalia had a national women's team. and mohammad was a player for them. this enables her to pursue her passion and help the girls come back and i decided to train girls after i saw that the girls enjoyed and needed

someone to train up as this is also voluntary organizations. i came to train them for the house are trained, she would love to make it into the national team. but there hasn't been one for the past 7 years. for now, the dream of one day be able to play in the open again, and maybe starting teams across somalia. keep the girls going up or go for u.s. masters starts on thursday 7 months light because of the pandemic. and as players practice spain's john rom has a shot that simply has to be seen to be believed. he skimmed the ball over the water here on purpose. pandemic control means there's limited spectators there, but the cameras were rolling. that's the main part of the grainy goes and it winds down the grain. and i think you know what happens next, this is on john ramsey birthday by the way, one of possibly the greatest shots played in the game in

a practice round. now as for the competition, the 7 month delay may just play into the hands of one particular player. the coronavirus resettling gives big hits in bryson to shambo a big advantage. the softer fairways mean the ball might not bounce as far as the american showed in winning the u.s. open. in september, he hits the ball so long that bounces do not matter whether people realize that hitting it farther is definitely news your way to play the game. no matter what athletics are always going to be the top of mind in sport. no matter what sport you're in, defending champion, tiger woods, knows he will struggle to compete with the sheer muscle of the shambo, the bison. as he's put in the time he's put in the work, i mean what he's done in the gym has been it made incredible and what he's done on the range with this entire team to build the optimizer one club. it's never been

done before the famously pristine. all goes to course looks a little different in the u.s. all time compared to the spring. it will be a us masters like note of that it will be that's it, you're up to date. next is our 19th special. i'll be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour. if you can't wait until then remember, you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at www dot com. thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic has the rate of infection been developing. what does the latest research say information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 on t w.

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