this is deja vu news live from berlin the party of chance or angle america has a new leader delegates to choose army to take the helm of the conservative c.d.u. party in a close 2nd round vote with general elections later this year lash it now has a good shot to be the party's candidate for chancellor. also coming up 5 more years in power for one of our for president longer serving leaders to god as the incumbent president yoweri museveni is declared the winner of the national polls as

rival bobby wine claims fraud a made in internet blackout. i want to look rough welcome to the program germany's governing c.d.u. party has chosen a new leader i mean lash at the head of the country's most populous state party delegates elected lashon in a convention that's been postponed since last year due to the pandemic and took up most place took place most closely online the contest was necessary after uncle americans 2018 pick to leave the party resigned it's win puts him in a strong position to be c.d.u. chancellor candidate in elections later this year but claiming that spot will hardly be easy. a centrist a team player a successful campaign or the c.d.u. has chosen. to lead it in a year which will see elections in 6 german states and

a national vote in september when i go americans time as chancellor will come to an end. i am conscious of the responsibility that goes with this office this through and i will do all i can bring us together through this year united states elections in a few weeks. and a federal election. when we want to make sure that the next chancellor is also from this party next can slash in 2017 last should lead the c.d.u. to victory in germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia and the party is clearly hoping he can keep winning at the polls. by rejecting freidrich merits of businessman who looks likely to move the party to the right the c.d.u. delegates seem to think the key to electoral success in the post merkel era will be

more of her brand of compromise oriented conservatism the new leader now has to unite his party and make the case for continuity. this comes through in but in may reputation of chancellor merkel both here and internationally can be summed up in one word trust we need this trust as a party it's high but you can't just pass trust on trust for what has to be earned by. these us for trial one more small. broad support for politicians is all the more important in a time when democracy is under threat lash it not known as a power and policy expert mentioned this international perspective. for telling us is this trust is something fundamental for us in america it is broken.

and the president has polarized he has shown division mistrusts by systematically lying and destroying trust democracy could log not what height one foot tall one. out. flash it has been criticized for his handling of the corona crisis in his home state today he said after the country will need to modernize press ahead with green transformation and maintain strong links abroad. for germany that i imagine is a european germany is a leader in the world through its excellence as a model and its humanity it wouldn't it the question now will be whether army unless it is the man to run for the job of chancellor in september that is not certain and potential rivals are already waiting in the wings. let's get more now from the author of that report our political correspondent simon

young he's here with us simon what gave lash at the edge to win over his 2 opponents. well william in the end i think what really gave you the edge was he's proven electoral success he's a moderate he's a miracle loyalist but what he's also causing an election when under his belt back in 2017 he led the c.d.u. to victory in north rhine-westphalia and people remember that they looked at him in this important election year there are 6. regional state elections and the big national election in september coming out conservatives are worried about how that's going to go forward they're doing well in the polls at the moment but things can always change i think reliability was the thing that last ran on and reliability seems to have been was won it for him particularly in the final

runoff against the arch conservative friedrich merits some say he was a bit too much of a sort of a tough guy. in lash it is a team player and that was what people seem to like or to see what people thought about him stay with us while we listen to a couple of thoughts of germans on the street. to freedom and i'm very pleased i've always liked him as a politician in north rhine-westphalia i welcome it i like it. he's a good man and politics here in brussels off to absolutely ok. for government experience alone is not enough it's also a question about how progressive and how good big spirit and things i could imagine something else and. i know unfortunately it's played on this mind a variety of reasons he wouldn't have been my choice he's too inconsistent for my taste always changing in the 1st wave of the current virus he wanted to ease

restrictions. as if it were a bidding war. you know a man when at last and he's still about it didn't he. and i don't like that it's not the right approach. and i took a. couple more voices there are viewing airing their thoughts about lashon of course was just a 1001 delegates are giving their vote you know partially to life and so how does he stack up now when we look towards the chancellor candidate in the months ahead. well indeed that's the big question and lash it might want to stand himself as the person to follow angle americal in the chancellor a that's possible but it's not a foregone conclusion because unlike in some other countries there's no automatic rule that says the leader of the party that gets the most votes must themselves be the chancellor so who else could it be will lash it ran together with yet spawn the

health minister on a sort of joint ticket for this leadership and got a lot of backing from spawn a lot of people think yes spawn could be a featured future chancellor but there's another possibility as well that's the bavarian state premium because. he so far hasn't said whether he wants that job but a lot of c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative supporters think he would be really the best choice of wool so far he said he's going to wait until the state elections in mid march and he thinks that the party shouldn't make a decision until then he calls it maybe waking waiting to see if the last little sponsors slip up between now and then this on-line party just alone at its you know share of challenges how does what we saw today and over this weekend reflect challenges in germany or the image it's trying to project. well of course the congress had to be held online really because of corona restrictions but it did

give policy an opportunity to show all fits digital skills and they did that pretty well i think it's important because they want to stress that germany's future lies with digital skills perhaps moving away from manufacturing in the decades to come so it all went pretty well not too many glitches and lash himself said it set a benchmark for the phones all right simon young thanks very much. let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world fellers has shut down a new nuclear power unit in the city of ostrava it's near the border with lithuania the country's energy agency said a safety alert was triggered during tests but such said radiation levels were normal the same plant suffered technical problems after it was launched in november . thousands of demonstrators have marched in paris and other french cities against a controversial security law that would make it illegal to publish videos of police

critics say i'll make it harder for journalists and citizens to document cases of truly police brutality the upper house of france has parliament will vote on the bill later in january. now let's take a look at some developments in the coronavirus pandemic germany's vaccination program has passed the 1000000 occupation mark reaching more than one percent of the population infections and deaths from the virus in germany remain worryingly high the european medicines agency says hackers are attempting to undermine public trust in vaccines the drugs regulator says stolen documents were manipulated before being leaked online in france a new 6 pm to 6 am curfew has come into effect france is struggling with the 7th highest coronavirus death toll in the world. uganda has a long serving leader you're wary of amy has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election following a campaign marred by violence international observers said they could not determine

if the poll was free and fair due to their limited access the internet was shut down across the country and the main opposition candidate bobby wine says he is effectively under house arrest. in the 70s supporters celebrated on the streets of the capital kampala after the electoral commission announced that he had won a 6th term in office the reelected president thanked voters for a peaceful election and rejected all accusations of photo front. i think this may turn out to be the most. read election since 100622. says and i do 6 to 2. people want to cheat in the elections. the chronic problem of uganda. but runner up bobby wine sees things differently in

a phone interview the opposition leader described the results as absolute fruit and pledged to soon release video evidence to back his claims. that the. soldiers and police around his residence whether they're there to protect the opposition leader or to intimidate him and keep him under unofficial house arrest is unclear. uganda has been under a government imposed internet blackout for 4 days one of africa's longest serving leaders is set to stay in power 76 year old you know wearing the 70 became president of uganda in 1906 back then he said that leaders who overstay their

welcome were at the heart of africa's problems. our correspondent julius mogambo in kampala told us more about the reaction to most of the eighty's when. many people here. especially those who support to be able. to cite his fight with their results the government has maintained a shut down. the police and the military have also maintained a heavy deployment was given to come to fighting a guerrilla war and he's often credited for restoring stability in the void post-colonial uganda he's critiques how we've. increased. rights to suskind himself in power. sports now own this league of dortmund what have been confident of victory to enhance their titles chances as they host of bottom placed minds but it was the visitors who took a shot leader early in the 2nd half of an instant dolly showed death skills before

curling a beautiful strike into the top corner. thomas many a equalized for dortmund on 73 minutes just 3 minutes later model royce and the chance to give his side victory but he put his penalty why. one won the final score. and now saturday's late game is finished let's take a look at all the results so far this weekend scored in injury time equaliser at home to earlier 2nd place leipsic could only draw away to. elsewhere. and hoffenheim against bielefeld was also scoreless on friday on your own beat leverkusen on sunday by our hosts and on for play. if you are a minor of the top story we're following germany c.d.u. has a new leader in

a close vote members chose i mean logic to take over the reins of idol america's governing party heads germany's most populous state and with national elections later this year he's a strong contender to head the ticket as champs. that's all for now make for a lame coming up our magazine shift living in the digital age for more and blue profit logic join us. it's about billions. it's about our. lives about the foundation of the new world order the silk road. the china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. but in the uk there's a shot of the morning when for accept some money from the new superpower will

become dependent on the commitment of us that. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal the coconuts how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world the blame china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. you know. twitter facebook the enormous power of social media has never been so clear since the rioters stormed the u.s. capitol in washington the platforms out of control and what role has opened up for new players like maybe. us president trump pretty much government. he used twitter to speak directly to his almost 90000000 followers among them were fans and foes people in politics and

business and from the press win win situation for trump and twitter for a long time but now social media has suddenly put the brakes on by blocking its accounts private companies are betting the world's most powerful man from speaking out what does it mean when digital corporations have this much influence in the twitter account and to real donald trump had 89000000 followers now all that's left of his beloved megaphone and weapon of choice is his twitter handle. trump fired over 12200 tweets in 2020 alone often with alarming content. was so thick that i want to put just a few words on twitter trump was able to mobilize his supporters who recently even stormed the capitol in washington d.c. trump raised them on the popular social media site.

by sun and sing donald trump facebook and twitter how to accomplish what police and politicians basically failed to do prevent a further escalation in violence social media out when you get the president but this raises new questions you should social media posts people asked if so which posts and who gets to decide meanwhile. other accounts rallying support and planning further action. his tweets and any other account. with many other platforms within his reach. to make. his own platform well that's one way to stop people from silencing him many right wing conservatives had already jumped ship from twitter and facebook because of blocking and. headed for alternative platforms like me we. and it was

a particular that many radical supporters rallied to storm the capitol. they shared photos of themselves storming the capitol. they made fun of frightened politicians and threatened them with violence violent hate speech has been trending on the platform parlor to kill the pedophile elites hang them and tighten the news with social media users who want to crash the system and throw politicians behind bars. the group on the gap network says that when democracy becomes a tyranny the only option. and of course there have been plenty of. this insults flying around. also in the firing line of these alternative platforms the media and major social networks uses believe that they

have been infiltrated by communists and that global elites systematically suppressing the truth anyone caught in these circles could be led to believe it's all a big conspiracy against the patriotic americans. these opinions were so extreme that . immediately. the network is now temporarily offline. amazon against what they say is a politically motivated decision why is this particular platform being held to account at the same time the hashtag hang mike pence then viral on twitter shortly after the capitol was stormed. and extreme conspiracy videos are still as widely available as ever on you tube moderating content is a tricky business and not exactly a success story yet eps like polamalu get themselves as mediators all on biased news and an alternative to the big play as a place where users have freedom and the uses take this one step further as this

post shows. but if you're thinking that only trigger happy right wing extremist proud these alternative platforms then think again the main investor in the network which was founded in 2018 is rebecca the most a family among trump's biggest supporters many opinion leaders and republican politicians now have pollack counts a liberal groups on the ill to hundreds of weapons well tim berners lee is on me we advise rebought the man who is generally credited with inventing the world wide web and along time can pay not for internet. the call for freedom of speech is of course not just the right wing phenomenon. one conspiracy theory making the rounds is that microsoft founder bill gates unleashed the corona virus so that he could implant everyone with a chip understand michigan new world order. facebook and twitter have been removing this content and banning the users who push it online like donald trump that is why

tech startups like polish have surged in popularity founded 2 years ago this twitter alternative recorded more than half a 1000000 downloads and a single week to social network me week climb to 3rd place in the apple and google app store because both are now content that is now banned on twitter and facebook there's been a flurry of posts and comments making bold speculations about the side effects of the covert 19 vaccine. they warn against vaccinating children even though the vaccine has not yet been tested on them and isn't approved for anyone under the age of 16. month weinstein is the founder of me we. you know we. increment rules. so if. you have an opinion whether a vaccine is affective or not and you are not posting hate content inciting

violence. breaking the law then that's none of our business social media is what section $230.00 is all about it protects freedom of speech. this is also important to conservative google he believes that democrats stole the u.s. presidential election we watched them open in me we account he firmly believes that facebook and twitter want to stifle voices like his. are trying then i was so tired of going to a british court i want the liberal search you are want them to. i want to hear what they have to. have a discourse were referring to each other to each other to prove. one of us was always. but so far here bill's attempts to find a spectrum of political opinions on the new tentative social networks have been in vain the only finalist suggestions he received some parlor are right wing

conservatives like fox news presenter hannity phil robertson from the reality t.v. show duck dynasty and donald trump winterburn trump he swiftly joined ponit these new social networks are also quickly becoming dangerous and. that's something you hear a lot of the moment i think twitter facebook etc have played a crucial role in dividing society for years they've been luring their customers into these bubbles showing them only what aligns with their worldview to keep them on their platform for longer and make more money from the controversial and shocking clips are rife because they hold the user's attention perhaps it's no wonder that some users see the current intervention as an infringement of their freedom and are looking for other spaces where they're not silenced until now u.s. platforms have not been required to moderate or censor content thanks to

a law that was established in the 990 s. one that cyber security expert describes as the 26 words that created the internet . silicon valley is home of social media networks and section $230.00 is the foundation they rest upon. it states that companies like facebook and twitter are not liable for the content posted on their platforms. this section of the u.s. communications decency act is seen by many as a card to blanche to publish anything and everything. but these sites might soon have this immunity to me. their position as impossible publishes would be history it would mean big changes for users to. we met eric goldman in the heart of silicon valley mountain view he's a law professor and trains lawyers to work with tech companies he says platforms

cannot be held responsible for all content. section $23.00 it's become a euphemism for the broader phenomenon of tech clash there's a lot of anger towards the existing internet incumbents and feeling like they have too much power and that they're really not power in a poor way and section 230 is viewed as the tool that they rely upon in order to engage in this abusive activity. there are several bills that address the $16.00 to $30.00 reform the proposed changes would affect 3 key areas which content can be removed to whom to section $230.00 apply and how will companies known its online content in breach of regulations a 3rd category is to try to impose some kind of procedural governance over internet services to say whatever content you're dealing with this is the way in which we want you to manage your content moderation operate on something like the pact that says you have to provide people who want to complain about content

a phone number and if you remove contravene up to tell the people who've come to why it was removed. perhaps with these extra more transparent one of the available channels of communication for reporting inappropriate content users would think twice before posting in the 1st place goldman is critical of the reforms though saying they won't keep tech giants in line but they will drive startups and smaller companies into financial ruin we're competing with another fine example how do we have a user edit encyclopedia in a world where the operator that service is liable for whatever problems are created by their users it simply doesn't exist what's the world look like if we take we would keep. we take away from this is like reddit that let us talk to each other and explore a conversation that we're not having anywhere else. the internet has of course opened up new horizons of possibilities but right now social media is like an uncontrollable tidal wave of fake news and hate speech with serious consequences

for all of us it's an almost impossible conflict to result but for me one thing is clear the decision about what can and cannot be said should not lie with private companies and we as uses need to shop nop fact check 1st of all social media listen to people's opinions that contradict our own and report hate speech to the operators it's with i want time. what do you think you support complete freedom of speech or do you think content should be moderated is it ok to ban someone after they've been warned or is that censorship. on facebook you tube on d w dot com that's all for me so your next. economists look for. dreamt instead of rainy season in rwanda

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and everyone was laid a holes in everything. getting you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it under a w. hello and welcome to another edition of africa i am sandra 3 nobody coming to you from kampala here in uganda well it has we nearly 5 years since this show focusing on environmental issues foster went on air and we're looking forward to reporting on more and more amazing projects and great ideas for protecting and improving the walls we all live in as well as drawing attention to the problems that i gently

need solving well here are some of the topics coming up on the program. because really transportation to knowledge even made in africa an example from kenya. popcorn and why it's not just for eating as scientists in germany will demonstrate was going. on to mexico servatius in south africa is preparing young people to protect white life. but post a with head to namibia more than 20 percent of the country is on the course of asian management it is home to incredible variety over a rare and in danger of species of animals including the cheetahs the superfast cards need a very specific kind of environment to breed can't unmaintained the aborted temperature when it gets very caught the trouble is that they often live near a rural communities and cause problems for people and their livestock now

researchers hope for a way for farmers to drastically of course reduce their livestock losses without killing the beautiful big cards. a rare sight. in. the country has the largest free range in population of cheetahs in. well but according to recent research still the numbers are low. here the population is threatened because it doesn't occur inside of national parks but on commercially used farmland there's obviously leads to conflict as the truth ok finally prey on livestock of the farms. teeters population numbers across africa have dropped to less than $7000.00 worldwide as the habitat is lost to farm land and house and cost russian portion and illegal trading caps pause a federal challenge and because to test livestock they also get killed by farmers.

scientists from germany's like nets institute have found a way to reduce that conflict to spend more than a decade studying she test in namibia part of their study involves putting video collis on the animals and monitor india movements the team not to study the cheetahs always return to 7 areas of practice passed on from one generation to the next they visit these territories and mark read in the territory so we call this centers of the territory is not a march the trees are called a communication hops because that territorial males they used these trees and also the oldest into region around so these territories are very stable now always there and even if the territory hold us does appear die then the new

territory holders are all day exactly the same place this allows the scientists to identify areas where cheetahs complicate the denmark virus to farmers not to put a life stock in those places it's about 10 percent of the area that is highly dangerous because concentrations of the cheaters is there in haiti. and about 90 percent there is much less risky for the harm was that. the families that have moved cattle out of harm's way now use far fewer i mean most to the big cuts. this simple adjustment reduced the livestock losses by more than 80 percent and that's off the conflict for the farmers and for the truth is in many cases. reducing the conflict between humans and money mouse means more survive and other benefits to these powerful

pre-dates has helped keep the populations of grass under control thus preserving a montagne india calendrical balance off. what incredible creatures and what a great idea to promote a peaceful coexistence between the well and the most and the humans on this report is about a really interesting bit in south africa it aims to help communities live alongside animals in the wild as well as offer professional opportunities it is called the truck a company and the name suggests it trains disadvantaged rural people in the traditional skills of wildlife trucking. as it is sunny and. a looking for their special friends in the dense bushland of the level of north of johannesburg. a group of rhinos is hidden somewhere here.

this is their front 2 pens. spurs on the ground twisted twigs and droppings lead them to the animals. they're professional trackers. our ancestors were doing this tracking. for meat for hunting they do it they did they they studied it we are just carrying on when they are 40 but in a different way because then they were doing it for food we we have for the for the well not not not to kill or to protect. track is play a critical role in keeping the animals in the reserves safe. so that figure has nearly 80 percent of the world's rhino population and has been hardest hit by

poaching but says 2014 thanks to strict security measures reserves have half dry no killings from 1200 animals to about 600 in 29000 to keep his animals safe conservation manager had among men that does not only rely on devices. but they really do a lot of monitoring work especially. on conservation important species like. some of the big ones on. various forms of technology to try and track these animals and keep tabs on these animals but technology. from time to time. we have to revert back to the basic. tracking skills. this is the mara reserve is part of the great career a semi desert region with characteristic wildlife vegetation soil and climate conditions the reserve is also one of 3 training grounds for a very unusual track record to me today is examination day. has to show his

instructors he can track an antelope in the semi arrid career. it's a different one because even. in front of the big plant. at the track reads the environment and develops an intuitive feeling for the ways and habits of animals droppings are just one of many signs they read. just finally label finds his target hidden in the bushes. grew up in. long. hours. in the most annoyed this mall is the ones who and then you know what are the biggest in the money going right. everything the inside. was the thing that motivates you know if i want to go to to learn about guns in the modern everything the academy is an ngo that offers

free training to 24 young rural people from various african countries each year realising that only a few traditional track has remained in southern africa onyx when you 1st started this school 10 years ago with the help of a private sponsor meanwhile the academy gets thousands of applications paid here. we are training trackers to do for the benefit of conservation and for the benefit of an ancient culture and to improve the lives of the students that come through our program think it's a new and it is proving successful 94 percent of all graduates are employed and the trackers are needed many iconic animals like crocodiles leopards and cheetahs remain critically endangered. after a long day of working and learning in the felt the pupils returned to the boarding house was after. many of them heard of the tracker academy through people from their villages who went through the program and subsequently found work in the

reserves they hope that they too will one day be a role model for their peers back home. what the want will be on the vonage over a boom in solar energy in 2018 accounted for 2 percent of one white in the christie usage and its share is growing fast experts say solar and wind are said to be the most sustainable sources of renewable energy in the solvent hemisphere the international renewable energy agency says that over the past because it costs for solar have dropped by 80 percent let us now go visit an energy provider that he's building the biggest solar park in germany. these panels are pretty easy to install but there are thousands of them still to go. in the countryside near berlin germany's biggest solar park is taking shape. half

a 1000000 modules built on metal frame. 119 posts. 250 kilometers of cable. 150 fisher is working on behalf of one of germany's biggest energy companies. we definitely have the potential to complete projects of this scale but rather than size it's the viability of the project that counts for you. this solar park is the size of 225 soccer pitches facilities in europe tend to be smaller because they compete with agriculture. but solar parks alone aren't enough here in germany there are 19000000 apartment buildings and houses the loss of roof space. and an ideal place for solar panels. an entire

industry has been built around installing. now adays the systems are very affordable and economical to run since you basically don't have any maintenance costs. have become so affordable to install that they quickly pay for themselves what is your what. mux owns a house with every top solar system in many cases the system actually produces more energy than a household needs. as one of the things that makes it financially worthwhile is that the costs of heating your house or heating your water are pretty low. the equipment paid for itself in just a few years. after that the electricity produced is essentially

free. this energy needs do exceed 40 produces though that is because his family have 2 electric cars that need to be recharged. off. 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 would have to be 5 times as many rooftop solar systems on parks as there are now to cover energy needs. solar energy would then account for a quarter of the country's power i would post. step to germany because solar park project 10 years ago the operating company was one of the biggest nuclear power

producers in the country. if still run several coal fired plants but that will soon be a thing of the past. these new energy sources will have to fill the gap they've become a central pillar in our portfolio. 2012 we've seen growth in. all new and renewable segments including wind both offshore and onshore as well as solar. you know these technologies will account for about half of our output by 2025 i need. the solar panels just keep on coming day in and day as. talks of sustainable mobility tend to focus on the big cities in ways to reduce traffic congestion and pollution and of course make life better on you give me

basis on protecting you and what took you off because well it's not so good because the optical you know they since it was developed you take. place handcuffs off in a way several 100 kilos and here in kenya's capital nairobi exhausted noise are another problem for day laborers. kind of plant ties invention could make life easier it's an electric car conscious that goes faster and can carry more you build in a system that. is the kind of silvery charge where the motion to kill it and that's good news if you're looking to get more people below is equal to join just so you can use it doesn't but you. see it is the people.

in addition to sparing the environment the new vehicle can move it up to 7 kilometers an hour without using much manpower its ability to power itself is kinetic energy at its best and the big help for users. to imagine us this on the ground by you are working you know how everything is put out a quiet then vital is put out. dream to achieve this squanto i developed electric rickshaw unlike noisy diesel trucks trucks this version rolls through nairobi almost silently and without emissions it also carries 5 instead of 3 people . who want to diversify the products but. what they cannot and immediately be emitted can be in buses while. one of the electric more beautiful company. on top of that it's produced sustainably since components of the electric

vehicles come from the region. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website also send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your stories. a lot of the things we use in our day to day life i made the point well figure. was you you was model and this is but for the entire exhaust fumes from the cars a plastic process you feel since opining none of those are just examples it is a terrible problem scientists are looking for alternatives and sometimes come up with great ideas for that there was a professor at mit was doing. much of the things we've called.

this building is getting added thermal insulation and damp roofing from polystyrene for every year over 10000000 tons of the synthetic material are turned into everything from facade cladding to disposable bowls and cups and packaging. but one extremely useful the downside of the material is that it is essentially non-biodegradable and takes centuries to break down. and as it does it releases miniscule particles into the ground and water supplies. this man has a plan to replace the plastic polluted since 2008. poor and his team have been looking into an environmentally friendly alternative pop corn. similar to polystyrene phone if it consists of a mass of cavities filled with there are no. i can see them when you dissect a piece of popcorn and examine it under the microscope that's what makes it so

light. like the mark the researcher and his team have already used popcorn to create kitchen furniture they're saying manufacture is the range of potential applications for popcorn the 1st step is to turn it into a massive granules all the same size the original maze is grown in germany well that is land intensive on the plus side the material will help to reduce fossil fuel consumption. and you can read it and it tastes a lot like popcorn except there's no sugar or chocolate of course so the taste is a bit boring. the granules have been pressed together to form sheets or panels with plum prophesying providing the bonding agent as opposed to synthetic chemicals this makes the material compostable and even suitable as animal fodder. for the team pioneers in the field.

they also use a hard to compare the thermal conductivity of polystyrene foam to that of popcorn and then measure the heat that penetrates through to the back in the case of polystyrene foam the sensor reads 28 degrees celsius while the popcorn board is even better at absorbing the heat here the reading is under $25.00 degrees. you can creep would buy houses with the panels in the walls or on the facades also or you can also use them as insulation for solids building. the. popcorn material also performs better in the flammability test the polystyrene burns up at a frightening speed immediately beginning to melt and release toxic gases. subjected to the same flame the panel of popcorn barely catches fire.

only reason the poor is happy to pass on the fruits of years of research on the material. or he hopes to see environmentally friendly products made from popcorn replacing polystyrene foam on a large scale and the sooner the better. the 1st popcorn packaging is due to go on the market in the fall of 2021 and will hopefully help to reduce the world's growing mountains of plastic waste. and new technologies can certainly make our lives easier when the internal combustion engine was developed in the 19th century no one in the air pollution on serious health issues it will be later that his wife many you know it is call me to the

finding grain be a waste of pouring machines. when these innovations help to counteract climate change then wait to see for yourself. we've got corn husks aren't uncommon in ground are these days the current drought has lasted months and they increasingly extreme weather threatens the libel hood's of local farmers especially those in the eastern part of the country who are not quoting him to credit your it's apparent that climate change is real and increasingly dangerous the farming seasons that people are used to are not longer predictable at times it trains we're one expected drought route instead of rams it's confusing you can just farm and have hope over having harvest i would even bring the issue and when you aren't paying a couple why you turn your own petard is one family who has been fortunate during these hard times have filled me a roof so she's been able to pump sufficient water to her crops. but the diesel

needed to pad the pants is expensive and the exhaust that is a need to the same result contributes to a greenhouse effect the researchers and technology experts from a random start up developed a solar powered irrigation system thinking they had to the project was financed by a us aid organisation and they run the government they knew irrigation plants came at just the right time for 40 families from a pirate in the district that god made agriculture more difficult and the cost of renting the diesel pumps nearly consumed the needs. to go sciences we ended up spending much of what awnings on buying fuel while using the fuel pump into narrators ira with those little left for our livelihood now we have gotten great of all those expenses we only need to replace someone to water the plugs. of the kurdish just. due to the more

affordable it is. promise cannot attend a larger areas of land and keep farming they yield a much higher assign result. but. i did call a hole i was only have a sitting 50 kilograms of beans in 2 bags of saddam and seize on now with solar irrigation the yield volume has multiplied by 3 when i am considering expanding my farming even when i'm in a focus on the solar powered irrigation system should be up and running in all of party districts in the country by the end over 15 teeth into this tucked up that builds the sauna irrigation system has also developed a system to michele the temperature and moisture of the site so says calculate the exact amount of water needed by the plans. farmers of been notified by and up about when and how much they should what. the plants need to

get. or what they need that's why we believe when they use this they cannot argue they are going to improve their production. and it does been tested to be a success new the play which has robin doing. these pilot system is poet based solar energy a swim now the farm is not exactly which plants need water and how much they need for the time being they improvising with plastic bottles which will soon be replaced by what to horses. it looks like technological advances will be key to all future that is all for today's show thank you all for being with us hope to see you again i think we'll be back with more exciting stories about nature and of course the patient i am stunned at the no bill signing off from compiler care in uganda.

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