the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network only so in europe. china is promising its partners rich. but in europe there's a sharp warning going to ever accept some money from the new superpower it will become dependent on the. chinese game lead to euro. starts feb 19th on g.w. . this is d.w. news and these are our top stories hundreds of protesters have clashed with police after the netherlands imposed its 1st national curfew since world war 2 protesters far to cars and damaged shops in amsterdam and i'm told in the demonstrations broke rules on public gatherings and social distancing police made more than $100.00

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we're nearly 8000000000 people here on earth and we all need food create and vegetables fruits and meat but most of the food will be cultivated most of the need to eat green it's a huge imbalance in that and bob that is environmentally friendly food for a distant country our food substitutes sustainable and see if we can't humans ordered food habits to adopt new ones which would help our planet try if not all of those questions and more of course cure on equal india a longer welcome i'm sunk that i call. i can start my day with out of by being hot cup of tea like me if you enjoy your morning chai you might know that india is the

2nd largest producer of tea in the world next story to china the state of us some of the north east is one of the most important ruling regions in the country that of course many big players here but what's interesting to note is that small produces some of form 100 percent organic are seeing significant success. the grower goban huzzaing was one of the 1st farmers here in our sun to make the switch to organic the north eastern state has been world famous for its d. for over a century and. open his article started out as a conventional to grow using chemical fertilizers and pesticides on a regular basis but when the mosquito bugs left his crops devastated he asked the farm for new ideas they recommended a different pesticide. i'm not tired particularly man

i miss the pests vanished in no time but the best side effect and i mean so much that i couldn't eat. more money. i had such terrible stomach complaints i would have no more packed quiet that was when i decided to sign an alternative to the special sites yeah because. that was around 20 years ago since then he has made his own for the life primarily from garden. goban also grows green tea in addition to the black variety even after the harvest the work is still done by hand the leaves are 1st left out to dry then they are all stood. that it cannot. let it. fall my hand me. it takes just over an hour to roost in the walk that it if you. hit. the green is

very laborious to make ira good indeed. i need. then dry it in the shade to get rid of the moisture. and then in the evening we have to roast it by. half a kilo 15 needs to be roasted clear about 2 and a half hours. so green tea production is slow but the market demand for green is high. the grower process is around $400.00 kilos of blackbeard most of it dusting for canada cambodia and kenya demand has risen in recent years to the point where he has trouble keeping up with orders until a few decades ago still had large scale plantations many set up by british colonial

era companies and although small holders took over conventional farming techniques with hazardous chemicals persist organic the growers up on years here but there are a tiny minority of one percent. the dockets long deployment of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have left the saw in groundwater badly polluted studies conducted by greenpeace india and others have found pesticides residues in the tea plans a situation that the state of india is well aware of there's no doubt that if you if you're going to avoid spraying chemicals on your book. it's much better i mean really it's much better the problem is your come down a lot so if india were to more completely organic. come down from 1x4cw8cw.

organic growth is how i would say the program output is not significantly smaller. lives around 300 kilometers away from cotton and on the border of bhutan he also exports most of the t. he grows. and look so think you are going to come when there is a misconception that organic means less well that's what all the work in the soil is done by natural organisms if you make your farm productive using good quality natural fertilizers you can grow as much as conventional to growers organic meat. both farmers are eager to pass on their experience. has already pursued you the number of conventional farmers to make the change like farmer rice farm site here. are going equivalent of mr gavin also explained the drawbacks of organic farming it means

a lot of hard work but the result will be very good i didn't have any issue with doing hard work but we'll be financially better off which is why i was open to the idea of organically going us not to financially i was just making do but now having embraced organic growing i would see i am better off. because. i am doing this to help farmers learn a trade they can live off of the commonwealth about one clue about the little demagogue. i want to show them what i do that you can produce the leaves manually and still export it and do not require a machine for that purpose you know that. a methodology there in any case they wouldn't be able to afford a machine and were told i'm within. the organic farmers certainly can make a living from going after they can explore their d. for a good price least $10.00 times as much as the conventional farm their livelihoods

and also that have benefited as has the unwind. and increase the world population needs an increasing amount of food a long time ago it was clear that this in demand can only be satisfied with genetically modified plots more chemical fertilizers and more pesticides but over the last few decades we've learned about the consequences of this development a lot of apples in the supermarkets of new york for example come from the rule. was 2 of them are last produced unsustainably but some people do allow one farmers to stop using pesticides in their apple plantations. substances but so division in italy's alpine valleys pesticides are in widespread use a fact that has angered some locals and sparked

a heated debate between conventional and organic farms. you know take flu arsenic it says on the packaging that it can harm unborn children in the womb just imagine this sort of product just doing the rounds. of ferguson knows most at risk would be us the fruit farmers we're the ones who handle this stuff and it's concentrated form once it lands in the sprayer it's been diluted by a factor of a 1000. to villages miles is located in one of europe's most picture rest landscapes in recent times the local pharmacy has become the center point of research into the presence of pesticides and we asked you. back in 2018 an independent environmental institute set up 2 measuring devices in the pharmacist's garden the ad was monitored for 6 months although the place is fruit farm is about a kilometer away several pesticides were detected in the air. and this

is a small garden surrounded by hedges right in the middle of a village with many houses there's a big tree which is supposed to offer protection but few to more than 25 pesticides have been detected with in god we have my face could fail. at present there aren't many which is located near the village many locals want to see the landscape maintain its diversity it's a different story further down the valley where orchards dominate the landscape. one in 10 apples in europe a grown in the region of south to roll 6 times more pesticides than is average in farming in italy as sprayed on these monocultures. assignment is an apple fama. he prefers to use terms like plant protection over pesticide. growing fruit without plant protection products

is nearly impossible at the moment. conventional farmers do their thing they have their means and the organic farmers have theirs but both kinds require plant protection by the. non-socialists but. nestle between the kids is all been included has organic herb farm he's previously been banned from selling his produce because it contained pesticides. now he's invested heavily in foil coverings to protect his plants. last year how can you count them out of the air here contains a cocktail of contamination and we're not just breathing one substance in a minute nobody knows what happens inside the body when we breathe in this cocktail of substances to prevent if i go to the local farmers association says the

situation has improved conventional farmers now have to plant protective hedges if they border on organic farms all set up nets which is supposed to stop the spread of pesticides small steps of this kind of going some way towards easing tensions but the widespread use of pesticides appears to be here to stay. so then i can't really comment on the health risks what we always say is that the substances have been tested and approved by the health ministry guardsmen used to be approved so. all the stuff that was sprayed 1020 years ago has now been banned at the time they were allowed and i'm convinced that the substances allowed today won't be allowed and a few years. both a film american the pharmacist have set the ball rolling and continuing the fight for organic farming to become the norm in and around models in a local referendum in $2142.00 thirds of the villages voted to ban pesticide use

the village also declared itself europe's 1st pesticide free community the farmers association took the matter to court several years later the crew. it's accepted the result of the referendum but the fight over the use of pesticides continues. pharmacist. refers to a un report that described the necessity for pesticides as a myth. literally says the assertion by the agriculture mccool industry that pesticides are necessary is not only inaccurate but dangerously misleading when. push came from us it came at us like thunder. many conventional farmers are concerned about the future of their business in the case has now reached the supreme court in rome which will decide whether or not. should be allowed in the region.

like meat products and of course substitutes are very popular it's young people in cities particularly for these alternatives but is it really better think. that comes from cows and if one had to choose between. which would be the best for the moment and i help find out. for the environment what kind of milk should i drank. 'd sometimes it feels like everything you buy is somehow about the product. yet it up initially but some choice of better but i'll. take for you it's responsible for a quarter of the world greenhouse gas emissions and most of that comes from animal farming products like beef and dairy. this. coming. healthy alternative to cows milk right today we're going to take

a look at which one is best for the planet for a break is making progress and peace perfection. make up 14 percent of milk sales in u.s. trucks the multi-billion dollar industry is growing by 10 percent each year globally and riding a wave of consumer consciousness that prides itself on being healthy and not scoring over the planet asia is the biggest and fastest growing market for consumers in cities from jakarta to delhi getting richer and with pickier. like these have even wider appeal because most adults in asia and africa don't have the enzymes to properly digest the lactose and cow's milk. i think there are still doesn't the plateau to choose from. so i made this rice uncooked rice and water and then blending it with a couple of dates and a bit of salt. the problem for the planet is that

rice production water rice is growing in flooded field where bacteria also pump methane into the atmosphere these parties are one of the biggest methane producers in the world. the. researchers from the university of oxford in 28 team used data from 38000 farms in more than 100 countries to work out the average carbon footprints of different. they found that a glass of rice milk has a 3rd of the emissions of a glass of cows. rice milk is what the climate but it's like soil. because of the meeting generated by growing the rocks. have the lowest emissions of the fire and. take a closer look at that. to make our milk i think the not so good night and again i did some date for flavor

blended together the total nut melt have a small carbon footprint because now trees are expanding into plant and sucking c o 2 out of the atmosphere. but almond milk has a massive water footprint 80 percent of the world's aman's come from california which suffered from terrible drought led to getting worse and the planet was. making with the loss of our milk used up about as much water as having a shower. and then that the bees beekeepers truck their hives across vast distances crops of different seasons the combination of travel and pesticides means tens of billions of bees die in a single almond season. making soil require that extra step you have to boil the mixture up to drip and skim off. this helps increase the shelf life by killing might bird i don't even help without

. milk is one of the most environmentally friendly milk you can find it is responsible for less c o 2 than rice spoke and use less water than almond milk it's been a staple in asian duck for thousands of years is there an environmental downside as well yet but it depends on how and where the soil with growth in the a swathe of the eye with the right part of the bird each year to grow soybeans now most of this at least the livestock like their cows but about 6 percent of global soil still that is out of it. could have been more simple he blamed strain and rick. that was critical they didn't take much water to grow and their missions are tight . now you might be wondering about the health impacts of all these plot placement and if you think you might change your diet significantly talk to your doctor or trusting everybody on the let's look at stories some people are scared of the story

not because it contains chemical compounds that act like the hormone is too much is good and can increase the risk of breast cancer but the science here is pretty inconclusive despite a plausible mechanism studies in humans have found that eating more so it has little effect on breast cancer the question but other part is whether there is nutritious cows milk cows milk of more protein in the any plant with the exception of oil which is actually really high in protein so we've done. well the reset button soymilk of the smallest environmental footprint they take little water to grow. rice milk is a great on any measure well be the governor water but compared to cows milk the differences between these are pretty small and then all of the milk are better for the plot of the dairy but if you're looking to really vary your. otome sawyer your best bet. one top of the food produced worldwide will

never be the shoveled cow that the meat that's already been in the fridge for too little on the order you can eat buffet doesn't really stand a chance to be wiped clean food waste is a serious problem in breach as well as. in thailand we found a chef who was experimenting with interesting ideas on how to avoid for just. most people will only see a carpet of trash here. sees a scandal in thailand's landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food waste. there your feet on the surface this all looks like plastic waste. but when you look inside as well as this soft gooey stuff down there it's all food organic it's biomass. these still are quite ok they're well packed you could probably wash them and make something with them that they might. eventually from

germany is head chef and in bangkok hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. it doesn't mean i personally hate throwing food away not only because when i cook something i've put a lot of care and attention into it but also because it just seems utterly idiotic to throw something away that's clearly edible. it's always bothered me. and it drives me nuts. and it. can only be found in the hotel with over a 1000 rooms it's one of the biggest in thailand has planted a vegetable garden on the roof of the hotel for his $200.00 stuff. its yield is negligible compared to the hotel's needs but the project has raised his staff's awareness of the life of food. women. the way we carelessly throw

things away as a result of our seeing food merely as a product. we're not aware of how difficult it is to actually plant something and how long the path is from the seed in the soil to the edible produce booth says hotels waste food in part because the chefs have to work at a fast pace. so he set up a central kitchen in his hotel where many of the leftovers can be put to good use. he is the man we collect all the leftovers from preparation and the unused ends of vegetables or meat. at the various carvery as in the hotel there are always the bones left over we collect them to make stock with normally you wouldn't bother if you only used one onion but when you sliced hundreds of onions there's enough for a stock. run. this hotel boasts 6 different specialty restaurants. there's also a buffet area with

a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes. with a bit of supervision and planning he's able to keep waste to a minimum until he starts the boiled eggs leftover from breakfast all land in there it's a mid-day favorite people really like eating it and we don't have to boil the eggs in it and i doubt that in today guys the problem is that breakfast eggs are cooked in the western kitchen but this is chinese cuisine it's. ideas like this have helped to her and his team cut the hotel's food waste in half over just 2 years it wasn't easy it was a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. once a month bu her and his team take stock. they take a look at what food has gone and use that day and how it could be transformed into

cool make cuisine. food that is still good to eat that the hotel can't use is donated to an injury of its staff collect the leftovers each day and distribute them to people in need across the city. only perishables containing things like fish or cream end up in the bin though even then not told they've been weighed and registered. just have to have evidence of it this helps us to better understand what we're throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly report. then we can see exactly how much it is and maybe manage to reduce it a little data collection can be a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste . the german agency for international cooperation g i said is funding a study to examine the waste produced by 400 representative households across thailand this kind of information hasn't been collected before in part because the

costs will garbage disposal here are livid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight you're going to visit and we want to know how much garbage gets sorted in separated where it goes to and what happens to it. it's hoped that this data will help discover ways to reduce food waste food that ends up in landfills isn't just wasteful it's also terrible for the climate when organic matter rots it releases me thing gas a powerful greenhouse gas that's estimated to be $25.00 times more potent than c o 2. so organic waste is a real climate killer especially in developing economies which rarely have modern recycling or composting technology for done the solution is clear. believe in off the one we often talk about what to do with all the waste and there are important debates but we should really be talking about how we can prevent

these trash piles from building up in the 1st place. daniel boone her wants to lead by example he knows that every step forward will make a difference. food is our fuel and that means we will do everything humanly possible to make sure plenty of it is available but going forward if each one of us chooses to eat food which is sustainable environmentally friendly and not to forget nutritious we helping the planet create i'll leave you without thought and see you again next week from our entire team in india and germany good buy.

in good shape. today we say hello in sign language. humans have 5 senses. what happens when one is mostly. down to speak with their. mind they're. really people living

full lives some with sensory impairment and good. news w. thanks. and good this moxie and state of. the dispute the country employs. is a pretty. good building train tracks to translate the call destroy the environment to deliver a speech and poison everything inside. the bubble fritos of the be in 60 minutes long t w. life 1st monies are coming to an end. a gigantic

coincidence. that santa previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab automation. where the improbable but. true doesn't exist the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery but there is such that. money from birth. starts feb 11th on t.w. . good. luck. hello and welcome to in good shape the greek philosopher i was total said we have 5 senses hearing sight smell taste and touch and even german speakers says that b.

don't have all 5 senses together usually means that we are not in full possession of all abilities but is it really true does it mean that if somebody cannot hear all see is really limited i don't seem so our senses are much more complex that we usually think off do you know that somebody can see with his ears take a look at this. on his way to school jason a t so makes loud clicking sounds with his tongue. he was born blind. the echoes produced by the clicks help him perceive his surroundings. there's a wall on the left. in the case and to the right i'd say it's more like a head. or heck message with a song and for the right. it's

a car this. jason uses sonar or echolocation it's similar to the technique used by bats as an event a wall sounds closed off somehow more solid i'd say. and a head just or more like a wall with holes and it. before he enters the schoolyard he has to put on a mask like everyone else that does make things harder for him. he's kind of makes the echo sound less distinct i might be able to hear that there's something there but it's not as clear as it is without a mask the more. his day begins with soccer training because of the pandemic it's just jason and his coach mantra doomsaying today. jason is an accomplished soccer player skilled at processing and responding to

a complex set of acoustic cues not just the rattle in the ball. with gotcha that i'm each other players make sound the ball makes a sound one shot the opposing team talk to each other there's usually a trainer talking to him he has to distinguish all of the different to shorten. or know when to click to. hold and or unpleasant to locate members of the opposing team on his own to go. into. it takes jason just a few seconds to find his coach. if i'm looking for someone to start walking and eventually i'll hear something. just like spotting something out of the corner of your eye. if i turn in that direction they're right in front of me and i can walk straight up to them. after

sports jason meets with the school's mobility trainer klaus. who is also an echo location expert. region by the name of borden baffert hobbies include if i take a ball and throw it on the ground that sounds quite different than if i throw it at the blackboard or against the wall i'm just not so we have 3 different sounds and we use them to make a differentiation picture of our surroundings and you know kind of. the special thing about echolocation which was only discovered a few years ago is that children who've been blind since birth form are adults who click the way jason dogs to precise click because he's mechanical process what they hear in response and their visual cortex not their older terry cortex and. invisalign context. the visual cortex process the sensory input from the eyes but it turns out that an expert echo locators the visual cortex is activated by sound

so with the clicking sound jason is creating a spatial map of his surroundings. through echolocation jason can navigate the world around him it's a technique and a skill that helped him lead an independent life. in. the 14 year old lives in an assisted living home. but he doesn't use echolocation there. i know my way around here so i don't need to. like many other teens jason loves computer games and there are some for people who can't see. their own 260000000 people worldwide visually impaired or blind and in many

countries of the world they like access to adequate medical services for the job market cation people who hear very little or a deaf are in a similar situation and they live in a world that sounds like this. but they still can communicate they can virtually hear through their eyes using sign language this is the word for hello for instance. there are about 200 different versions of signing which and even some dialects a long time ago signing which was denigrated and was not allowed to be used at school but nowadays it's part of the world. compared to and lavalle jr having a conversation they decide to buy some flowers. right and see the right one they're both jeff and talk in sign language to each other and to

people who can hear. how many get there we use just as some facial expression absent if we can and by a lot of big and small for example. people who can hair are open to patient works well if they're anxious and closed off it doesn't. involve as immediate family are also deaf so he grew up with sign language from the start. i mean it's not a tool it's my mother tongue lower i think it's your mother tongue out here. the way spoken language is for people who can hear out of. combat there is a performance artist and sign language interpreter and works for a television news show he provides an invaluable service to many people who are deaf helping them to engage with the wider world need

a laptop. a big cities loud but not for someone who can't hear sight and the other senses are called upon to compensate and not how i convey the thought of my will to silence i don't hear anything i have a connect but i sense feelings and i notice when a car passes by me i feel the vibration even though i don't hear the noise. i sense in my body what's going on around me a couple. many sounds are not so hard to understand as of that again demonstrates. passers by are asked to identify 3 famous politician us. trying to get out of the. fact that america. puts you. back. from. an act and. saw the damage though not in

a. poetry in sign language. the world is fresh and doing. in the early morning sun. like gains from a hill in rapture into the spring green valley below. with all. the harmony of beautiful harmony of souls. in my heart we're related and that's why i love them so. as a child rafi. first went to a regular school where he was expected to learn spoken language then he switched to

a school where instruction was in sign language and he gave up learning to speak many of his friends or consign if things get complicated he writes down what he wants to convey. i did not need the death of me i don't think i ever really wanted to learn to speak if i fell because i don't know what it sounds like because i can't hare as i grew up with sign language. but it may be one day i'll try out speaking perhaps because it's not an urgent question and wouldn't sign language is my language or my culture i missed my i have ways to communicate so i don't need speech as well. i have always edited out story. in faces speak volumes eyes and bodies listen closely there are many ways to communicate. and here's how today's interview and i say

hello to marry. in order to be loved by more i'm joined today by layla finkbeiner and alone. we also have. a sign language interpreter welcome. most people know very little about sign language. and you tell us a bit more about it. makes it so special to be i've noted in the media the media coverage tends to focus on the person's hearing status. or it treats sign language as some kind of cute. but the barry is on to topic the barriers that shape our daily lives. who owns is the sign language is part of our culture but it's not the entirety of it i mean there's more to us than just our sign language. we have our own history and our own

communities and i want to see a greater focus on that. you just mentioned barriers or barriers or you encounter on a day to day basis. how can they be overcome dolmetsch of them so we need to sign language interpreter is an aunt used often enough there's no emergency call systems doctors and medical staff have no idea what our situation is and how to provide treatment i could go on all day and when we go to a doctor's appointment we can't communicate we need an interpreter he's adornment but this interpretating is tactiles is it requires proximity and human connection. all to mention here near or god it is a near. right now because of the pandemic that proximity that closeness is a no go at all that's a huge barrier. and we also need

a lot more education about tailoring and visually impaired people and deaf blind people. there are still plenty of barriers in everyday life in fact sure there are interpreters on t.v. but there's so tiny on the screen you can have to go right up to the screen to see them. sing to me talk to people who can hear really needs so much of the screen. real and and you. can do to hear. ya here and. here in germany just as they left the term deaf mute is still in use mentioning a lot of people think that word is ok but we find it extremely discriminatory it's outdated. it implies we have no language deaf and dumb and we can't hear or speak but we have wonderful language and sign language so we

can talk to each other carry on conversations we have something to say comical to heighten the cannot. afford a lawyer you also train medical personnel on how to deal with patients who are what they need to be in essence what this is 1st of all medical staff need to receive training about the deaf the people and their culture as well as sign language was mentioned they need to learn how to communicate with us. it is not in the sign language to be embedded in the healthcare. and the knowledge about a political high def cuts should be a standard element in all health care and all medical training in all spotted a woman. who are not so much for that in liking conversation. or goodbye only thinks hers. it tends to

reactivate our sense of hearing date back a long time in 79 t. any tell 1000000 scientists tried to stimulate his own auditory with electrical current and all he heard the sound of boiling water. nowadays hearing aids have greatly improved but they're of no help if the in the ear it's not working right the so-called cochlea but there's help with cochlear implants. i was more or less deaf from birth but that disability hasn't prevented me from helping people in distress younger he has a hearing impairment but for the 24 year old that's no reason not to work as a volunteer firefighter since the age of 4 he's had a cup here in the plant and on the other side he wears a hearing aid. the hearing

aid is more for the background and natural sound it makes music sound far more natural and nicer. whereas the cochlear implant is special.