and they share private footage with us that has never been seen before. back internal sorts of people 20 meetings on t w. we humans can be very inconsistent we demand the most exotic of holiday destinations expected to be unspoiled but don't put much thought into the carbon footprint of our flight halfway around the globe a mate of mine is headed for the tropical paradise of the multi is chosen an island a little further away from the capital to avoid seeing the plumes of smoke that

rise from all the rubbish they've done a lot of which comes from mass tourism out of sight out of mind but deep down we know it's there still we'd like to believe the promises industry make about going green that's the topic today on mate business short i was promised pristine beaches and crystal clear waters when i took a trip to lunch in malaysia a few years back the island lived up to part of the deal it was absolutely beautiful but it didn't take long to stumble across the type of plastic waste that causes a painful death of marine mammals of course it also ends up in many fish which end up on our plates not that appetizing well some companies are trying to divert those ocean plastics into something more profitable how about a pair of running shoes made out of the stuff. looks at the truth behind a very effective marketing ploy. saving the ocean new recycled products.

for example with these. new drugs. right now in that scale there's no such thing as recycled plastic. so is recycling ocean plastic actually or is it just another lousy green washing method that companies. if you go shopping today recycle products are literally everywhere and the holy grail is recycled products from the. coca-cola laughs to use marine plastic for their marketing as well with their ultra boost sleeker i mean these as really make me believe you can see the ocean by drinking a coke or buying a new sneak but once you start looking into it there isn't really that much collecting of ocean plastic going on.

in the ocean you'll have a really hard time getting it out again even when it's near the surface. you dreamy wish it would be the. surprise is not even close. sure you can deploy boats that fish for plastic but this is all very expensive and relative to the millions of tons of plastic that are already in the ocean most boats only will treat 2 tons maximum per day. even projects backed by millions of dollars struggle this stupid was supposed to get rid of 90 percent of plastic in the ocean but it didn't work and the focus was shifted to rivers instead. once you will get plastic out of the ocean. you'll have dozens of different types of plastic to sort through like these last fishing

nets that professor gillion gak or try to recycle for a research project. it's well worth. see more because this batch is presorted but it's still a mess we need to separate out further. on the left side. sorting these nets according to their color is one thing but they also need to be cut down to recycle them but these really won't give up easily. it's really like your scissor. made of wood. even recycling the stuff that we throw in our brains is pretty pretty hard like i found out in my last video. but this is

a really different. especially because ocean plastic has been degraded by salt and sunlight so it uses a lot of its original quality. that next step would be to get rid of. this. even a tiny amount of sand seaweed or shells can make plastic non-recyclable. round about 5 percent it's really to use a receptor can work with so if we give them the material to somebody who makes pellets out of it they say not more than 5 percent courage that's pretty clear. even when cleaned industrially sand can still be found on a microscopic level. which is why i know a lot of cases products contain a mix of ocean plastic and other recycled material but the ocean plastic can only

be a tiny tiny fraction of this planet but the airds still look like this. all of these products are made with nylon from even the company markets its yard like it's made from actual marine litter such as discarded fishing nets known as. things that are not yet made from a plume you know which are made from. are made from goals here and there is. literally you know both products are very very very little less than a percent less than a personal maybe. environmental scientist on the asteroids or has been in contact with several times about its problematic messaging in an email you can you'll told me that ocean plastic only represents a small part of its yard. for our next recycling step we had to use material

prepared by professor gates otherwise we would have been cutting here for days. these plastic pellets have been turned into a letter opener. so this is the final product and after all these steps you have just seen with us you can imagine how expensive such a opener that this. i would say one round about 200 euros. it's really each step. which these products are and they are made in the dust really but are about the same price as non ocean plastic products this only works by using very little ocean plastic or plastic that hasn't actually been in the ocean. there is no such thing as recycled ocean plastic. an international

distributor for something called ocean bound plastic the term refers to plastic waste that is found within 50 kilometers of coastlines and is likely to end up in the ocean it applies exclusively to countries with poor waste management systems. and when you dig a little all way way deep up you'll find that a lot on companies websites land based ocean bound plastic is everywhere. this makes it a lot easier to collect and process them plastic that has actually been in the ocean so it's cheap. let's look at prices per ton for that virtual plastic cost $762.00 euros and recycled plastic goes for about $870.00 euros ocean bound plastic is around $920.00 euros. this seems relatively

affordable compared to actual ocean plastic judging from the 200 year old letter opener so production costs are likely to be much higher if real ocean plastic is used. there is no need for brands to overreach their marketing beyond what is such a powerful story of cleaning up our coastlines and supporting coastal communities why do we have to pretend that it's actually coming out of the ocean instead of just saying what it is and delivering to customers on our problems like us who marketed the oceans. as made from actual ocean plastic when in fact ocean bound plastic was used to produce the ship even smaller companies have difficulty brother plastic actually comes from got back a backpack manufacturer at the times its products as creates a trump actual ocean plastic they use

a network of fisherman and women who collect plastic and buy. but as of now they haven't certified this production so we don't really know if it's actually plastic what we do know recycling only works as a last resort and using ocean ocean bound instead of verge of plastic is a small win for the environment just not as big as some companies want you to believe so really look at what you're buying read the fine print yes be that annoying person embrace it otherwise your good intentions will probably just say that. at this point the cynics among us may feel justified in leaning back and saying oh that recycling racket makes no difference anyway the plastic will end up in my fish fingers no matter what but there is a lot of evidence to show recycling makes a difference here's

a look at the virtues of the circular economy which isn't much different from the way nature operates. what is the circular economy. good bye to that empty to go cap on the way to work. farewell to that pair of worn out shoes. so long. our daily lives are dominated by a relentless round of production and sumption in the process we waste valuable resource squandering finite commodities like oil gas and smash holes. throwing things away creates a lot of trash and harmful emissions. maybe we should look to nature as an example it works in cycles plants grow and they need to transfer load back into the ground and the process starts all over again can't we create cycles in which today's

products become the woman terril as of tomorrow absolutely this principle is known as a circular economy. the goal is to preserve commodities reduce carbon emissions and avoid mountains of trash. most high tech electronic devices contain rare earth elements and precious metals so a broken t.v. can be used to make the latest tablet but it's not always so simple certain products like batteries for example are chock full of chemicals and valuable will materials that aren't so easy to bring back into the cycle separating all those parts from each other is costly and labor intensive but the process works well with p.t. bottles germans use about 17000000000 of them annually. p.t. is an artificial substance made from crude oil and natural gas. the cycle begins with the production of p.t. particles subsequently they're filled up and end up on supermarket shelves before being sold once their contents are consumed they're then deposited into bottle

recycling machines in recycling centers they're turned into granny lit which is used as the basis for new products such as new p.t. bottles shopping bags and football jerseys and that's how 100 percent of the recycled p.t. bottles end up back in the circular economy. and effective example of recycling unfortunately recycling plastic is usually more expensive than making it from scratch so there's often a lack of incentive we turn now to the world's forests another great area of concern where good intentions alone entre nuff climate change is devastating some german forests a problem for the environment and the economy one international study put the value of germany's forests at 725000000000 euros for the past decade a global initiative as aims to plant millions of trees and it's seen

a measure of real success but as we found out it's nowhere near enough. the world's trees are disappearing at an alarming rate in brazil alone 4 and a half football fields of primeval forest are lost every minute globally our forests have shrunk by 10 percent over the past 30 years. yet these forests are essential to our survival they slow the global rise in temperature produce oxygen and bind carbon dioxide a mixed forest that as well managed provides wood and creates prosperity and jobs. reforestation involves planting new young trees like in this nursery where oak tree cuttings are being used to raise up a new forest. but i'm wondering is will it work can the world's forests be reached.

10 years ago representatives from many countries met in the german city of bonn where they agreed to restore deforested and degraded landscapes it was called the bond challenge each country set its own goals. countries all over the globe committed to planting 1500000 square kilometers of new forest by 2020. taking that's an area about half the size of the indian subcontinent. but that's not all. by 2030 they're aiming to have planted up to 3500000 square kilometers that's like covering an area larger than the whole of india with trees. it's the world's largest ever reforestation program from peru in the andes to countries across africa new forests are appearing. india is also taking part and so

is pakistan. i spoke to the director of rwanda's forestry authority how would he rate his country's progress in the bomb challenge we saw that at least the name 100000 victor has been. good up to now it's missed 4 to 5 percent of the take this is now is a reduction of. other countries like malawi have also been successful with their planting but they've still lost tree coverage overall because deforestation continues apace in other parts of the country. so we pledged for when $5000000.00 here and this area is on farm lands is all and now it's forests and his own community forests it's

a long reversed so it's all of us think you have a plus or a minus you have a minus because i think their latest order based so. we're losing 39000 since the yet. and if we are planting to 4000 is no balance. overall the bomb challenge has succeeded only in slowing the pace of deforestation and so global forests continue to shrink over the last decade alone 470000 square kilometers of forest disappeared that's an area larger than switzerland. many experts agree that the goals of the bomb challenge are not being achieved partly because of ongoing d forestation. is the organization behind the initiative think of it all. it is a tragic thing because obviously restoration is not an answer to everything restoration

has to go hand in hand with protection of the forests that that remain you know was never intended to take any attention away from that. germany didn't commit to any goals in the bone challenge the 30 percent of the country is already covered with forest however most of it is monoculture so the forestry authorities are gradually planting of mixed forests. recently. a mixed forest is much more resistant to pests and climate stress and is much more valuable to the entire ecosystem because many more species can establish themselves here a mixed forest is also much better for building up ground water for the condition of the humus and nutrients in the soil and the owner's wallet. because it's a mixed forests require more work but also create more revenue from timber to these

commercial forests that most bond challenge participants are focusing on even if many nations are behind on their goals the start has been made it's vital that reforestation continues. forester to farmer as it makes sense to take up such a profession these days or keep the tradition of the family farm going there or be in india or here in germany because it's not just a battle against the elements and the consequences of global warming drought in some parts and heavy rainfall in others either of which can wipe out whole harvests globalization has also ushered in a new fight against regulation competition and environmental rules big corporations also have a hand in the business leaving the farmer in a pickle. for 6 months now thousands of families have been staging a protest on the outskirts of delhi. demonstrating against new law was passed by

the indian government last autumn the farmers fear that opening up the agricultural sector to corporations will put an end to minimum guaranteed prices for vegetables rice and other crops. in germany farmers have also been protesting in downtown ballin they're angry about the increases in environmental regulations and governmental oversight they say that puts them at a competitive disadvantage and threatens the future of smaller farms. where in the northern indian state of hari ana like hundreds of thousands of other farmers in the country pretty poda but his uncle defender still plant and harvest their crops by have and. they're still able to feed their families but say the new legislation will soon jeopardize their livelihoods for decades the agricultural sector has been heavily regulated but many farmers believe that liberalizing the

market will see large corporations dictating prices in the future. in a bus that is right now i work with one aim in mind if i grow this much i can sell it for that much but under these new laws i lose that security. not given a set of garden the government has created conditions under which farmers will no longer be able to sell their crops. the price of fuel fertilizers and seeds is rising. and we can't set any money aside. now so far me only makes sense if you can't find any other job if you got a lot of the other to. give eastern german state of brandenburg farmers also face a complicated reality. germany already had stringent social and environmental standards when the government started tightening them further a few years ago against china could says they make it almost impossible for farmers like him to carry on which is why he's been attending the protests in berlin. you

can't hit us with all these regulations while at the same time allowing imports of cheaper goods produced a lower standard we can't compete with that. and food retailers are using their combined power to exploit the situation with $100.00 students when all is. back in india. the who raise livestock be extended family only live together in one house and have been living off funding for generations. worried about his prospects in farming pradeep order trained to be a teacher but has found it hard to find a job. he said of what the politicians are telling us farmers what's good for us but they never even set foot on a field of the mahdi government supposedly wants to help it but there's not one single politician who understands farming. got

a book or you're not going the government is using the tricks they're not interested in the well being of farmers they keep trying to divide us they claim we're being funded by foreign elements they want to break up the protests and aren't interested in a resolution and i'm going to go to mr gardner here. in both india and germany found this receive subsidies the european union assigns several 1000000000 euros a year to german farmers but he says that's not enough he complains that the market is being flooded by cheap food stuffs. yes. the model but just look at the foreign leases in many regions and the cost of energy labor and machinery. there are really high here compared to other countries and we have to compete with extremely low prices. even at the subsidies the price we get for grain is no longer enough to cover our costs through. his wife works full time as

a headdress and to help keep them afloat. and it's unlikely that either of their 2 adult sons will take over the farm. so as things stand it doesn't have a future because there are just too many hurdles standing they can take. in india the protests began last november defender hoda and his nephew have joined the protests a number of times i'm not sure they can go to delhi again. it would mean relying on the neighbors and the women in their family to run the farm in their absence. but imagine if we lose a year's crop because we're at the protests. we need to think about the generations to come we're doing this for them they say india is a nation of farmers but what will the future hold if you deprive farmers of their earnings. for the family continue to support the protests and hope the

government will roll back the new laws to ensure that small family run farms like theirs can survive. it's a sentiment shared by against china in germany. people like to see a couple of cheap imports from abroad. and given to fly you have to mention if i could wish for something it would be that we only allow food products in germany that meet the same environmental and social standards that we have here. but once he. gets a wedge that's at odds with an open global market and so the plight of farmers in india and in germany look set to go from bad to worse. the future follows restoring forests the virtues of

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and why the heart thank you so much for your company everyone benighted state's plans so will draw all of its forces from afghanistan by september 11th that is the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks on america while the pullout will take place we're garlits of the security situation on the ground and there will be no conditions attached it will mark the end of a 20 year conflict for the u.s. the longest in its history. this has been a known painful war. more than 2000 u.s. troops killed. and thousands more injured in almost

2 decades of fighting. the us campaign began after the $911.00 terror attacks on american soil in 2001 strikes were launched against the islamist group the taliban and the terrorist group al qaida which was based in afghanistan but it wasn't until 2011 that al qaeda is all some of been larger than the mastermind behind 911 was finally tracked down and killed. although most u.s. troops were withdrawn in 2014 successive presidents have been trying to find a way to leave afghanistan altogether. but it's hard the taliban is in control over much of the country. and women are already seeing many of their hard won rights rolled back. their almost weekly attacks on afghan

forces and civilians alike. this is no peace. despite this donald trump promised all u.s. forces would be out by may the 1st this year. president biden also wants troops home but in coordination with nato allies we still have thousands of personnel there. wired ministration strongly supports the diplomatic prague process is underway and to bring an end to this war that is closing out 20 years. although he won't meet trumps may deadline september is the new date. a month more mark 20 years of a costly war with little victory to tool called. a new deadline approval date so let's get you more and it of mr schultz is at the

nato h.q. in brussels terry we understand that the defense secretary would austin and secretary of state anthony blinken there are in brussels meeting with nato allies where you are mr blinken earlier essentially said mission accomplished we we've accomplished every single goal that we had how will this decision impact coalition forces in afghanistan. leyla while the u.s. only makes up about a quarter of the some 10000 troops that remain in afghanistan they do possess all the necessary capabilities for helping the other some 30 countries in active their operations and their own protection in fact so it's always been true that if the u.s. decided to leave the other countries would have to follow and in fact just today even before we hear the formal announcement germany and the u.k. have said they'll definitely follow the u.s. and start pulling out their troops so once the u.s. and its key enabling capabilities leave everyone's going to leave everyone is going

to leave i mean just barely 2 months ago and the nato secretary general you know stoltenberg said no permit woodrow so does this change of heart review a bit of common sense problems especially are just too big to solve that's not something you're going to hear coming out of the leaders of these countries as you heard tony blinken he's already portraying this as a success and you know basically now we can leave that's not what we're going to hear from others already there are many voices saying that the u.s. is abandoning the country certainly we have spoken with our afghan colleagues there who said that people are very very worried about what will happen the taliban will certainly be portraying it as their success and they are in control of more than half of the country and certainly this will give them momentum to continue their military campaign not their political campaign what terry between now and september 11th i mean it's still a long way off i mean are coalition troops still actively going to engage in

operations or will they just sit their time out. we don't have the specifics yet from the u.s. government and they have a lot of questions to answer we understand that there will already be forces starting to leave slowly heading up to september 11th there's a lot of equipment and people to to drag out of the country but the taliban have said that if the u.s. and the other forces did not meet the may 1st deadline agreed with former president trump they would launch a campaign unlike any other they said that there are they will intensify their attacks so it really remains to be seen whether the taliban will take the september 11th pullout date and just wait it out whether they will go through with their threats to to wage a war more fuel furious than we've seen up till now you know these teri schultz reporting at the nato h.q. and brussels thank you for your continued coverage. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. at least

20 children were killed in a fire at a primary school in the western african state of new cher numerous other children were injured most of them were still attending preschool the fire destroyed several classrooms and blocked exits its causes still unknown and authorities have launched an investigation. south korea has condemned neighboring japan's plan to release a treated radioactive water from the fukushima nuclear plant in 2 years' time so has asked officials to explore possible international litigation against japan but tokyo says disposing of the water into the pacific ocean is safe and essential in order to decommission fukushima. the mastermind behind the world's biggest ponzi scheme bernie made off as died in prison at the age of $82.00 he was serving a 150 year sentence for defrauding tens of thousands of investors out of billions of dollars over 4 decades. now the rollout of the johnson and

johnson vaccine has been positive in the u.s. much of europe and south africa after reports of rare blood clotting in a very small number of people health authorities said they were halting the use of the shot while they investigate the case the suspension has dealt another huge blow to south africa's vaccination rollout and february the country already stopped the use of the astra zeneca vaccine and it showed after it showed rather a low efficiency against an aggressive local virus variants found at pfizer jams are only due to arrive next month and experts a reward of a lumia 3rd wave while the situation in hospitals is already spiraling out of control for patients and for health workers in our next report we need a doctor who had enough and from what she says are unsafe working can. inductors so little was said from by is wary of vaccines 9 years ago when she was

21 she became ill with tuberculosis despite having been inoculated against it before corona virus vaccines reached south africa she resigned from her post in a public hospital because she didn't feel safe anymore. oh ok senses are still as the as they were when i checked it. takes the top you know which i feel is a huge problem. and shows that after all these years you know the lives of some of us a former colleague made this video of simple here she is wearing full personal protective equipment but she says that in the hospital where she worked it was either not available or inadequate sifaka worked in intensive care and as a midwife she's been at home since she left at the end of the year even though she feels guilty about leaving she believes she did the right thing. medical staff are

badly needed but her life has to come 1st. hundreds of doctors and nurses in south africa have already died from cope at 19. i really felt as though i was working in a system that didn't really care about my own life and with i was going to make it to tomorrow not you know especially seeing all the how it's dying the tributes online you can help but think that that's going to be you next. those fears are justified only a few $100000.00 people in south africa have been vaccinated there aren't enough doses to go around at the current rate it would take 16 years to vaccinate the whole population south africa would like to manufacture its own vaccines but the patents are all registered overseas the only way i'd go back is if i'd be able to control. you know my exposure to illnesses you know and if i am exposed to

illnesses make sure that i have the corrects the fictive. civil but also needs to be vaccinated but while she's no longer working as a doctor she doesn't mind waiting. aren't to now to some of the other developments in the pandemic of biotech pfizer says it will provide the e.u. with an extra $50000000.00 doses in the 2nd quarter of the year well this is on top of the 200000000 already earmarked for the block meanwhile denmark will stop using the astra zeneca vaccine entirely because of its possible link to rare cases of blood clots this could delay denmark's vaccine roll out by up to a month and south korea has reported its highest daily jump in new infections in 3 months how the experts are blaming increased travel which they say shows public vigilance is falling. now to research from the field of physics that scientists say could be a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe it all has to do with the

behavior of sub atomic particles called nuance experts at a lab near the u.s. city of chicago have shown that they move at a rate that's faster than expected but potentially a locking the secrets of a previously undiscovered 5th force of nature. this could be the door to a whole new world of physics for years researchers have been using this ring made of super conducting magnets to accelerate the tiniest building blocks of matter called nuance until they're almost as fast as the speed of light that's when i can observe how mew wants interact with other forces and particles. and the results show that beyond actually behave completely different to how current theory says they should up until now something called the standard model explained all subatomic particles and their characteristics such as charge mass and lifespan

but scientists have observed with the behavior of these new on suggest particles and forces exist outside of the spirit. everything that we can see in our universe everything around us can be explained by a few building blocks these blocks describe the standard model of particle physics . one group of these particles makes up matter. the others transfer force theory can explain 3 of these forces but the full force of gravity can't be explained in this way this is the force that keeps planets in their all birds and data fix everything that has mass. when the universe was created by the big bang these 4 forces combined that's why the standard model can't explain what exactly happened at the beginning of time.

the myans experiments could help us plug these fundamental gaps in our scientific knowledge and help us solve mysteries that have been confusing astrophysicists for decades. but 1st more exact measurements and testing needs to be carried out to make sure the myans unexplained behavior really can be attribute it to a known particles or forces. exciting stuff around and out of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the united states plans to withdraw all of its forces from afghanistan by september 11th the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks on america while the pullout will take place were guarded lists of the security situation on the ground it will mark the end of a 20 year conflict for the u.s. a longest and his history. you're watching it every news live from berlin next our

business update with rob well why it's something compelling on behalf of all of us here thanks for spending spending today with us we'll be back at the top of the hour. the full. listen carefully. this soon. to be a good.