between here and there challenging for him. to sing the same i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. and got my license to work as a swimming instructor. for an hour or 2 children confidence to swim fast in school . what's your story take part cherish on in full migrants try. to get them. if you can for a drive cycle the wall crown parts of germany any time lately you may have come across huge advertising billboards asking the question if we can stop global warming or create

a fairer walt and how many of us think about the products we buy where they came from and it made them is it our job the consumer all the responsibility of multi 1000000000 euro corporations shareholder pressure is starting to make boardrooms more accountable and t.v. commercials to getting shoppers a clear trend here in europe at least is towards green and fair. i'm not here to pull it your heartstrings but any football mom or dad would sleep better at night if they knew their kid was kicking around a soccer ball that hadn't been stitched together by the tiny hands of a boy or girl around the same age on the other side of the world in pakistan where officials have failed after decades of if it's to fully eradicate child labor. soccer is a global sport whether it's children or adults playing for fun all the pros like in the german bundesliga it's a global business with billions but what if the soccer ball went to come from.

most of them come from c.l. kit in pakistan for decades the city has been the world's largest producer of soccer balls thousands of local people work in the industry. in the past all the balls was sewn by hand but times have changed at least at this company game if you do says 160000 cycles a year many in automated production. the industry used to be in the tourists many workers took the balls home with them with family members including children stitched them by hand. in how to produce everything in-house and we only allow people who work 18 or over to work in our factory and they can be our focus is on producing high quality balls would you want to achieve that we have to provide more benefits and good wages to our workers the benefit of. being in

2015 game i was certified as a fair trade company indicating that it meets international standards for working conditions. and between different rates have a fairly traded company has to have a fixed labor contract with all its employees with agreed working hours better working conditions rights to representation within the company all workers are entitled to simulate a maternity leave. and these are all conditions that the whole company has to adhere to. at dell based on the supply for the german bundesliga all the soccer balls are made in pakistan. at peak times the headquarters in germany sends out nearly 100000 bulls and the management here is satisfied that its partner company of pakistan does not use child labor.

check on that by ensuring that no soccer balls are produced in private homes nearly 20 years ago we opened our own so we were able to monitor the process. but has the industry really changed even though only a fraction of. a certified fair trade conditions. the mayor of c.r. assures us that working conditions have improved he says there was a lot of international pressure. we have a level of compliance with worker standards and action of workers rights can't be found anywhere else in pakistan. pay for social security benefits for our employees. things didn't exist before. and as we have complied with employer protection standards the pricing has become more competitive. but the head of. with

a trade certification still the exception and up to 10 percent more expensive the. isn't a fair trade product. percentage of fair trade balls is negligible. only make up about 45 percent of overall sales. because the fairtrade c.e.o. is high profile in the industry or amongst the clubs as we would all like you to be . back to pakistan and. the company says it wants to become a role model for the entire industry. manages here custom is on to always willing to play ball and shell out more for their product. other than european union are scandal barred from the european union and the scandinavian countries buying was

from other regions don't value the fair trade seal because they don't like the higher price but if you want you can be a role model for fair trade offs not only to provide additional benefits for our workers but also so that our workers put more effort into the fair trade products because they know these provide them with extra benefits and premium sub. extra benefits. despite the lack of industry wide standards it's clear that working conditions insufferable production have improved here over the last decade but then if it's cost money and there's now a very real risk that parts of the production could be transferred to dover weights countries like china only on mom where working conditions may not be fair even monitored. and just because it's fair trade isn't 100 percent guarantee there inspectors can't be everywhere all the time now to something that is free it shines from time to time here in germany and the nations being ranked among the world's

top installers of solar panels for several years now the stats aren't all that impressive when you take a look at solar power as chunk of the overall energy makes the same goes for most other countries time to crunch the numbers with. mine. it's astonishing but lean energy from the some solar energy has become the cheapest way to generate electricity it's even cheaper than coal and yet it produces only 3 percent of the world's electricity. while be using way way more of it how did it get so cheap. and what does all this have to do with ducks. let's find out. first let's take a look at how much to press for solar has fallen. i started this job as mr solar 2005 and then i thought it was ridiculous to expect from any chasers the

head solar analyst that research from bloomberg pay about. $0.20 for that. and that is just the last 15 years if you look further pack the price drop is even more impressive how did this happen that's been a long story but it's unbelievable gregory nemat has written a book about this. no one country did it it was a strange of one country building on another one the us created the technology the modern day solar cell made from silicon was invented in the us a 954 back then and many got used in the space industry in this still super expensive but as the technology progressed prices started to fall to germany created a market in 2000 germany passed a lot supposed renewable energy developed because it was me because it put

a fixed price on energy generated from sources like wind or solar people and companies a reason to set up solar panels and for them to do that someone needed to build the solar panels 3 china made it once the german laws from one to force china really started to pump out their soulless. so the whole industry for this on a scale that the west really didn't keep up was the world's most a non existent player 20 years ago and today they're the biggest producer of solar panels about 70 percent of the world for action so this is how we ended up where we are now clean energy that also makes business sense but solar is so great why don't we rely on it much much more than just switch off all these 30 power plants well sold us always had this one big problem. it only really works when the sun is shining. when it's cloudy or even worse dark even the best solar cells are pretty

useless and that's a real shame because that's when we need them the most. let's take a look at how we use energy in the morning when most people get up and get ready we need energy. the so-called daca of charts our demand for power from nonrenewable sources like coal and gas throughout the day 1st in places without much so after the morning spike it stays pretty level. when people come home in the evening it goes up again and then drops at night at this point you might get an idea why they call it the back of because it kind of looks like a duck. anyway in places with lots of solar like california this curve changes the mornings are pretty much the same vendor sun rises and solar energy production kicks in this lets demand from nonrenewable energy drop. until the sun sets then. that is when conventional demand shoots up again way steeper than in the

1st curve to problems with this one traditional power plants suck and ramping up this quickly that means you have to keep them running at a certain output all day even though there's lots of solar and that means that you could end up with actually more power produced in a day this. and that leads to the 2nd problem a limit to how much energy you can put into the grid too much solar could overpower it's so it needs to be thrown away this is always made it super difficult to add lots of solar to power systems but guess what there is now a solution to this chances are you have part of it in front of you right now a lithium ion battery. or just taking this same construction stringing together many many of those cells and making battery packs that we can use for cars and then we can also scale that up to use for stationary power to to go next to when parks are solar solar farms what's been quite good over the last few years is that.

well. gets built with. storage in the battery. from the day. where there's a kid. in the u.s. for example the state of new mexico just decided to shut down a coal plant and instead to build new solar farms that store large amounts of the energy they produce and batteries. lithium ion batteries have become a lot better and a lot cheaper than expected in the last few years they're now a viable option for storing and shifting at least a few hours worth of solar energy needed so the storage problem that's always sad is actually not that much of a problem anymore. sometimes though we might want a longer term storage places without much sunshine for example and that's why companies are offering other solutions let's just run through.

another type of battery called a flow battery separates the charging outside so that has 2 advantages it can store more energy and for longer the problem is still relatively expensive. pumps hydro storage which is already used quite a bit you need. one of them needs to be on a hill during the day you use solar energy to pump water from. the high when you need. to find legs. the solution gravity comes from. building blocks with solar energy and then releases the energy. to space also the option of using solar hydrogen hydrogen number of things like fuel costs or even make steel but the whole process is pretty costly i think that the.

batteries are. expensive. to be. cheap and has pretty much fixed the problem so what's next. i wouldn't be surprised if by 2030 we're talking about. a large part of the world. but now that the technology is in place it really looks like it's time to shop. just like. similar topics and make sure you visit.

but when it comes to investing your money how much of it supports green initiatives especially if you leave it up to a hedge fund or exchange traded fund reporter at the frankfurt stock exchange chelsea delaney took a look at how easy or hard it is being green. list stretches of cream. the frozen tundra of the arctic. lush south american jungles this is what climate activists want to say from destruction but can fighting against climate change also make you rich. my friend lizzie started investing last year through a trading at mostly buying popular tech stocks but she also cares about the environment and she wants turned vestments to reflect that. and it's not just her. millions of people have taken to the streets in recent years to protest climate

change and that movement has also found its way into financial markets many no longer just want investments to make money they also want them to make the world a better place. in the past 3 years investments into sustainable assets have searched by almost 400 percent here in europe. but what does it really mean to enjoy a screen and is this promise that you can make money while also saving the planet too good to be true. to answer that question i'm on my way to see one of germany's green investing heavyweights. called book fitz manages sustainable stock portfolios for the german asset manager d.t.f. us he's been very busy lately thanks in large part to my generation. we have the 1000000 youth they are now we present 50 percent of the global workforce and for them sustainability is very important so they will invest their

money in a different way compared to their parents for example there was green investing profitable a couple of years ago it was always like oh if you want to. invest in a sustainable manner or green then. you might survive performance for that but now it's the merits of. it's turning into if you want to make performance you better invest in a sustainable manner or you invest green because especially last year we have seen that most of the sustainability funds passive and active outperform the broader market so i'm looking here at one of the top european sustainability stock funds it includes about $400.00 different companies that all are labeled as maybe you are the no this acronym stands for and mental social and governance and basically these are companies that are committed not just to environmental sustainability but also to taking care of their workers and to being governed in an ethical way. some of

these names might surprise you and finance sustainable doesn't just mean for example a wind turbine maker they can also need a company like nestle which has been increasing its use of renewable energy and introducing more recyclable packaging like for the smarties candies. but we told isn't there rio tinto is a metals miner b.p. was behind one of the biggest oil spills in history how can any of these companies possibly be considered sustainable 1st of all i recommend every investor before investing understand your investment and i ask you and wise and especially about those 2 that you find in those or why is this oil company for example in the fund. but the the space is very diverse and there are many strategies so there is no one solution for all those no shortcuts you have you make up your own mind so how do you decide what is considered green so what we're doing is when we want to evaluate investments we're using as a support 3rd party data provider if every data provider saying all right this is

really a green company and that is quite high that is really the truth. here's an example of how that might work for you companies dependent on coal or other fossil fuels. to your employees work and dangerous conditions. are all of your executives middle aged white men if so you might end up with a failing sustainability grade. the problem though is that these readings aren't always scientific they can be based on a company's pledge to someday become more sustainable it's based on a promise and promises are easily broken. up or as a critic of green investing she says the end history is overrun with green washing or labeling non-green assets as green to make money and my question will be who will define as green it cannot be that we believe that there is of the greening finance agenda through private finance because it's in the same way to me if you. i

don't know their health agenda to tobacco companies what these dating since it's the same for the private finance company their incentive is to continue with practices that generate profits and community. regulatory reach of this thing that's not to say that there aren't environmentalists sustainable assets out there it's just investors responsibility to find them and luckily it is getting easier. asset managers like paul booklets and companies are being forced to disclose more data about the climate and packed up their prison service and that is a step in the right direction. but it's green investing a really powerful enough to turn the tide of climate change. after this i'm skeptical and so it's daniela. over the last 5 years what we thought was a lot of good ground that we had again it looks like it's a lot of grounded that we are losing but we need to realize beyond thinking that

was blind and rejoin the financing decisions or with my individual savings decision i would make a difference i don't think that would get us. lizzie is more optimistic she hasn't given up on green investing but she's going to do a lot of research maybe it's not a silver bullet but as we wait for politicians to get serious about climate change even the smallest and divisional action is better than sitting on the sidelines. watching the devastation of our environment. an important part of sustainability is how we deal with trash since the start of the coronavirus pandemic mosques it generated a lot of waste and he did in large supply and have a quick turnover last year germany imported $6000000000.00 euros worth of masks mostly from china and from march to december of last year china exported a whopping $224000000000.00 masks all over the world that's equivalent to $43000000000.00 euros so it's big business but what's the impact on the

environment and can mosques really be recycled. the socal islands at the far south west of the territory comprising hong kong the waters here have long been polluted but with the pandemic a new form of waste just turned up masks and now we have this to contend with. we have the corona virus and all these masks are now we're still building. these images make the start to wonder how much of a hazard are these masks for our planet it's an item that many of us now where every day. and why do so many of them end up in the ocean instead of being disposed of through the normal channels and what's the right way to dispose of a mask any way. it must whether it's the higher grade

respirator masks or the more basic surgical wants or rubber gloves that people are also using now they all belong in the trash but it's even an arm suitable for recycling because they're medical waste i believe in you so they need to be incinerated and bought for time to. ok but clearly not all masks and up in incinerators as our oceans are littered with them how dangerous is that for marine life and what material are their masks made of to find out i bought an f n f p 2 respirator mask from a pharmacy. and another one from a supermarket in berlin. i then went online and ordered 2 more mask types. finally i packed up all my purchases and sent them off to a textile laboratory for analysis. be able to tell me what exactly the masks are

made of and how hazardous they are for the environment. 2 weeks later i hear back from the lab the good news is wearing a mask isn't harmful for us humans having a mask on for 8 hours a day is fine but for the environment it's a different story. you can throw a mask away in the countryside somewhere it's not in this really harmful for the environment the disadvantage is that some substances in the masks like polypropylene took a long time to decompose that's the big downside and the reason why masks should always be disposed of properly. if everyone just throws their mask way in some forest that waste will be around for a long time to come. at some stage you end up with micro plastic that's what makes

the masks for the environment along the coast of hong kong scientists are finding a growing number of them they estimate that around 1500000 masks entered the scene last year. and we need to reduce the single use number one but then also it comes down to governments and you know how they handle their waste management facilities like half the garbage bins the rubbish bins in the street they have very wide openings on the top and people just put their mosques and think you know doing the right thing and they get blown out rather easily anniston is out there on the street they go down the drains they go down the drains know the drains leave the options. if it's a joint effort and it's the government level as well as individual. it looks like the masks won't be disappearing from our lines any time soon they're already far too many in the scene but if we all do our part we can at least prevent

a further escalation of the problem. exactly sustainable solutions may cost more at 1st but once everyone joins in the price for stock think about the planet what you're creating for generations to come. thanks for joining us.

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this is the only news life for brawl in the escalating conflict the death toll rises as the fighting between israel and militants in gaza not intensifies. israeli air strikes count buildings in gaza killing dozens and leaving city blocks and rumors meanwhile a hamas leader leader says its resistance is ready also coming up heartbreak can

cause on grief mixed with anger as russia mourns the 7 children and 2 staff members killed in a rare school shooting and the corona virus that remain just like a wildfire through nepal pushing the health care system to the brink of collapse many pre-code worries their country will never make the crisis in neighboring india . where the mark thank you for your company we start off in the mideast where there has been no let up in violence said both israeli forces and militants in gaza have stepped up their attacks in the worst fighting seen there in years the gaza health ministry says the death toll from israeli air strikes has now climbed to 48 including 13 children a mosque has confirmed one of its senior commanders has been killed all rockets

fired by hamas into israel have killed at least 6 israelis the u.n. call for both sides to cease hostilities warning of the risk of full scale war. fighting continues between palestinian militants and israel with more and more dead and injured. israel's army has released footage it says shows its aircraft launching strikes on 2 weapons manufacturing sites belonging to hamas and the islamic jihad in the northern gaza strip israel also claims its forces have killed weapons specialists in the years really town of lloyd arab youths rioted burning buildings and cars both sides are fighting and both are causing death and destruction. in tel aviv palestinian militants overwhelmed israel's defense system with a barrage of rockets. but if israel wants to escalate we're ready for it and if it

wants to stop we're also ready if they want to remove their hand over jerusalem we're ready. early or israel had launched a number of attacks on gaza and prime minister benjamin netanyahu warns this may only be the beginning. of us of a judge as hamas and islamic jihad have paid and i tell you here they will pay a very heavy price for their aggression and i say to you now their blood will be on their heads the moment it will show them. world leaders are very concerned it's the worst violence since 2014 and there are fears it could become a full scale war they are pleading for both sides to put down their weapons but so far there's been no sign of that. and world leaders say have responded to this a violent escalation a sick listen to a some of the reactions. this spiraling escalation must cease immediately the united nations is working with all relevant parties to deescalate the situation

urgently people in this league able to german government condemns in the strongest terms a sustained missile attacks from the gaza strip on israeli cities if nothing justifies this violence israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks. the wickedness of israel is exposed for everyone to see and everyone is obliged to take a stance and condemn this wicked savage and brutal crime by the zionists you. and i'd like to welcome now daniel garland a middle east expert and the editor in chief of the german middle east magazine zen if daniel is so good to have you back with us i'd like to get your view on the following a strikingly the german government we just heard a moment ago came out saying israel has the right to defend itself washington taking the same position essentially you know it is interesting that we don't hear

anyone say that palestinians have the right to self defense. well these statements of solidarity or of course nothing new and it's to be honest it's quite banal to say yes of course all sides have a right to self-defense but let's be honest also what happened in jerusalem previous to the escalation is cannot be c. it cannot be a pretext cannot be a reason for the military escalation that hamas started. the launching of rockets on israeli territories as to jerusalem then to tel aviv large numbers of missiles is an act of war that might be seen as a political response to what happened in jerusalem but of course these files should be looked at different ways there they are interconnected but again they could not and could not be a pretext for hamas a section of launching a war i must knew very well what these were to response to this would be and we have seen this escalation of violence in recent years we have seen it in the last

20 years time and again and so hamas knew very well what they were doing and what they were playing a silly doesn't excuse of course i mean you know this is israel has the most powerful army in the region the palestinians do not have a navy don't have an air force do not have you know they can't launch air strikes so and in just moments before we spoke to israeli air strikes brought down a massive gaza city high rise building so there is an asymmetry there but let's move on and talk about the americans which arguably are the only ones who could potentially mediate some way out of this spiraling escalation of violence we understand that the u.s. is sending an envoy what do you think you know you're an expert in terms of you know the middle east and the tensions there what is the do you think they will have leverage over france's prime minister netanyahu to get him on board and seize hostilities. well of course the u.s. has leverage much more than the europeans do but of course america has not done

much in recent years and the civilian the trumpet ministration to to to negotiate to to create some sort of a balance of interest between palestinian israeli interests the support of the trumpet mr ation as we know for the netanyahu government and for its political project in the middle east well so far the settlement activities was absolutely unequivocal and of course like for the biden administration this is much more difficult when now also we have to bear in mind at the moment it is not about palestinian israeli negotiations at the moment this is a situation of war and israeli has not does not welcome any outside powers even from from the side of an ally nation to to to to dictate its military operations is really has dreadfully israel's dreadfully changed its military tactics also in the in the last couple of hours before it was about trying to identify play places from where hamas and allied militias would launch rockets now it is about forcing the

other side to surrender and so this is more like some sort of a political tactic and you mentioned the destruction of palestinian houses in the gaza strip this is not it seems seemingly not only to 2 to defeat hamas and hamas military capabilities but to send a political message we will fight until you surrender and this is a tactic that we have seen also 'd and you know apply in recent years daniel. now is expert in the editor in chief of the german middle east magazine senator daniel always pleasure talking to thank you. thank you very much for having. now to turn our attention now to russia where funerals have been held for the victims of tuesday's school shooting in the russian city of because on russia has strict gun control laws but many are now calling for even tighter restrictions according to the kremlin a russian president vladimir putin has already ordered the national guard to draft a tighter measures hundreds of mourners meanwhile gathered at vigils and funerals

to pay their final respects to the $7.00 students and 2 staff members killed soon shootings like the one that we witnessed on shoes they are rare and memorials have sprung up in several cities across russia meanwhile police have arrested the alleged attacker but have not released any information on a potential motive leaving residents of cazan distraught and confused. a carpet of flowers and emotions running high shock makes to with anger and sadness at the after the tragic shooting in cazan locals come to believe that the high school like any other has come to symbolize senseless violence and that a former pupil carried out of the deadly rampage. my kids go to the school my niece is in the 9th grade the fire service rescued her with a ladder my son's in the 4th grade and thank god he only goes to school in the afternoon course i'm shocked i have no tears left.

i'm grieving for all the children here i could cry my nephew goes to school he had . she did. i feel like they're all my children it's just so awful. really managed to protect the. school shootings are unusual in russia but the attackers motive is still not clear people say he was polite and unassuming and to no one in russia would have expected a killing in the city just over 1000000 people live in tourists come here from all over russia and the city is known for being very beautiful and peaceful so the fact that something like this could happen has shocked everyone here. to have an armed police task force and the siege exactly what happened inside of the school is under investigation the 19 year old attacker was able to get in with

a weapon he obtained illegally he shot dead 7 children and 2 adults before surrendering to police 23 people are still in hospital. the factor that fisher was able to carry out of the attack in broad daylight using a legal weapon has raised questions of a russia strict gun laws. how can i send my kids back to school i'm really afraid. to stay with speed with. how can we carry on if we're always afraid. i definitely won't let my child go back before the end of the school year and i'm already worried about next year. it will take a long time for to get over the dreadful events for many in the city of this tragedy has changed their lives forever.

in a poll with ortiz of extended along down in and around the capital katmandu until the end of may the number of covert 1000 cases there is skyrocketing prompting concerns that it's headed for a crisis like the one next door in india. india's deadly 2nd wave has spread to neighboring nepal. in katmandu health care workers and authorities are struggling to contain a massive surge of co 1000 cases in the last 3 weeks the pulse daily trajectory has shot up with 2 out of every 5 people tested now returning positive for the virus with hospitals filling to capacity with covered 1000 patients the country's health system has been overwhelmed by the spike patients are scrambling to find hospital beds and oxygen for loved ones. coming true as a nation has

a few saxon's at system to the brink of collapse maybe your. school and. community sneered to. eat only able to. increase the number of people who need treatment. the threat from cover 19 is even reach the world's highest peak as china announced on sunday it would set up a line of separation on the summit of mount everest to keep chinese climbers from catching the virus from those ascending from the nepal side. along the 800 kilometer open border nepal shares with india the pollies fleeing the virus are hurrying to return home. authorities fear even more covert 19 cases are on the way. and here are some of the other major developments in the pandemic

india's covert 900 death toll past 250001 wednesday but comparisons of official data with that from frontline workers suggest the true number may be several times higher and the catastrophic scale of the pen demick could have been prevented well that's at least according to an independent global panel assembled by the united nations the experts concluded that early warning signs went unheeded and britain will hold a public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic from his aboard johnson said the investigation would begin next year when some of the worst pressures hat subsided. and in a sign of how the u.k. has turned things around there were 4000 people no mass no social distancing it seems unthinkable but london made it happen at the 41st brit awards the 1st major indoor music event with a live audience in the u.k. since the start of the fan democrats and money was part of a government program looking at bringing cultural events back without endemic restrictions while among the big winners of the night was pop star do

a leap up and scooped 2 of the prizes including for british album of the year. this means the absolute well to may i believe this is happening great stuff and it's a really good album as well you're watching you don't read news a stick with it as some my colleague jamelle do allow is up next with your business headlines and we hope to see you again for the world headlines at the top of the hour. but you will. want to extrude you don't think it's good.