inhumane working conditions and child labor, people are exposed to have suffered from lung disease or heart problems. then you have all the energy that is required to to make a battery. especially production outside of require a lot of energy. this means c o 2 emissions. how much exactly really depends on the electricity mix of the producing country. according to recent figures, making just a small battery for car like this could cause more than 4 tons of c o 2. to give you an idea like driving a new diesel car bought in the u for about 33000 kilometers. the good news is that emissions are thinking about reproduction becomes more efficient and we shift towards cleaner energy sources. the bad news is that the batteries are losing capacity over time, so there are more and more movies that will also be more and more spend batteries. busy how do we deal with them? they reconnected and still active. we combined and we used in different

occasions. this is ada cong. she's worked on a report about this for greenpeace east asia. the battery is that it could be just call her when there are like 5 to 8 years that didn't really matter that com. they have enough performance for us. that's right. we can give spend compet, theresa 2nd life for example, that can be turned into energy storage. for wind or solar, they could also pass your next camping trip and i still have enough juice left to drive a forklift or a boat and discarded if the batteries are already used for all these things today. and i and she really by reusing the original functional products, they could do which i cookies, relatives and to produce. let's get the lego to understand how lithium ion battery

is get recycled. it often involves smelting, so essentially heating them until they melt. but this uses lots and lots of energy, creates toxic emissions and lose us some of the materials. and that's why companies are coming up with new ways to recycle. you want to have as much as we can, which are high value materials that are taking a lot of effort to get out of the ground. we want to use those carefully and as many times as we can, this is who now fell side chief commercial officer lifecycle, a lithium ion battery recycling company from canada. we've, we've basically come up with process designed specifically for the to have high recovery rates of the material. and the 1st stage, what we call or spoke is a mechanical process that breaks down the batteries in separate some of the fundamental materials. very, very simply speaking, this is what happens. the batteries are shredded while being submerged in

a non toxic solution. this is important because it prevents them from catching fire ends and the worst case blowing up. then materials like plastic copper and aluminum, a separated from what the industry calls the black mass. this contains the valuable material like cobalt, nicole and lithium. the 2nd part of the process is the hub. and this is really a gospel, hypo metallurgy or wet chemistry process to process black mass into battery. great materials. what this means is that different chemicals get added to the black mass, which leads out different elements. these chemicals either make their way into the final product or reuse them the process. so this actually doesn't produce any waste water. you end up with the black mass separated into a single components like lithium, cobalt and nickel. so the end goal is that as we pull them out of the batteries, we're putting them back into new batteries and that hasn't cheese been achieved,

get it high scale there's. there's elements of of it around the world. but we want to help to continue to try that for it to keep track exactly how many lithium ion batteries already get recycled mainly because they're often exported. but it is already happening more and more, especially in asia, where most of them also produce and volumes of span batteries grow. it will make even more financial sense to recycle them in the i do well, that way we hope that their materials could be reusing. definitely the lithium ion battery, already one of the most of it's already reuse today and told them that they also recycle. we can optimize the better and better, and the more we have on the market as more of those

now, the corona virus condemning has shown how dependent europe is on raw materials from other parts of the world locked downs in asia, and border closures cost massive disruptions in the global supply chain, forcing manufacturers to slow up even whole production. a team of geologist is now working to find raw materials like lithium, rare earth and graphite in northern europe. to allow the you to be less dependent on us in particular, china. the team, a few artists in no way get to work. they've been commissioned by a company called node mining to search for critical val. material right here in northern europe says they need to take samples, go lines is really nice me that i can hear. because you can see like the thickness of them is pretty good for door religion. back at the research can the teen

examines hundreds of drew samples every month. we can face some of the mineralization here. the specific 3 more may think bands that we're looking at which is where the higher grade mineralization is. obviously sandy and benet, d, m and phosphorus that we're looking at because there's x 3 boxes is an essential role material used in fertilizer. the large depositories of the navy and on the other hand, can be used in batteries that store energy within the next power grid. both elements are considered critical material, along with a range of others, such as lithium rad graphite. but where does the term critical val material come from? a question we put to the founder of the mining company. critical will appear on the determine which, which is basically comes from europe,

has been invented by the u because the europeans are dependent on today as far as the globe, particularly from supply from china. and which is about 6662 percent. china is the number one producer of critical role materials. in the case of rare, china provides more than 80 percent of global supply and processes the largest online as cobalt, lithium, copper, and nichol. here, china has secured strategic supply commitments from other countries to gain a monopoly. these materials are important for renewable energy, which are needed to stop global warming. so right now, achieving global climate goals depends on chinese materials. take lithium mining, like here in california, lithium is used in batteries for electric cars to china dominates the market.

electric cars, wind and solar energy, all require a huge amount of critical materials. by 2040 lithium consumption is expected to be $42.00 times what it is now. the use of graphite cobalt a nickel will increase massively. busy well, rate it will be consumed at 7 times the current range. huffman is another critical val. material that's in high demand. i'm going to use an electric vehicles and generators. china recognize the signs of the times early on. now, europe is playing catch up. green digital technologies currently depend on a number of scarce raw materials. we import, lithium for electric cars, platinum, to produce clean hydrogen, silicon metal, for solar panels,

98 percent of the rear earth elements we need come from single supplier china. this is why we have proposed to create a european raw materials alliance. the 8 you has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 60 percent over the next 2 decades. so a europe wide consortium of companies with headquarters in berlin has been charged with addressing the issue of materials. so you can rama to alliance has one monday to test the mandate to protect your own from any kind of supply interaction of raw materials in particular critical raw materials. and in this context, of course, our role is 1st and foremost, understanding the pattern and the mix of raw materials. and here the road is identifying respect as companies that have the willingness and the capability to

invest into raw material topics that can help closing the gap that we were just talking about. it will likely take 10 to 35000000000 euros of investment to mind the necessary role materials. so companies like nor to mining that are funding themselves or especially well come to me if you will find the good project, you have to invest that attend am. if you know it is very intriguing will be doing, it's very exciting because it's not only a minute project, it's such, it has become a geopolitical and geo strategic thing. but it often takes up to 20 years to build in mind, starting from the initial phase of exploration. north mining says it already has enough funding from investors and hopes to start mining much sooner for the european union. it can't come in and that's all for this edition

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ah, hello, i'm bringing him a homage. turbine has begun his 1st foreign trip as us president. his main task is to rebuild transatlantic ties. a strange under the previous trump administration. biden is beginning his toll in britain. touching down in the u. k. on a mission to reset america's relations with the world. on his 1st trip abroad since taking office, president biden has packed itinerary. the g 7 summit is followed by a nato meeting you talks and the face to face with russian president vladimir putin . wow. what a warm welcome from america. the 1st 2 ladies 1st,

the president set himself apart from his predecessor, even before stepping up to the microphone in his way. joe, giving the opening remarks to us troops stationed at the air base. yeah. when he did speak, my message was clear at every point along the way, we're going to make it clear that united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future that we're committed to leading was strength, defending our values and delivery for our people. the president has strong words for put into that into the g 7 then to the nato sterile and then to meet with mr. to let him know what i want him to know. yeah, yes,

from had been unwilling to stand up to russia and was accused of pandering to autocrats. by my little doubt that those days are over, the united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way the russian government engages and harmful activities. we've already demonstrated that i'm going to communicate that there are consequences rely for violating the sovereignty of democracies in the united states in europe and elsewhere. having laid down a marker at the start of his whirlwind tour, biden has left both allies and adversaries with little doubt of what to expect and monitoring the story for us from washington d. c. d, w 's carrying a cheap toy. so what are biden's foreign policy priorities? why were he his 1st trip abroad as a president has taking him to europe and this is a clear sign he wants to show you are the trans atlantic relationship is the most

important relationship for united states. but it is going to meet around $35.00 war need, or it's in his a day trip. and this includes a prime minister bar is johnson who will be hosting the g 7 summit, but also turkish president. right here on. and of course, a significant and probably a quite difficult meeting with russia. president vladimir putin by wants to rebuild and to repair trans atlantic ties that have been as trained during the time of trump era. but he also wants to refrain relations with russia during that meeting with, with putting, and china. it's also of course, going to be an important issue here. he wants to show china that the united states and europe are working together against come with the enemies. the important question will be of course, if other countries in europe also would define china as an enemy, like the united states. c, w carina to my reporting from washington

d. c. now, a russian court has labeled the organization, founded by jailed opposition leader electron valley. as extremists, the ruling balls to anyone in the network from running for public office, the verdict predict, prevents of all these allies from standing in parliamentary elections in september, and doctors who have worked within the organization, plus anyone who donates to it all shares its material could also face jail. well, jake cordell has more on the verdict from moscow. this decision was widely anticipated and alexi, nevada had already moved to the span that network ahead of this decision. so on an organizational level, that doesn't change anything that well, those changes to now, anyone who has worked with alexis found the in these organizations become liable for some pretty hefty possible prison sentences up to 6 years ahead. employees as well as extending this broad and very vague idea of responsibility,

could extend to people who are native to the organization, volunteered an event even re posted or shared something on social media. but one of the key issue is effectively bands and outlaws. anyone who is work in the election about the organization from running for office in russia, and that's crucial because it comes with paul white, a crackdown head of parliamentary elections. we just scheduled for september. previously when russia had elections. it went through the process of one by one, eliminating candidates like where they were too much of a threat. now with this new law, you places a blanket ban on basically anybody who's been involved the life in the valley, the standing for office. let's take a look at the stories headlines around the world. the united nations and age groups are warning that 350000 people in the european war, torn to gray region could face famine condition, the government, the streets, the assessment, the u. n also says millions more, cross to gray,

are an urgent need of food, of food supplies, child labor has risen for the 1st time in 20 years. the united nations says 160000000 children around the world are forced to work more than half or younger than 12. un. this warning that the pandemic could push millions more into labor, controversial oil pipeline, opposed by environmentalists and climate change campaign. this has been cancelled. the keystone ex l pipeline would have carried crude oil from canada to the u. s. president joe biden revoked permits on his 1st day in office. now the company behind it has scrapped the project salvador has become the 1st country to make bitcoin legal, tender. congress approved a law to adopt the crypto currency. the president hopes the coin will make it cheaper for salvador in abroad to send money home. now

several of america's witches to business leaders have paid little to no income tax in several years. and then vested gates of journalism outlets called pro public says it has seen tax returns showing the billionaires avoided paying tax and the completely legal way. there are the world's richest men, jeff phases one ilan musk and they pay less taxes than most people. while living mind blowing, lifestyles, pro public, revealed the phases paid no taxes in 20072011, while most paid on in 2018. the billionaires don't seem to have done anything illegal. they just use tax avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary americans. super billionaires get their well from the growing value of their assets . they're only taxed if they sell those holdings. president job by him has said he wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. good afternoon. no one likes to pay taxes. i

know with my dad you say a small price to live in this country. i firmly believe we firmly believe the need to make our tax system work for the middle class. that's why i think we should ask corporations in the top one percent to start paying there for a share and why we should crack down a millionaires and billionaires were scape taxes by cheating. meanwhile, the internal revenue service has been hit by years of budget cuts and low morale, leaving it less able to enforce the laws that are already on the books. after proposal, his report came out, the white house focused more on condemning the leak than on the issue of tax inequality itself with us against any unauthorized disclosure of confidential government information by a person with access is illegal. and we take this very seriously. the biden administration has said that many of its priorities will be paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy, but collecting that money, it seems or you will be quite

a challenge. now the canadian province of manitoba has announced a vaccine lottery offering prizes worth $2000000.00 or $1300000.00 euros to people who get inoculated against covered 19. several us states and cities around the world are hoping to entice vaccine skeptics with cash rewards. california new york and hong kong have all introduced daughtry's and has since reported a rise in the number of people taking the jap floor in this speak to. i mean, as this was following the story for us, is there any evidence to support that these not friends are seeing actual results? well, there's no proof yet, but there is plenty of evidence that these lawyers are doing what they intended to do, which is to get people who are sitting on the fence about getting a vaccine to jump over and just get the job. this is going to be a big challenge for a lot of countries that are trying to achieve heard immunity, 6070 percent of people need to be vaccinated there to get that. and what we're

seeing in a lot of countries like the u. s. and the u. k that had very rapid vaccine programs, is that the curve and the beginning goes up steadily where people are getting backs, all the people who want to get vaccinate or getting their 1st jobs and then it starts to trickle off. so the curves starts to flatten because there's a lot of people in the societies that don't want to get vaccinated. there may be hesitant for a number of reasons, and lottery seemed to be having an effect on this. now, hong kong is a good example that there curves started to flatten pretty soon. there's a lot of skepticism about the government because obviously, hong kong has a lot of hong kong, or they're skeptical of the chinese government. well, after they introduced a lottery, which was for a $1400000.00 apartment in the city, you could see a bump in numbers. i crunch numbers there. and it looks like if you compare the week before this lottery was announced to the week after week on week, the rates of vaccination went up, 90 percent. and a similar thing happened in ohio, the us state of ohio,

which is one of the 1st places to announce the vaccine lottery. you can see about a 30 percent bump in rates, vaccinations. there are, there are some places that are giving up payments to everyone. anyway, so isn't that just simply a better incentive? well, realistically it is a better incentive. everyone get something instead of one person getting everything . but if you look at how it actually functions, that's now what we're seeing, governments are going for the lotteries because not only are there the cheaper. so in hong kong, if you wanted to pay everybody a days, wages, for example, to go get a vaccine like they're doing in serbia, you would have to pay $10.00 times more money than just this 1.4 $1000000.00 apartment. and what studies show is that this work, the lottery is work just as well. so people are attracted to a bigger prize. the more excited about it. but then there's also studies that show that people are more attracted to lotteries because a cash payment kind of feels like the government's paying you off for something. and a lot of people who are hesitant about vaccines are not trusting the government. so a cash payment just reinforces the stigma of the vaccine. it makes it feel like

they're doing something against their will lot or is don't how this effect they feel like they're just getting lucky. if they don't get lucky, they didn't sell out. sounds like quite the task for these governments to get people convinced and i mean f. s f. thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us. now spain's national football squad will be vaccinated against covered 19 ahead of the year or 20. 2020 mint was start on friday, diego year and they became the 2nd player to test positive off the captain said your boss gets the results. have thrown the spanish campaign, it's a chaos to play is from sweden have also tested positive and cultural life here in germany is slowly reviving, often months of locked down. what's normally berlin's top event in the middle of winter is now taking place as an open air for liberation. the bowling alley film festival has already handed out its trophies, the golden bears in an online competition. and now audiences can see the entries.

under the summer sky's berlin's museum island is being turned into a giant open s cinema 1st on the bill. the more attain in the 1st stars as a lawyer defending a suspect being held at guantanamo bay. after 911, was like a list is jodie foster won't be here in person because of travel restrictions. instead, it's a burly knowledge for the fans. i think we all need a little bit of hope and happiness. this event comes after a very long, dark moment and the made the most important thing for us is really to give the feeling that it's possible to stay together. and without any fears, it's all different this year, outdoor screenings only,

and the berlin bears are already awarded the pandemic and the rise of screaming, changing all the rooms into success, the german television and myron egg twins, a silver badge for her role. as a scientist who falls in love with a robot in the film, i am your man. ah, this is the news, live from berlin. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection and in developing what goes to the latest research information and contact the corona virus. the 19th next on p w.