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a, what the batteries, smartphones, and even cosmetics have in common. right. they all contain silicon rare earth methods. lithium and other such elements. yes, they do even cosmetics. but the bigger issue is in most places, these elements are not readily available and mining them often harms the environment. so today we look at the race for critical raw materials or come to made. so here's something to note down june. the 12th is the united nations well today against child labor to day, almost $1.10 of all children worldwide are engaged in child labor. and often they work in hazardous environments like mining the kinds of raw materials we need to keep up our way of life. micah is a group of minerals, houston, electronics, pains, and cosmetics. not only does it add an attractive shimmer to cosmetics, it's also a conductor of heat and an electrical insulator. but very often,

children are involved in mining it. ah, gum al, debbie and her 5 year old son ron, you turned the off in such a micah, the glittering mineral plays a vital role in this region's economy. for many people mining, the raw material is the only way to survive. children working for hours in the blistering sun in the indian state of georgia, and it's nothing out of the ordinary. so that's what i let della glad, i think my children are so young, but there's no other way of making a living here. there's no farming, nothing that i can't afford to send them to school. i was they have to help me had that though, but they managed to to to and have kilos a day. and then that we work until 5 in the evening. was it that they used to be more than 700 official mica mines in northern india, but in 1980,

a new law came in to force banning deforestation that made it almost impossible to access new sources of the mineral, the companies left, but the mines remained to day some 50000 adults and children working illegally. almost all the workers are darling to occupy the lowest rung in the indian cast system. many a members of indigenous tribes who are socially marginalized because there is little in the way of industry in the area. people are reliant on the mines. a kilogram of my car can bring up to the equivalent of 20 euro cents. but often they receive just half of that. middle man, clean the mineral, enlarge filter, drums, the platelets and then count into varying sizes. this is how it enters the market. the word micah describes a group of naturally occurring silicate materials that are rigid, yet at the same time elastic. paul,

many industries use the mineral in huge quantities among them, the cosmetic sector. and a few years ago, anna maria jaeger and her husband chi, founded their company lethal cosmetics. the ag stressed that all the ingredients, the firm uses are vegan and ethically sourced. in other words, they guarantee no animal testing was involved in production and no child labor. one of the key raw materials, lethal cosmetics uses is micah. some of it comes from india. here we have 3 different types of mica and a deserve. i example of a sparkly version and which also has a jo, comedic effect to it. and, and what is great about, as i said, it's face barclay, but it's completely natural. so it's free from any plastics. the

yag is, can't imagine making their cosmetics without micah. that's why they decided to hand pick their supplier in india. they chose a distributor who was able to provide assurances that his micah only comes from minds that don't use child labor. although in the sector, it's often difficult to determine where the material originated with our suppliers . it one supplier that often the manufacturer that also works directly with the minds and also of the audits of the mines and has been independently audited as well. and that is where we gained that confidence. mike is used in a wide range of applications. the biggest buyer in 2015 in terms of market value was the electronics industry, followed by companies that added the mineral to paints and lycos. mike also finds widespread use in a construction industry. and of course it plays an important role in the cosmetic sector.

every day come on deviant her son toil away to help satisfy the global hunger. for micah, they never have any problem selling what they've collected to one of many traders. if they receive a $150.00 rupees, a little under 2 euros, then it's a good day. she says, that's enough to buy some vegetables and rice. but for that, everyone has to pitch in, including both her daughters, aged $7.00 and $9.00. what was the average? and i'm always afraid when i'm working that i'll be bitten by insects or snakes or that i'll fall into a pit. oh, it's called my family. i'd really like to go to school. i was gone, but we need money. i have we don't even have our own house. so i have to collect mica. an unambiguous law has been in place in india since 2016. no child under the age of 14 is allowed to work, but the government itself concedes that around 12000000 children and young people

are doing just that. aid organization's estimate there are around $44000000.00 child labor. as in india, it's thought that around 22000 children are working in a legal mines in the states of jar kind and b ha. many of them have never known a life without work. because of their size, they're all for me to crawl into freshly dug unsecured pits and shafts. oh, i know i'm always afraid when i'm looking for micah are not long ago over there. 2 or 3 children of my age were buried in one of the shafts. and they died like that. i want to go to school. i don't want this region

for companies that work with micah products, it's a perpetual balancing act between marketing and morals, business and conscience at lethal cosmetics in berlin. the yag is a trying to tackle the issue head on wherever possible. they want to know exactly where they have raw materials are coming from. they also don't try to conceal from their customers that they use micah entire regions of india that are financially dependent on micah. and so if you replace something, for example, something synthetic, you basically taking away their livelihood. so i think it's absolutely within our responsibility. of course is also within the responsibility of everybody in the chain to make sure that it's producing ethically as well. because magic's industry is very secretive when it comes to micah 2017. so the launch of the responsible micah initiative, an alliance of companies obtaining micah from india. they all say they have a clear go to end child labor in the mines by 2022. but an interview on the subject,

a camera. well, all are requests including those sent to big industry names like manc, the clarence group and a coupon oshea were turned down. mm hm. if you ask them mine as a job and how to solve the problem, they say genuine change can only come if mining is once again officially allowed. because that's the only way to offer workers clear safety standards in a fair wage. then their children wouldn't have to work. some politicians have been demanding the reintroduction of official mining for a long time. now to get the now the, my lord, as you can see that all the labourers here are giving their sweat and blood. they're breaking the bones the but what kind of life is this? you not? you forget like, is the government congress look the other way about in it, but we deserve better than this. we don't with that good. and all this toil,

so that the rest of the worlds can use not only cosmetics, but also devices like smartphones. i couldn't exist without rare earth. they used to create the vibration, for example, and to display vivid colors. so ratliff elements are in huge demand worldwide. but reserves are finite. did you know there is gold in your smartphone? but don't go smashing it with a hammer. it's just a tiny amount of fraction of a ground. but still with your device also contains 16 of the 17 rare earth element. they are what makes the smartphone smart, for example, new damien, just rosie m and appreciate damien mickey, vibrate and, and turban produces the vivid colors and the display around half of the world's population now has a smartphone. and with the number growing rapidly demand for rare earth is set to

rise. the good news is that rare earth orange in fact all that where the bad news is that mining them is difficult and bad for the environment. and reserves are finite. the supply of some rail herbs could be exhausted in just a few decades. so what can we do about it? well, you could keep your smartphone for longer. and when you do get a new one, have the old where recycled. oh, wow, my smartphone is sir. hold on. yes. i think i think it is 8 or 9 years old. wow. guess in terms of the environment i'm doing pretty good. if using a device that runs on lithium ion battery is really is environmentally friendly. but i know that those batteries are crucial for the car industry to move away from

fossil fuels. electron mobility is the buzzword that how green are these batteries really? and what happens to them after they've been used, let's find out. ah, in 2019 john. good enough. stanley whittingham, and kiera you see no jointly won the nobel prize and chemistry. the discovery of laurie, it's have led to a dramatic change in our society. they invented and developed a technology that most of us use every day, often without even noticing. it's in a earbuds, smartphones, laptop, computers caught las vacuum cleaners and electric scooters. it's this the lithium ion battery. this technology is key to us driving around without burning fossil fuels. but what does it take to make all these batteries? what do we do with them once they're spent

and why on earth are we playing with lego in this video? let's find out. ah, the automobile has brought comfort and independence to the lives of billions of people. but guzzling, ever growing amounts of fossil fuels has also taken its toll on the climate. we have an energy, thanks to lithium ion battery. we might now be entering a new era of mobility. because of the high energy density that perfect and electric vehicles are relatively tiny package they pack a big punch. the lithium ion battery has really enable many paul song. i mean be compensation. this is hans eric melon. he founded to research and consulting firm focusing on lithium ion batteries. ever thing in mobility, lithium ion battery is i would say i've been

a key technology or really the potential is so big in that sector we, we get some, such a scale in the, in the production. and that brings the cost down of the batteries. the global fleet of electric vehicles is predicted to grow immensely over the next decade, from around 8000000 to 116000000. this means the demand for lithium ion batteries will also shoot up, and this is where we might run into some problems. it has a cost. we need materials to produce about race and in any extract of industry has an impact on the environment. lithium is su, probably guessed pretty central to making a lithium ion battery. about 50 percent of the world's reserve of this alkali metal can be found here, and the so called lithium triangle across argentina, bolivia, and chilly mining. it involves pumping sold water from underground lakes into pools

and letting it evaporate. the process that could harm the surrounding soil drain water supplies and contaminate the air. so lithium is finite. the study found we could run into serious trouble by mid century. if demand keeps growing like this, then there's cobalt that also goes on to lithium ion batteries. it's a metal mainly found in the democratic republic of the congo. it's mining has often been linked to inhumane working conditions and child labor people exposed to it have suffered from lung disease or hot problems. they have all of the energy that is required to make batteries. and especially production of cell require lawful vantage and this means c o 2 emissions. how much exactly really depends on the electricity mix of the producing country. but according to recent figures, making just a small battery for a colleague. this could cause more than 4 tons of c o 2 to give you an idea that's like driving a new diesel car bought in the u for about 33000 kilometers. the good news is that

emissions are thinking, as battery production becomes more efficient and we shift towards cleaner energy sources. so the bad news is that the batteries are losing capacity over time. so as there are more and more movies that will also be more and more spent batteries, how do we deal with them? reconnected and silicon, we combined and we used in different countries as in different applications. this is ada kong. she's worked on a report about this for greenpeace east asia. the battery that could be used in vehicle is essentially powerful when they're used for like 5 or 8 years that could in reading that meets ha, ha ha. if you have enough performance for a function that's right. we can give, spend ca, batteries a 2nd life. for example, that can be turned into energy storage for windows solar. they could also power you next camping trip and they still have enough juice left to drive a forklift or

a boat and discuss it. if the batteries are already used for all these things today, wish it a manual. and i spent a materials by reusing hasta, using up a regional function of products. they could be recycled to roll cios and to produce more products. let's get out the lego to understand how lithium ion batteries get recycled. it often involve smelting so essentially heating them until they melt. but this uses lots and lots of energy, creates toxic emissions and loses 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 with high value materials that are, have taken 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 cornell fell fha, chief commercial of

a side lifecycle, a lithium ion battery recycling company from canada, which we basically come up with a process designed specifically for this to have high recovery rates of the material in the 1st stage, what we call or spoke is a mechanical process that breaks down the batteries and 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 and in the worst case, blowing up then materials like plastic, copper and aluminum separated from what the industry called the black mass. this contains the valuable materials, like cobalt, nicole and lithium. the 2nd part of the process is the hub, and this is really a bespoke hydro, metallurgy or wet chemistry process to process black mass into battery materials. what this means is that different chemicals get added to the black mass,

which leach l different elements. these chemicals either make their way into the final products or re used in the process. so this actually doesn't produce any waste water. you end up with a black mass separated into a single components like lithium, cobalt and nickel. so that 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 been, she been achieved yet at a high scale there's, there's elements of it around the world. but ah, we want to help to continue to try that forward. it is hard 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 are also produced. and as volumes of spend batteries grow, it will make even more financial sense to recycle them. in the i do well that way we hope that there's

a lot of material testy already pretty quickly. we used in definitely the lithium ion battery, already one of the most stuff in the product there is it already reused today and told them at the old recycle. we can optimize? is it better and better and more. but if we have on the market the, the more obvious, so that will be 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 caused massive disruptions in the global supply chain, forcing manufacturers to slow even hold production. a team of geologist is now working to find raw materials like lithium, rare earth and graphite in northern europe to allow you to be less dependent on of us. in particular, china. a team of geologists,

in no way get to work. they've been commissioned by a company called north mining to search for critical materials right here in northern europe. first, they need to take samples. lines is really nice, made it here because you can see like the fitness of them is pretty good for or will it back at the research camp. the team examines hundreds of drill samples every month. we can face some of the mineralization here. we specifically make bands that we're looking at which is where the higher grade mineralization is. obviously, titanium canadian and phosphorus that we're looking at because there's extra phosphorus is an essential rule material used in fertilizer. the launch deposits of an 80 am, on the other hand, can be used in huge batteries that store energy within electrical power grid.

both elements are considered critical materials, along with a range of others, such as lithium rats or graphite. but where does the term critical material come from? a question we put to the founder of the mining company. critical materials is a terminology which is basically comes from europe has been invented by the u, because the europeans are dependent on t today. as so as the glow, particularly from supply from china, and which is about 606062 percent. china is the number one producer of critical val materials. in the case of rare earth, china provides more than 80 percent of global supply and process is the largest and mind reserves lenders, cobalt, lithium, copper,

and nichol. here china has secured strategic supply commitments from other countries to gain a monopoly. these raw materials are important for renewable energies which are needed to stop global warming. so right now achieve in global climate goals depends on chinese raw materials. take lithium mining, like here in california, lithium is used in batteries for electric cars. here 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 rules increase massively. busy while rare earth will be consumed at 7 times, the current rate hover is another critical val. material that's in high demand. owing to its use in electric vehicles and generators. china recognized

the signs of the times early on. now, europe is playing catch up. green a 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 rare earth elements we need come from single supplier china. this is why we have proposed to create a european raw materials alliance. oh, the e u has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 60 percent over the next 2 decades. oh, so a europe wide consortium of companies with headquarters in berlin has been charged with the missing the issue of all materials. ah,

the european. ready relatives alliance as one mandate, the tests to the mandate, to protect euro from any kind of supply interaction of raw materials and in particular critical raw materials. and in this context, of course, our oldest 1st and foremost understanding the pattern and the mix of the romance units. and here the role is identifying respect of 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 are especially welcome to me. if you'll find a good project you have to invest as attend am. it's, you know, it is very intriguing will be doing, it's very excited because it's not only a mining project such it has become a geopolitical nat, geo,

strategic thing. but it often takes up to 20 years to build in mind the starting from the initial phase of exploration. north mining says it already has enough funding from investors and hopes to stop mining much sooner for the european union . it can't come soon enough. that's all for this edition of mate. thanks to watching. stay safe with ah, ah,

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another independent voice in hong kong is silenced. the website stand news said it's closing down after police made arrests and confiscated documents in a rate. the sites. assets have also been frozen. ah and william good croft, welcome to the program. the omicron variant is causing skyrocketing rates of coven 19 infections in countries all around the world. french authorities reported more than 200000 infections in a single day. that's a new french and european record italy, ireland, portugal, if also were announced record numbers of new cases. and over in poland, authorities recorded nearly 800 deaths in a single day. as the highest number so far in poland. 3 quarters of those deaths were reportedly unvaccinated people. here in germany,

we have official officially lower rates, but health minister carl lauterbach is skeptical. we're seeing the true numbers. he said that they could really be $2.00 to $3.00 times higher. and what is the general director of the world health organization have to say? well, she is extremely worried about the massive spike in cases driven by the simultaneous spread of delta and omaha. right? no, delta and o me crone are tween threats that are driving up cases to rick a numbers which again is leading to spikes in was patella's ations. and does, i'm highly concerned that army kron being more times miserable, circulating the same time as delta is leading to us when army of cases. now we said earlier that current, a virus infections and france have had a record high. earlier i asked you w, a political correspondent, manual chaise,

what's being done to slow the spread of the virus. and you measures to limit social interaction to maintain distancing between people. working from home will become mandatory at least 3 days a week, ideally for days when possible, wherever that can be implemented, it is no longer optional indoor events will be limited to 2000 people and 5000 people outside these consensus for cultural events. but they will not be any consideration on political meetings. this is quite significant. no doubt, friends, again for the new presidential election. the next presidential election in a pre people will also be forbidden to spend inside restaurants, boss, caffeine, with many professionals asking how these can be 1st feasible, and then check to they will also be a use of mandatory f, f, p to mosque being studied by the government and the motto vaccine certificate,

similar to what gemini has introduced to attend the spaces and places of socialization. and we also heard that here in germany, car lauterbach, the health minister, he thinks the numbers are actually a lot higher. and what we're seeing, what's behind the under reporting? well, there's simply not enough medical personnel during the festive season here in germany to test people and above all, to communicate all the results. a test results to the authorities as a staff short age into her system and each shows not only are when we talk about test seeing or was officials already warning her dad's a collapse of the her scary infrastructure in the coming weeks could very well take place here, eved, a number of infections among medical personnel also increases exponentially. so that's a grim case that you're painting. there are more fun cases we can assume or higher than we've been. they are right now. they might be going up in the next couple of weeks. does that mean we're going to be seeing a walk down here in germany?

so before this new wave of infections and a possible coming wave of infections before army grown officials from the former government had promised there would be no new or locked down general log down. but we see that at a local scale, curfews are being implemented and more restrictions, especially for the unvaccinated, are imposed in the west effected district. so yes, once the government, we have used all other possibilities, such as mandatory vaccines, such as vaccine certificates are to excess all public spaces where the an expert see a log down as something that should be on the cards. and it's something that i asked who are recently or the netherlands have. oh, so you already re implemented reinstated w. pl horse won a manual shares with the latest around europe on the pandemic. thanks very much. thank. and now some additional developments in the pandemic. the u. k reported a record 183000 new cases on wednesday that shatters previous high. it's 50000 more

infections and just the day earlier in cuba, they planned to give booster shots to the entire population in january in a bid to prevent serious illness from the omicron variant. and here in germany, the international development minister says the country plans to donate $75000000.00 more doses of krona virus vaccine to poorer countries next year. now for some non pandemic headlights, south africa is holding vigils following the death of anti apartheid hero. archbishop desmond tutu morner is left flowers at saint george's cathedral in cape town. as the bells rang out into tucson, they will sound for 10 minutes each day until the nobel peace, lori it's funeral at the cathedral on january 1st. day after russian authorities ordered the closure of rushes, most prominent rights group. memorial international court is shut down. the sister organization, the human rights and the group,

has campaigned for the rights of political prisoners in russia, among others, the european court of human rights which russia is subject to as urged moscow to suspend the decision indonesian authorities a route are allowing a boat with a $120.00 ranger muslims on board to documents waters. it comes after 8 organizations called for them to be rescued. country security ministry previously said it would push the vessel back into international waters. overcrowded boat has a damaged engine and has been drifting for days off indonesia. and coast one of hong kong, last independent news outlets as it's folding up after being rated at having its assets, frozen hong kong police search. the offices of stand news earlier arresting 7 people and removing evidence. it's the latest blow to the chinese territories. shrinking free press over 200 police were seen entering the pro democracy news websites headquarters. they had a warrant under

a national security law enacted last year to seize journalistic materials. they arrested 7 people, including the current and former editor in chief of stan, news and pop star turned democracy activist. denise her a former board member, early wednesday deputy editor ronson chand, streamed live footage of police trying to enter his home. although he had seen what was coming back in june, i know why i think that the situation and a message is clear to from the government that can reports and doing. uncovering new story will have some criminal results you may be charged. you may be dealing with it, your freedom, whatever. so it's not easy to say that i'm more afraid of the situation to pro beijing authorities of hong kong. see stan, use as

a threat to national security. pika backwards all her young, their objectives include inciting, hatred and contempt towards the hong kong government, inciting hatred towards the hong kong judicial system, inciting dissatisfaction among hong kong residents, inciting people to use violence and instigating people to disobey the law or legal orders. hong kong largest pro democracy paper, the apple daily was rated and forced to close in june. it's founded jimmy lie was recently sentenced to 13 months in jail. critic, se china's communist party is shutting down all free press in hong kong in order to snuff out the last vestiges of democracy in the former british territory was get more the situation there from someone who knows it well that steve vines, he's a journalist and broadcaster who lived in work in hong kong for more than 3 decades . and he joined us now from london. thanks for joining us. and let's start with

your experience there. what. what role did stand news play in the media landscape? well, stun news. i played a very important role in chinese language outlet, and it was one of the 2 remaining independent news outlets within the form of my circulation. as so in that sense, it provided a very big source of information to a lot suede of the hong kong population. the conventional media newspapers in stations, et cetera have now largely amended control of the government directly or indirectly . so it's only online outlets that still perform some kind of independent function . there's 2 main ones in the chinese language. and one in the english language stan use is possibly the most famous of those 3. so with it's

closure, what does that mean for people there who try to get free access to media? how do they go about getting it now? well, that's a very reasonable questions to say. there are a couple of other independent media organizations. still, sandy, the question that everybody has been asking today, actually they've been asking that along with them today, is how long they will survive. other than that, because hong kong still has an open internet. unlike mainland china, a lot of the information people in hong kong is informally through what groups through a social media. and then are indeed an online media outlets which have not been closed down either because they operate from overseas. whole that too small for the authorities to have targeted at this stage. so there is actually access to more

information than there is on the chinese mainland. but that area of freedom of expression is being close literally by the day. so a little bit of hope you seem to be expressing their so much has happened in hong kong over the last many months. do you see any going back now? the mainland authorities are exerting or can exert so much influence over the territory? well, i mean, who knows, the fact of the matter is that after any of these actions and there have been very consistent number of actions rolling black the front is of. ready freedom of expression, people say, well surely, surely, they can't find a new top it. surely that's enough. but it seems that the authorities in breaking control this, the local thought is really do that. so your thought is, and you seem to have an insatiable appetite for control of dissemination of

information. and if they want to do what many people suspect they want to do, which is to create a situation in hong kong, which is the same as the main. where you have a highly controlled into that you have no free press whatsoever outside state control media. there is in fact space for more action to be taken in hong kong. all right, steve, i forgot to leave it there, but thank you for painting us. that picture stern sports now and american professional football is mourning. the loss of john mad at the hall of fame coach was a legend in the sport. and one of its most exuberant voices that in one, this super bowl as a coach with the oakland raiders in 1977 and became one of america's best known tv sports announcers. the 3rd act of his career was attaching his names. one of the best selling sports video games of all time, probably know it madden nfl. and here in germany,

the soccer giant byron munich say they are cooperating with a probe into the clubs, alleged violations of minimum wage laws. according to german media report, several current and former byron bosses are under investigation over the payment of coaches in the club academy. former coaches said they worked more than the number of hours allowed under their part time contracts without an increase in pay get over the news. let's get a quick reminder of the story we're following for you. a moron is fast becoming the dominant current of virus barian in europe and is leading a huge surge in new infections. france, britain, italy, ireland, portugal and all announced a record number of new cases. in hong kong, independent news analysts, outlet, standard news says it's closing down after it. offices were rated in assets, frozen police arrested 7 people and confiscated evidence. it's the latest blow to free press in hong kong. and don't forget,

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germany near the end of its decades long relationship with nuclear power. some of its neighbors say they plan, however, to build more reactors and turkeys. economic woes are turning books into a luxury. publishers and customer say they can barely keep up with rising prices. hello and welcome to the show. i'm seeing beardsley in berlin. what's being held as a milestone for europe, the swedish battery cell maker, north vault has officially begun production at its facility in the countries north . that makes it the confidence 1st homegrown battery cell production line for customers like volkswagen, volvo, and b, m, w. that's good news for their plants, for the coming years. just 200 kilometers south of the arctic circle this factory. and while, if they all produced its 1st battery cell, this week, the location was chosen because it's near important sights of renewable energy production in northern sweden, including hydro electric power,

intended to compete with the u. s. electric car giant, tesla and asian producers of lithium ion batteries. the site is expected to produce enough batteries to power $1000000.00 electric vehicles every year. north vault expects to make its 1st deliveries to commercial customers. in early 2022. the company has already secured $30000000000.00 worth of orders from european carmakers, including germany's b, m, w, and folks wagon and sweden's volvo with which it plants. a 2nd european factory test lays due to launch its 1st factory in europe soon. and asian rivals have significant operations in poland and hungary. but no european firm had opened a major facility until now. well, 2021 was a big year for electric vehicles and electric infrastructure companies like ford and g m. announce ambitious e v production goals. investors meanwhile search for the next tesla,

while elevating firms with a focus on electric infrastructure. among the biggest winters was electric vehicle maker revene automotive. now it raised over $12000000000.00 in its market debut in november, a munich based sono motors, a small developer of solar powered electric vehicles, had a bit more of a humble i. p. o, but still beat expectations. raising $150000000.00 in it's to view a charge point, a company that manages electric charging networks when public in march and raised around $615000000.00 in cash. though it stock has fallen lately, and we should mentioned that none of these companies, however, is actually profitable thus far. right for more, let's go to james sweeney in new york. james, good to see you. this has been a big year for electric vehicles. so far all things, electric on wall street, a lot of appetite from investors. what do we expect for the next year? let me put it this way. 2021 is the year in the startups made their name on wall

street that we all heard of them. 2022 looks to be the years that dominate the headlines on the street. and we're not just talking about startups here. we're talking about all around electric vehicle production, especially from the big companies. while she was enamored or you were tesla caribbean, even lucid recently. and you look at living really that the man is there, the 1st day, the 1st 5 days went public, the company's market cap surpass volkswagen. and don't forget like you said earlier, $150000000000.00 as evaluation in november with 0 revenue at all. then it's been one and a half months now and that excitement, it's not cold down, test flu, front and center, and the man isla must tweets, grabbing the headlines. we also have the big boys about getting with forward releasing its f 150 lightning electric vehicle pick ups. where say the, the a, m g e q, s tesla at cyber truck is on the way. we can put it to rest electric vehicles. enthusiasm is only just begun that's going to be big in 2022 or so one of the things that could, however, slow down the automotive industry in that next year, even as that excitement for electric ramps up is the supply of chips. we've seen

that be a real problem of the past year is going to get any better in this next year. well, the funny thing about the chip shortages is that before this, investors were worried more about the men than ships. but now that's not even a concern because the demand is there. so regarding computer chips supply, we can see some relief in 2022. but we need cove it in on the chronic ease because that's what's key to ensure that these producers and ship plans can get back to work healthy. that's why reopens voters allows shipments of products, research and development for improve computer hardware. and we also need some more effort on behalf of global political leaders to reach trade agreements. that won't keep our computer chips and general cargo sitting on ships off the coast for a month at a time at different prices. so can we see a trip shortage relief next year? yeah, we can definitely, but there's a lot of pieces to that puzzle to put it all together. all right, james sweeney in new york. talk about the car industry and the i'll look for next year. thank you. thank you. and out of some of the other global business stores making headlines, trouble,

chinese property developer ever grant appears to have missed another bond payment deadline. the due date on $2.00 bond coupons went unpaid, potentially complicating evergreen's ongoing efforts to restructure offshore debt and complete housing projects. every grant has a 30 day grace period before the debt is declared. in default, more details have emerged of chinese ride hailing giant dds plans to de las from new york and re list on the hong kong stock exchange. reuters, according to sources saying the company plans to use a mechanism that will allow it to list without raising capital or issuing new stock listing by introduction, as it's known would allow holders of its u. s. shares to gradually transfer them. apple has placed an indian fox con i phone factory on probation over work conditions. the plant which employ 17000 people was closed on december 18th. after more than $250.00 women who worked there had to be treated for food. food poisoning an investigation by apple and fox con,

concluded that dining rooms as well as dormitories did not meet required standards . free forwarding company, flex port, says is dispatching 3747 aircraft loaded with potatoes to help ease a french fry shortage at mcdonald's restaurants in japan. now, the scarcity had led the restaurants to limiting orders to only small fry orders. supply chain problems have been blamed for the scarcity. well, less than 2 days now, germany will say good bye to its 7 decade relationship with commercial nuclear power reactors representing almost half the country's remaining nuclear capacity, will be shut down before the new year. was the final step in a plan began 10 years ago to assure germany out of a power source that has long been controversial. in the meantime, neighboring countries have taken a different approach to the power source. take a look. ah, these protestors are making their voices heard and have been doing so for decades

outside a nuclear power plant in northern germany for over 35 years now. activists have been meeting up once a month to call for the reactor to be shut down to day is the 425th meeting and the final time that they'll be here breathing the elements. that's because the broke off nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial in germany, will be decommissioned at the end of the year for a pastor and protest. co founder hans cont vanna. it's a day of mixed feelings. as you have each kid is mainly a sense of relieve that the nuclear power plant is, find the history that we never imagined back then that we'd have to hold out for. so long's the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster prompted germany to declare a nuclear phase out by the end of 2022. but many countries continue to rely on nuclear power. how long this promotional film made by the french nuclear industry

depicts it as clean and above all climate friendly. a line of argument also favored by the countries president, yet dondo the subject to achieve our objectives in particular carbon neutrality by 2050. and we will, for the 1st time in decades relaunched the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and on the copy. that's why the greenhouse gas emissions are lower than those from fossil fuels, but compared to wind or solar power, nuclear energy production is far more expensive. it's really clear those countries around the world that are most intensely committed to civil nuclear power. ah, either countries with nuclear weapons or countries really demonstrably cain on nuclear weapons. the reactor will be shut down, but the radioactive waste will remain in storage there for decades to come. there's still no permanent disposal site anywhere in the world, which is why the activists plan to continue their fight over to turkey,

where the economy remains in crisis. rising inflation and a plummeting layer have undercut wages and made staples like food increasingly more expensive. well, books have not escaped the pain. rising prices are posing a problem for customers. and the publishing industry alike. turkey is debilitating and raging economic crisis is increasing prices across the board. and the latest victim seems to be the publishing industry where some books have increased in price by over 50 percent is i just asked about the cost and i was told that the book i want to buy now costs 38 lira today. i had bought it before for 24 lira. i used to buy books in several copies because i like to give them to my friends is presence, but the prices have become too expensive. they say that this is due to the lack of paper on the market, which doesn't surprise me. in turkey,

everything is imported now and i see the imported paper is a big part of the problem. global supply chain issues had already made the raw materials for book paper more expensive. but turkey's unique inflation problems aren't helping when the value of the lira falls, so does the purchasing power of turkish buyers for foreign goods. as a result, each book becomes more expensive to produce. meanwhile, sphere puter, you print the 1st run and let's say your book is doing well. you've calculated all your costs and decided it would cost $30.00 lira the book sells. well, you do a 2nd printing in the same week, the price goes up to $35.00 lira. then for the 3rd or 4th printing, only god knows how much it will cost not to go left to publishers said they're already planning to put out your books in the next year. it's an effort to minimize risk as the turkish economy teeters on the edge. and finally, 2021 has been

a year of supply train problems while a cold spell in the sea of japan has caused a different kind of back up with merchandise check us out. dozens of cars have been caked in ice, up to half a meter thick on their way to the russian port of lot of our stock. the japanese ship experience high winds with minus 19, since a great temperatures. waves flashed over the cars which were on the deck and froze, that cracked wind screens and cause other damage. it's going to take more than an ice scraper. all right, that's it for me and anita the business team here. bled will be back shortly with little bit more. in the meantime, check on our website, g, w dot com slash business. i'm seeing beardsley watching the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say?

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