soil drink, water supplies, and contaminate the air. also, 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 into 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 also the energy that is required to make batteries and especially production of cell require law 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 car like 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 still active, recombined. and we used in different campuses indications. this is ada kong. she's worked on a report about this for greenpeace east asia. the battery is that can be used in electric vehicles. essentially. it's per powerful when they're used for like 5 to 8 years that could in reading that need some injuring ha. you have enough performance for a function. that's right. we can give spend car batteries a 2nd life, for example, that can be turned into energy storage for windows solar. they could also power your next camping trip, and they still have enough juice left to drive a forklift or a boat and discuss it. if the batteries all ready used for all these things to day

. ah, wish it is dancer. ah, daniel and i sank off materials by re using hasta, using up there, down there, original function of products. they could be recycled to s road tours and to produce more products. let's get out the lego to understand how lithium ion batteries 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 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 officer 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 our 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 when we we hope that there's a lot of material safety already

pretty quickly. we used indefinitely. the lithium ion battery, already one of the most stuff in the product there is it already reused today and told them that they had the old recycle. we can optimize, is it better and better and more. but if we have on the market the, the more i'll build, so that will be now the karone of ours pandemic 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 me to hear. because you can see that the thickness of them is pretty good for your relatable back at the research camp, the team examines hundreds of drill samples every month. we can face some of the mineralization here. the specifically more my think brands that we're looking at, which is where the higher grade mineralization is. obviously, titanium canadian 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 to today as those to 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 re it's 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 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 earths will be consumed at 7 times, the current rate hover is another critical val. material that is 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,

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 for watching. stay safe with ah, ah,

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record numbers of coven. 19 cases around the globe on is quickly becoming the dominant variant. while delta is still hitting hard, the w h. o is calling on wealthy nations to keep their promises on vaccine equity plus will walk rod soon be off the menu in the u. k. a master chef and london is embracing a beacon version and calling on colleagues to do the say, ah, i'm nicole british welcome to the show. a jury in the u. s. has found british socialize gillian maxwell guilty of helping the lead sex offender jeffrey epstein. abuse under age girls 4 years after $55.00 days of deliberations,

the new york jury found maxwell guilty on 5 of 6 counts, including recruiting and grooming abstains, teenage victims. the most serious offense trafficking, a minor for sex. the verdict could see the 60 year old spend the rest of her life in prison. here's what the attorneys for both sides said after the verdict was announced. the road to justice has been far too long. but today, justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now grown women who stepped out of the shadows into the courtroom, their courage and willingness to face their abuser, made today's result. and this case possible, we firmly believe and glen to innocent. obviously we are very disappointed with averted. we have already started working on the appeal and we are competent that she will be vindicated. everyone be healthy, have

a happy new year. a lot to on wrap. so let's bring in our washington correspondent stuff and simon's stuff. and what more can you tell us about the verdict and maxwell's role in geoffrey epstein, systematic abuse of under age girls? what maxwell's role in all of this is lisa, that's how it stands. the less was significant, she was a close associate, a confidant of jeffrey epstein, and as for women who testified in this case, and the result of this case is largely based on what those women testified. she not only was a bystander when jeffrey epstein abused or sexually abused his victims, but also sometimes participated. so that can tell you something about the relationship between a miss maxwell and the lead jeffrey epstein. however, so this trial was groundbreaking. why? because as you mentioned, there was actually not much hope that after the suicide of jeffrey have seen the

victim see a day of justice. but here it was 40 hours of deliberation, and of deliberations for the jury. 16 questions were asked to clarify evidence in this and that, and that you have it. the verdicts 5 count guilty in 5 counts out of 6 are and miss maxwell is looking at potentially for 65 years in prison. this case is being watched very closely in the us and around the globe. how has the verdict been received where you are well, from the you heard from the attorney how significant this try was there is no, not yet a lot of reaction out there. of course, all the networks in the united states are tackling this now and reporting that the verdict is in and do a little bit of a deep dive into this relationship, maxwell and epstein and so on. but of course, this was the most important thing is we should forget,

this is for the victims they had really their day of justice. he and they were not for long, long, long, long time. there were absolutely unsure that this is ever going to see the daylight and that they will have their day in court and that justice is served. they are absolutely happy and delighted that this was the verdict and that this trial actually even happened. so what happens next? you said that you lay maxwell might face life in prison. when will we find out that there is a sentencing a date to be sets, and this is when the judge comes out and announces what he sent it to. but you heard already the attorney for mr. actual saying that they are working on the appeal. so this will definitely go into an appeal in an appeals court will be and then have the the job of sorting this out if this appeal is, is legitimate. and if there is, are grounds actually,

if there are grounds for an appeal. now the prosecution, that's what many experts say made really, really sure that they're, that they give because they were actually expecting an appeal, no matter what. when, if it makes mist, maxwell would have been found guilty, but they made sure that this is somewhat of an air tight prosecution. they delivered it with the testimony of those 4 victims, for example, as at rest. so this is going to be a hard time from his maxwell in the appeals court, i would think and again 65 years in prison, this is the rest of her life that miss maxwell is 60 years old. so every time it's in washington, thank you very much. the alma kron very into the corona virus is causing skyrocketing infection rates around the world. in a new european record, french authorities reported more than 200000 infections in a single day. italy, ireland, and portugal have also all announced record numbers of new cases, and poland authorities recorded nearly 800 deaths in

a single day. that is the highest number so far. there are 3 quarters of the dead were unvaccinated germany. official rates have dropped, but health minister ca allows about this skeptical. we're seeing the true numbers where she says could be 2 or even 3 times higher. the director general of the world health organization has expressed concern about the massive spike increases and is urging wealthy nations to make good on their promises of vaccine equity. i call for leaders of government and industry. talk the talk on boxy and equity bows by ensuring consistent supply and helping to get bucks in ations actually into people . this virus will continue to evolve and threaten our health system if we don't improve the collective response. and in the united states, health officials are predicting more than 44000 new covert related deaths over the

next 4 weeks. is comes at the us to post record highs of new confirmed infection. new cases per day have more than doubled over the past 2 weeks. eclipse thing, the previous record mark of 250000 said in mid january of this year. peter chin hung as an infectious disease expert and a professor of medicine at the university of california, and he joined us now from san francisco. dr. welcome. we're seeing record infection numbers in the us. how worried are you? well, nickel, i'm very, very worried, and i'm not just worried from the raw numbers, which as you pointed out, is record breaking. but i'm worried about the rate of increase, which has been really dizzying and what happened as a result of that is that we had very little time to prepare. if you think about testing, not enough. certainly not enough vaccine uptake and certainly not booster uptake by many. ah, we're not just seen deaths like one year ago,

but we're seeing lack of possible capacity not to because not because we had taken care to many patients. but because health care workers have becoming ill themselves, and that's taking away from our ability to take care of patients, there is growing concern about armor con, threatening crucial infrastructure. not only hospitals around the globe. how well is the us prepared for such a scenario? i think we're not very well prepared at all. um we may be prepared in some regions, but because there's so many different ecosystems of healthcare in the united states, again, we don't have a national healthcare system. they a lot of people who fall between the cracks. i worried about that group vulnerable populations, but also i'm also worried about the non cubic illnesses that have been neglected. health care screening cancer screening, and what we're seeing with a record breaking as kid admissions. so kids under 5 children being hospitalized

is not so much only omer crime, but old. so all of the diseases and health maintenance that has been neglected over the last 21 months. what can be done to keep on the chron at bay at this stage? well it's, it's very, very complex. if you look at what happened in the 1918 flu pandemic, it ended after all the pandemic stones last forever. we just don't know what will happen with our cov id and sars covey too. it could be that armor cron will devour on delta, which it seems to be doing and lead to a milder illness. we do have evidence from south africa within the last day that if you get delta, you're not protect against omicron. but interestingly, if you get home recross, you are protected against delta. i think you know, that could be a scenario. many people don't think it will last forever because we will certainly get another variant until we vaccinate the entire world. and

a vaccine is the only way we can prep protect ourselves against the future and not just of presence. we do have initial findings, they'll pointing to a milder course of the disease with our micron. could this very rapid spread that we're seeing now potentially bring us closer to turning coven into a manageable threat? it is possible at some point cove. it is going to be endemic, meaning like influenza. we'll accept a certain amount of cases in the world where we are comfortable with that our health systems can absorb our right now. i think the numbers are way too high. ah, you know, even if people get infected all around the world with on their chron, it's still going to lead to disproportionate. that's like you reported in countries where there isn't enough vaccinations. so again, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, we can't really even think about and amiss,

city until the whole world is vaccinated. peter chan. hong always great speaking to you. thanks so much, nico is considered a delicacy, but swa has long been. the object of controversy is produced by force feeding, ducks, and geese, and animal rights activists want the gourmet food off the menu. now the british government may ban imports of for gra and as calling on shafts to come up with alternatives, one of london's top french restaurants has gotten to work and invented the vegan foe. gra. it looks just like for growth, the french delicacy made of duck or goose liver, but in fact, no birds were harmed in the making of this patty. it doesn't taste of torture, which is a which full of the, the crowing region of the river, and not in this one who live a used for making real for growth, is considered the luxury ingredient. but it's fattened by force feeding the birds.

the substitute for gra is made with mushrooms lentils, and spices. beetroot is then added so that the patty looks like the real thing. if you put the right amount becomes just like it's almost unheard of for a french celebrity chef like alexis could to, to turn his back on for gra, the dish was one of the top sellers in his restaurant. but he became a target for animal rights activists. eventually they convinced him to change. and so from then i decided that i need to still be a french if i still, you know, do gasoline food. but i need to remove all the ingredients. so we started. fresh food writer jo warrick, is also in favor of eating less meat still. he's not sure about the imitation patty . it definitely doesn't resemble frog rom, indisposed,

maybe in terms of the texture a little bit, but but not, not the, not the flavor on it, not the finish on. it hasn't got that fighting. that hasn't got that richness. restaurateur, alexis, good, he is undeterred. he's now become an influential campaigner, ministers in the u. k. are considering bending the input of genuine for graph from france. some critics, c double standards. get rid of an elite, you know, french foreign, luxury product and say that, that you're making a point about animal welfare. but if you really want to make a point about animal welfare, what you would do is address, you know, the white chickens are being formed intensely formed the way ports been intensely formed. all the same chef alexis good to use, change of heart is paying off piece, fully booked for the next monday, or hopefully he's going to inspire or the restaurant to do the same. and most

importantly, although chef who are going to go and put their creative juice into this and come up weaver with some base creation that we cannot live without. ah, that's good news for ducks and geese. and it's fine by this food right? a to as long as chefs don't start passing off substitutes as the real thing. why not just call it mushroom patty? and that's her time. i'm the gulf really from me and the entire team here. maryland . thank you so much for a company with the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research.