hold to switch off their electricity from 7 this morning till 11 this evening. that's in response to rushes, widening strikes against energy facilities. the national grid operator says the curve is limited to thursday, but more restrictions and blackouts may be needed with winter approaching many ukrainians. the 8 month war has meant getting used to life without power, heat, and running water. preparing dinner in a makeshift outdoor kitchen, 9 year old autumn and his grandma arena hurrying to get dinner ready before the setting. sun plunges their home into cold and darkness. seeing a horseshoe is rainy, cold. young le she's, i'm sleeping in my clothes in my apartment. now. li, issue rushing strikes of cut off utilities and cities and towns across ukraine. and many residents here in the hockey region. we have been living without gas, water, or electricity for weeks down. i think you did move this enough. what did you have

from our windows were damaged to it? now we are only eating here, but sleeping in the next apartment because their windows are not damaged. so it's warmer there any way? don't care for many people bundling up at night and cooking outdoors is a matter of survival growth. the situations like this is no electricity, no water, no gas, we're cold, you can see we're building fires. and tom lives with his mother. she's disabled. it is totally dependent on her son's help to do it's abroad. so it's really cold. now, if it wasn't for myself only i would freeze. i should. it doesn't. the homes of residents living in villages like these in the hot heat region have been thrust into a pre industrial era with no modern comforts authority. the trying to reassure

people that electricity will be restored soon and that repairs to water and gas infrastructure will come next. that with the wall and with absolutely no certainty . people like autumn and his grandmother can only prepare for what will likely be a very harsh ukrainian winter. oh, he watching dw news from berlin. we've got some breaking news coming out of london . it's believed that prime minister lives truss may be about to give a statement. some have been expecting her to possibly step down. we simply don't know at this point. she's been under tremendous pressure from people within her own party. and of course the opposition as well. lose trust, of course, becoming prime minister about 5 weeks ago, just under 5 weeks ago when she took over from morris johnson,

it was her party was hoping this would give the country a fresh start with leadership with a new, with new leadership. but she has failed to deal with an emerging crisis in the, in terms of inflation, the economy, her many budget that she introduced immediately crashed on many aspects of the economy. it's sent the pound tumbling, and the u. k. has been struggling. she is since withdrawn. many of those policies, and now we've seen within the past couple days, that's members of her cabinet, have begun to leave. they have submitted their resignations. we also know that there has been a, a letter submitted by a member of parliament calling into question her leadership. it say a, a boat calling for a letter, stating a lack of confidence, no confidence in the prime minister. again, we're looking at live pictures from downing street. we're expecting a statement from the prime minister liz trust. ah,

that will tell us about her future. many people are anticipating that she may resign. so while we wait on that statement from downing street, so let's take a look, a few other stories that are making headlines today. lebanon's parliament has been unable to elect a new president for a 3rd time. the country is in the midst of an economic and political crisis. i came into office at the time of great economic and international instability. families and businesses were worried about how to pay that bills. putin's illegal war and ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent. and all countries have been held back for too long by lo, economic growth. i was elected by the conservative party with the mandate to change this. we delivered on energy bills, along cutting national insurance. and we set out a vision for

a low tax. hi, grace economy. the would take advantage of the freedoms of bricks. it i recognized though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandates on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. this morning i met the chairman of the 1922 committee sir graham brady. we've agreed that the will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver all fiscal plans, a maintain our country's economic stability, a national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you to hearing from lose

trust. there it is. she has just announced her resignation. she the british prime minister. so she has spoken with king charles and told him that she can no longer lead this government. she also said that there would be a new leader of the conservative party and thus of the person to become prime minister within just a week or so. so i think we have our correspondence standing by force in. no, we can't quite go live to london yet. who are correspond it, but we hope to do that shall while they go again, just a if you're just joining us this news just coming in right now of few short moments ago, the prime minister of the united kingdom list truss has stepped down announcing her resignation. she'll be leaving office very soon within the next week or so. she said that the tory party, the conservatives in the u. k. had agreed to elect a new leader who will be not just the leader of the party, but of course take over the helm of the government tumultuous times in the u. k.

we've seen in less than 5 weeks to resignations, where we've seen boris johnson hand over to her just less than 5 weeks ago as prime minister of the united kingdom. and now least russ herself, is stepping down, caught up in her own policy making, gone bad as it were, with her many budget having caused economic and financial turmoil in the country course, we'll be bringing more details on this as they become available. there's going to be a great deal of speculation about who might take over next within the conservative party. apparently, there's not another election do there for until the end of 2024. ah, so it's going to be difficult for any opposition party to, to get into power. but we are going to see a change of leadership in the u. k. within the next week or 2. so let's catch up on some other stories making news right now. as i was saying earlier,

lebanon's parliament has been unable to elect a new president for 3rd time. the country is in the midst of an economic and political crisis. there are now fears of a power vacuum when me how a loon own ends his term on as president on october 31st. a new parliamentary vote has been set for early next week. well he said, a new law tackling the legacy of spain's fascist dictatorship. pez entered into forced knolls convictions for political or religious beliefs, as well as for sexual orientation. it also promotes the search for victims buried in mass graves. over a 100000 people disappeared during spain civil war and dictatorship from 936 to 975. perused president pedro castillo has asked the organization of american states to help preserve the country's democracy. after what he calls and attempted to last week. the attorney general filed a constitutional complaint accusing costeo of corruption and criminal activity. the

o a s plans to consider the issue on thursday and little brazil far right. president. show your both to narrow has narrowed the gap with left as challenger louisa, not julie de silva. at least that's according to recent polls. in less than 2 weeks, brazilians will cast their ballots in a 2nd round of voting. lou, one the 1st round of the presidential election at the beginning of october by a margin of 5 points. the cutter football world cup starts just one month from today. despite france being the depending champions many in france are boycotting the bad because of counters, human rights record, culture and people say the country has made huge strides, but cities such as bordeaux have decided there will be no public viewings, public viewings and the goals celebrations that go with them, it becomes something of a woke up fixture, but they will be happening this year in many french cities, including bordeaux,

which is boycotting the world cup competition. reconstruction. did you feel stud on there were a lot of irregularities during the construction of the stadiums. there were do more of the cornerstone co workers even died, rosalie donald davis doesn't conform to our western. yes. are you to p and valueless increases the world cup and guitar even more does not respect basic human right. the lap august picked it really full, more towards the duomo. there in the fans and a no public broadcasting, bordeaux, paris, marcy, and other cities. it's kicked off a debate to improve. this is ridiculous. it doesn't change anything if you don't put up a big screen shorter than the by medical football fans will be able to watch the matches on the small screen in bordeaux. some pub owners have decided to show them off to wrestling with their conscience either. and we're going back to london now

where our correspondent big mass is standing by. we've just heard a statement from the british prime minister lives truss announcing her resignation . burger list, process stepping down. how did this happen? it's the result of chaos really, of, of weeks of chaos. she had a record short premier shape. i, i'm just outside downing, 3. there are lots of people behind me. people just are driving pause with cars and tearing. so the country air is in crisis. it's an economic crisis, many people, county the homes, they don't know how to put food on the table pensioners are not putting the heating on and not putting the cattle on even. and he didn't cold fade because they are in dire straits. so in this situation, the country as the in the leadership, the prime minister and high government, an absolute disarray. there was a budget that they had just a few weeks ago and that has a,

has caused chaos on the financial market. and as the result there, the prime minister has never regained the confidence of the political party. she was engulfed, ah, in a, in the well that it's you, she was basically not respected any more by our own. m. p. 's and the party is deeply divided and now she has decided that she can go on like this. big a, just a briefly we only have a few more seconds. so do what happens next. c well, as teresa said, that she will remain tremendous style until a new leader is chosen. however, the question is, is it avoidable without a general election? because this trusts was elected by the party members and not by the country. and i think there are, there will be a lot of calls for the party not to do this again, not to have a 2nd prime minister wasn't elected by the country. so we'll have to see how this is being done. mega, thank you very much. bigger mouth there in london,

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market is something that an international alliance wants to change. we'll get a word from our correspondent on how i'm chris cobra. welcome to the program. electric mobility is to do the trick, keeping us going without destroying our climate. now, u. s. president joe biden has unveiled his strategy to boost battery production for electric vehicles, announcing $2800000000.00 in grants. to 20 companies for projects, extract and process lithium graphite and other on materials to manufacturer components, and strengthen your supply of critical minerals hosting production and sales of electric vehicles. as a key part of the guidance strategy, shift to a slow climate change and build up where you as manufacturing talk some say a challenge. but we see an opportunity, a real opportunity to shift to

a net 0 sum carbon world. and one of the most significant economic transitions since industrial revolution mass not i personally, that's a fact or also confronting it, head on with american ingenuity and american jobs. years president joe vine speaking there and on germany is fully underway, amid its own transition to wards electric mobility and having sufficient supplies of critical materials like lithium is key, nearly found reserves within the country could now help break a so far heavy dependence on foreign suppliers lou here, the so called white gold and the green energy transition lies dormant. large amounts of lithium are needed for batteries to power e cars. but lithium can be found in the hot thermal water of the upper rine river, 4000 meters under ground. the german branch of australia's vulcan energy

resources wants to extract the lithium from the thermal waters in an environmentally friendly way. in a lab in karlsruhe, the team has developed a process to hopefully extract the lithium on an industrial scale. now since my father, in the 1st 2 faces, we could supply up to 40000 tons of lithium hydroxide for about 1000000 immobility batteries. after that, we can keep expanding. we believe we can meet 25 percent of european demand in the long term and supply all german production with it in order to transport these mineral rich thermal waters up from the depths, the company relies on geothermal energy, 160 degree hot water is pumped up via bore holes and used to generate electricity to power the extraction. it's climate neutral, but there's a catch in the past, geothermal drilling has repeatedly caused earthquakes. in a worst case scenario,

drilling could pollute the ground water. some lithium extraction projects in the region have already been halted for many experts. however, this is going too far. they say with modern technology, thermal water can be found in the deep rock, where tapping comes with no risk. high precision geo sensors can also help ensure that drilling is stopped before it causes damage the longest back to the 200 or visit 8 mining authority is very careful and strict govern. of course, no one can guarantee that no further earthquakes will be triggered, but we are sure that we can put enough measures in place to prevent that from the lithium mining with geothermal energy could be a big opportunity for the energy transition. but vulcan energy has its work cut out,

trying to convince residents in the region that the extraction is safe. now, so far, australia and chile account for 75 percent of global lithium production, germany and the european union traditionally have good relations with these countries. so delivery problems are unlikely. the situation is somewhat different for other raw materials though the imports 90 percent of rare earth and magnesium it uses from china. rare earth elements are crucial and running smartphones, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. supplies could dry up quickly in case of a conflict with china, like over taiwan or other matters. and metals like nickel and aluminum, the e continues to import from russia despite the war and ukraine. because your officials know european industries depend on these materials. earlier i spoke to micah shelter, a researcher on sustainable commodity supply chains at the german institute for

international and security affairs. and i asked her how germany and the you could lore their dependence on russia and china. but recommendation would be a to 1st increased knowledge about men of a supply chain and dependency and increased transparency in within of a supply chains and definitely of european and german level and needs a stronger like china strategies that considers dependencies and establishes instruments, add to degrees but also a frame, it's and diplomatically, quite important. diversifying their possible, but also consider substitution as well as a psych increase recycle capacity. and yeah, as the notice in our research that righty itself, supply it. yeah. pain ability play quite an important role. and i can also connect that needs to be considered a political strategies. micah, how is that a china has been tightening its grip on the global market for rare earth.

how's that possible? i think it's an yet a political strategy. if that's add a fall at the last ad to decades, a video so you can see it ab year by year to increased air refining capacity in the, in the country. yeah. so it ethic gets, it gets quite a yes, strong political move they did in order to execute such and yeah, refining capacity. and you mentioned it there. i mean, it's not just a getting these rare materials or materials out of the ground is also a matter of refining them. and that is something which is very hard on the environment. experts say, and richer economies prefer to off load these dirty tasks to china. so how is the you going to deal with that? if it doesn't want to import these things from china, from russia? yeah, i think it is stronger like refining capacity this in the european union. definitely strongly european core collaboration. because it meets high investment in,

into refining and building up refining capacities. and it's not the short term solution, but am to long term investment that needs to be done down. and yet to get everything . the member's id, my shorts of the german institute for international and security affairs. thank you for your thoughts. china is not only dominating the rare earth's market, it's also home to more than 80 percent of the world solar production capacities to change that i'm at a growing demand for less expensive energy or leaders are meeting at the international solar align summit in new delhi in india, they're pushing to diversify supply chains and manufacturing of solar panels. over $100.00 countries are represented at the meeting, sharing a common goal, have a listen. we go have the goal of ensuring solar as the energy source of choice across the world. this means it is cheaper,

it is useful to politicians as a way to create new jobs. and it also helps us in moving towards the goal of 0 carbon emissions with our la i assa. our objective is to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. and this is not on me, i claim it, but the source, so please to energy independence and the energy security for, for more on this, let's bring in the w correspondent, char mccarty. k in delhi, charo leaders gather, gathered there, and deli, are pushing to diversify supply chains and manufacturing of the solar market. how's that supposed to happen? well, you're chris. that's right. they're trying to diversify the supply chain because even though it is not set in as many words, the biggest problem that the international solar lines faces is the dominance of the global solar market by china. and the fact that china dominates is,

would be an understatement. you know, the international energy agency believes that 75 percent of companies that are needed for solar powered and manufactured in china alone. so that's like a big, big dominance. now what the i say is planning is that it wants to make go enable multiple regions across the world to be able to produce affordable solar products. now that is easier said than done, you know, in spite of all the progress that has been achieved in solar, in many parts of the world including india, sola is pretty much a nascent movement and a lot of things are in the future. so a lot of things out of the planning stage are, for example, investment is a big problem. capacity building is a big problem. land is a big problem. so i, you see, is working on all those competence and just trying to bring many countries together in that effort. chris, now how does the international solar lions want to correct the balance in investment flow and solar will. yeah, that's again a grand project of the i say,

chris, a, the investment flows are heavily disproportional. you know, a report suggest that in 2021, the global investment closing solar were to the tune of $200000000000.00. and only 5 percent of these were received by countries like africa, where the potential is maximum to 95 percent of $200000000.00 went to oil, cd countries, china and all you see the country. so the countries that really need to the potential offer need and have of producing herb of cheap affordable solar power are not getting much of the investment flows. what the ice implants do is that it is, it is trying to roll out a payment mechanism when the, i say, will in act as a sort of a payment guarantee for lenders who would want to invest in projects in these countries. and then it would also go into a capacitor building and so on and so forth. so that's what the plan looks like as of now, chris. now india is facing its own problems when it comes to expanding

a renewable energy is a solar farms require a lot of land. you mentioned that there, which locals often want to use for their own purposes with as to chris of but a fact number one, is that right now most of the solar plans have been, operate, been set up on government land. so right now this is not too much of a dispute. land is really a land related complaints are sort of pretty sporadic, but then many experts say that they will definitely of rise as the country improves its solar install capacity. so all these, the government owned lands that are be converted into solar plans. they are used in some way or the other by local communities and are pretty soon when the target for the install capacity goes up. and then things will reach of the marks or a market will reach to private land as well. and land has always been a very critical problem where things are still on the planning stage as far as the,

the future or issues that might crop up in land air concern. right now it's pretty sporadic. i would say chris t w's charo kart again. deli charo, thank you. and his reminder of the top of business story we're following for you at the sour. the united states is investing almost $3000000000.00 to boost battery production for electric vehicles with a special focus on extracting and processing, lithium and other raw materials. trying to break it's dependency on china. that social thanks with ah, a

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ah ah, this is d w news coming to live from berlin. more political chaos in the u. k. as to prime minister analysis, she's stepping down after just 6 weeks. list trust says she's resigning as leader of the conservative party, but that she'll stay on as prime minister until a successor is found. this comes as after unprecedented turmoil in british politics and pressure from both sides.