i mean the swish nicholas his chief amuse. i witnessed his report machine. you're still these go to set the i said, the mary, you pull a story of resilience. russia's war in ukraine. one years since the invasion began. we take a look back and into the future in the new building. slowly in february on d, w with, with observed from the edge of space, images of a suspected chinese spy bowler and shot down by the u. s. military show that the

world superpowers fighting on a new front central to gaining the upper hand is gathering information. and it isn't just governments that need to be capital. who they share that data with. businesses need to do the same as we're about to find out here on mate. also coming up petrol tank or plate, should food ever be used as fuel methane madness? why aren't firms plugging bag greenhouse gas leaks and no go for snow is climate change causing ski season to melt away but fast from ports to highways and from the north sea to the mediterranean. in recent years, china has been buying up infrastructure all over europe. meetings, sprawling campaign of overseas investment has seen it take a growing stake in the systems that enable many countries to function. but concern

is growing over these inter continental arrangements as relations between the you and china, fries over is beijing's approach about to come crashing down. ah, the shipping containers are built to be tough. a crash tested by the danish company mares, container industry, china international container limited plan to spend around 1000000000 euros to become majority shareholders in the danish firm. but the sale was blocked after objections from the competition regulators in germany in the us. the sale would have seen china control 90 percent of the global market for refrigerated containers . the coven 19 crisis showed how important containers are for global trade. and chinese companies saw an opportunity long, most chose china as the buyer, which was surprising because everybody thought that the competitive authorities would decline the sale. and that is exactly what happened. so china is simply too

big in this industry to, to buy, must contain industry. and that is why the sales trade in the south of denmark, shipping containers used to be built on a large scale little of that industry remains in the region today. because in recent years, a large part of container production has been sold to china. local politician thomas anderson witnessed this development 1st hand. what remained was an engineering and development department for refrigerator containers, which is now also up for sale. for the former mayor, it is important that more manufacturing jobs are not moved to china. yamazik will support. we have a very large plant here in the old enrolled municipality where chows full wind turbines are produced and also electricity masts. and we are already mindful that they're not simply imported from overseas for that we produce them here locally.

his eagle, them, i'm start to city off by here or snob routes. you know, chinese investments in the european union are now being closely scrutinized, like those in the port of hamburg, the chinese state shipping company. costco recently acquired a stake in a cargo terminal here long. it may just be a small steak, but across the u as a whole, 10 percent of port capacity is now in chinese hands. all the better, mon foundation has scrutinized chinese investment in germany. they have analyzed the strategy behind it. so i'm good on the one hand, china has the made in china 2025 strategy at the political level. it aims to make china a leading industrial nation and the acquisition of high tech companies abroad as an

explicit part of the strategy tires of scotty. according to the latest figures, around $300.00 chinese companies have investments in germany. there are around $2500.00 german companies active in china, and it appears that beijing wants to even the score the federal association of german industry generally views chinese investment in germany as a vote of confidence. the discussion of the discussion about this company operating in the port of hamburg changed on the question of whether a chinese shareholder would be able to make decisions that we don't like if that situation doesn't arise, then i don't have any issue with the purchase and see it positively, of course, we have to make sure we look after our own interests and not just sell off german acid. also slotskum. back in denmark, the wind has changed. the global shortage of refrigerated shipping containers has

eved in demand. it's still falling, selling maersk container making unit is not as easy as it seemed. now, no one wants to pay the 1000000000 euros initially offered by the chinese. now biofuels are seen as one of the great hopes for a greener future using plants to help power our vehicle is, can reduce our emissions, but using crops for fuel instead of food is a controversial move over the past 2 decades, biofuel production has increased dramatically. well, over a 1000000 barrels and now produced every day, but with parts of the world enduring food shortages of catastrophic proportions. why should our priorities lie in the petrol tank or on the plate? but gas tank is no place for food. environmental stepped hung, a banner on the reap seed silo in the port of hamburg. they are angry that more and

more arable land is being used to produce biofuel, rather than to grow food crops. bill cut stuff for him. housing, biofuel, and car tags is environmental. nonsense, i. we are facing a global foot crisis and turning valuable grain into gasoline is irresponsible for the german government has to stop this nonsense. immediately. land food belongs on our plates and not in the tank. got often tell our mission and tank biofuel is mixed with conventional fuel to reduce c o 2 emissions in light of the energy crisis manufacturers believe there is more need for this than ever. be a kernel mayor. we could produce more biofuel, but we would have to focus on that one out in focus thought the moment i think germany is caught up in great change and impulse. but that's the challenges that we are facing. those are gigantic history and isn't d come tish? farmer court anchor also has no time for the proposed ban on biofuels. he supplies

grained to a biofuel factory near the eastern german city of leipzig, but it's low quality grain that isn't suitable for bread making about 20 per cent of his harvest. his destined for the gasoline tank. thus the squeaking girth headmoore for wheat that can be used for bread after all, over the him for high quality wheat with a lot of protein for the past industry. we get an even better price. i've got, and last of all, there's the wheat that is used for animal feet. and by you ethanol. so let's gun foot. all right, so be, i don't know if he sells his low quality grain to crop energies. the company uses it to make bio ethanol. did when they entered the market 30 years ago, they got subsidies from the e. u to take the surplus grain off the market and now they have become whipping boys because they produce fuel rather than food. the managers feel

misunderstood, they say they're not destroying anything that could go on people's plate. yeah, he is absent for being primarily we use animal feed wheat, which is not suitable for baking. when we use barley and corn syrup, which are also not suitable for baking, as they are of animal feed quality food accredited by a lot of c o. 2 is produced as a byproduct that can be used in the food industry. for example, to make fizzy mineral water under the product is protein that's used to make animal feet seeming the need to import soybeans from south america, where rain forests are often illegally cut down to make way for so i plantations. the biofuel company sees itself as a reliable local producer that can ease the pressure on germany during the energy crisis. we have indulged non polar don't allow option plans are in germany. that

stuff, but we are not dependent on our product remaining in germany. as i can deny, i can only repeat, the naive ity in germany is so indescribable. all they don't know what else to say, the fight mechanics. i other countries think about themselves much more and in the current situation, that is what we should be doing to that we have to have a rethink biofuels, and bio energy. i'm not just positive in terms of the climate, cindy. they also insure security of supply for some of them see i'd be, critics are unimpressed and are calling for farmers to cultivate food crops and nothing else. they want biofuels to become a thing of the past. when the andy luisel, we have the solution auto feel electric cars are much more efficient than conventional ones. autism, they are more claim it friendly. lisa, we have to speed up the phasing out of combustion engines. latoya slowing, but biofuel manufacturers have a different idea they could gradually switch from grain to

energy rich straw, benjamin, newer from livestock pens for a long time, we've relied on the ground beneath our feet to yield the energy resources we need, namely fossil fuels, but bubbling away even deeper down is another powerful power source. it's the driving force behind these guys's. for example, 99 percent of our planet is hotter than a 1000 degrees celsius mostly beneath the earth crust on the volcanic island of iceland. that well aware of the awesome power of geothermal energy. so is it time the whole world did more to harness it? ah, actually no one in the world would have to freeze or do without electricity. if we were to just use what's right under our feet,

the extreme heat of the earth's interior. the heat resides deep beneath the earth's crust, residual heat from the formation of the earth, full and a half 1000000000 years ago. the deeper we drill the hotter it gets about 6000 degrees celsius in the earth's core. so why not drill a hole and send heat up at a depth of 4000 meters? there's already water as hot as 160 degrees celsius. the water remains liquid due to the high pressure, but can be converted into water vapor if can drive a turbine, which then generates electricity. with the non evaporated part, which is still around 90 degrees celsius buildings can be heated via district heating network. once the water has given off its heat, it is fed back into the rock layer from which had came via another pipe. this is called deep geothermal energy. but there are some difficulties. first of all,

you have to find the right rock layer that will also conduct the ground water. chemicals are used for drilling, and among other things, the pressure exerted on the rock layer during drilling can lead to landslides and even minor earthquakes. fear of consequences such as landslides, environmental pollution, and damage to houses has led to protests against geothermal projects around the world, often with success in so called nears surface. geothermal energy is less dangerous. in this case, drilling is only 400 meters deep of at depth. the temperatures are only 10 degrees celsius, which is enough to heat houses, the principal through a heat exchanger the geothermal energy is transferred to a refrigerant because the refresh wind has a very low boiling point, it evaporates, the steam is compressed and a compressor and transferred to the heating system in another heat exchanger where it heats or cools however,

electricity cannot be generated in this way. the share of geothermal energy and global energy production is still just half a percent. so far, only a fraction of the enormous geothermal potential under our feet is being used when it comes to greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide is public enemy number one, but is by no means the only harmful substance that we regularly release into our atmosphere. methane is another major threats to our planet survival. in fact, it's building up at a faster rate than c o 2. but did you know that not all of the methane in the atmosphere is fully accounted for? we don't actually know where some of it is coming from. so can we solve the mystery of methane? we're looking at the biggest climate catastrophe that nobody's talking about filling all of this here, though,

all of this year is method method. a powerful gas silently baking the planet. it's responsible for more than a quarter of global warming since the industrial revolution. and it's pouring out of fossil fuel facility. and no good reason. we're talking about plumbing to literally, that's right. cutting methane emissions is one of the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to flip climate change. but the companies responsible on doing it. and with a few exceptions, nobody's even holding them accountable. what we're going to be doing today is finding the thing and working out how to get rid of it. let's go meet the hunting. but 1st, let's meet james to retire from the cleaner task force. an environmental group pushing for tech and policy solutions to keep the planet from heating. you know, if we can reduce methane emissions about 45 percent in the next 10 years,

we can actually shave off almost point 3 degrees celsius of warming during the next 2 to 3 decades point 30 degrees. yeah, that goes, that is a lot of a little that's quite a lot certainly. i mean it slows down the growth of warming and speed of warming and gives us more time to solve the harder challenges with carbon pollution. the problem is methane. concentrations are rising fast across the world. enormous quantities pouring out to farms, landfills and fossil fuel infrastructure. so she might already be familiar with if cattle, couse have 4 stomachs that digest period in a way that filled the bumps with me thing. quick side it. it's a myth that cow thought. so the problem here only small amount comes out, the back rice paddies are another big source of the methane emissions from agriculture together with the sheep and some other food sources like this make up 40 percent of human cause methane emissions then with landfills responsible for

about 20 percent of the problem when bacteria breakdown organic waste without oxygen, they also produce me thing. but the so we're interested in is the easiest effect fossil fuels. they're responsible for one 3rd of humanities, methane emissions. the gas we bought for cooking and heating is almost entirely made up from me thing. but it's leaking everywhere. offshore rigs, oil wealth, gas pipelines, and also the facilities were about to visit with driving to an industrial park on the outskirts of milan, where fossil gases stood. facilities like this are a vital part of the energy supply chain that nobody really pays attention to. we've come had the pollution that you can't see with the naked eye. you can be living right next to a methane leak and have absolutely no idea what's happening. fossil fuel companies generally aren't too thrilled about people calling them out for polluting. so when

to retire turns up at a site like this, he stays outside the security fence and scanned the area with a special camera to search for me thing. and here comes the big question. will we spot fugitive methane emissions escaping from the facility? okay, yes. so what you're seeing is gas coming out of the vents, that this is at the core of what methane hunters do, making being visible visible. so i literally can't see anything on my phone. and here we can see a gigantic leak of a gasp pouring out of the top of that part. yeah, exactly. that the reason my camera can't pick up the emissions my think up to few 100 years. whereas theresa a camera, kos, 100000 us 100000 years. the price tank is so high because the camera picks up, infrared radiation, and the wavelength needed to see hydro carbons like me thing and older, continental how much of leaking out the camera does show where the problems are. it

can see invisible gas and they can detect things that i as a normal person, i'm not able to detect that is mind blowing. but it does kind of explain why this is kind of why this whole industry is getting away with all the meet the mission. right? people do not have any idea just how, how much of leaking out and where it's coming from. the international energy agency estimates world meet the emissions from the power sector are about 70 percent higher than countries are reporting in their official data. but tracking those emissions. it's tricky. even for the people hunting me thing, there are basically 3 ways methane gets released. there are simple leaks which could be because a screw hasn't been tightened or a piece of equipment to the rusty, then that the venting when meeting intentionally let out. this might be done to reduce pressure in a pipe during maintenance work, for instance. the 3rd, if larry,

when me think coming out of the vent of burned burning methane, turns it from a super harmful gas to, well, just a regular harmful one. but often it's done so poorly, that roomy thing is still escaping into the atmosphere. so some of the sources can certainly be fixed and pretty easily and, you know, we were looking at a valve, we're just looking at a valve that looked like it really could just be tightened. yeah. i'm other stuff like, you know, fixing or repairing and may be a little more complex. understand where the missions are coming from. fossil fuel companies could cut methane emissions by staggering 75 percent using technologies that already exist. hotel, capable of either title or of clothing about more than 40 percent of the i. e 8, suggested emissions cuts literally wouldn't cost anything. and i think of companies can take the gas, they waste and actually sell it often. when you're venting gas,

you're losing a lot of gas, that's a lot of money. there are few reasons for this. some companies don't know how much is leaking, some would rather invest the capital in activities that bring shorter time profit. and some don't even have the infrastructure to sell it on for industrial use. that to be completely honest, there's an even bigger scandal going on here. the most surprising thing about all the best is that these methane emissions are just, they're not even illegal. that's a bit the, i don't get these this in warming the planet. and there's not even the regulations in place for thought company from doing this. things are changing methane method. we play slash any landmark agreement to reduce a mean vein emissions at the top 26 climate summit leaders for more than 100 countries pledged to slash global methane emissions by 30 percent. by the end of the decade. the european union plans to introduce new requirements for measuring and reporting methane emissions, as well as spotting and plugging leaks if even proposed ban on venting and flared.

what it hasn't yet considered though, is setting a standard for the oil and gas it binds elsewhere. and forcing input standard that cover the whole supply chain could drive changes in countries with leaky facilities . that could spread the changes needed to cut methane emissions globally. and by the extra time needed to stop temperatures rising. sticking with the subject of climate change, it's been an unusually warm winter here in europe as actually been a relief to household battling sky high energy bills. but it's been a worrying time for the continents winter sports resorts. skiers have at times been confined to narrow strips of artificial snow as they wait for the real stuff to fall if it fell tall. is a design of ski seasons to come? last house has been finding out, ah, you can see the alps from here within a few years, only the highest peaks will have

a virtual snow guaranteed winter in lower regions like he and or bash dolphin snow is exceedingly rare. and never has that been as little as this winter, green meadows everywhere. not exactly what tours, so looking for most cabins on the cable car empty. and those who booked a week of fun on the slopes hadn't changed their plans. emer, martha, norma, she to usually i do ski and snow. shoot tours all winter long honestly now i'll have to find another way y'all, my, well, i'll just hike then get mud, so force flanagan a she i love skiing. well, hiking is okay to, but i'd really rather go skiing them on the whole cut the regions highest peak still offer some snowy adventures, but the main attraction is out of commission. because even up here, there's not enough cover for the sledding tracking make digging on should it asked letting track is a big deal here. it's faster, it takes gummies. it's pretty steep,

almost 5 kilometers long from kilometer long. this season's sledding fun is not quite as long as the nearby huntley cable car. they've made just enough snow to at least keep some kids happy and better yet. there's even some skiing possible if only for absolute beginners as me, i'm here with made some snow limited to this one location and we were able to offer skiing lessons for like that for a bed. ask yes, you can't get around that too. and it's just not enough. this was not true. people just have any the algoy region, well come some for 1000000 visitors every year, making tourism the main business here. winter counts for a 3rd of it. naturally, climate change has people worried, a strong showing between november and february is key to the survival of shops, restaurants, and hotel. ah ah,

we are interrupting our scheduled programming to bring you special adobe news coverage of a natal summit in brussels. our security, a secretary general. yeah. instructors stepping up our support for ukraine. strengthening our turns on the fence with the right forces capabilities and stop points on the protect thing. our critical infrastructure by strengthening our military planning and our cooperation with the industry. it is almost 21 years since sir russia launched, it's full fledged invasion of ukraine, the biggest conflict in europe since world war 2. i was in no signs that russia is preparing for peace. on the contrary, russia is launching new offensives. yesterday. the fence means the rest of the core of update the nato, a ministers on the situation on ukraine's most urgent needs. i welcome the new pages of support made by nato allies,

including more heavy weapons and military training. this is critical. ukraine has the window of opportunity to tip the balance. and time is of the essence. i want to thank her allies for the significant contributions including to naples comprehensive assistance package. this is providing ukraine with food fuel, medical supplies, counter drawn systems, and, and i'm phoebus bridges ministers also discussed our commitment to all, to our other partners at risk, including boston and had to go in on georgia and moldova. and we agreed to step up tailored a support to enhance their defense capabilities. resilience and interoperability with natal to day allies took her steps to further strengthen nettles to turns on

the fence. since our historic madrid summit, we have been making good progress. boosting of forward defenses and upgrading our redness and defense plans. allies agreed new guidance for naples defense planning. this reflects the reality that we live in the more dangerous world. which ourselves aggressive behavior, the persistent, fertile terrorism on the challenges post, fight china. naples, defense planning will drive capability changes for the years to come and assure that though the turns on the fence, remain strong and credible. ministers also dressed ways to boost industrial capacity and replenish stock, barnes or warrants and venetians nay. darlise on providing unprecedented support to help ukraine pushed back against russia's aggression. at the same time,

this is consuming an enormous quantity of allied ammunition and the plead thing. our stock bites. allies agree on the need to work hand in hand with the defense in the city to ramp up or industrial industrial capacity. we are ready and we are reviewing natal capability targets for ammunition, stock bytes. and i welcome the important multinational projects agreed by allies to day. these includes a project on, on ammunition, which warehousing which will support a pre positioning and stockpiling allied ammunition, as well as the project on ground based air defense to day and ministers also address the security of critical under c infrastructure. the supple tours of the north stream pipelines, hans,

reminders all all the vulnerabilities we face ministers, halston 8th omitted to the toilet, is to provide advice a lot more. we should do including to better coordination and cooperation with the private sector. and i am standing up a critical under c infrastructure coordination. sell here at the nato headquarters, led by lieutenant general hans, there were new to be among a highly respected former german military officer. i will, it will facilitate engagement with industry and bring key military and civilian stakeholders together to share best practices, leverage innovative technologies and boost to security or under c infrastructure up our summit. and then his leaders would take further decisions to ensure that natal can effectively coordinate between military civilian and private sector,

or to secure or critical undersea infrastructure. as we continue to adapt or reliance, we need to have the right resources. so ministers also discussed the importance of investing in the fence. more countries are now spending at least 2 percent of the g . d. p on the fence. on 2022 was the 8th consecutive year of increased defense spending. my european allies and canada with an additional investment of $350000000000.00. this trend is expected to continue this year, but more needs to be done. so to day alice discussed how to build on the defense investment pledge and future commitments beyond the 2024. 9th leaders will take decisions on this at our next summit in venus without them ready to take your questions.