oh, come to take a paralyzing turn. your societies computers and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work out with how they can also terribly watch ah ah, ah, how is russia's economy holding up under western sanctions? well, it depends on whom you ask while the international monetary fund is forecasting 0.7

percent growth this year. the world bank aren't always cd, are both predicting contraction. one thing is clear though, the born ukraine has deprived president vladimir putin off his traditional oil and gas markets. new buyers have emerged, but they're getting it at a big discount. more on that in a moment, but 1st i look at what else we have coming up. the teams are floating, wind parks, the future of green energy, vegetables all year round. but at what cost land behind the scenes of life as an influence or, i'm kate ferguson. welcome to mate. when russia invaded ukraine, western countries imposed literally thousands of sanctions, they were intended to cripple the economy. but based on some estimates, at least the blow appears to have been less unexpected. one reason for that is that russia has been nurturing other relationships instead, most notably with china. but how reliable are those ties?

malagon hooter has been investigating. war is a costly business, and the sanctions are hurting the russian economy. but emma 11th largest economy in a world, how long can russia afford to wage this war? and what role does china play? ah, russia's state coffers with flush with cash before it invaded ukraine. thanks mainly to exploiting raw materials to europe. but when the west imposed sanctions after the war began, that was no longer possible and russia lost an important source of revenue. the main purpose of the sanctions was to deprive the russian government of their opportunity to finance with the war. and we see in january and in february z revenues from russian oil and gas fil a 46 percent adjust the previous year. and so half of the revenues from oil just just disappear

. despite that western sanctions have been unable to stop the war so far. many experts say that expectation was unrealistic because there a medium to long term strategy was like a stroke to go in structurally, russia is a difficult target, and 1st of all, it's a lot a weak economy, but shaft, it has of that problems, of course, but it's still the largest economy in the world, so it's strong enough to resist the pressure imposed by sanction by trading more with china, for example. the flow of goods between the 2 countries. last year increased by about 30 percent. russia supplies, oil and gas, while china is trying to replace what western countries used to supply from the government point of view, it is a huge market for chinese. promoted this, not only technology, but equipment and common use goods. and this is why they even arranged for some of

the trade to be in the chinese currency, but the, and even in the russian currency. because there is plenty of commodities that the russian companies are prepared to buy in china. for example, chinese cars are becoming more popular in russia and the once empty supermarket shelves of fully stocked again. but china can't replace everything as good. i'll goes in math and there is a major shortage of computer chips that names an inability to produce good ammunition, imperative and precision. any mission which also affects the construction of modern battle tanks, can thompson out. and what about state revenue, even though russia is selling more commodities to india and china? it's not enough to make up for losing its income from the european market. that means the goal is to sell even more row materials to china and the state visit in the spring should pave the way for this. the russian party insisted that

they would talk to the chinese leader about in your pipeline from the em, albany installer, across i buren, one goler into chain. but after those of meetings, there was absolutely no new. so the chinese were silent, and i do not think they are prepared to agree to the project. the amount of gas that china will need in the next few years is questionable. right now the country is investing extensively in renewable energy strategy to end it's dependency on foreign countries. maybe 20 years from low wind rush builds on its own the pipeline from jamar 2 across more than one going into china. china will not need that gas. they would say, sorry, our energy industry, our, our economy does not need those fossil. the sources of energy. so pressure is mounting on rushes, state budget,

a growing demand for weapons and soldiers requires money. and the russian finance ministry has already reported a deficit of 25000000000 euros for january and february alone. now the question is, how long can russia afford this war? and what happens when it no longer can russia might be having some success, finding new buyers for its oil and gas. but ultimately, the future of energy lies in renewables. when it comes to wind power at the ocean holds enormous potential. at present offshore, wind parks have mainly been built in shallow waters, but there's also a lot of opportunity in deeper waters. the logistics aren't the easiest, but it can be done. take a look. i was just as wind frickin' everywhere, renewable energy ready to hobbit, but we couldn't build the right turbines until now. these turbines float on the surface of the ocean,

they could deliver 11 times more energy than every one on the plan, the energy crisis. so fantastic, but does this new shiny piece of technology live up to promise it? usually also wind energy looks like this. you take a wind turbine cameras into the ground and to good to go. not so much with lotus. as the name suggests, they float on the surface of the water. what makes the floating possible these gigantic structures below the turbine? they can weigh anything between 2008000 tons. you have quite a large volumes of air for that to contain within these structures, you're getting them to, to flow, right? it's the same as with ships thanks to the and the whole and their volume ships displaced, move water than they wait. so they float because the displace goto pushes them up, but keeping the turbine above water is just one piece of the puzzle. the other major challenge keeping the whole thing from tipping oba. let's see how principal

parcels this, that free column structure can vary in width to stabilize it in unsettling waters. but also has another balancing system. we refer to as a whole trim system. that basically has a system to shift water between the columns in the platform. and what that does is it counteracts these big forces from the winter in rotor and allows the platform center gravity vertical. so we keep the trim of the platform at vertical that allows us to maximize energy production. this makes the structure stable enough to even list and 50 meet the waves and hurricane for storms. and the fact that we now make winter by float is a really, really big deal. the reason why is in these 2 maps, the 1st one really strong offshore wind zones. the 2nd, what a depth in coast to regions put them together and you see

a lot of the strong winds are blowing in coastal regions, whether c is deeper than 60 meters. and 2019 the international energy agency reckoned that these deep water sites could provide 333838 tarrot hours per year. 11 times the world's estimated total electricity needs in 2014 and the best performing one pa glover is a floating want high wind. scott hot turbines generate enough power for around 34000 coat. this park is producing 54 percent of the kennedy that is potentially available for comparison with global average capacity in 2018 was 33 percent for offshore wind turbines. in early 2023 there was well floating would part of the world and combine capacity $199.00 megawatts, which is tiny. the biggest projects are being developed from the territorial waters of europe, the u. s. and east asia. like with every new shot of technology, there are a few drawbacks. first for cost generating electricity with floating turbines cost

almost twice as much as stilton, fixed structures in 2023. so despite high efficiency, it's more expensive. the turbine and substructure account for 50 percent and operating costs increase the further out you go. but as soon as you start to play more and more turbans and then you can really level eyes out some of those off. and for us, that is the biggest source of the near term reductions that we see the amount of engineering and we do $45.00 term project is almost exactly the same as the amount of engineering that we do for a 100 children project advance up d as the dark environmental impact on these guys, for example, a lot of yeah, back from fixed, sherwin from land baseball, budding offshore. wendell very similar, the change is really where those turbines are located, which animals are around those turbines is abra tots or potentially around your

brand. so there's a lot of considerations around electromagnetic fields around collision risks, rubber bands that will be very similar across industries. for the big upside for floating is that you don't need to do this to drive this into the ground with massive machines that can really loud, understood wildlife. but floating turbines can be assembled in the hava and because they flowed just need to be direct out by a ship into their farm position. it's absolutely clear that we need clean energy costs. office technology are still enormous and to drug down, right, a gigantic infrastructure around below it. that's going to happen. that's a big question mark. it's switch to renewables requires a whole lot of new ideas in our next report will introduce you to a hamburg based company that uses cocoa being shells to produce bio t r, a fuel loaded for its ability to store carbon and enhance foil quality. so is it as

good as it signs? enriching, depleted soil, again with bio char made from cocoa being husks green and potentially very lucrative as equal next infinite e connex, we're sure that sound based coal is going to be a multi 1000000000 year a business shift. what can it really be? that's easy when de jim entrepreneur felix ethel and his danish friend peak stain learned, had a brilliant idea. they decided to used waste from the cocoa in the street to make pyre chaw in the pilot factory. the 1st of its kind that product to similar to traditional charcoal, but it's pure basically by a char is all adding structure to the source. it's extremely chorus. so it works pretty much like a sponge, so it source and stores, water and nutrients. however,

it makes them plant available. so these plans can benefit from, from an richards. they market their plant based charcoal as an environmentally friendly product. the chocolate industry produces $500000.00 tons of waste every year. in industrialized countries, the cocoa shells are either burnt or composted in bio gas plants. that process often produces the climate damage in gas, methane. listen, it's up to element is with this plant. we're currently removing $8000.00 tons of c o 2 from the atmosphere every year healthy and it is captured in the plant based charcoal, the plans and cooling. we hum that we're currently working on removing a $100000.00 tons per year. that's the project we're currently planning to implement to airplane, and i'm certainly willing to do this the found as need a few 1000000 euros. then meeting with investors. sabrina schultz is the head of a holding company that invests in startups. then mon blackness. when you invest

venture capital, you're basically placing a bad sign where betting the climate technologies really will pay off in the long term. lorna. he as climate regulations and c o 2 legislation become strict tank is the greater the potential return for business models that respond to them. we're down to the summit for shifting. so it's a win win win scenario for the chocolate industry for the climate and for agriculture. in europe, the bio char is being tested, a large scale trial in northern germany aims to make fertile humours from depleted soil. the plump base charcoal is worked into a depth of 10 centimeters cannot even be there in a minor negative effect said 1st, because the plant carbon will absorb the existing nutrients and the soil buying them. and we don't yet know exactly how these nutrients are released again. why is it some, are these substances bound so effectively that the plants can't access them on the

porters, the plant carbon ultimately protect these nutrients and prevent them from leaching out and all social. and at 600 years, a ton coco shall charcoal is much more expensive than conventional fertilizes. that makes it a long term investment. at one time, the fridge and vegetables you h, depended on what was in season and where you lived. these days, fresh produce is transported from one country to the next. within europe, the under lucy region is a major export her of agricultural products. last year, germany was the biggest buyer of and elysium produce spending 2400000000 euros on fresh fruit and veggies from the region. as substantial increase on the year before . france was 2nd with 1800000000 euros italy to purchase more than before. spending 1500000000 in 2022. most of the fruit and badge from under lucio is harvested and

packaged in the city of ameria, where workers are increasingly speaking out against poor conditions. marcus, burnish sent us this report until you get a clear message. early in the morning, a group of union representatives, intercept foreman at a greenhouse in any hard to explain the importance of workers' rights elbow. lemme this is a structural problem within the industry. it has grown accustomed to having a vulnerable workforce used to poor working conditions without a proper response from the unions. nothing will change the legality. oh, well ma'am, like only come on like a mill. the sat union says, greenhouse workers are often paid less than the minimum wage. now they're looking at a major greenhouse production company bureaus aboard. it's been on sat's radar before . however, the usa boards head says that other unions have no qualms with the company.

in woman 3 and in concussion, we have not had any complaints from other unions about working conditions in our maria and i'm ready shot is a very specific organization, but i wouldn't even call it a union. i'm a little while it's complaints aren't logical and they're almost always based on false allegations of a fake news in front of it. and for new fake news. is it all just made up? is everything actually sunshine and roses beneath the plastic tarpaulins? we asked the state labor inspector at now media, they should know. but though only talk to us via video call see that the counselor will not eat. yes, we have detected irregularities as well as undocumented labor, a beer at the same time. it's also worth pointing out that stronger controls improves the situation last year at the southern. it only comes across units. promotion going by the the number of incidence was higher in 2020,

21 than it was in 2022. and even though, even though we were undertaking more checks by nanos, maintain us opposite them. it intensive because mister sackcloth unit, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. the fact is, it's meanly migrants who are being exploited under this system. and there are thousands of them making their way on a life threatening route from north africa to southern spain. and lydia is often the 1st stop there. the migraines are housed and barracks called trouble us without residence permits. the men and a few women live from hand to mouth. signals are what can i do here without papers? i can't get a job in it with that enough. well, if you awaken, if our, the fair, you 40 rule for their, you know, an 8 hour the producers association collects val blaine's politicians all the way to brussels. it says they need to take into account already as proximity to africa

issue a great deal of migratory pressure here shortly. and that means we need well funded social services galaxy imo but we have the opposite remains general for caroline. social services simply don't exist here. no income, but i went hooked oregon 30 here it is was a vehicle of yellow. and lucy there's one piece of good news. thanks to increased pressure in recent months. the 1st apartments with running water and sanitation are now being built in the heart. as an alternative to the chapel us. meanwhile, the plastic sea of al media brings its own set of problems. despite multiple recycling initiatives, it's littered with plastic waste. environmentalists are recording the garbage and a public register. politicians and authorities appear to be feeling near to like with this illegal dumping ground to. oh no, no,

but we're still here im awarding this a year and a half ago. but just like the $300.00 plus other issues that we've identified and reported, give us the garbage is still, there is some unlike on the beaches, we can't volunteer to clean this up to be there. if they already need to get involved, it requires heavy equipment to mozilla by gas williams. and it didn't say like ministers, young go, mikey nadia priscilla. the new supply chain due diligence act will require german companies to uphold environmental standards and comply with human rights. we wanted to know in more concrete terms, what this would mean for fruit and vegetable production in our media. how the responsible federal office for export control will monitor compliance. and how retail chains are planning to act. but no one wanted to talk to us on camera so far fruit and vegetable producers say they have heard little to nothing about the german law and are unconcerned to going to thought it said that some of the

industry is very well controlled. we're not worried about a german law that wants to exercise a bit of control on the unit experience shows that conditions here are good internally, even if there are some people or organizations or they're saying the opposite. get getting the feel up on friday. results from inspections on plastic waste and labors show that there are enough bad apples among the approximately 13000 producers and 30000 hacked hairs of plastic. at least affected parties can now report feelings to the german authority in spanish. will that change anything? we'll be watching to find out la these days. social media is the place. many people go to develop their own personal brand. being an influencer is a legitimate occupation and one which takes a huge amount of know how and dedication in our next report will meet. whom no rasa

. an influence are from pakistan who wants to inspire other young women to think outside the box. everything starts more and everything big that you'll see also start at the moment you start doing something that you love, you will absolutely excellent. hi my name is marissa, i'm a social media influencer. i run a youtube channel and instagram loss. and i also have a platform and forecast by the name of the when i started this instagram, blogging wasn't even a thing in, but i guess i just saw that there were a lot of things that were missing on the internet. people were not talking about individual changes. i have a very happy in jersey guess with me today actually my office. so over here we have our edges and production managers working here. this is my

gusto deal. hi guys assembly. go welcome back to another episode of happy jip. i've read that book class in hon. mister pierre. then in this room we have another board got to do. we have a 2nd board cost and for that, i'll just show you a site right now. the set up is being done for the board. i think one of the things that i'm able to do in my face and position is that i need to inspire young women to kink outside of the box and ping beyond what they think they can do. at the time that i started, there were hardly any 1000000 fluency. and i think i'm very proud of myself to have been one of the 1st few women to have be exact, where to normalize to go to as that i was art. my husband was extremely supportive,

he was a very active player in what i was doing. he wasn't just there in terms of operations where you know i needed to get somewhere or do something and he would had to do that. but mentally the empowerment that i felt because of him, the motivation that i felt because of him, it was there and also just never seeing anything that would make me feel like i'm doing something wrong on this is something that i shouldn't be doing. you know how you get money or cash as given when you get married. so that money i just used to invest in my business. i didn't have it from anybody else. i didn't have an investor or somebody in my family investing. it was just, you know, my gift money from my wedding. there was no concept of making money to doing this logging because there was no influence in marketing. there was this marketing industry. and now it did,

i think there's one thing i would wind, the younger generation are younger than me and you know, in order to pursue their passion is that you can't wait for the right circumstances or the right time. i was more passionate than i was scared. so i just continued. and like i said, even if i would just get that one message from one person that how i had improved or change their life, whether to my product in my business or to my instagram, just being an influencer that was successful. ah, i don't think i would do anything differently. they an influence are sure, is a busy job and that brings us to the end of today's edition is made. thank you so much for watching. do you join us again next time until then from me and the entire team here? it's good bye. take care. ah

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