things out is on the w travel. i hope you enjoy the trip here as much as i did about you. what's your opinion? feel free to write your thoughts and the comments the . this is the w news live from the in the german trunk. so that makes a surprise visit to ukraine. this is all, it's a 2nd trip to keep cells to process. full scale invasion is promising extra. melissa military support is ukraine. struggle to fend off most goes offensive. also coming up on the program nice of collapses in georgia. police discuss protests is incomplete and may correct opponents or accusing the ruling. georgia dream policy, assuming an all sorts harry and pro russian costs plus terabyte and is facing heavy

criticism off to using his presidential powers to pod and his son. it previously promised not to do so on to bide was pacing prison time for gun attacks. convictions, the menus hoops mckinnon good to have you with us. germany, trump slot will i fell. it says into you for his 2nd trip to ukraine since the status of the war. he's announced the new 650000000 euro arms package for ukraine and stress the germany would remain the countries strongest supporter in europe. ukraine is struggling to send off russia's grinding offensive, and support from the u. s. keeps largest military becca has been thrown into doubt by donald trump's return to the white house in january dw, as my son there is following the johnson's visit to the ukrainian capital for us.

now this is the 2nd visit of german chance also since the beginning of the full scale invasion. and it comes with a very interesting time. the chancellor himself is facing a battle for re election back home. and the united states is preparing for a new administration, one with a very different view on military support for decree. now the german chancellor himself has come under a lot of criticism, how he has been dealing with aid and military support for ukraine, back home in germany, from one side saying he's not doing enough. delaying a ruling out simply ruling out weapon systems that the ukrainian se would be very helpful in fighting off the invasion from the other side, fearing rising costs and a direct concentration with moscow. now during his visit today to ukraine, during the start of it, at the train station cave, german chancellor of souls made clear to his ukrainian count the part to the training in president, pulling his landscape that germany would continue to support ukraine. he announced

a $615000000.00 euro a package that will be issued this months this month. in addition to further equipments. and this can be interpreted potentially as a sign that the germans and other european countries are willing to step up. their support for ukraine should have the windows somewhere else. now, the german trump has faced some serious criticism from keith in the pa style c, w 3 political edison may say like this now, what common ground there is between the fights and president for lensky. it's, there isn't, there isn't, it is in terms of dominique staying and remaining ukraine, 2nd largest support off of the united states, and therefore, the most important part that here in europe. but there are differences on the approach. and that clearly came to a head when on i've sold a spoke to know to me. it's of letting me approve,

attend on the phone and go to mr. lensky. really pushed back and felt it was not a constructive thing to do. of course, a lot of nervousness in ukraine over what the trump to presidency will bring. and at the same time, well, i've sold and sold this as proof and you felt it was proof that he was the time. so who kept the channels open and who is the chancellor of peace? that's how he is portraying himself here in germany, in the run up to those south elections in february. and there's a feeling in ukraine that ukraine may be paying the price to a certain degree. certainly, there was an unprecedented attack shortly after that telephone conversation that was praised out of moscow. and that was the destruction of a more yet more infrastructure duplicate energy infrastructure. in ukraine, so that's what the 2 sides differ. at the same time. what i saw for feds time and time again, that's a germany will say it ukraine side for as long as it takes,

but really wants keith would like to hit is whatever it takes and that won't happen suddenly, not with a ton. so it would have thoughts here in germany. what i felt is however, bringing the 650000000 year as well as of volumes and alms package to keep with him . can you tell us more about this, this package? the chart says jim they will deliver to ukraine this month. is the amount that was mentioned is not new as part of a 1400000000 package. that was the sides of the pond in germany in october. but what is new is that dummies been able to speed up the production on the delivery of a weapon systems like the iris t, a defense system, a package of drones, of both recognizance drones but also attack drones. and so that's something germany is proud to be able to deliver as ukraine hits into this winter. so no new funding that and again a very symbolic pledge of support it just off. so we sold the,

the new and new phone policy representative kayak hollows and the new president of the european council also in keys. so this mixes of the symbolism with some military hardware to back it up the w as chief political as time here. and let us know, thank you so much. i for more than 200 people have been detained by police off the 4 nights of protests in george's capital, tbilisi, tens of thousands of rallied outside parliament, also the government suspended efforts to join the european union. many fed the ruling georgia dream party is trying to move closer to russia. george's prime minister is rejected all calls and you've elections tens of thousands of demonstrate to surround the problem and didn't typically see most of peaceful.

but as the police close in heavy fights, breakouts just as the nights before, the, the process response by the parliaments decision to suspend tullocks and joining the european union. the prime minister cobra hits the t nice. he's taking georgia of the past to you membership was the, the spouse is very clear. so we have not suspended anything related to the integration. it's just the way that the position leaders that are the media outlets linked was the position part of this length of his people, but nobody has suspended, beautiful integration of georgia. you're very much committed to the forgive me because you friendly a position forces accused the georgia dream policy of trying to tilt the country more towards russia. the position has been fully coaching parliament ever since.

disputed elections in october, and that's been calling for any votes. so has george's president, president southern me, so obviously the supports the prototypes and it's supposed to leave office by the end of the year. but she is refusing to do so unless there are new elections leading to stand between the states and the governments. and i'm just, it's clear that mode in the months after the disputes of elections, which the 10s of georgia dream products to power in the country. is that another major crossroads? or let's take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and remind me is governing social democrats have taught the poles and parliamentary elections. of this move follows the 1st round of presidential elections, which was one by far right to candidates run off will be held next weekend, and both votes could determine whether the you and nato member this use more pro

western or pro russian policies. here in germany, folks on work as a staging nationwide strikes the working of the jobs for 2 hours during each shift to protest against wage costs and potential plump closures. thousands adults are sake and authorities. in queensland, australia has seized over 2 tons of cocaine. that was when a smuggle is boat broke down the whole how to sail value of almost half of 1000000000 us dollars. please save that is equivalent to almost 12000000 st deals for border control drugs, syria and its ally. russia have conducted joint task strikes on areas in northern syria under revel control. over the weekend, insurgents led by a jihad, a group took over the 2nd biggest to see a level there also advancing in neighboring hama province. while some syrians, welcome the sizes,

thousands on el fleeing the aftermath of government airstrikes on the city of you'd live in north western syria. volunteers with the syrian civil defense known as the white helmets are helping the injured russian and syrian war planes are targeting the reval, health, strong willed, after thousands of opposition fighters launched a surprise assault a few days ago, sweeping through several towns and villages inc, including a level to the north. thousands are seeing the sudden escalation and fighting, and many for ending up in camps for the displaced like this one in northern italy province. so i'm a how about came here with her children? she's from a town just east of it, live high up. so here's what we had a hard life in the village because of the escalating attack. the real kids, the shelling and asteroids from the plains on one side and the drones on the other

side. the children were terrified had left the hospital a stephen before this latest round of attacks encounter airstrikes, syria was grappling with one of the largest refugee crises in the world. according to the un, more than 7000000 people remain internally displaced because of the civil war. us much more he does from a village outside it live, like many in the camp. he hopes the coalition of rebel groups that launch the surprise attack will succeed in toppling president bush, charlotte, sad aircraft. i were following the bustling youth and god willing the regime will full. we're counting the days until we can return because the kids are tired and stressed. we came here with only the codes in our box. nothing else matters. the 67 kilometers to the north, the rebel advance has allowed another group of exiled residents to return home. this line of vehicles is entering a level city. after decades of control by the charlotte suds forces,

opposition fighters have captured much of serious, largest city praise god, after 10 years of displacement from elect her we have returned may god to bring back every display suppressed and return our people. those didn't tend to that home the same. and just as we've enjoyed the liberalization of our city, the god's willing, they to the joyce and the liberation of the, as the syrian military says, it's sending reinforcements to push back the fighters. and president charlotte's side is vowing to defeat what he calls the terrorist and their supporters. in the us outgoing president, joe biden sped his son a possible prison to by pondering him on to bite and could have faced years behind bars up to being convicted on tax and gun charges. the president has been heavily criticized for the move. his defense, the case was so politicized. he had no choice a us president joe biden leaves for an overseas trip just hours after

announcing his pardon. his son hunter biden had previously said he would not interfere with the judicial process, but on sunday he went back on his word. in his statement binds that his son was being unfairly prosecuted, calling his conviction a miscarriage of justice. the president accused his opponents in congress of politicizing the case. hunter's legal trouble started in 2018 when authorities began a federal tax pro on his overseas business deals. then in $22300.00 was charged with lying about his drug use on a fire arms application. still he accused the republicans of unfairly targeting him and his father had nothing. for 6 years, i been the target of the own relenting trump attack machine shouting. where's hunter? well,

here's my answer. i am here. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life, so much so that their lives have become the false backs believed by too many people hunter, phase decades in prison after pleading guilty to tax charges and being convicted in the fire arms case sentencing was scheduled for mid december, but the presidential part and gives him a clean slate. by the view turn is being met with criticism. on social media, president elect donald trump asked if the pardon applies to those convicted into january 6, riots, and said it was a miscarriage of justice, even though trump himself had pardoned several of his allies well in office. while

it is common for outgoing presidents to issue pardons at the end of their term critics one this one sets a bad precedent are not set. so now we do have another update for you at the top of the hour have you can join us then i, my new keeps making in the yesterday about the video that goes to the media lingo goal go up on the message, the usage, the story in

the way that they made the, at the end of september can helene slammed into the us state of north carolina because blackouts across the state. but then something unusual started happening. not everyone was without power. some electric vehicle owners could keep the lights on because the car battery started powering the homes. it was a pretty cool solution to a pretty specific problem. but this could be the start of something much bigger. it turns out as a way to connect up thousands if not millions of costs like these into a single virtual power plant that can charge up and introduce cheap and give that power back when it's needed most. it's cold because the grid and it's a pretty great solution to a lot of big problems from keeping your lights on to reducing your energy bill to making sure that the entire electricity grid keeps working properly. here's how it

works and why it might not be long before it's everywhere. ok, to understand how this unassuming thing can do all that we 1st need to talk about the grid. it's everyone's favorite, john global network, a cables and power stations that lets us do pretty much everything in modern society. and the way it works is pretty simple, is the stuff that goes in from fossil fuel power plants and renewable energy. and the stuff that comes out, which is the electricity, the to charge a v and watched this video right now. it's the drop of grid offer. it is the balance that supply and demand perfectly. that way, you can always provide the exact same frequency of electricity through this joint network. if too much that's going in the frequency could go up and fire appliances to little and it would go down causing blackouts. that take a look at how much electricity we typically use over the course of the day. this part right here called peak demand, is like you usually messes everything up. that happens mostly in the evenings as we get back home from work and turn on all our appliances right at the same time. but

the day solar energy is starting to fade out. and this is what happens on the old plug in our rebates. it's like every house with the navy doubles, the amount of electricity is taken from the grid. multiply that by a few 1000000 cause, and then add in the other big electric appliances that we need to start using like a comes. it's pretty clear that keeping everything perfectly valid is going to keep getting hotter and hotter now, but the problem is typically dealt with by turning on more fossil fuel tile tends to meet demand, but that's bad for the final. and it's usually incredibly inefficient. we made a video about how much energy gets wasted this way. the other big solution that doesn't use fossil fuels is to build batteries that can store renewable energy during the day and put that energy into the create any evening whenever it's needed most, i guess for a lot of new batteries and going into electric vehicles. ready this is where the vehicles, the grid of the 2 g comes in. the idea is so that electricity flowed from the battery via the charge off into the grid and back again as needed. the principal,

fairly, quite simple. that's robin bug, an entrepreneur who just launched the 1st b to g enabled cost sharing service in europe with $500.00 e v. so i can send electricity back into the grid when they're not being used. if there's a lot of renewables, then you're charged your car dash notes, then you discharge your car. that works because during the day the vehicles can charge up whenever electricity is cheap and demand is low without putting extra stress on the grid. then in the evening when peak demand arrives, grid operate is can tap into those costs as extra capacity to send back into the grid on days with a lot of sun wind. this can actually even make you a bit of cash. in some countries, good operators will pay you to charge you. your call is a need somewhere for that extra energy to go to keep everything balanced. then you can sell it into the electricity market in the evening. to know this all sounds cool over the parking your driveway, it becomes a really big deal, and this thousands, if not millions, of cause with this capability. all those batteries suddenly start to function like

a virtual power plant. let's say that isn't much renewable energy today, or people are using a lot of electricity. instead of turning on a back up fossil fuel power plant, grid operators can send out a signal to this huge network of car batteries. if you can send just enough electricity back into the grid to keep everything balance until the demand goes back down or, and you will keep back in just to get an idea, go to like 8000000 cars. now going to 9000000 in the lunch. and it's just like $2000000.00 or most of them being directional, you can have enough batteries for the entire reduction the month. so even as a pack for the grid would result in them charging and discharging a lot more frequently than they would from being use normally. and as an a, these battery degrades the distance, they can travel on a single charge, also known as its range, gets worse. so it's a comedy factor, as we're already competing over the range of that cause adding in the to g isn't very appealing, the advocates. so this isn't a problem with the new types of batteries that will be coming this down to the new easy. it's just the mind,

phosphate batteries are typically able to go from full to mt and back up to full again known as a cycle. well, them $3000.00 times, which is more than double the amount of today's most common batteries. but once you get past the cost and battery problems, is the question of whether it's even legal, where you live in most places right now, there isn't any way to actually sell energy back into the grid from your call. and that's because regulate is interested in the idea, but pretty nervous about how to actually make it work. remember how important it is to keep everything balanced? well, controlling power plants. so when phones is a little bit easier than thousands, if not millions of cause and charges distributed around the country, which only to be able to communicate with each other and the grid perfectly. if your car becomes a battery on wheels, it's a complete new function of the car. and with that also risk risk and hold on. so if something goes wrong, then everyone is looking at the car. there are some promising things on the horizon . does it propose low in california to require by directional charging an old new

eaves at some point in the future. and germany's vice chancellor told german media that the regulations needed to allow by directional charging would be in place by january 1st 2025. but it's going to take a long time for the types of cause you can buy. it will make any difference. that's especially true because unless you live in your own standalone house with a personal chombo, this technology doesn't really make any sense yet. right now, most easy owners do tend to earn their own home or live in the suburbs which makes the 2 g a bit easier in the show to them. but if you live in a high density city in an apartment block, there are only so many public charges for you to leave you a call plugged into a light. so until we figure that out, there's another way to make a lot of vehicles in the city by directional very quickly. and that's by converting these and these, and these big plates of vehicles with big batteries already sit around for most of the day and organized and operated on regular schedules. that's what the all the i did in the u. k. earlier this year,

converting to waste collection trucks into by directional vehicles with batteries 6 times larger than typical calm. this small scale public trial approach is a way to convince manufacturer is regulated so you can see humans that this technology can work and is a good idea. they want to 1st decline it in a controlled environment. so it's, it's not a technology, you just add to a car and give it to the market. you really have to be in control also as a car, like the word might have the biggest impact is where the most the visa coming online. and that's china. these are a big priority for the chinese government. that's laurie, i'm a sucker who spent over a decade researching time is industrial and climate policies. so all the incentives are there, right? they can now make incentive to political incentive. they want to make this work. the country has started its own v t g trials in the number of cities setting up by directional charges and converting bust sweets. in order to test how easily the technology you can integrate into the grid. but mazzocco says if china decides to make the 2 g a priority,

all that test infrastructure could very quickly become to know that he's been traditionally a china has been quite good at allowing so local level experimentation. that's worked very well in the, the industry. the trade system is very good at that in, in investing and infrastructure. so if there is something physical to be built, then i think you'll be a lot easier to see that happen. chinese or to make is like be id already have some models for by directional charging. and that's putting a lot of pressure on manufacturers in both europe and the united states to keep up 1st regions of trying to slow down the rise of chinese imports through tars. so making that cosby to g compatible could give them the competitive edge. so while it won't happen overnight, the days of seeing all causes just cause might soon be coming to an end. despite the high costs and regulation barriers, a lot of big players in the industry, a seeing the potential for technology like b 2,

g to change the way we think about how and when we use electricity. that could make a big difference for our wallets and the stability of all those cables, keeping all lights on. because if we do manage to electrify everything and the grid is going to need all the help you can get. so let us know what you think and the comments below it, or do you on your next call to be v t g compatible. and for more videos like this, subscribe to all channel the

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