the way refugees become pools in a cruise here to the school country, missouri. i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when. oh, you lost under the stops december 18th on d w. the this is the w news coming to live from berlin. is there a launch? is a tax on the southern level, despite the cease fire, it says it's retaliating for an attack claim part of the militant group has ball up as israel's army chief visits, southern lebanon, at least 9 people die in the us rarely attack. this comes as, as little as rebels take control of more territory in the northwest of neighboring syria. we look at what the flare up in this simmering conflict means for present shot us odds regime. and george's prime minister says he will not negotiate with

the opposition. for 5 nights they've clashed with police outside parliament, protesting the government's decision to suspend european union membership top plus reunited for one night only former german chancellor. i'm going to back up in conversation with brock obama at the us launch more. the hello. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. at least 9 people have been killed in is really strikes on 2 villages in southern lebanon is the worst attack since a ceasefire took, has, with, has blocked, took effect last week. both sides are supposed to withdrawal from a buffers are in south the blue, tiny river. these really are me says it strikes targeted rocket launchers and terrorist infrastructure. the idea for these pictures of military chief had see how

levied visiting troops in southern 11 on who bowed to retaliate against any spar violations. so let's cross over to journalist bollix id and he's in tel aviv up. i like to see, so it looks very shaky. at this point, it give us a sense of what's happening between israel and has belong less than a week since the beginning of the the ceasefire. we already see the both started. all right, actually, uh either a by a lady, the free minutes or at least uh, nothing cementing just 100 percent on the yesterday after the fact by this by law where they have fired to block us toward the army base and how to do the area of these radius strikes started apparently 9 people were killed yesterday and live on on the comes as a be a tentative tory attack pulled out his by law. i'm sorry that they themselves said

that they are retail. the agent goes to what they call is rose, violation of the cease fire agreement. now from what the status of the, from the is really perspective. we're talking about a series of his beloved population. the to be, uh they are attempting to actually transfer width is from city of to the area. oh, that is ro attractive, that co boy by a drunk and also a number of uh, his, the law offices that were in many cases inside the um, the towns and villages and stuff and uh, and were attacked by these ready air force and wants to make sure that a dog. yes. the agreement that doesn't only just sign the paper because it's ready to face of think this is worth less what's in what it is important and that should be enforcement of every month. and that's what, what was the today? israel says it is committed to the ceasefire deal,

but his troops are still in southern 11 on what israel saying about his next steps as well. first of all of these really drugs are allowed to be inside the cell and live at on that until the end of the 60 days, uh, the 1st 60 days until the until the 21st of january, if i'm not mistaken. so we're talking about the continuation of the agreements, but the b is rated steps uh from what we see the, the continue actually dealing with the simple answer section that is in itself uh is it is sold to the bank today. um, throughout this last week that the, um uh the illuminati is the forces are not getting into the positions of these are the troops as quickly as loud arrest? weekly of the o 2. and that's uh, what we are expecting right now. the, the liberties, drugs, the liberties army,

of course we're talking about actually get as much as quickly as possible into the as really positions that we will see. and is a withdrawal from the sofa level. now has ball offer it's bar is firing rockets at northern israel again. what does that mean for people hoping to return to their homes? their 6? yes. so we clearly say, i have seen that uh the people who live in on the vcs, by agreement differently than these very the civilians because they were willing to exit returns as soon as the vc for our agreement was in now. but the history of population inventor was to see or wants to make sure that the is or 80 of the army. and of course, the political level will actually enforce the agreement. that doesn't only just sign the papers because they're saying that for 18 years we live in that area of

world is beloved, was continuing their infrastructure and building data for their presidents himself and live. uh we do want to actually move towards those in danger. so as long as we see that as low dog in for the agreement, then we will see more and more people go back to their home. but for now, it is still just seem to be in the beginning to read all the this week will so disclose. it started in most of the areas of inventory, probably thank you very much. that was journalist by like flooding in telling me. meanwhile for ministers of the ran and turkey say they will resume diplomatic efforts together with russia to end the syrian conflict turkey box. the rebel forces who sees the city of a level and a lightning offensive over the weekend. around in russia, support the regime of president pasha, l. a. so the rebel advanced marks the most serious development in the syrian war

since the 2020 the syrian army is rushing soldiers and weapons to hum my province in north western syria. it's trying to break the momentum of the insurgents who were moving southward after capturing large parts of it live on a level provinces to the north, including a level city which had been under government control for the last 10 years. a serious army chief travel to the new defensive line and how not to rally the troops . this is our land and our pride. anyone who breaks the law, anyone who has been hired to stand against us. we will make an example as a favor in the local city army militants roam the streets, freely taking celsius outside levels, eye clinic city, joe and it's airport syrian and russian war plains bomb. the

level after it was overrun. it only took a few days for the rebels to jump the front lines of syria's civil war, which have remained largely frozen since 2020. the revel coalition consists of multiple groups with differing audiology is what unites them, is their opposition to syrian president, bashar assad. waiving the city center, stone, ping on your head, god willing, we will find you. you pig in the city. a rebel controlled strong vote in the north people for being subjected to daily air strikes. volunteers with the syrian civil defense known as the white helmets are helping to find the injured under the rubble and taking them to hospital. thank you. to find me is massive destruction caused by the bottom and surface area. this neighborhood is residential and the vision forces deliberately targeted at some with direct strikes

. several people i enjoyed working with our teams are still working to search for these trumps and transport them. tim davis hospital aside is meeting with regional partners, including iran, to try to shore up support for years. he was able to beat back opposition fighters with the help of russia, huron, and his beloved, it's believe the rebels decided to strike. now, knowing those allies were either weekend or distracted by their own conflicts, the security forces. and protesters have clashed again in the george and capital tbilisi, where thousands are rallying against the government. the suspension of talks on joining the european union. pro e u demonstration gathered in front of the parliament building for the 5th consecutive night. prime minister says he will not negotiate with the opposition, despite the protests. they accuses jordan dream party of election manipulation and trying to bring the country closer to russia. lease have detained more than $200.00

people since the rallies began. well, robert hamilton is head of the razor program with the foreign policy research institute in philadelphia. we asked him whether there's a chance of a russian intervention in georgia. well, and again, and that's, that's the most critical question. and yes, i think roger obviously got his hands busy and you crazy. it also has it's as busy now sir. uh, the, the assignment in the ronnie ends and has belong to a rogers partners in syria. i have been down to a pretty serious blow by the opposition of the past several days. russia does have several 1000 troops stationed in georgia territory illegally in south. i said, you know, cause you to break away regions and referenced, sees in 2008 after the baby, georgia. so it does have the capacity, i think, to mouth some sort of operation. we obviously hope it doesn't come to that. uh, the question is, what the georgia government would do is in dire straits that would request assistance from moscow, or would it resist either sort of diplomatically by that channel telling the

russians, please don't intervene. let us handle this, or would it resist? probably i don't have an answer to that question. i think we're some really on certain times right now, a sketch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. you know, publishing parties in france or threatening to house the new government where the know confidence. but later this week, they're supposed to and i'll stare at the buckets as prime minister michelle vanya is trying to push through is government does not have a majority, and it's being challenged by the far left and the far right. romanians constitutional court has confirmed the results of the 1st round of presidential elections pro russian far right candidates colleen? george esther, who's approximately one. the 1st round will be on the ballot for sundays run off or home with conservative alena less funny. the decision comes a day after parliamentary elections produced a fragmented result. adding to uncertainty harvey weinstein lawyers

say the disgrace movie mogul has been hospitalized for a warming blood test result. it's the latest health issue facing the 72 year old former producer. while i'm seeing is a waiting free trial in new york, after his 2020 right conviction was overturned, he must remain in jail until then because of a 2022 los angeles. great conviction. new york is bracing for more snow after more than the meter fell in northern parts of the state over the weekend. so warnings are also in effect, parts of pennsylvania and ohio, forecasters say more wintery, weather is on the way warning that it could disrupt the transport uncle. a miracle has reunited with one of her closest allies when she was in office for us. present brock obama. the former german chancellor was in washington for an

event, a launch for more of their to a sold out crowd, but she in a boat and discussed many of the global issues they had to deal with while in power from immigration to macros. relationship with rush long lines or a common side outside this venue in the us capital. but this time, people are not waiting for a band bus, put 2 petitions ungrammatical in a conversation with former us president bar of obama. they spoke about medical, newman war and personal life, but also topics like climate change that the former gem indeed a warrant against neglecting. my concern is that we are now faced with so many problems treat conflicts with china. in europe, the war between ukraine in russia is affecting us badly, which means the issue of climate change. because once again, taking a back seat until one day, something really terrible happens. and we wake up. her dealings with russia has become one of the most contentious aspects of miracles, time in office,

not only in germany, russia's war and ukraine prompted criticism over the legacy and say a peace went off on the medical for those who attended the solo to venture in washington. dc, there were many words of gratitude for the legacy of the former german tongue feedback of somebody who's done so much for europe in person. amazing. i think it was so interesting to see the, to brock obama and i'll go to merkel like in conversation together. that was like just hearing about their relationship from each other in real time. was amazing. after all these years of working relationships of i'm and other chancellor having other than work with the president trump. the still see that in action is, is wonderful hoping to find somebody like i'm a i'm a young guy as i speak to. and like, obviously there's lot can be a lot of inspiration from this book that i took off from. for me, i'm responding to rate the expectation for the future from angela. yeah. with 16

years in power, ungrammatical, shape, german and european politics to success. but also have failures a forcing many to question how her decisions then contributed to the challenges for is today watching dw news stuff. next, our sustainability show a plan today looks at the hidden talents of electric cars. the . this is, he is hungry for the future. so i'm saying in southwest china 32000000 people live here. many of them i understand it's not feeling so big and has so many people. there must be a way to do business here now, except my parents wanted me to become a civil service,

but i didn't like the idea of getting such an old fashioned job and being stuck with dreams coming through, making money, having fun with non fools injunction stuff, december 13th on d, w. the at the end of september can helene slammed into the us state of north carolina. it cost 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 a lights on, 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 cables and power stations that lets us do pretty much everything in modern society. and the way it works is pretty simple. there's this stuff that goes in from fossil fuel power plants and renewable energy. and the stuff that comes out, which is the electricity, that's you 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 what 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 it's 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 heat pumps. 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 or 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 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 would charge 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. and now this will sounds cool for the policy in your driveway. it becomes

a really big deal in 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 there 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, read 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 of, of them being directional. you can have enough batteries for the entire reduction the month. so you can just, you can shut down dash forever. so why isn't this already everywhere? well, there's the obvious thing, cost. b, g only works for the special by directional in photo, which would even need to be built into the call all the charge of when they made that and also need software and hardware to communicate with the grid operators.

and for home charging, you'll need a small electricity made this contract, the amount of electricity going both ways. all of that needs to meet extremely high standards expected of both cause and anything that connects to the grid. one trial had an upfront cost equivalent to $5600.00 euro's per participant. but that same charles found that the annual revenue from storing cheap electricity and selling back into the grid was anywhere between 40800 years. so if those initial costs get cheaper, it could be profitable much faster. and then there's the battery problem. batteries degrade the more you charge and discharge them. using them as a pack for the grid would result in them charging and discharging a lot more frequently than they would from being used normally. and as an ease, battery degrades the distance, it can travel on a single charge, also known as its range, gets worse. so if the comedy factors were already competing over the range of that cause adding indeed to g isn't very appealing advocates so that 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, notice the cycle will 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 wind farms 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. it's your crowd to come to a battery on wheels. it's a complete new function of the car. and with that also risk risk and it's all on. so if something goes wrong, then everyone is flipping out the car. there are some promising things on the

horizon. is the proposed law in california to required by directional charging, an old new eaves at some point in the future. and germany is vice chancellor told german media that the regulation is 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 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 egos 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 the typical call. 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 wanted for a detroit 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 comic or 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 in laurie. i'm a tucker, who spent over a decade researching chinese industrial and climate policies. so all the incentives are there, right? they cannot make incentive to political incentives. they want to make this work. the country has started its own v t g trials, and the number of cities setting up by directional charges and converting bust weights. 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 if he's there. 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 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 and both europe and the united states to keep up 1st regions of trying to slow down the rise of chinese imports to tars. so making that cosby to g, compatible to give them the competitive edge. and 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 are seeing the potential for technology like b

to 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. do you on your next call to be veto g compatible. and from all videos like this, subscribe to all channel the

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