I germany where reign supreme there are 47000000 cars on its roads in a cities a choking on dangerously high levels of particulate matter nitrogen oxides and enormous c o 2 emissions the government has bought to proposals for driving bans and speed limits now its decided electric cars full fix the problem. In this new day we need to rid transportation of it c o 2 footprint and electro mobility is a key part of that and switch to get. Going green on germanys rides electric my ability is promoted as the ticket to a clean future and one of the Fastest Growing sectors in the global markets. Seem to be some yeah thats france germany and the e. U. Came to supply 30 percent of global battery demand by 2030. 2 in the. Gym. And carmakers also have ambitious plans. To get shots in the same yard by 20251 in 5 models and the b. M. W. Group will be electric but our electric cars are really the solution. In a way with their bills and you cant talk about clean energy for countries like germany if youre destroying peoples livelihoods elsewhere. Than when you know. How clean it is electric my bill is really. In his electric car rolling sure in his on his way to his bakery in the town of hilton in north rhinewestphalia every saturday a group of electric current meets up here for breakfast. U. S. Manufacturer tesla is still all the rage. Test lot this is true test was a bit like a religion for me its like the sunshine its a real solution that offers a way out of the dilemma is on top certainly also the mind that not. All of the electric car owners here are convinced that theyre helping the environment. Until it was told its great not to pollute we have solar panels at home in our utility supplies energy from renewable so you know my conscience is green on by large drive an electric car because environmentally friendly economical and that was key. There most by rolling sure and also drives an electric car to help protect the environment he fills up his electric car outside the bakery and his own charging station. I think for a visit electric mobility is a mentally important for saving the environment because at the moment theres no cheaper more environmentally friendly c o 2 friendly mode of private transport their individuality will be in fear. For the Breakfast Club drive as electric cars are the only way to marry personal car ownership with Environmental Protection. Theres really no version of people buying new cars should stop using Combustion Engines and refuse to be talked into buying a new diesel because it will soon be banned anyway. By electric now with our government should promote electric cars and developer noble Energy Sources in parallel. And again then the problem would be solved. I wish the earth. Because compared to gasoline and diesel the electric car has one advantage its engine does not admit any exhaust fumes electric cars powered by the electric motor the energy for this comes from a battery built into the car floor the battery is the central and largest element of an electric car depending on the model it weighs several 100 kilos very small materials and need it for the battery the most important thing is lithium so where does it come from. We set off for south america to argentina and the province of hopefully more than 60 percent of the worlds lithium reserves are located here in the andean highlands in the socalled lithium triangle that straddles argentina bolivia and chile. Its an inhospitable extremely dry region with sparse vegetation that only sees rain once a year river lets trickle for just a few kilometers before running dry water is a precious commodity the indigenous color have lived in the region for centuries today their people number more than 100000 schools man breeds animals that his farm up here in the mountains. They were parts of the gaelic well i represent the aperture to collective and we opposed lithium mining theres very little water here of large amounts of water are withdrawn from mining it compounds the air conditions of a month and were all very concerned about the threat posed to our natural environment. In the 3rd movie movie we are a month looked up. Near guzmans farm the salt lake some larger overawes lots of now to choose a 4000 meters above sea level. Beneath its salt surface crossed is a deep basin of brine it contains high concentrations of the cover to deposit lithium. Workers from the Mining Company celeste a wholly pumped the prime to the surface this was the 1st major lithium mine here a 2nd company excise expanding another plant and testing is underway at other salt lakes in the region where the lithium is just booming right now we extract it from deep below the salt lake this well as 450 meters deep its currently pumping 55 liters per 2nd we plan to install 30 such wells in the coming months. The company pumps the brine into huge basins workers are constructing a new basin several 100 meters long and wide immense quantities of brine of removed for the production of lithium every year 10000000000 liters of processed at this salt lake alone to extract lithium the brine is left to evaporate under the hot sun. After 6 months lithium makes up 6 percent of the concentrated brine. Its fed into the plant which processes it for industrial use. He was we had chemicals to separate the other minerals in the brine so that in the end all that remains as the highly concentrated lithium we think of is a somewhat more doesnt that in the field. Its a protracted procedure but its become highly lucrative fueled by the demand for batteries to Power Electric cars exploratory systems being installed across the salt fly. Its of chile bolivia and argentina not least because of the price for lithium has seen a 7 fold increase in recent years investors call it White Petroleum or white gold this is. The deal this is the Lithium Carbonate or end product. Its a powder was it worth. Earth is. One time costs around 14000. 00. Whats a kilo worth i cant convert that all apply. To. A white gold rush. With devastating impact on the unique salt flats of the andes as an existential threat to dwindle in Water Resources in this era great. For their production Mining Companies need millions of latests of precious fresh water in addition pumping brine from the depths of salt lakes pushes scarce groundwater from the edges into the middle of the likes where it mixes with the salt water and is rendered unusable. Water that accumulated at the 10s of thousands of years and keeps the ecosystem in balance is wasted within the space of a few years. But that water is vital for the people who live around the salt lakes they depend on it to cultivate the barren soil and break llamas and goats every later counts now entire reserves are drying up in the near future farming will no longer be possible near the lithium pools and its not only water scarcity thats a problem some of the chemicals used during the lithium extraction process turn into toxic dust thats transported by the wind. Farm in the wild if there is a natural we suffer from air pollution it will work out the a lot of things are carried on the wind like lime caustic soda and part ash or. One of the 3 chemicals together are more aggressive than one alone youre right impacts agriculture on the fuel plants that grow here but also the animals. Weve seen llamas gold. Wind because of the dust in some places. Thomas from other villages have also chronicled the effects of toxic dust on the eyes of the animals whose wool and meat a key to the livelihoods of the indigenous people. The color settled in this area even before the incas but now lithium is threatening their way of life. Our culture has a Spiritual Connection with the salt lake and you know of since time immemorial we have appreciated the richness of nature the many birds and also our llamas graze there and thats why we say no to lithium mining. Mining across the region can no longer be stopped who needs all this lithium. And this man is part of the answer. He can mask tech billionaire and electric car pioneer. There on which his Company Tesla ilan last showed the world that electric mobility could be sexy in 2016 he introduced model 3 the 1st electric car for the mass market. In terms of production. The thing thats going to be a major challenge for us over the next 6 to 9 months is how do. Batteries at the key ingredient construction on Teslas Gigafactory one in the nevada desert near reno has been underway since 2014 we wanted to visit the factory ourselves but were not given permission to film. The plant 35 gigawatt hours capacity could produce batteries for about 500000. 00 electric vehicles a year. Then on top of that we have a factory thats actually now the largest battery factory in the world and when its done. More like in my batteries than the rest of production by for one building. But tesla isnt just building batteries in nevada its also got plants in new york and china with a 4th in the pipeline for europe. And the demand for batteries to Power Electric cars is not only growing at tesla at the paris moesha show in 2018 german come Makers Showcase their latest top of the range models like diamonds e. Q. C. Audi premiered its brand new. And b. M. W. And found its concept car the i x 31 of 25 models planned in the next few years according to Management Board member Klaus Froehlich group this club for us its clear that by 2025 our entire portfolio ranging from the b. M. W. One series to the 7 series or the x 5 will be fully electric does this fall apart for you. When it comes to shifting to electric cars german manufacturers have put the pedal to the metal. Apart from b. M. W. Folks are going for cs 80 new electric models by 2025 porsche wants half of its fleet to be electric by then and diana is investing 10000000000 euros in the development of electric vehicles all towing the governments line for germanys Automotive Industry. Many of the governments measures have gained traction and i expect we will see a huge increase in the next few years and thats already evident from the plans the manufacturers have announced. To stimulate demand the government is offering incentives like a purchase rent tax breaks d free parking and funding for research and development all part of a strategy set out a decade ago in the National ElectroMobility Development plan it was drafted by a panel of experts from the fields of politics industry science and environmental groups and encourage them and heads the National Platform future of mobility and has direct access to the chancellor his brief is to get as many electric cars onto german roads as possible to achieve germanys climate goals for the transport sector by 2030. C. Investment of course we have to see whats feasible initially the government set a target of 6000000 cars currently the model puts the figure in the range of 6 to 7 and a half 1000000 by the by the but theyre also demands that goes high as 10000000 people will have to see how many cars the manufacturers can produce the book. But those cars will need customers carmakers have identified range as the Sticking Point dime less as its q. C. Will cover 450 kilometers. Out easy tron 417 kilometers b. M. W. s i extremely well have a range of 400 kilometers. And b. M. W. I next unveiled in december trumps them all with a purported range of 650 kilometers what is striking is that all these models are s. U. V. S because you can only travel far in electric cars with large and heavy batteries and they need a lot of space in large bodies. To think of as im sure frequent its a step towards customer acceptance in which were trying to explain to customers that electra mobility is actually nothing revolutionary so its not its just another way to drive a vehicle so its now your custom to. Driving a certain range with your internal Combustion Engine vehicle its logical to expect the same range from an electric car with a bottom but. B. M. W. Sees its future here in the the very end countryside the group has established its electron Mobility Competence Center in tingle thing its i nexus it to roll of the Assembly Line here in 2 years time will cohost my heads the plant. Those are some of their figures here its a doing of things site the i next is a real opportunity its the 1st fully electric model will produce to that end the plant is currently being expanded to encompass 80000 square metres. The b. M. W. The mobility is the number one growth market. Has been shut in the same year we estimate that by 22051. 00 in 5 b. M. W. Models will be electric that means electric power trains will account for 20 percent sales across the group. On the road to an electrically powered future. So you know for now we expect worldwide demand for battery cells to increase more than 10 fold in the next 11 years. I demand fueling the need for lithium. Back in the engine highlands of argentina. We are in green qana d. S. Here on the edge of the salt lake the disastrous effects of lithium mining are already apparent. The village is one of 33. 00 communities in the region that have joined forces to fight the corporations. In an imbecilic economy moving when i started mining lithium here the water in the village became increasingly scarce young man them. And yeah man how theyre used to be enough water to irrigate our gardens but today. There isnt enough. But Mining Companies have only just begun to drill here the locals are not prepared to sit back and accept the destruction of their Ancestral Lands the arid region has been their home for centuries. Weve begun building up Rural Tourism here in this community and also in neighboring villages around the lagoon and when alone. They start drilling it will jeopardize everything weve achieved below the 3rd because theyll leave their toxic waste behind here with us. When i go on. Protest action by the villagers has made waves across the country. Theyve set up roadblocks and staged demonstrations at home and taken their case to court in the capital point to saras as a result some applications for drilling have been temporarily denied. But the government continues to carve the land up among the multinationals violating their human and civil rights. The leader of the resistance Clemente Flores is himself a llama breeder and pharma. Hes also had 1st hand experience of the threat of lithium mining poses. The water he needs to sustain his small farm is getting scarcer and scarcer. There was a this well is 12 meters deep down there the water used to be about one and a half meters deep in august we took a new measurement there were only 50 centimeters the water table has dropped drastically. There is a miracle of nature here freshwater springs in the middle of a white crossed the springs form small makes news hostile desert environment but this unique ecosystem is under threat experts from the german n. G. O. S bread for the world have studied the impact of lithium mining. I know tonally a tonne of lithium requires burning off 2000000 liters of water the problem is this is such an extremely arid region that in the long run will be pumped dry. For the back of a single electric car up to 80000 liters of precious water disappear from here forever. And its not just the land of farmers and their animals thats under threat. Here violent argentinian when we were in argentina we also travelled to the quieter oakleigh goun and we saw this incredible sight i mean hundreds of flamingoes the whole lagoon is full of flamingoes its get us the lagoon is as good as sold to Mining Companies so in the next few years itll be covered with concrete pools and its very clear the flamingos will disappear on his guns bad as the flamingo especially if. The government recently auctioned off mining concessions for the extraction of lithium in the massive salt flats salinas gland us the indigenous population feels transported back to the time when colonial powers brought the land beneath their feet today its their own government thats in the past they have no formal land rights its land that they have cultivated for centuries. But it belongs to the government and whoever owns the land controls the water. And the group was in the its a matter of life and death if they pump so much water out of here in such a short space of time and we know what a huge amount it is then in the next 5 or 6 years we will lose so much water that the land here will turn into a real desert. Then it wont just be impossible to farm or herd animals we wont be able to live here at all. In the near future lithium mining could spell the end of a centuries old culture and a unique ecosystem scientists like harold lish are alarmed. Here go hold on to we used to get oil from somewhere and accepted in inverted commas the environmental damage there we didnt care i doubt the ems if you ask industry where do the Raw Materials actually come from it answers oh theyre just delivered its just business as usual this is basically we dont want to hear anything at all about the environmental damage were causing with our transport modes and europe or north america and many other countries are being bused visual. Germanys economy is the worlds 5th Largest Consumer of medical resources its also most of industry acquires them through a network of supply as its virtually impossible to control the side as it were to fargo its a very good question whether the sources are sustainable and above all whether the mining methods are in line with roughly german standards the industry will have to make sure that it imposes appropriate requirements and ensures transparency in the countries where its source is the Raw Materials it has in fact made that commitment thats out says hell finish that. How do german carmakers ensure their suppliers are maintaining Environmental Standards audi answered d. Since we do not do business directly with raw material producers we have integrated sustainability requirements into our contracts with direct suppliers we take all indications of infringements very seriously and investigate them directly and consistently. Dima responded to control supply chains maceda spends cars conducts risk based supply chain walks in other words supplier inspections it starts with a direct supplier and proceeds along critical points in the supply chain if necessary all the way to the mine. Folks wagon says. d our suppliers are also obliged to pass on the requirements to this sub suppliers such as rule material produces. All of the Car Manufacturers rely on a jointly developed standardized questionnaire for their suppliers with multiple choice questions b. M. W. Says it prevents exploitation and practices that Waste Resources is not ours and in which we rule that out because years ago we voluntarily committed ourselves to checking from the outset that the Raw Materials we use actually meet our sustainability requirements to the highest degree. However b. M. W. Has no idea how the lithium in its batteries is produced or when it comes from they tell us. This is not always possible especially when companies in the supply chain cannot guarantee full transparency for reasons of competition. Community leaders of the villages we visited in the argentinean and hes says no company has consulted them on the Environmental Impact of their operations. Currently we get a lot of new representatives from the Mining Companies telling us what theyre up to but actually the government has to consult us 1st before it grant. Concessions to the companies thats what the law actually says theyre supposed to ask us for permission 1st before any drilling begins theyre also required to conduct an Environmental Impact assessment but it doesnt do that either and. In fact the Regional Government has a stake in the largest Mining Company not the best prerequisite for the enforcement of Environmental Protection standards the german n. G. O. Power shift says its Research Shows come a 2 passive mela grown of eggs the author of a study on the effects of resource extraction for let treat mobility. As i timidly you need more than questionnaires Car Manufacturers cant be allowed to simply hand over their responsibility to suppliers. They need to go to the mines themselves and evaluate the situation its not enough to simply took a few boxes because the question is who checks what goes on as their contributors and Political Economic policy lies at the heart of german politics and it turns a blind eye to the human tragedies environmental disasters and deprivations occurring elsewhere toward. Collateral damage abroad so to speak for better in germany. Then says it often cars with Combustion Engines have an enormous ecological footprint in norman. Look its true that the production of electric cars does too but on the road and above all the longer electric cars are on the road the further they arrange the longer their use the better the ratio gets. But the numbers dont add up quite so nicely because almost all battery cells for german electric cars are produced in china and south korea and their electricity used in battery production comes largely from coal fired power plants and that is bad for the climate batteries so production is highly Energy Intensive swedens i. V. L. Institute says the production of lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles releases between 150. 20 kilos of Carbon Dioxide per kilowatt hour battery so for one electric car with a battery of around 100 kilowatt hours which is what german manufacturers are aiming for 17 tons of c o 2 are released into the atmosphere before the car even hits the road by comparison a mid range Combustion Engine car consuming an average of 6 liters will have already travelled 100000 kilometers before reaching that value. But its certainly true that the battery is not particularly Climate Friendly during production and the larger the battery the smaller the advantage can be that is correct for us. But the 2nd point is the more Renewable Energy we have the more environmentally friendly it becomes for those. But its not just electricity that determines how environmentally friendly a car is to produce and operate the vocal Style Institute for Climate Research factors resource extraction into the life cycle assessment of electric cars after all its not only lithium mining thats causing environmental degradation. In by an oboe need chinas border with mongolia large swathes of land are being destroyed for the mining of rare earth metals for electric cars toxic chemicals and radioactive substances pollute the environment and contaminate the water it takes a lot of copper cobalt and other hard to extract Raw Materials to build electric cars and with that he has tools for if we look at the Production Phase the cumulative material costs for Battery Powered electric vehicles are about twice as high this is mainly due to the battery the production of which is more material intensive too much we often use. Its twice as damaging to the environment to produce an electric car than a Combustion Engine car gasoline and diesel powered cars a largely built with steel Steel Production has a comparatively low Environmental Impact but the extraction of the many Raw Materials needed to make batteries is a major factor in environmental degradation and the bigger the battery the greater the damage to the environment ecologically speaking the push to increase the range of electric cars is nonsense to the environment and the climate simply replacing the fuel tank with a battery is not enough. To know for most of all there needs to be honest and proper information about what risks are actually associated with these technologies there must be a clear discussion not only about the opportunities but also about the problems they present. In germany needs new strategies. To meet its climate targets by 2030 electric vehicles can pull their weight in mass transit buses or taxes clock up high kilometer or passenger numbers the disadvantages associated with their production are outweighed by their contribution towards cutting emissions and its too early to write off the personal car. But to minimize their Environmental Impact electric cars need to be small in size in the western city of our home the start up ego believes the solution lies in short distance traffic last year it began rolling out its life model a compact car designed soley for the in a city. Going to shoe is the companys founder and c. E. O. Hes also a professor in Arkansas Technical University and a member of its board of directors for mission in the in traffic in our cities needs to be as a mission free as possible as soon as possible for the time being electric vehicles are the only way to achieve that one of the required range in urban settings is limited so we only need relatively small batteries if im. Going to shoot knows what hes talking about before starting a go he spent decades researching for the Automotive Industry and helped develop an electric delivery vehicle the street scooter. The sale of that company to the German Postal Service provided the capital to start his new company an. Ego small as model life has a range of only 100 kilometers and a small 15 kilowatt hour battery an ecological Balance Sheet the compact car overtakes a conventional car after just 25000 kilometers. A recent study by the German Ministry of transport confirms that 100 kilometer range suffices for most drivers on average germans do not travel more than 39 kilometers a day perper. Still the life is not climate neutral. Either the years there are currently neither the production chain nor the charging power are particularly environmentally friendly we need to be clear about that the mining a brawl materials has a high Environmental Impact. But were fully aware of this and it must be honestly figured into the ecological Balance Sheet of the illusion forged in this moment i mean. Recycling is one way to improve those Balance Sheet numbers and belgium the 3rd to me coal recovers rule materials from spent batteries on an industrial scale christian hog is the companys recycling expert. Your focus is on functional metals namely cobalt nickel copper and lithium in the 1st 3 we achieve recycling rates or yields of 95 percent so virtually nothing is lost in the case of lithium we were treating more than 50 percent 10 expect to significantly improve that rate of. Technology to recycle lithium is new the pattern and that is the 1st of its kind retrieving metals for the production of new rechargeable batteries the plant processing cell phone batteries but in future it will turn to electric car batteries a shift that could significantly relieve the burden on the environment. If you look at modern recycling plants the energy and water consumption as well as the spatial requirements are a fraction of what they are in mining so the life cycle assessment of a wrong material improves considerably through recycling and this is a key reason why recycling is so important especially for electric mobility what germany lacks a clear laws on Battery Recycling the e use battery directive is 14 years old and outdated lithium ion batteries currently the most prevalent Battery Technology and not even listed. Thats because in 2006 they were hardly in use. Today the requirement says that 50 percent of the battery has to be recycled but thats not enough you can achieve that 50 percent today by recycling the casing and certainly tiriel without having to recycle the cobalt or lithium it contains so i can. Record police officers. Out of sight out of mind much of germanys electronic waste ends up in garbage dumps in ghana and nigeria with devastating consequences for the people and the environment there just 10 percent of all the trees in europe currently recycled without appropriate additional regulations electric cars will compound the problem but to date theres been no government action. To have it was this as much tough what we need 1st is the possibility to even recycle batteries as soon as thats possible we can think about legal requirements and regulations which to an extent do exist today for gobbled legally with 1st we have to create the possibilities for this and well only be able to make it economically viable and continue research when there are more electric cars on our roads fashion than a so 1st we have to get more electric cars onto the market which could then undoubtedly theyll be a raft of other questions to address the done that means a hill Economic Council iof and fog. As under their share in view of the damage to nature wildlife and the populations in the affected regions its presumptuous to believe that we can save the climate with electric mobility and one has to ask oneself why politicians and german politicians in particular are still so committed to this model and are jubilantly pushing us all to go electric guns are tight you would be missing. Why is the German Government promoting technology that with its trend toward large batteries has been proven to be more damaging to the environment than conventional cars. If im in a moment i thought well were currently promoting the introduction of electric mobility and i think thats important in the off that we have vehicles the meet customers needs and not vehicles that some studies may say are great but which nobody buys isnt yet what kind of culture or many customers want cars to have a range that they can rely on for the commute to work we need to acknowledge that concern and take it seriously. And thats why we need to have organized systems of electric mobility in place and at the same time develop alternatives trains local public transport and alternatives like car sharing cycling and so on for the short distances the takeo and so vital for the nanda and in the stands theres one thing all the experts agree on only a total overhaul of transport policies can make traffic Climate Friendly ismailis from fortune from our vantage well past the 11th hour when it comes to devising Mobility Concepts for german cities if you look at transportation its the only sector in germany in which Greenhouse Gas emissions having creased over the last 25 years so theres an urgent need to catch up after. Other countries have managed to wean the urban population off cars in copenhagen and amsterdam for example bicycles have the right of way vilnius took a different approach in 2017 the little whiny in capital introduced one of the most advanced mobility apps on the market. Just patrollers from the platform traffic shows us how it works. If we want to go somewhere lets say. Try here i want to find all available options that could take me there so i just use route search and then we can see that there are a myriad of different transfer daughtrys. The app uses Real Time Data from buses trains taxis and car sharing vehicles to generate routes suggestion. That combined the various options. For his planned route patrolling us will 1st take the bus and then a car sharing vehicle to get to his final destination is so were in the bus stop. Near gayla street. And actually it says that troy bus number 2 is due any minute now yes actually coming. Petronas waited less than 2 minutes for the bus it works so well because the citys administration supplies the Mobility Platform with all real time public transport data. The most radical open data set in europe difficult to measure but not with there to challenge me so far so we have better the call up and the policy and of course the way its the most of the most important. Of course transportation in return the city has access to platform uses movement profiles for Traffic Management to regulate traffic lights adapt bus intervals to passenger demand and to avoid congestion the city says its not encroaching on Data Protection rights. Actually the data we share its a very generic god so its not personal data i mean its not a new thing going to more but the but in the data of actual online Real Time Data of all the mobility of all the traffic live pictures of drives of the car sharing station by taking the bus he was able to avoid a traffic jam ok. Unlocking the entire route was booked and paid for via the app inside the car the app also takes 7 navigation its all very convenient one in 5 people in vilnius already uses the app which means that increasingly personal cost of being left behind. When you give people the best options around them via routing or nearby so. Lucians then you empower people and thats thats a great feeling when you feel like sort of a superhero traveling within a city and you have the small device in your hand thats desire magic super bowl. Trophy now provide services to 10 cities worldwide. Last year the app went live in berlin in cooperation with the citys public transport provider the big v. G. As manager of the platforms mobility lab chinas involved in the development of the user interface well this is a working progress this is the prototype for this whole application were working on currently. When we start to see socking about this project internally weve noticed that naturally berlin has a myriad of transfer top and you can definitely see that in comparison for example if i would just open up our traffic app now right you have only a couple of options right when the city does better but in berlin of course you have trams buses ferries tube and i was bond and so forth so we tried to explore a solution where you would be able to fit everything and it would still make sense well the end goal is to create a city where or to have a city basically were. Transport is integrated its holistic. You wouldnt need to have your own private vehicle because there would be one readily available. And the 2nd thing of course a natural follow up to im goal is to reduce Carbon Emissions because we are dealing with Global Climate change. One way or another that can only be done with fewer costs because you wanted to quit short sighted just to change the propulsion system electric mobility only makes sense of the energy used to power it isnt. Im mentally friendly less material intensive and just one part of a new concept for mobility which we so urgently need in germany which im doing. Its high time to rethink the mobility we take for granted a comprehensive strategy is needed with smaller cars less traffic and a high recycling right only then will electric cars be on a course that can help save the planet. I mean. For him writing is an act of liberation. For a novelist its a tremendous to him somebody as a in all of our lives in our characters was something going on thats maybe obvious except that they dont notice the artist coming and told them the irish writer an exclusive interview arent 20. 30 minutes on d w. And literature invites us to see people in particular. I like to see how soon as the kids find strength and grown up around. My objective manner is to share work and find beautiful. Delivery books on youtube. Isnt the race destroying itself. We are ruining the basic elements of our systems were using too much water and were killing. Her to some life. Want to go lower supplies will last for ever but they wont play when the marine stuff. Starts more 20 years on. The the. Plane. This is d w news live from berlin france of follows did only end spain in ordering a nationwide shutdown of public life as european governments scrambled to stop the spread of corona virus as of midnight tonight only food shops and pharmacies will stay open in france many countries in europe are closing their borders as a number of infections rises. In while chinas quarantine appears to have paid off the country begins to come out of hibernation as the number of new coronavirus cases