With plans to train some 15000. 00 ukrainian soldiers and nato running Nuclear Drills amid the tensions. Today on to the point we asked as the war in ukraine escalates, will nato soon be party to the conflict with hello and welcome. Im Claire Richardson in berlin. Its a great privilege to be hosting this edition of to the point with a fantastic panel for you this week. Very pleased to welcome marina hanker a security expert and professor of International Relations at the hearty school in berlin. Caroline, over gore of board, member of the polish weekly kaltura liberal up and more. Its got my chief reporter for the german political magazine, cicero, he joins us after having just returned from ukraine. Thank you all so much for being here. Marina. Id actually like to start with you president Vladimir Lensky has said, now that a full 30 percent of ukrainian power plants have come under russian strikes. Its already leading to blackouts across the country. Do you think that the timing is in
A tax on Energy Facilities. With winter approaching, people are being asked to switch off the electricity for much of the day. And the African Union schedules piece talks to resolve the civil war, ethiopia, northern tig. Right into where millions are facing a potential humanitarian catastrophe. Ah, im glad off as well come to the program. British Prime Minister lis trusts has resigned just after 6 weeks in office. Her announcement comes after a bruising week of you turns on economic, an Energy Policy and a backlash from her own conservative party. Todays resignation makes her the shortest serving Prime Minister in u. K. History. In his speech outside downing street troy said she can no longer deliver on the mandate for which she was elected. I came into office at the time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay that bills. Petersons a legal warn ukraine, threatened the security of our whole continent, and our country as hav
A resurgence in the age old practice of pawning more on that coming up. But 1st a taster of whats on the show here. How the gas prices are rising and affecting ordinary families. And the u. S. State of north dakota is embracing renewables and how a gym and Jeans Factory is going by tech and green at the same time. Im robots. Ok. Now if you want to gauge just how bout and economic crisis is being felt on the ground, you need to look no further than pawnshops for those struggling, selling cherished belongings as a quicker and easier way of getting cash than looking for a loan. The practice has been around for a long time to believe it or not. The worlds 1st pawn shops baked back to the 5th century when they were established by Buddhist Monks in china. The romans later introduced the practice in your and over the centuries or shops were established in amsterdam, kent and brussels merchants and the Italian Region of long body bringing them to england to one of the most prominent early prac
Since Industrial Revolution mass not i per believe. Thats a fact. Were also confronting it head on with American Ingenuity and american jobs. Years president ial vine speaking there and on germany is fully underway, amid its own transition to wards electric mobility and having sufficient supplies of Critical Materials like lithium is key, nearly found reserves within the country could now help break a so far heavy dependence on foreign suppliers. Lou here, the so called white gold and the Green Energy Transition lies dormant. Large amounts of lithium are needed for batteries to power e cars. But lithium can be found in the hot thermal water of the upper rine river, 4000 meters under ground. The German Branch of australias Vulcan Energy resources wants to extract the lithium from the thermal waters in an environmentally friendly way. In a lab in karlsruhe, the team has developed a process to hopefully extract the lithium on an industrial scale. Now since my father, in the 1st 2 faces, w
Already buckling under the stream of exponential crop aniko in the afternoon. Look at we as for ease the pressure, hello and welcome. Im some of that i go over the next 3 decades. The u. N. Predicts that some 200000000 people will be uprooted by climate disasters. As the planet gets hotter, south asia is particularly well notable. But challenges are evident in the himalayas where hundreds of winches already lie deserted. Our rebuttal visited one to get a very postal view of the factors driving climate migration. With like these people have just left the discretion with ah, we normally think of rising sees, are disastrous, hired gains when we talk of Climate Change. But here in this himalayan village, somethings happening and the impact of this could be significantly greater than any natural disaster. This is one over a 1000 ghost villages in that i can state in northern india. It may look green and luscious, but live here has become almost impossible a we wouldnt leave if it was possib