hello and welcome to a special president s edition of inside politics. i m abby phillip in for john king in washington. president biden surprises the world with a trip to kyiv. russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. plus, former president jimmy carter is now at home receiving hospice care in a small georgia town where he spent most of his life. and can ron desantis muzzle the media? the presumptive 2024 candidate makes his case to overturn a decades old supreme court decision and strip away protections for the free press. but up first, a truly unprecedented trip happening now in ukraine just hours ago the president visited an active war zone and today joe biden has put solidarity ahead of his own personal safety. [ air raid sirens ] he arrived in kyiv this morning, greeted by those air raid siren. the trek to ukraine s capital is timed nearly to the one-year mark of russia s invasion. the visit comes with a $500 million pr
on their faith at this time. i also want to tell you about this man i met. a mail carrier but also a painter as we were driving in yesterday. here he was painting this large peanut statue. it is really a roadside attraction that is pretty famous here. and it was on the campaign trail with jimmy carter in the 1970s. he told me he has been meaning to get out here for weeks to paint that statue and that it was all the more important to do so in the wake of learning about mr. carter being in hospice care. abby? that s really extraordinary thing. and so nice to hear president carter talking about his wife and their long love and marriage. i ll share what you said to me as we were talking earlier, he s a peanut farmer. there are peanuts at your feet right now, eva? reporter: very literally. i m right by the train tracks. you walk by peanut shells just by main street.
In a laboratory in Senegal, researchers are looking at the potential to recycle natural waste not just to generate energy, but to store it too. The aim is to produce scalable batteries from a local street-food staple.
Monkey nuts are a street food staple in Senegal. Now researchers say they're confident they can use the shells to generate and store energy. Success would mean recycling natural waste and developing a clean energy source.