Name: Portugal: The Dirty Truth Behind Green Cars - ARTE Reportage
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Description: Lithium is crucial for use in batteries, and as Europe tried to go green and switch to electric cars, demand for this white gold is skyrocketing. The EU imports most of its lithium, but its demand keeps increasing. Mining companies are tempted by the possibility of finding and exploiting reserves right here in Europe. But that would mean sacificing small rural communities, for 'the greater good'.

Portugal : Lithium, un enjeu européen

Portogallo: litio, oro bianco o veleno verde?

Portugal: The Dirty Truth Behind Green Cars

Portugal: Litio, ¿oro blanco o veneno verde?

Portugal: Lithium, weißes Gold oder grünes Gift?

Portugalia: problem wydobycia litu

Lithium is crucial for use in batteries, and as Europe tried to go green and switch to electric cars, demand for this white gold is skyrocketing. The EU imports most of its lithium, but its demand keeps increasing. Mining companies are tempted by the possibility of finding and exploiting reserves right here in Europe. But that would mean sacificing small rural  communities, for 'the greater good'.

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Lithium is crucial for use in batteries, and as Europe tried to go green and switch to electric cars, demand for this white gold is skyrocketing. The EU imports most of its lithium, but its demand keeps increasing. Mining companies are tempted by the possibility of finding and exploiting reserves right here in Europe. But that would mean sacificing small rural  communities, for 'the greater good'.<br /><br /><br />

Rural mountains in Portugal have vital reserves of lithium. But villagers vow they'll stop any development

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Patricia, Teresa, and Indalecio are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones

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Somaliland is unrecognised by the international community, but despite this, it is peaceful and stable

Somaliland, the Country That Does Not Exist

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Malawi: One Woman Fights Child Marriage

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In Calais Abdul documents the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel in hope of a better life.

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For weeks Lebanon has been paralysed by a fuel crisis that is stretching society to the limit. 

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284 Russian soldiers are still missing in Afghanistan from the Soviet-Afghan War, a conflict that ended in 1989. ARTE Reportage goes in search of these lost red army soldiers

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Russia: Putin's World View

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Masomah Alizada had to flee Afghanistan after she was threatened by the Taliban for being part of a women's cycling team

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Latvia has lost 13% of its population in recent decades. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of people returning home

Latvia: Brain Drain

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Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

The Extradition of Julian Assange

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Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets, where they are easy targets for predators

Nigeria: The Plight of the Witch Children

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Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world

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In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

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The last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan, leading to fears of a Taliban resurgence

Afghanistan: The Land of the Taliban

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The city of Bama in northern Nigeria, liberated seven months ago, is just beginning to recover after being the centre of a Boko Haram caliphate.

Nigeria: Surviving Boko Haram

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Israel is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since the second Intifada in the 2000s.

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Hope for an Anti-COVID Drug

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At just nine years old, Daniel spends his days picking coca leaves on his family’s farm

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The camel patrol scour the desert for terrorists

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It's been three months since Myanmar's coup and the army's subsequent bloody crackdown

Myanmar: The Death Throes of Democracy

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Forty years ago, aged just eight, Riley was repeatedly raped by his boy scout leader

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Afghan asylum seekers who arrived to Sweden as children are now being told that that they have to go back to Afghanistan

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Hilda watched her family's livelihood wrecked by increasing extreme weather, which she realised is being made worse by climate change

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Thailand: No More Tourists

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Amsterdam’s famous red-light district attracts hordes of noisy tourists making the neighbourhood unliveable for many of its residents.

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Second or third children born illegally during China’s One Child Policy are banned from marrying, having children or simply boarding a train. 

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Thousands of Asian workers toil in plantations in Portugal, in hopes of getting Portuguese nationality

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For a new generation of designers, "fast fashion" and disposable clothing is over! 

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Every year 400,000 people traverse Mexico to try to pass into the USA illegally. The quickest way is to catch the freight train ‘La Bestia’.

Mexico:"La Bestia"

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When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death

360° Geo: A Hedgehog Shelter in Italy

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From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Paris in the Belle Epoque

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Ayn Rand was a survivor of Communism, and as a result, her writings fiercely advocate uncompromising individualism

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The melting of the glaciers is a major concern for scientists, who are racing against time

Glaciers in a Changing Climate

Tortured, murdered, or kidnapped, migrants held in Libya go through hell. Shot on location, this poignant documentary reveals a system ruled by impunity and collusion between smugglers, militias and authorities, to which Europe turns a blind eye.

Tortured, murdered, or kidnapped, migrants held in Libya go through hell

Libya: Migrant Camps Scandal

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ME/CFS – A Misunderstood Illness

 An investigation into little understood illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

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360° Geo: Insects - the Food of the Future

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The techno giants perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum. 

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Techno giants Rødhåd and Vril perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum.

Vril & Rødhåd: "Out Of Place Artefacts"

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Beethoven’s only opera conducted by Raphaël Pichon.

Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the Opéra Comique

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