CNN 10｜New Zealand protest, 1000-day, sustainable T-shirt

COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to CNN 10. It is Wednesday, November 20th, hump day. I know we may have been through a lot already, but we're going to make it through.

Let's get going. We have lots to get to, and we are going to start with news out of New Zealand, where more than 40,000 people marched outside parliament in the city of Wellington in protest. They're protesting a bill called the "Treaty Principles Bill."

Critics say the bill could change an agreement made in the year 1840 between British colonizers and hundreds of native Maori tribes. That treaty established that the country would be co-governed by indigenous and non- indigenous New Zealanders. The Maori are New Zealand's indigenous community, and they believe the new bill that lawmakers are proposing could diminish their rights.

Outside parliament, those opposed to the bill came together for a peaceful Maori walk, waving flags and signs. Inside parliament last week, Maori lawmakers staged a haka, a traditional chanting dance to disrupt voting. Protests have been going on for about 10 days across the country, and they are some of the largest the country has seen in decades.

Most lawmakers have said they would not vote for the new legislation, but its introduction has reignited a debate on indigenous rights, this time with a more conservative government than the country has seen in years.

We just passed the 1,000th day of the war between Ukraine and Russia, which began on February 24th, 2022. CNN takes a look back at what's transpired in the last two and a half years.

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NATHAN HODGE, CNN SENIOR EDITOR & RUSSIA ANALYST: Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now lasted for over 1,000 days, and it has quite literally altered the country's landscape. While Ukraine has recaptured around half the territory Russia took in 2022, Russia still holds more than 20% of Ukraine, including many cities and towns that were shattered by Russian firepower.

Putin justified the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by saying he intended to protect the largely Russian-speaking population in the country's east. But in effect, his so-called special military operation has nearly erased many of these cities from the map.

WIRE: Only about 1% of used clothes are recycled into new ones. Well, two brothers who grew up on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England are trying to change that through their t-shirt printing business called Teemill. The company only makes a clothing item once it's ordered, and once that item is worn out, it can be sent back to be reused for something new, creating less waste and saving money. Check out how these creative entrepreneurs are making it work.

MART DRAKE-KNIGHT, CO-FOUNDER, TEEMILL: Us growing up on our island, everything is finite, including resources, and you're very conscientious of what that means both for you and also the natural environment that you're surrounded by. I think that's a very helpful frame of mind to approach sustainable business. If you just expand that out, just think about the fact that the entire planet is basically just an island.

The clothing industry is a massive industry. Everybody on earth has lots of these products, but everything's produced speculatively, and everything's produced en masse. But something like half of all of the clothes that are made are actually fully utilized. That's like a fancy way of saying that they're made but never worn.

Being from the Isle of Wight, we have naivete as a superpower, because you sort of say, well, why would you do that? Why don't you just make what people need when you need it? And we're like, yeah, we're going to redesign the clothing industry. And you can actually do that just with technology, like making new types of machines and new software that runs those machines so that you make things on demand.

We did it in our mom and dad's shed to start with. We had 200 quid. That forced us to be very efficient and not waste anything. We couldn't afford to. That unlocks really big opportunities, because you just save money. You save loads of waste. You save loads of money.



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