Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

As renewable energy sources keep spreading, one big question remains.

What to do with the surplus power they generate?

And where to get that power when the sun don't shine?

We take a look at engineers increasingly intriguing ideas.

And it seems that no country loves dogs more than America does.

There's one pooch for every four people.

To find out more about this national obsession,

our correspondent headed to the National Dog Show,

where every dog has his day.

But first... Yesterday, the de facto leader of Myanmar, on Song Suu Kyi, appeared before the International Court of Justice in the Hague to answer accusations of war crimes.

It was a stunning turn for a woman who was once hailed as a champion of peace.

For years, Miss Suu Kyi was lauded as one of the world's great democratic heroes.

Starting in the late 1980s, she peacefully campaigned for Myanmar, formerly Burma, to throw off military rule.

But the military tried to contain the movement and put her under house arrest.

For her efforts, she won the Nobel Peace Prize, 28 years ago this week.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1991, Ansang Suu Kyi.

She was only able to collect the award in 2012 after her 15 years of captivity came to an end.

Ultimately, our aim should be to create a world free from the displaced, the homeless and the hopeless,

a world of which each and every corner is a true sanctuary where the inhabitants will have the freedom and the capacity to live in peace.

Just a few years later, a crisis in Myanmar began to unfold.

In 2015, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority that had been marginalized for decades,

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