flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
in activity. the world s second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter thanks to robust consumer spending after lockdowns were lifted. but factory output has lagged due to weak global growth and this latest data raises questions about the sustainability of china s recovery. a market strategist told me these numbers show how uneven china s economic recovery has been. fix, economic recovery has been. pretty dire set of numbers, although still an expansion. it has come below expectations, but of course the bigger shock on the manufacturing side, and to see how uneven the recovery is in china. two things worth noting. first, we are coming from a strong first quarter where we had this initial euphoria after the reopening of the economy, as well as some benefit from the chinese new year period. so of course, manufacturers are a little bit downbeat after that initial euphoria has come down. secondly, my bigger concern is about geopolitics and the impact maki
nhs leaders warn the public to use health services wisely. hello. we begin in the sudanese capital khartoum, where the two rival military factions have announced a new ceasefire, but are showing no sign whatsoever of stopping their fighting. the united nations and african union are warning that the people of sudan are in dire need of a humanitarian truce. thousands of people are still trying to get out of the country. our africa correspondent, andrew harding, has been speaking to some of them. we are crossing the red sea, heading towards the coast of sudan. a night time rescue mission organised by saudi arabia s navy. it s not quite dunkirk, but many warships and ferries are now involved in this giant evacuation. tight security as the lights of port sudan gleam on the horizon. we head to shore on a smaller tug boat, to the edge of a country consumed by conflict. we arejust coming in now to port sudan. it s a huge place and a big city. it is the focal point now of the evacuati
have not seen a recession and an economy slowdown further. you have inflation on the one hand keeping people nervous and then the employers on the other hand nervous because wages are staying high. the problem is wages are rising, not as much as inflation is rising. next week we have a federal reserve meeting. we ll get more information from the fed as to whether or not they will raise interest rates again. perhaps loosening the market and we have the cpi next week out on tuesday, another indication of how bad things have gotten. no doubt companies are getting stricter. they want people in the office at least three days. it s amazing to me how many people have changed their approach and expectation of what their work week looks like after covid. bill: no doubt about that. they say it s better for work/life balance, probably true. better for mental health. for some might be true as well. companies are trying to run a business and that s true, too.
Patra said only half of the working population is part of the labour force at present and added that India has to prioritise getting the skilling strategy right.