I am the chairman of the board of directors here at the Islamic Center. For those of you who are curious, we serve about 5000 muslims in the area, 2000 come every friday to offer the weekly congregational prayers. Host. A great honor to [laughter] honor to hostat our neighbors and guests from our Congressional District for rur discussion with ou representative in congress. Please make yourselves comfortable. The doors on my right have restrooms for women and on the left restrooms for men. This is the first time we have had an event like this. Forgive us for any shortcomings. There will be several volunteers with badges like me. I would like to invite our religious director at the Islamic Center to welcome our congresswoman. [applause] peace be with you. Good afternoon, everybody. At the as the imam here Islamic Center of irvine. This is beautiful. Well, i lost my words. Strongertshirts than hate. From pittsburgh actually, so yeah, it is a great city. [applause] look all ofike to you he
The Prime Ministers advisers are accused of deliberately trying to wreck any chances of a deal with the eu. Boris johnson hits back. And an interim air accident report says high levels of Carbon Monoxide may have caused the crash that killed argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala and the pilot of his plane. Good morning. Its 7 00am in singapore and midnight in london. Scientists have discovered particles of plastic falling in snow in the arctic, highlighting the shocking scale of plastic pollution. A region long thought to be pristine is contaminated with microscopic particles, which are carried on the winds from thousands of miles away. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin travelled to the artic circle as the research was being carried out. Heres his special report. The arctic, a place of pristine beauty. Smothered with snow, clean and pure. Or, thats how it appears. But its an illusion. Arctic snow is tainted with microplastics and rubber particles and clothing fibres. Given the amou
Insurgent ordinary citizens of palm kong have driven its summer of protest but not without being led by some serious star power. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the United States and russia have withdrawn from a landmark arms control treaty today it had been in place for 30 years the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty the ins ban and land based missiles with a range between 505002500 kilometers now asias Nuclear Powers thats china north korea india and pakistan were not signatories to the i. M. F. But its end has raised fears of a global arms race that could ripple across the region im especially talking about. The dynamic between the United States and china and of course that then has an impact on the other neighboring Nuclear States now most of chinas missiles actually fall within that formerly banned intermediate range and now the u. S. Will in theory be able to deploy and station similar ones in the asia pacific well thats at least the concern fr
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the United States and russia have withdrawn from a landmark arms control treaty today it had been in place for 30 years the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty the i. N. F. Banned land based missiles with a range between 505002500 kilometers now asias Nuclear Powers thats china north korea india and pakistan were not signatories to the i. M. F. But its and has raised fears of a global arms race that could ripple across the region im especially talking about the dynamic between the United States and china and of course that then has an impact on the other neighboring Nuclear States now most of chinas missiles actually fall within that formerly band intermediate range and now the u. S. Will in theory be able to deploy and station similar ones in the asia pacific. Well thats at least the concern from the chinese perspective joining us to explain this and more is adam me of macor university adam so that set up i laid out ju
Dr Melanie Bergmann led the research. First stage involves a bit of low technology. A dessert spoon and a flask. I think were not treating our planet very thoughtfully. Basically, we produce all these packaging materials, we cover everything in polymer based varnish, we use a lot of rubber which we also find in our aerial samples, snow samples, and dont even think about it what is happening to this in the environment. But few people live here. Where on earth do the pollutants come from 7 we know that most of what we are analysing up there and measuring are long range transported pollution coming from the continent, coming from asia, coming from all over the world. And some of these chemicals have properties that are a threat to the ecosystem for living animals. Scientists have found that air and sea currents drive pollutants north. Last year we broke the news that Arctic Sea Ice had more microplastics than anywhere in the ocean because floating particles get bonded into the ice as it f