Churches could be encouraged to act as safe havens for young people at risk of becoming victims of knife crime. The plan will be discussed at next in the rebuilt area. Months general synod of the church of england, where theyll consider 307 is sidewalks Test Facility where ideas for this whether churches should new development are prototyped. So what youre looking at right here is a prototype for a new paving Kathryn Stanczyszyn has more. System for our streets. They have always been this one is actually a permeable paper, here the water goes places of sanctuary, into the paver down but could churches now become into the ground itself. A bigger part of the fight up here you see a solar panel, against knife crime . Testing the integration of lights there are calls today for buildings into the pavers themselves. Jesse schapins is the director like this to make sure their doors of urban design at sidewalk labs, are open in the hours after school finishes, hes showing off some of the tech
China is experiencing a rare episode of sliding prices. Japans economy experienced this back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, this comes hot the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday, which showed that exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic, dropping by more 14 in the year tojuly, with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Joining me now is duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at pantheon macroeconomics. Thank you very much for being with us today. The Rest Of The World looking on in amazement. Considering the inflationary pressures the rest of us are dealing with. What do you read Between The Lines in this latest data . Between the lines in this latest data . Latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm factors i are some short term factors that push down the data for this month, there has been a surge of seasonal vegetables, the big pictu
Doctors will leave the nhs to work abroad, in countries including australia and new zealand. Our Health Reporterjim reed has been looking into this. Weve been trying to answer that question, whether weve been seeing a large exodus, as is being feared, of nhs doctors going overseas. Lets begin by looking at the bigger picture. This graph is showing as the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and the proportion of uk nhs doctors that are joining and leaving the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and leaving each year. The numberjoining here in read has actually been rising as weve been recruiting more foreign doctors from overseas into the health service. The number in blue is the number leaving, and actually, it has remained pretty constant over time at about 15 . This is the number of doctors leaving for any reason, so that could be retiring, moving into private practice, it could be going abroad, and there has been some quite aggressive recruiting of nhs doctors by o
Increase in Co2 Concentrations in the atmosphere. The link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year Global Temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. That explains why february was 1. 77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1. 55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. It means we have temporarily at least breached the 1. 5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit Temperature Rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of Climate Change. February 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13. 54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. While this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than the warmest previous february, which was 2016, its not really surprising, because this has been the el nino year, where temperatures tend