From a battery mountain to sucking carbon out of the air, this week, click looks at some of our favourite sustainable tech from the recent past. This week a mountain of energy, a solar sea, and some rather unusual food. If you look at the amount of energy we use, we use about half the energy. If you look at the emissions that we provide, were about 90 fewer emissions, right . And then lastly, on land, and this is a really important one for the farmer, we use 93 less land. So if youre a farmer and you have 100 acres, you can now grow on seven acres hey, welcome to click. What you used to use hope youre doing 0k. All 100 for. There is still one major i dont know about you, drawback for your average but this year has felt meat loving family. Really quite long so far. Where a pack of fresh beef burgers might be priced around £11. 40 per kilogram, we live in a world the beyond meat alternative which is unrecognisable is currently around £24 from even six months ago. For the same weight. T
This is bbc news, im aaron safir. Our top stories. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny has been driven out of hospital in siberia and is expected to travel by air ambulance to germany he remains in a coma the governor of california says lightning strikes have sparked several hundred more wildfires including some of the biggest ever seen in the state. A human chain across the capital in belarus, the latest protest against the president , as the Opposition Leader tells the bbc she won t give up. We have no right to step back now because if not not, we will be slaves. And swifts gift why a london student is celebrating her taylor made donation. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We start in russia where in the past half hour News Agencies citing eyewitness accounts say the seriously ill opposition politician Alexy Navalny has been driven out of hospital. His spokeswoman says an air ambulance will take him to germany for treatment. His supporters say he was intentionally poisoned and they
The head of hmrc, how it will work, when businesses will see their cash. Watford are set to become the Third Premier League club to agree wage deferrals because of the coronavirus pandemic. Youll never walk alone. As if raising £26 million wasnt astonishin enough, captain tom moores Charity Single with michael ball and an nhs choir is on course to top the charts. Good morning. Today dry and sunny with a spot of rain across the south west of england and the Channel Islands and a cool westerly wind. Its monday the 20th of april. Our top story after a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promis
Good afternoon and welcome. Six weeks into lockdown and many of us want to know when we can return to work as normal. We dont have a date for that, but the bbc has seen details of the new workplace rules being proposed by the government to help businesses when their staff do eventually return. Employers would need to stagger start times and limit the amount of desks and equipment that needs to be shared. Employers should consider providing ppe, or barriers if the two metre social distancing rules cant be observed. In other developments, small and medium sized businesses in the uk are able to apply for loans of up to £50,000 today, in a scheme backed by the treasury. This afternoon, the Prime Minister will host a Global Online summit aimed at raising more than £6 billion to develop vaccines and treatments for covid 19. With more details on the plans for the workplace, heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. This manufacturer in fleckney, leicestershire, is fighting coronavirus
On december the 31st. Borisjohnson says it is shameful the press officer is unable to attend these conferences because she that statues are having to be does not want to defend dominic boarded up because of fears cummings. Can you say whether that they will be vandalised. Is true, and if it is true whether families of more than 400 people whove died with coronavirus demand it is right . I dont think it is an urgent Public Inquiry true. She has attended them before. Into the governments handling of the pandemic. I notice it is at the top of the number ten twitter feed, i see one of her tweets ten, and she has been and the paralympian whos the only black member of a board a regular contribute before and i am with britains major sports tells us sure she will be back here again. dont know anything about the much more needs to be done. Various discussions but all i can say is i have been here many times saying exactly what i think. Thank and much more needs to be done. Coming up in half ar