Is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e. U. Does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you consumers about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e. U. Is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulator that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. Or different station all right thank you so much for your thoughts on that. Thank you. South African Business is a begun paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight Climate Change one of africas biggest economies is hoping the move will help force big to change. Has more from me in the province. South africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africas worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fo
Now theyre getting paid their full salary. And a good salary still feeling secure were getting our full cellar is now ok but we cant be sure that will be the case next month there are 1400000 people working for the government and Public Sector in the semiautonomous region of Northern Iraq they watch their paychecks shrink or disappear beginning in 2014 thats when the war with ice will began the price of oil plummeted and the federal government in baghdad cut budget payments to the Kurdistan Regional government austerity measures were implemented and workers paid the price with reduced salary. The dispute has been resolved the new Prime Minister who came to power this year says the estimated 10000000000. 00 thats owed to Public Sector employees will be paid although hes not given a timeframe the government says unemployment has dropped from 14 percent in 2016 to 9 percent so far this year theres more confidence among people like businessmen come out aga he develops residential and comme
A challenge for the 15 Navy Chiefs Meeting here in defense contractors here in the gulf of guinea but across the world because piracy is on the rise whether with the crisis that we currently see in the straits of hormuz where britain and iran accuse each other of state piracy or in Southeast Asia where tankers are being taken by pirates and its contents sold on the black market here in the gulf of guinea the main challenge is the hijacking and holding from ransom of its crew member its a global problem and for james fogle the admiral of the American Navy in europe in africa its something that needs to be urgently addressed 90 percent of our commerce worldwide goes by sea so africa is hugely for. Every major power in the world there are russian interests in europe and africa there are chinese interests in europe and africa in particular in the arctic and there are u. S. Interests there are israeli chinese Ship Building Companies south african contractors all trying to find solutions spe
can biden do anything to unlock the current political crisis? wouldn t that be amazing? laughter tonight, a change of tone as president biden crosses the border into the republic of ireland in search of his irish roots. the other top stories tonight. prince harry will attend his father s coronation next month but meghan, won t be leaving california. billionaire twitter owner elon musk sits down with the bbc. he defends sacking thousands of staff and summed up an eventful six months as boss. well, it s not been boring! it s been quite a roller coaster. there s the shooting chance, it s in! and the european champions, real madrid, beat a ten man chelsea in their quarterfinal first leg match. and coming up in sport, the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but two of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. good evening from stormont, on the day that president biden has been in northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of
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