Representatives about how to deal with either one and well show you how women in afghanistan are pushing ahead with their own business. Im chris welcome to the program the u. S. President himself is one of more than 7000000 americans to have contracted kovac 19 and amid continuing uncertainty over his own personal health but the prognosis for the u. S. Economy remains anything but clear a new survey from the National Association for business economics paints and indeed bleak picture more than half of the economists polled believe the biggest risk facing the u. S. Economy is the pandemic and the possibility of further lock downs and restrictions as cases continue to rise its not the only threat though one in 5 economists think the biggest problem is the failure of republicans and democrats to Work Together to agree aid packages for Unemployed People and stricken businesses the overall picture is that the u. S. Economy is expected to contract by 4. 3 percent this year with the majority o
A motorcade ride that many say breaks the code that 19 protocols and britain struggle to coltan influx of migrants crossing over from france is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast and. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the fields of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of. Harvey j. Alter Michael Hotel and charles am rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a tickler sick. If it can see this year with the corona virus pandemic highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world and well have more on this in just a moment with our colleague Derek Williams from d. W. Science but 1st lets take a look at a situation in the United States there are mixed messages coming from washin
Regularly. By the ground and the water rivers and. There its a very different picture impression the water is highly. Contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals known as per floor in a sea of compounds or p. F. C. These they originate at this nearby air base and are polluting waterways in the area. The local authorities have warned locals about the problem. As a precaution we would still advise against using the river water for irrigation purposes. Scientific surveys have helped to shed some light onto the matter they detected toxic chemicals a depth of up to 80 meters in the lancer around the air base and in concentrations that the e. U. Considers critical. Condition either himself used to work for the American Forces and saw soldiers performing firefighting drills for airplane crashes. On board and there was a hole in the room do. What they poured few life and all slain. And then set it alight. On the finish and it was burning fiercely with the squad and i. Use them for the long standi
Russas president ial election claims the result was rigged under ever clashes across the nation as president of the cinco headed for landslide victory. And how the coronavirus is killing the Indigenous People of brazil benefiting those clearing the amazon forests for agriculture we have a special report. And gravel 1st welcome to the Program China has again cracked down on democratic freedoms in hong kong with the arrest of media tycoon jimmy lie hes a prominent prodemocracy complainer an outspoken critic of beijings policies in the territory lies own newspaper reported he was being held for suspected collusion with Foreign Forces under the tough National Security law imposed in june. This was the moment of arrest jimmy lie put into an Unmarked Police van outside his home in hong kong. Then driven away. Police raided the Publishers Office late in the morning. He was then later brought to the offices of his Media Company next media the paper itself released these pictures mr light being
Quiet is welcoming tourists again. And we find out about the plight of elephants in the thai tourist sector and how help is a town and. Humans have been exploiting animals for men then yeah. A shocking 90 percent of all mammals alive today are being raised for human consumption and most of these animals are kept in conditions which dont take their basic needs into account. Unfortunately thats also true for animals used for human and to 10 meant as pets in some zoos circuses or amusement parks at least 15000 elephants worldwide live in captivity in asia many of them are used as working on a morsel to provide entertainment for tourists. As part of our global ideas series all reports of felix noah and his team went to northern thailand to meet a woman providing refuge for elephants. Just one look and she knows exactly which elephant is which she now has 80 of them each one has suffered lect child learn knows all their stories. Until just a few years ago this elephant worked in a nearby ri