Rent on its stalls while customers are told to stay home. The crew of a virus stricken u. S. Warship cheer their captain after he was sacked for publicly calling for the best of the be evacuated the navy says he broke the chain of command. Hello there live from our to the nationals world these h. Q. Here in moscow is kevin owen with a weekly roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days and of course the news totally dominated by one subject let me update you on 1st the broader picture of where the world is right now this hour the covert 1000 pandemic millions of people are currently under some sort of lockdown around the world but the number of coronas virus cases is still rapidly increasing there are now more than 1200000 registered infections more than 65000 people have died but on happy news more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have recovered. In israel in the wake of making sure all communities abided by the Strict Lockdown rules was proving really difficult there are now more
Become so divisive. On a warm welcome to you im on that that shima. A push towards a full ceasefire in libya one leaders gathered in berlin at the weekend for a peace conference they agreed to stop interfering in libya and respect a u. N. Weapons in battle but after 9 years a war the leaders of libyas 2 main rival factions are still refusing to meet face to face. The mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor Angela Merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in libya it was only a few hours before they announced a breakthrough no more arms shipments to the war torn country. Couldnt whom we can confirm that we have all agreed to respect the arms embargo. And well also monitor it more closely than we have in the past youve seen the forgotten if. However they havent yet spelled out consequences for breaking the embargo instead the conference pledged not to off
On washington journal. Republican of arkansas in the member of Natural Resources committee in the house. Also a supporter of was being called the trees act. An effort that was made more public by President Trump supported at the dominos World Economic forum. What does this act propose. This is an act, to put the tree across the globe. By 2050. Trees. Trillion it is a whole lot more though, our biggest full that we have, as far as mitigating climate issues, and will meet utilize those for us and keep from sustainable and working in active, really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, natural and is very economical to have this carbon atmosphere from the forest. You come to us as a forrester yourself. The only graduate of yale, with the master of four street there. This mustve been sort of like music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this effort. It. It is something that is near and dear to me. If you look at the planet, theres about treat 3 tril
Called the trillion trees act,s an effort that was made more um public by president trumps support of that at the davos World Economic forum. Tell us, congressman, what does this act propose . Well, this is an act that does just what it says, plant trees across the globe by 2050, for the u. S. To do our share oft that. Lott s a whole more, though. Our biggest tool that we have are forestsnd kee as far as mitg climate issues. When we utilize those forests and keep them sustainable and working and active, we royal have the best tool thats out there thats widespread, its natural, and its very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere with fr forests. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, a graduate of yale, a masters in forestry there. This must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this re effort. Yeah,is abo its something t near and dear too me. If you look at the planet, takn theres 3 billion tree the in the pla
Them sustainable and working and active, we really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, its natural, and it is very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, graduate of yale, master of forestry there must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this. Its near and dear to me. Look at the planet theres 3 trillion trees on the planet. We have 300 billion of them here in the u. S. And we do a good job of taking care of our forests here. We can always do better and thats part of what is in the bill. Not only to plant a lot of trees but also to take care of the forests we have. And then the neat thing about trees is they produce wood, which by its raw weight is 50 pure carbon so when we harvest a tree and make a product the car been says in wood for as long as the structure is there. This table, part of the wood, you see wood around the studio here, that carbon