and this is where much of that giant wave of surf waste comes from beginner s boards thrown away after a day at the beach. some beaches have these recycling bins, have a look at this one. someone s just put this in here. this one, brand new, someone has dumped it after their holiday. this looks like it was practically new, but snapped. and this is just the very tip of the waste iceberg. these are boards collected onjust a handful of beaches in cornwall. this is quite typical, really. neil hembrow, 0cean recovery project manager for keep britain tidy, was out on the beaches of cornwall during the heatwave last summer looking for boards that could be recycled. that one has completely had it. probably this board was made over the other side of the world a few months ago, and it has been on a container ship for a month, it has then been driven from a port
migrants are often transported by bus from mexico s southern border with guatemala as they head north to the us. nasa has released new images from the james webb space telescope that show the intricate details of a dying star s final stages. the glowing halo and vibrant colours are from the ring nebula one of the greatest examples of gas and dust regions formed from dying stars. you re live with bbc news. a three day summit of five major emerging economies known as brics is under way injohannesburg, south africa. the bloc s members brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa make up nearly 40% of the world s population and about a quarter of global gdp. they re looking to offer an alternative to what they see as western led global alliances though member countries differ onjust how to achieve that vision. in fact, brazil s president, luiza inacio lula da silva, insisted that it was not
literally. and knowing that there are people who are not as mobile people who are bedridden, i m hearing stories of people of a husband running into help his bedridden wife and cannot get there in time and could not get her out and just had to run. and she burns. hearing stories of a young lady who literally ran out of her home and had tojump over the literally ran out of her home and had to jump over the seawall into the water and spent seven hours in the water and spent seven hours in the water and spent seven hours in the water waiting to be rescued and felt she was getting hypothermia to the point she would approach anything on fire to help us keep her warm. so these are stories coming out of lahaina and we anticipate that these numbers are going to rise and when you look at the photos, images, onjust how many homes and when you look at the photos, images, on just how many homes were taken and you know how quickly the fire moved through, it is looking really grim. so we are all fai
for goods, which helped china s exporters. but now, as the latest data confirms, that boost also seems to be fading and domestic demand is weak too, despite the lifting of draconian covid restrictions on the chinese population late last year. so where does all that leave the chinese economy? the latest forecast from the oecd from june is 5.1% of gdp growth next year. that might sound impressive by western standards but it would be one of the weakest annual expansions for china in decades. let s also look at the oecd s latest projections for the g7, including the uk, for 202a. china towers above the rest and the weakest are the us and the uk onjust i%. but this is actually a good example of why we should be wary of forecasts, or rather not take them as gospel. because since those forecasts came out injune, the outlook in some
whether that s the argument. there s another argument which i m not qualified to speak on, which that was a political decision. but the vast majority of people are just perplexed. theyjust don t understand why fitch would do this now. you mentioned that the markets are kind of shaking this news off. could there be any kind of impact onjust everyday people in the us? so i don t think there will be an economic or fiscal impact. by that i mean that this announcement will not reduce investment, will not reduce the attractiveness of the us economy. so that s the economy side.