On days when it wasnt raining, which is illegal. The practice is known as dry spilling and is banned because it can cause environmental harm. Lets go live to our environment Correspondentjonah Fisher whos at Langstone Harbour in hampshire. Thanks. Last year, ourWater Companies in england released raw sewage into our seas and rivers for 1. 75 million hours. Sewage was discharged on average 825 times every day. Breaking that down still further, that means there was a new sewage discharge, roughly speaking, every two minutes. Rural west sussex, and one of southern englands celebrated chalk streams. So here we are, welcome to the river lavant or as we locally call it, the river lav. The river lav. The lav, just full of effluent. Rob, a retired businessman, is notjoking. There would be no river lavant in the summer without the treated discharges from the next door sewage plant. When we came it was overflowing, so we had the Storm Overflow coming out here, untreated sewage coming out here. A
In the south china sea. Because of the existing complex dynamics that we are talking about, how difficult does it make for these countries when they have to, in a way, walk the tight rope and really pick sides between the us and china when theyre trying to move ahead and forge a relationship . Thats a very delicate issue. I mean, the asean group is trying to really remain neutral as much as they can, and they also need, in a sense, both g2 we call them the us and china to assist them in many ways, including in trade, economic activities, foreign direct investment. So theyre trying to basically pick up the best of these two in terms of trade, foreign direct investment, but theyre mindful of regional as well as global geopolitics which are influencing the way in which the asean group has to relate to g2, if you like. And i think that that will remain an ongoing challenge for the asean leaders. The countdown to the 620 Leaders Summit this weekend has begun with news that chinese Leader Xi
The Labour Run Council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The pressure on the citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes biggest Local Authority is now in biggest Local Authority is now in big trouble. Its problems began more than a decade ago, when a Landmark Case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. But with the authoritys revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. And that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. The City Council Leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a long standing
Teacher in essex, says he did fill in the survey, but the governments policy on raac changed mid way through the process. I will tell you my comment about yesterdays comment. Its, well, hey, we arent all monks, are we . Weve probably all had our own discretions at times, but they arent always recorded. However, i quite like a compliment when i cook a nice dinner for my wife, but i usually fish for the compliment at the end of the meal, not before ive finished cooking it. So lets wait until we are at the end of this crisis and then well decide who deserves a thank you at the end. Thats really my take on it. With regard to the more recent comment that you just spoke about, well, i dont think that thats aimed at me particularly because i am a school that did fill out the questionnaire that then was then put in touch with the dfe and then the dfe kindly surveyed the school for us and kindly commissioned a report. That report is what identified the fact that we had raac. However, i think th
For more on this, i spoke withjean lee, the former Ap Pyongyang Bureau chief and co host of the bbc podcast, the lazarus heist. Thank you for being back on the programme. First of all, whats the significance of this potential deal between two countries that really are becoming even more isolated on the world stage . I think you laid it out. If the two leaders do meet and arrange a deal of some sort, this is a deal that is possibly going to help the russian president extend that war in ukraine by supplying him with munitions that he desperately needs, and in exchange, possibly, food that north korea needs, but beyond that, quite possibly technology that north korea needs to take its Weapons Programme to the next level, and that certainly has implications that have a far greater reach because it is about Nuclear Proliferation and so it may be that the leaders meet, they hold a high level summit, lots of pomp, lots of propaganda, but it will be interesting to see what they say about any d