Sirens wailing and flags at half staff china honors its victims including Health Care Workers. Also air Water Pollution may have been improving but another environmental problem is piling up medical waste. Another 708 people have died from coven 1000 in the United Kingdom its biggest daily its in a 3 week lockdown right now to try to slow these infections down which are now above 42000 but warmer weather this weekend could tempt people to be outdoors there is potentially better news from europes the worst affected country that is italy its seen its 1st drop in patients receiving intensive care elsewhere the u. N. Is warning the pandemic could put another 8000000 people into. Extreme poverty all across latin america. He would tell us about that from colombia we will also have mike hanna and washington d. C. With details of the latest numbers from new york are just cochairman tony is in milan italy will go to him and now mary joins us live from london so lets start with merriam samarium
Can the coronavirus curve be flattened some countries say their fast responses managed to slow the pandemic but the disease is still spreading so what will it take to control it this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby now the number of people infected by courbet 19 is more than 1000000 globally the number who have died is almost 60000 the United States currently has the highest number of infections italy the biggest number of deaths yet some countries appear to be succeeding at flattening the curve the number of new cases each day appears to be falling in nations such as taiwan canada south korea and iceland theyve all shown that the rate of infections can be slowed down the u. S. Which has been criticized for a slow and ineffective response seems to have now become the main center of the pandemic but the u. S. President all trump says he has just the man to help tackle the crisis his Senior Adviser and son in law jared cushion or is leading the Coronaviru
Donald trump has always said hell be tough on china and now hes signed a deal with beijing he says it will correct what he calls the mistakes of the past but this is really the beginning of the end of the trade war between the u. S. And china and who stands to gain or lose this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey after more than 2 years of escalating tariffs and a seemingly never ending trade war the u. S. And china have a grade on a 1st step towards a truce if it holds it could be a boost for u. S. President donald trump internet lection year but who will benefit the most from this initial phase of a broader trade agreement china has promised open up its markets and buy more u. S. Goods and exchange the u. S. Will lift some tariffs yet most will stay in place and thats where the problems start well get to our discussion with our gas shortly 1st mike hanna reports. It was another white house ceremony crowded with have to remember the whole bake this and
A lot of money involved the Global Market for Waste Recycling is worth 300000000000. 00 thats according to consultants from frost and sullivan Plastics Recycling alone is estimated to account for 37600000000. 20 between 1950 to 2078 point 3000000000 metric tons of plastic has been produced so lets put that in context thats a quibble and 25000. 00 empire state buildings or thats enough to cover the entire country of argentina were still 3 quarters of all plastic produces now and landfills or in the ocean only 9 percent gets recycled and 12 percent isnt center rated. Over 25 years china imported 106000000 metric tons or 45 percent of all Plastic Waste and china will only by Plastic Waste it is 99. 9 percent pure in other words recyclable exporters mostly from rich nations scramble to find new markets such was the scale of chinas imports countries like malaysia indonesia thailand and vietnam were soon swapped and unable to cope it took the philippines 6 years to send 60 containers of toxi
vietnam to take urgent steps to protect the muslims. and hoping to halt so-called birth tourism the u.s. imposes new visa rules for pregnant women traveling to the country. the karada virus outbreak continues to spread with authorities in china saying the number of infected people has risen to move an 837 others have died from the illness bringing the total number of those killed in china to 25 the world health organization has acknowledged there is an emergency in china but said it s too early to declare it a global one chinese officials are working to contain the spread of the respiratory illness will harm the city where the virus started transport has been shut down several of the cities are also under lockdown health officials are worried transmission rates could increase as millions travel to celebrate the lunar new year which begins on saturday now al-jazeera is scott heide le is standing by for us in beijing we ll be speaking to him in just a moment about how china is