Its one of the largest dams in the world and its being so barely tested by the worst floods china has seen in decades the 3 gorges dam was once a school for great and National Pride but what impact of such mega projects have on people and the environment and how is beijing now reconsidering manages rivers this is inside story. Thank you. Thank you. And welcome to the program im laura caro its been described as a once in a generation event floods have swamped large parts of southern and Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades many people of dead or missing whole villages are inundated a 1000000 of people displaced the Economic Losses in dollars all believed to be in the billions nearly 2 months of intense rains have swelled 433. 00 rivers with water in some reaching record levels trying to authorities or raise flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levees seasonal rains a common in china but this year is flooding has been exceptional and ear
24000000. 00 people are being affected plus. It took me a long time to get well about 6 weeks before any sort of normal again because i talked with a former covert 19 patient from new zealand to tells us what life is like today. 14000000 people have now been infected with covert 19 globally and more than 600000 people have died of endemic has appended our daily lives in many wondering how close we are to a vaccine over such as around the world of racing to develop more than 150. 00 potential vaccines there are 4 that are providing some positive results there is the university of oxford test is an echo which is testing its vaccine in large numbers of people in the u. K. South africa and brazil its expected to release the results of its 1st human Clinical Trial shortly on a strain on the university of melbourne and childrens Research Institutions also conducting phase 3 trials and Chinese Companies sign of act and sort of farm have both moved into phase 3 testing in brazil and in the u.
Positive, including more than 700 cases from the cruise ship. One Infectious Disease expert is calling on people to become vigilant saying the number of seriously ill patients have been increasing. He says local medical services need to swiftly improve their capacity in case of a further spike in cases and deaths. Health officials in japan are ramping up pretesting as cases grow. Tokyo is now regularly seeing daily case numbers five times higher than those seen when internal travel restrictions were eased. There were 168 new cases in the capital on monday. Slightly fewer than the 200 plus cases it saw for many days over the past two weeks. The latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in the capital to over 9500. Moving forward, people who live or work in neighborhoods considered high risk will be able to get tested free of cost. Previously publicly funded tests were only available to those who had close contact with infected people. Among the latest cases are many young
This half hour how could with 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times for the movie business. Who begin in brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting for an extended day to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout package the budget is an unprecedented amount of money about 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars look at all those zeros that includes 857000000000 to help countries recover from the pandemic but the leaders can also agree on how the funds should be distributed to countries who need them the most live now to any barker who is following that story for us this half hour so neve is it beginning to look as if no ones going to blink 1st and say yeah we can all get go with this and get on to the same page. Well i mean thats the hope. In the last 20 minutes or so the austrian chancellor suggested that he did feel that some progress was being made and the possibly by the end of the day this the 3rd day of talks they might well be in agreement but all of that is very mu
Killed a top iranian general earlier this year and a warning from activists in the pandemic and lockdowns of putting women at risk. So that a you may sing in brussels thats still going on and even with the Global Pandemic and everything its brought there is still no consensus over how europe deals with the economic fallout they deserve into the 3rd day of meetings to hammer out a budget and a coronavirus buyout package and just so you know the kind of numbers were dealing with this one for a start 2. 00 trillion dollars that is the European Union budget and on precision to now and then within that number youve got this 1857000000000. 00 which is taught in significant in itself that is to help countries recover from the pandemic but that is also where the divisions begin on the one side you have for socalled. All countries who favor loans rather than straight out grants are europes 4 biggest and arguably most influential economies one the opposite there are also personal disputes to ove