Into here if they want the daily routine. The battle to lose weight as obesity is found to worsen the effects of coronavirus. We begin in brussels where talks between era leaders on the blocks budget and a crowd of our especially last have gone into all the time the 27 Member States are meeting for a 3rd day to discuss of 857000000000. 00 package to help e. U. Countries cope with the pandemic but theyre divided over how much money can be given out by governments as grants or as loans german chancellor Angela Merkel says shes not sure if a solution will be found. To indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether theyll be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today lets go live now to me
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 we considering manages rivers this is inside story. 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 levies seasonal rains a common in china but this year is flooding has been exceptional and early some en
Scale. An Elementary School and a Community Center designated as an Evacuation Center were flooded. They were dispatched to rescue 242 trap ped evacuees. Translator about 80 people people have been evacuated here including 30 Elementary School students. Its dark inside. We cant put on the lights. The electricity facility was damaged from flood iing. They have been the most affected so far. R. 49 people are confirmed dead. One person has no vital signs and 11 are still missing. Rivers have flooded in a dozen places. Nagasaki prefecture has seen extensive damage. Slopes collapse mud and large rocks blocked the road and a district saw flooding from a nearby river. Now for more details on the torrential rain and what to watch out for, lets turn to get the latest. We have an active rainy season that lingers. Rain has fallen since last week. As of tuesday morning, rainfall has reached almost a thousand millimeters and more than 800 millimeters. Thats twice as much as Monthly Average rainfall
119 new cases were confirmed in tokyo on monday. The increase brings the total number of confirmed cases to more than 8,000 in the city of 14 million people. Many of the recent cases are young people who work at or have visited night life districts. But officials have confirmed Group Infections in other areas too. A total of 27 children and staff at a nursery in central tokyo have been infected. At a theater, 16 actors, 5 staff members, and 9 patrons are also among the latest numbers. Clustered infections were confirmed at two hospitals near tokyo. Translator some cases may be derived from night life districts, but there are invisible threads of infection at other places. I believe Community Transmission is beginning to occur on the local level. He says japan should gradually resume social and Economic Activities while closely monitoring the situation. In okinawa, 98 people connected to the u. S. Military have been infected including 71 from the futenma air station. More than 22,000 pe
Preparations committee worked on 2021 spending today, earlier they debated interior and Environmental Department spending which included several amendments, your congresswoman chairs the committee. Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. And before we begin, they require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. Been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, it borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee f