A growing scale global trade doesnt always make sense. In todays world goods and services are traded between countries and continents on an unprecedented scale as globalization is credited with boosting Economic Growth free trade is a big honor for the corporations and benefits millions of people around the world but the price for that prosperity say critics is paid by the poor and nowhere is that more visible than in africa. 54 percent of the continents workforce relies on the Agricultural Sector but cheap and often subsidized goods brought in from asia and europe a swamping domestic markets causing prices to plummet. Over 120000 tons of tomato products enter ghana annually thats a 95. 00 fold increase since imports began in 1996 and that boom is taking its toll on local producers. Tomatoes they could be garners red to gold the soil is ideal and they can cultivated in the country for decades yet ghanas tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. There
The opening of londons crossrail project is delayed until 2021 as europes biggest infrastructure scheme is set to go another £650 million over budget. Authorities in australia say an unprecedented number of emergency level bushfires are threatening the state of New South Wales. And on news watch rows but who said what and miss leading editing on campaign. How is the bbc doing with the heat already being generated in this Election Campaign . Join us at 11 16pm here in bbc news. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. A woman has died after being swept away by floodwater as parts of the midlands and Northern England were battered by a months worth of rain in one day. The womans body was recovered from the River Derwent in derbyshire this morning. In yorkshire, people have been evacuated from their homes and theres chaos on the road and rail network. There are now more than 100 flood warnings in place across england and six severe warnings meaning a danger to life in place along the river don
Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
This on the other hand youve got. Some of the completing operators and the potential new entrants who will be picking up some of those this traffic so. I dont think that will offset by any means the the negative impact that this has been short term indeed and in the short term its a travesty who are affected 600000 customers how are all these people going to help to return to their respective countries what sort of planning goes into every patch relation of such a large number of people. Well as i think you said before its sort of the largest post 2nd world war repatriation scheme over it and repurchase since the money was being talked about was purely in the in the case of british tourists aboard. About half a 1000000 have known british tourists who are going back from the u. K. Or from other destinations who need to be repaired show the conditions around them are much less because the british rules are quite good in terms of protecting consumers in places like this one fortunately ha
And busier today the count is 90 once heads of state 6 Vice President s 45 heads of government 5 deputy Prime Ministers the number of meetings requested is now climb to 630 this part of the u. N. The visitors lobby is normally open to the public to join the high level week its one of the most secure places on earth all around the u. N. Temporary rooms are being set up these are what are known as bilateral booth so you can see the leather chairs the table theres room here for 2 or more delegations to meet a short notice if necessary in some privacy. Organizing this event is a mammoth operation insiders have told me just getting the motorcades of president s Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers here so they can speak back to back on the podium is an operation akin to a Traffic Control jamesburg days out 0 of the united nations. The weathers next and then still ahead a break from the past israels main arab parties back former military chief benny gantz the Prime Minister to keep him in t