Freedom day insists journalists are crucial to battling it. And urban music loses one of its most cherished ambassadors we look back on the life and legacy of algerian singer edith. Thank you very much for joining us Afghanistans Health Ministry is raising an alarm over the spread of coronavirus a small study with random tests in kabul suggests that a 3rd of the residents could be affected meanwhile russia has reported a 50 percent rise in the rate of infections over the past 3 days with more than 10600. 00 new cases on sunday but the government says the mortality rate has slowed. And just as spaniards are enjoying the outdoors a country is reporting a fall in covert 1000 deaths with 164 fatalities the Health Ministry says infections have been the lowest in nearly 7 weeks now the number of people have died from corona virus in the u. K. Has nearly reached out of europes worst affected country italy the British Government announced 621. 00 more deaths on sunday taking his total death to
Journalists through intimidation and arrests. The better music muses one of its most cherished ambassadors we look back on the life and legacy of algerian singer if the. Sporting corruption says corona virus has created a perfect storm of opportunity for criminals a lack of action and income is making athletes more vulnerable to illegal approaches. So theyve officially recorded less than 3000 coronavirus cases but afghan officials are worried about just how bad the rate may really be random testing on several 100 people in the capital kabul is painting a disturbing picture it suggests that one 3rd of the city with a population of over 4000000. Could be infected russias number is that russias numbers are also on the rise its reported a 50 percent jump in the rate of infections over the past 3 days with more than 10600 new cases recorded on sunday but the government says the mortality rate has slowed and just as spaniards are enjoying the outdoors the country is reporting a decline in ca
And just say, i have a few slides from some of the cleanups that our newest staff member has been conducting. You can see that these plastic bags that are supposed to be reusable are also being considered litter. They are easily littered. We do need to get people to have an incentive for people to bring, to switch to the truly reusable bags. Thank you very much. Good afternoon chair peskin, supervisor brown and haney. My name is kathy brown and i work for the general manager there, we are a manufacturer of the supermarket packaging, the reusable bag as well as the precheckout bag. I am here in support of supervisor browns ordinance, much to probably my surprise and others. We manufacturer Sustainable Packaging items including compostable precheckout bags. We can work with your department of environment to ensure that the bags fit in the compost pile and to ensure there is an Education Program so that consumers know how to properly use and dispose of the compostable produce back. We hav
Russian trade and currencies other than the dollar india is now looking to make a purchase of russian arms including the us 400. 00 air Defense System in your rose in an effort to avoid u. S. Sanctions according to the Economic Times despite sanctions indias government said they will not stop purchasing russian arms but many Financial Institutions felt pressured and shied away from processing the transactions earlier this month russias vitti bank agreed to receive payment in euros rather than the traditional transaction. And then other news about International Sanctions and how to work around them the European Union is finally moving forward with a system to enable trade with iran after the United States neg on the 2015 Nuclear Agreement and the reimposed sanctions the 3 remaining partners to this socalled p 5 plus one agreement france germany and for now the u k. Announced on friday that the instrument in support of trade exchanges or instax is now operational the group is calling its
Qualitative view. They did not do a baseline before. What they are finding now is that they can say through survey data, that 90 percent of the time when the person enters a store, they are bringing in a bag. It does delay the need to have some good baseline data. The country of ireland did a similar thing where they started out about, oh gosh, about 21 cents per bag. What was interesting in ireland when they put in their 20 cents per bag they saw a huge change in behavior. Over time people acclimated to that cost of doing business, and there use of Reusable Bags and started to drop off. When they prodded people again with a raise in the fee, they saw the behavior that they wanted again. They saw a drop off of purchase of bags and an increase in using reusable. For our own data in San Francisco. After the ordinance was put in effect after about 2013. We did an informal survey of compliance as well as behavior. We found a rough estimate of about 60 percent. By right to me would be a pla