now on bbc news, our world stephen mcdonell travels across china and meets people struggling to stay afloat with their country showing no signs of abandoning its zero covid policy. when it comes to the fight against the coronavirus, one country stands alone. elsewhere, vaccines have meant learning to live with the virus. not in china. no income. this is my lowest point and, you know, as a man i can t do anything. each outbreak is still being met with strict measures to return an area to no new infections. it has held back the death rates and stopped hospitals from being swamped. but it s also exhausting the population and hammering the economy. with no clear exit strategy, how long can china keep this up? this is the outskirts of beijing, and when you cross that river you are actually crossing into neighbouring hubei province and the town of yanzhou. now, yanzhou is a popular place to live for people with more modest incomes, because they can afford to pay the rent here a
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Above that level of poverty according to the un. Today is the United Nations International Day for the eradication of poverty, something Global Leaders committed to do in 2015 that established the uns Sustainable Development goals. So, why is solving global poverty proving so difficult . Joining me now is Luis Felipe Lopez calva, global director for poverty and equity at the world bank. A very warm welcome to the programme. This is such a big issue and we have a few minutes in the world of television which is not enough time, but in your opinion, why is this problem getting worse and not better . ~ problem getting worse and not better . , ~ ,. ,. Problem getting worse and not better . , ~ ,. ~ , better . Thank you very much. As ou ve better . Thank you very much. As you very well better . Thank you very much. As you very well explained, better . Thank you very much. As you very well explained, the you very well explained, the world agreed that poverty would be our objective number one
Engines, Nuclear Power plants for submarines, defence and civil aerospace, and the problem they have identified is that it is underperforming relative to its peers, so when he came into thejob he promised to shake things up, and what he wants to do is take the three big divisions that make up rolls royce, civil, aerospace, defence and a Company Called Power Systems in germany that makes large engines, and bring them close together, rationalise them, meaning there will be a lot of duplication in back Office Functions that can be got rid of, so that is where we expect the job cuts to happen, other parts of the business, its Nuclear Submarines business, we dont expect cuts there, and in civil aerospace, people who make engines, a lot of those job cuts will trend back during the pandemic, in fact rolls royce is now recruiting in those areas so that is unlikely to feel a big impact, those areas so that is unlikely to feela big impact, one of those areas so that is unlikely to feel a big imp