Is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e. U. Does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you consumers about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e. U. Is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulator that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. Or different station all right thank you so much for your thoughts on that. Thank you. South African Business is a begun paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight Climate Change one of africas biggest economies is hoping the move will help force big to change. Has more from me in the province. South africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africas worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fo
Now theyre getting paid their full salary. And a good salary still feeling secure were getting our full cellar is now ok but we cant be sure that will be the case next month there are 1400000 people working for the government and Public Sector in the semiautonomous region of Northern Iraq they watch their paychecks shrink or disappear beginning in 2014 thats when the war with ice will began the price of oil plummeted and the federal government in baghdad cut budget payments to the Kurdistan Regional government austerity measures were implemented and workers paid the price with reduced salary. The dispute has been resolved the new Prime Minister who came to power this year says the estimated 10000000000. 00 thats owed to Public Sector employees will be paid although hes not given a timeframe the government says unemployment has dropped from 14 percent in 2016 to 9 percent so far this year theres more confidence among people like businessmen come out aga he develops residential and comme
Pathways such as family reunification process is reuniting parents with children for example but also humanitarian missions private sponsorship schemes where private citizens can sponsor refugees educational scholarships theres many ways we can do this to get people out of harms way and in terms of the lack of political well there where where are we getting hung up on this why these things not happening. Well we now have one person dying on the Mediterranean Sea for every 6 people that reaches european shows so you know that there is now a stark question facing states on both sides of the mediterranean about whether to come together and develop a common harmonized approach to shares responsibility among states for addressing the situation or whether we continue to turn a blind eye to refugees losing their lives or see charlie actually that from the u. N. Thanks for joining us on out there. Still ahead on this. And now that major layoffs in the global car industry best time yes and that
Are celebrating what was a monumental victory the reality is this island needs good leadership it needs to tackle shuji economic and other problems on the island as well as recovering from that hurricane so while the celebrations are continuing today this is an island that is still very much in crisis its still very much lee needs good solid leadership and one that these 2 women face and its own people how correspondent Andrew Gallant keeping an eye on developments for us and from on thank you randi. Plenty more ahead on this news hour including north korea fires missiles into the sea just weeks after agreeing to restart new kid talks but the United States. And a very french drenching people are cooling off with parts of europe in the clutches of yet another heat wave. And in sports the young boxer who is following in his famous fathers footsteps will be here with that story. Now in his 1st speech to m. P. s as britains new Prime Minister Barak Johnson has asked the European Union to t
wanted to sign off. gareth southgate s team will be amongst the strongest sides in pot i for the finals draw a week on saturday. yet these last two matches against the weakest teams in the group were disappointing. debutant rico lewis was unfortunate to concede a penalty which, although it was saved by pickford, the macedonian captain bardi followed up to score. a headerfrom a corner by harry kane on as a substitute forced an own goal for the equaliser. but otherwise, on a difficult, newly re laid pitch, england struggled to break macedonia down. and so it was far from the uplifting end to the campaign they d been hoping for. i have to be pleased with the progress of the team. if you d said at the start of the campaign that we would be 8 wins, 2 draws at the end of the year, it s a pretty good record, and we can now start to look forward and we ve got these two exciting games in march to look forward to and prepare for. so, yeah, i think we ve done a lot of things well