as far as we ve been told, there is no trace of sara s father, his partner and sara s uncle. but we have been told by police in pakistan on the ground who are conducting this search on behalf of surrey police that they are widening the area, covering four areas in the country. and they are doing so, they say, because they ve received new information from multiple sources. in london, there s some dispute about how much of an impact the ulez scheme will have on public health in london. but there is considerable evidence that pollution can pose a significant risk. a new report by the energy policy institute of chicago says that living in an area with poor air quality can take an average of 2.2 years off live expectancy, making it one of the greatest external risks to human health.
are in action. joe inwood, bbc news. so, as we ve been hearing, there s considerable dispute about how much of an impact the ulez scheme will have on public health in london. but there is considerable evidence that pollution can pose a significant risk. a new report by the energy policy institute of chicago says that living in an area with poor air quality can take an average of two point two years off live expectancy, making it one of the greatest external risks to human health. here s how researchers say air pollution harms human health. it can affect the brain in foetal development. it s linked to heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases. it can lead to lung cancer, and also can affect the pancreas with type 2 diabetes. for more on this we can speak to navin singh khadka from the bbc world service. just tell us more about what this report has found. sir.
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but there is considerable evidence that pollution can pose a significant risk. a new report by the energy policy institute of chicago says that living in an area with poor air quality can take an average of two point two years off live expectancy, making it one of the greatest external risks to human health. a short while ago we spoke to navin singh khadka, who explained more about the report. this report talks about some of those countries we have been talking about for many years, mostly in south asia, some in africa and also in south east asia. what they are saying is that basically governments particularly in these countries, the majority, for example, only 7% of governments in south asia provide the actual full data on air pollution, air quality, and only 45% of those governments have air quality standards, which explains by and large where this is lacking,
not going to get out of this unless we actually have true vaccine equity and distribution of vaccines in a timely fashion to every country around the world and i think this latest example of omicron puts a fine point on that. new research has found that india s capital delhi, has alarmingly high levels of indoor air pollution. the study by the energy policy institute at the university of chicago found that the levels of pm2.5, the lung damaging tiny particles in the air indoors were substantially higher than those found on the nearest outdoor monitors. but despite that, most households have been unwilling to adopt defence measures. delhi routinely tops the list of world s most polluted capitals . our correspondent there, rajini vaidyanathan, sent this update: this is the world s most polluted capital city. many, many people in the city complain about the toxic air