And we visit a town in britain where work is becoming increasingly scarce as promised johnson lays out his plan to rescue the economy. About china is about to impose a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised to a one country 2 system policy is now being signed by president xi jinping and will be enforced in the coming hours critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms a german brown has this. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the countrys most powerful political body the Standing Committee of the National Peoples congress in Hong Kong China supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. A contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence an
And various communities, including Alameda County, san ramon, and Silicon Valley, talking to those trying to do something about hunger. And when we examine the situation in Alameda County, we find that one in five residents experience or are at risk of hunger. In fact, about 119,000 are considered food insecure, and an addition 130,000 are marginally food secure. Addressing the need is a daunting task, and that is taken on by the Alameda County Community Food bank. Joining us to talk about whats being done and what needs to be done are director Michael Altfest and outreach associate roy chim. Welcome to the show. Michael altfest thank you for having us. Robert you know, you hear that kind of term, food insecure, and things like that. Give us an idea in terms of what that means. Michael its quite simple. So, when were talking about somebody thats food insecure, theyre literally answering questions like, i do not have enough food to feed my children today. So, these are people who are st
We play with it. Out of it. Even sit honest its hard to imagine modern life without plastic almost 350000000 tons were produced worldwide in 2019 but plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem as the life cycle of an ordinary water bottle. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum the light particle can be found pretty much everywhere. Clean globally every single minute of the day a 1000000 are sold. Placed end to end the plastic bottle sold in 2016 would form a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury. So youve bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens next. In an ideal scenario there will be reuse some can be refilled up to 15 times if theyre washed properly most are not sturdy though. Many end up in a shredder where theyre ground up into flakes of plastic. These can be used to make products like fleece clothing very nice except for the fact that every time the fleece is washed it releases plastic particles into the water. As for the rest of th
Irvine-based Biosense Webster, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, said it’s developed a way to help patients and doctors avoid hour-long doses of radiation when using catheters to treat irregular heartbeats.