they are usable in a variety of different applications. for example, our footwear components here contains the fishing nets. so these are in people s shoes? these are in people s shoes, yes, so people walking around with some of our customers shoes on, they will have some fishing net in them. incredible, so it has gone from being a net to footwear. yeah, absolutely, yes. it is a small step forward in what will be a long journey cleaning up our polluted oceans. jonah fisher, bbc news, in brixham harbour. 0k, time fora 0k, time for a look at the weather. after incredibly dry summer, we need some rain and we had some across the hills in the north west of the uk but there wasn t very much rainfall across the southeast last week. looking at the weather picture this week, the rain initially will be falling mostly across the north west of the uk until thursday. that is when we will see heavier rain working across england and wales bringing useful falls of rain. working across eng
with ukraine s president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. leeds university has expressed dismay after one of its phd students was jailed for 3h years after tweets criticising the regime. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their firm or insurance choice university. the proportion of students in england, wales and northern ireland getting top a level grades has fallen since the record high of last year, but is higher than 2019. around 36.4% of pupils have achieved a star and a grades. and for the new t level exams where students split time between classroom learning and industry placements the overall pass rate is 92%. our education corres
Business. Hsbc promises £10 billion infunding for business. Hsbc promises £10 billion in funding for small firms, but what difference will it really make . I will speak to the boss later. In sport, Englands Paul Casey is the pick of the european challengers at the us open. A first round of six under par sees him just a shot off the leader Rickie Fowler at golfs second major of the year. And sarah has the weather. Thatin that in about ten minutes. First, our main story police are warning they may never be able to identify some of those who died in the fire at Grenfell Tower in west london on tuesday night. 17 bodies have been found so far, but the number of fatalities is expected to rise significantly. Andy moore reports. The first victim of the fire to be officially named is mohammed alhajali, Assyrian Refugee who came to britain for a better life. His brother was led to safety by firefighters but in the chaos and confusion bahama got left behind. Firefighters but in the chaos and co
Officials here, Cabinet Secretaries and this is trumpian self had been talking about the rationale behind it, a set was aimed as a response to the Chemical Weapons attack, that it was a limited strike, a tactical one, it was proportional, they say, because it targeted the airbase that was connected to the strike, it was from where the aircraft launched the Weapons Attack, the Chemical Weapons attack, it did do a lot of damage at that race but they tried very hard not to kill anybody there, they want the russians who work with the Syrian Military before they struck, said it was very much aimed at warning the Syrian Regime not to carry out such attacks again and it wasnt opening a wider front, the Secretary Of State has said in the civil war, it wasnt opening up front in the war against bashar al asaad, it was connected to the attack itself. It was done quickly, so attack itself. It was done quickly, so the message that this would not be tolerated but it was also carefully planned to be
Strike by the us on syria. We will get the inside track on how facebook is stepping up the fight against fake news and the rest of the weeks big tech stories including a story on tesla. Talking of fa ke including a story on tesla. Talking of fake news its currently a hot topic so today we want to know which stories have caught you out and how did you realise . Let us know, just use the hashtag bbc biz live. A warm welcome to the programme. The us president has been holding his first face to face meeting with his chinese counterpart. Trade and north korea were supposed to be at the top of the agenda but the summit has been overshadowed by the us carrying out missile strikes on Syrian Government air bases. Those were in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack this week. In florida, donald trump said discussions with xi had been long and he was confident they would develop a great relationship. They are the leaders of the worlds two biggest economies and they have been expected to