Also tonight, france finally has a prime minister. You will know him he is the former Brexit Negotiator Michel barnier. Parliament. He will need all his skills to Negotiate a raucus french parliament. And not entirely immune from prosecution. Trump pleads not guilty, as his Jan 6 case returns to court in washington. Welcome to the programme. The Waterways here in britain are awash with Records Amount of sewage. Today, the governement announced a new bill that will beef up the powers of the Water regulator. In future the Water Bosses in england and wales will face 2 years in prison if theyre found to have obstructed an investigation into a Sewage Spill and their bonuses will be blocked if they fail to meet environmental and financial standards. But activists say it is not enough. The system is broken, and that current regulations arent being enforced. Heres our environment correspondentjonah fisher. Profits and pollution. For years, our Water Companies have paid out dividends to shareho
Oh. It is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier but with a renewed. The i could immediately cotulla to shauns in paris is a balance of knowledge regarding old plan for. Between the old agronomy publications we find something special. In nutrition all composition table for fruits and vegetables it is 60 years old. It lists the fisherman and mineral content of each and every variety. And indeed over the last 60 years many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some if they need traditional. So how did this happen. They did this american biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject. Im here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of nutritional declines in foods. Davis works at the university of alston texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950 and 999. I think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield when you score up those nice nutrients per weig
Southern france they got. One of the last traditional seems pretty says in france lives that. John luke does not produce hybrid tomatoes. He creates what he calls old pariahs here. This is how we have 10 seeds. They go in a seed stay on the bottom and the skin close to the tongue has to look to you to. Everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves. Cycled through to the farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds and they were very careful when producing them for the weeks for some of you ate the tomatoes yourself but the seeds were always the most important thing a small today no farmer produces them anymore but the Big Companies do that. A dying tradition yes almost an orthodox i teach. In this greenhouse theres only cultivates only the old farm growing ts. 100 percent. Effective also it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it is that to make the most of the space i squeeze the tomatoes in close toget
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Leader of spains catalonia region says the balance. And signals from london and brussels that a brics that within reach a sticking points over the irish border remain. A high level u. S. Delegation is on its way to turkey to meet president regift 5 editha one hoping to convince him to call off an offensive a north east and syria secretary of state mike pompei o and wise president mike pence will try to broker a cease fire deal between the turks and the kurds which prompts decision to pull troops from Northern Syria has met with criticism as worries grow about the fate of the kurds and the release of isis fighters currently jailed in the region so as the operation enters its 2nd week Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters the battling in. Strategic want to talk to. Uncle it says it took control of the area days ago but its hold appears uncertain its all struck that has more from the turkish Syrian Border. Street to street fighting in the Syrian Border town of russell i mean. Hes a kurdish