This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am here in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan, and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing government, is about to stop most of that, and it could have a Significant Impact on recycling industry worldwide. Robin brant reports from shanghai. China has been recycling for decades. Hes made a living out of bashing, breaking up, and disassembling. Hes been doing it for five years. Its hard work, he tells me. Tiring. But hes not a green warrior. He does it because theres money in it. China needs the raw materials, so much so that Chinese Workers have been sorting through your waste shipped in fro
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 9am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste, much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing government, is about to stop most of that, and it could have a Significant Impact on recycling industry worldwide. Robin brant reports from shanghai. China has been recycling for decades. Hes made a living out of bashing, breaking up, and disassembling. Hes been doing it for five years. Its hard work, he tells me. Tiring. But hes not a green warrior. He does it because theres money in it. China needs the raw materials, so much so that Chinese Workers have been sorting through your waste, shipped in from abroad. But the government is stopping that
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Diswhref good evening. Thanks for joining us. 49 turkish hostages who were held captive by isis militant for more than three months were welcomed home today by overjoyed relatives and friend. Theyd be seized from the turbic consulate in the northern iraqi city of mosul which had been overrun by the militant. Detailed of the freed hostages cappities are vague but one set free was quoted as saying the group had been moved eight times and added, we had toughidize, very bad days. Analyst believe freeing of the hostages, among them children, diplomatics and Turkish Special forces, might pave the way for turke
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Diswhref good evening. Thanks for joining us. 49 turkish hostages who were held captive by isis militant for more than three months were welcomed home today by overjoyed relatives and friend. Theyd be seized from the turbic consulate in the northern iraqi city of mosul which had been overrun by the militant. Detailed of the freed hostages cappities are vague but one set free was quoted as saying the group had been moved eight times and added, we had toughidize, very bad days. Analyst believe freeing of the hostages, among them children, diplomatics and Turkish Special forces, might pave the way for turke
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight in indonesia, where search teams have found four large objects on the sea floor. The objects are believed to be parts of air asia flight 8501, which went down last sunday with 162 people on board. The airbus a320, traveling from surabaya indonesia to singapore, disappeared less than half way into what was supposed to have been just under a twohour flight. So far, at least 30 bodies have been recovered. Difficult weather conditions are slowing the International Search effort. Waves as high as 16 feet have been reported in the area. translat