election has been delayed, after concerns were raised that hackers could influence the outcome. a stark warning that the number of households with no savings is set to double to 5.3 million by 2024 due to the rising cost of living. and it s 50 years since nearly 30,000 ugandan asians began to arrive in the uk after being forced to flee their homes by uganda s then military ruler. we ve been hearing some of their stories. the speaker of the us house of representatives nancy pelosi has met the taiwanese president during a visit that s been strongly condemned by the chinese government. taiwan is self ruled, but beijng sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it. it s an island roughly 100 miles from the coast of south east china. china took the island from japan in 1945 after world war two, but after a civil war in china, defeated nationalist forces fled to taiwan. today it sees itself as an independent country, with its own constitution and democratical
Canada has appointed a veteran Mi'kmaw fisheries manager to the international agency that sets quotas for commercial species of tuna and swordfish in the Atlantic.Hubert Nicholas of Membertou First Nation was named as one of two commissioners representing Canadian interests at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) over the weekend.He joins another recent appointee, environmentalist Katie Schleit of the non-profit conservation group Oceans North. Commissioner
used to hearing about shark attacks in far flung waters on the other side of the world. that s why the news of an incident off the atlantic coast of cornwall last week has caused such shock among the local community. the maritime coastguard agency says a snorkeler suffered a leg injury after reportedly being bitten by a blue shark close to the harbour town of penzance. the british based charity the shark trust says until now, there have been no unprovoked shark bites in british waters since 1847, when records began. hannah rudd is a marine biologist and told us this incredibly rare incident should not put people off getting into the water. blue sharks, the species that was involved in this particular incident, is a species that s typically found ten miles or more offshore. they live in the open ocean. they are what we call a pelagic species of shark and they re highly migratory. so they visit uk waters during the summer months
The last 12 months have been the best year ever for Norwegian seafood exports. Norway exported 3.1 million tonnes of seafood worth NOK 120.8 billion in 2021..
Norway exported seafood worth NOK 8.7 billion in February. This figure represents a decrease of NOK 482 million, or 5 per cent, compared with February last year, and continues the downward trend that started in January. Although seafood markets are still strongly affected by the corona pandemic, the value of seafood exports in February is the second-highest February on record. This is partly because record-high volumes of individual species like salmon and herring have been exported , says Renate Larsen, CEO of the Norwegian Seafood Council.
A nuanced picture
In February, most species export value fell, except for king crab and herring, compared to the record-strong February of 2020.