This is bbc news. The headlines. Three people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of five migrants in the English Channel on tuesday. In a world of rising new threats the uk and germany announce stronger Defence Cooperation to counter the threat from russia. President biden confirms that more Military Assistance will be sent to ukraine within days after the Us Senate Approves a long awaited aid bill. Canada is hosting talks aimed at reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a round up of all the sports news. Lets go over to the sports centre. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Liverpool could have found their man to replacejurgen klopp. The club are set to open talks with feyenoord over their manager arne slot. Klopp announced injanuary he would leave anfield at the end of the season and slot, who led feyenoord to the eredivisie title last season, has emerged as a candidate who fits liverp
Who will reportedly be the first witness called by the prosecution . Lets talk about the trial this weekend. All weekend long. Twitter was going wild. Also ahead, it appears ukraine will finally get the critical funding it needs after the house passed a package of foreign aid bills which includes more Military Support for israel, as well. The bill now heads to the Senate Despite efforts by Marjorie Taylor greene, who got called out, yes, by the new york post. Kind of sums it up. It does. Good morning. It is monday, april 22nd. Welcome back the morning joe. Former aide to the Bush State Department and white house, elise jordan. From the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And financial editor at the financial times, ed luce is with us. Well get to the lead story in one moment, which are Opening Statements in Donald Trumps hush money trial. First, jon meacham, i dont want to ever be melodramatic on things like this, but that saturday vote was one that wil
The forefront of trying to get our arms around, their arms around this plastic pollution problem. From kuing it out of our drinking water. There are 95 of u. S. Drinking Water Systems have plastic in them. The biden administration just promulgated a rule to take some of the most toxic, forever chemicals, the most toxic of these chemicals out of our Water Systems. Theyve also promulgated a rule to take it out of the air. Every person, every year, inhales 22 Million pieces of plastic, microplastic, a year. Getting it out of the air is incredibly important. The biden administration has taken this on. And the Trump Administration ignored this problem. Of course, they cared more about what the Chemicals Industry and the Oil And Gas industry cared about rather than what people need and care about. Plastic is the lifeline for the Oil And Gas industry. As we cut back on our use of Oil And Gas in cars and
We are seeing an inundation of Plastic Pollution in the ocean, as well. There are 21,000 pieces of plastic in the ocean for every person on this planet. Our oceans are getting walloped, and were finding plastic in our food web, in us. I really think today, we ought to be thinking about this as people or plastic. Right. Plastic is incredibly harmful to humans, and there is a global environmental negotiation going on today, right now, in ottawa, canada, to try to get a handle on this horrible Plastic Pollution Problem thats really damaging both the environment and humans. So thats my next question for you, monica. How does this happen . Because in reading some of the information that goes along with this, youre right, its showing up in breastmilk, in human tissue, in the digestive track,
The new local law establishes a moratorium on the construction and operation of any facility that converts or attempts to convert plastics, tire derived chips, tire chips, and/or electronic waste into fuel or feedstock through various conversion processes, including pyrolysis or gasification, for one year. The local law declared an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public peace, welfare, and safety.