over 1,000 people have recieved recognition for their service. you are watching bbc news. wyre davies reports for wales investigates on what s killing our rivers? you see herons and dragonflies. you see lots of little shellfish in the shallow parts. sometimes you will see a salmon jumping out of the water. you start to realise that how many people don t have stuff like this, particularly in lockdown, when we were very grateful to have it. these school friends have made the most of a record breaking summer. like thousands of others. but there is something wrong with our rivers. a sad sight to see. it s absolutely devastating what we re finding out here today. in the water, look at this. just look at it. this is algae. it s taking over our rivers and waterways. and when human and animal waste gets into a river, not only is it bad for our health, it is also full of nutrients like phosphate which act as a kind of super food for the algae. and as algae gets into the river, it stri
Three new cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk bringing the total to 19. The new cases include the first in wales a patient who had recently been in northern italy. There are growing fears about the global spread of the virus. That is why i think they have been cautious about explaining what would happen in what they call the reasonable worst case scenario, but given that we are at that Tipping Point i think they are rightly starting to explain in more detail what some of those trade offs might be. The outbreak brings the worst stock market falls since 2008 the bank of england says Economic Growth could be downgraded. If the world is slower than it
otherwise would be the uks very open economy has an impact, but the most important thing is to make sure the system is functioning. We are very confident about that and we are on top of that. Well have the latest on the crisis from our Health Editor and our economics correspondent. Also this lunchtime the teenage activist Greta Thunb
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