Struggles to cope. The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a devastating impact on the Travel Industry in one of these places is the Galapagos Islands. Tourists go there to see the unique flora and fauna and other industries continue. These services are essential. This is a place of beauty, of natural wonder, but it can also be a place of effort and hard work. Maria Elena Guerra tends to her coffee plants. Her plantation produces 70 tonnes of the stuff per year, but customers are often surprised when they find out whos in charge. Translation there are many women working in the fields i but it is the men seen at the forefront. Its the face people want to do business with. Its a similar story across the islands. Thousands of hectares of Arable Land and its women who do much of the farming. We know from the figures that officially almost 75 of the farms are in the husbands name, but those who go to the fields and those who do the work are mainly the women. In puerto ayora, the most populous town
Our goal Byjuly 4th is to have 70 of adult americans with at least one shot. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in Mexico City 2a people dead, a Rail Bridge collapsed, many more injured and a perilous Rescue Effort underway. That is the toll from one Train Plunging into a City Street after the overpass simply gave way under the train s weight. The exact cause of the incident is still to be determined but officials said it appeared that a girder had given way on the bridge at the Olivos Station in the south of the capital. Local residents say that the bridge had cracks in its structure, believed to have been caused by an earthquake four years ago. And the overpass itself was only built in the last ten years. You may find some of the images in will grants report distressing. The scene of devastation at Mexico Citys subway was reminiscent of one of the citys many earthquakes, but this was not a natural disaster, rather it was a man made one, on the newer stretch of Subway Track
massive bills across the finish line. a live report from the site of the president s appearance as you look there live shortly. we will discuss the president s problems both at home and abroad with republican senator tom cotton here in studio in a few minutes. correspondent rich edson starts us off with the very latest from the north lawn. good evening, rich. good evening, bret. senate democrats say they have reached a compromise corporate tax bill one they say would hit the top 200 hundreds of billions of dollars over the next next decade and helped save president biden special spending plan. we know that we are close to a deal being signed. and let mable explicitly clear, our footprint and fingerprint are on this deal. senior democrats from several congressional groups meet with president biden to shape a multitrillion dollars social spending plan. moderate democrats are also meeting with the president. i said mr. president, i don t know what happened this cannot ha
from the balkans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday.. hello, and welcome to newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 3am in the devastated ukrainian city of mariupol, where it s hoped the coming hours will see civilian evacuations resume after rescue efforts stalled on monday. hundreds of women and children are sheltering in the tunnels beneath a sprawling steelworks, some haven t seen daylight for weeks. the azovstal plant is surrounded by russian troops. on sunday, aid agencies oversaw the rescue of around 100 people who were evacuated to nearby zaporizhzhia, from where our correspondent laura bicker reports. a short break to feel grass under theirfeet, after weeks of only concrete. the survivors from mariupol are allowed a break in their long awaited journey away from the front line. translation: for a month we were eating - over 40 l of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them and that was it for the whole day. weeping trans