Mps and peers call for Long Covid to be recognised as an occupational disease, but the bbc has been told key workers may face a year long wait for a decision on compensation. Police searching for the remains of Mary Bastholm, missing since the 1960s, are to excavate a Gloucester Cafe linked to serial killer Fred West. President biden says the us is working to secure a ceasefire, after more than a week of violence between israel and palestinian militants. He urges both sides to protect civilians. And coming up this hour just 20 companies produce more than half of all the single Use Plastic thrown away Around The World, according to a Climate Change report. Ministers are stepping up calls for people to accept a Covid Vaccination as soon as theyre offered one. There are fears the spread of the India Variant could jeopardise The End of Lockdown Restrictions next month and a review into Social Distancing expected next week may be delayed. There are now 2,323 confirmed cases of the strain in
Stricter stronger gun laws and so where is the american public on its rights to bat as they seemingly never ending catalogue of mass shootings changE Minds at all. Also i was in boulder myself just some 2 weeks ago and talked to friends of victims who got shot in the supermarket just across the university so i think its fair to say that a majority of the younger americans really has been in favor or are in favor of stricter gun controls such as tougher background checks and more restrictions on these 3 d. Printers which i will to print guns but there are so many who really are fighting and they have a long strong strong lobby behind them are fighting stricter laws and this moment i think they will be still really very loud in this whole discussion. In a holding Washington Bureau Chief thank you. To brazil the president says his country will remain open even as its daily covert 19 Death Toll Approaches World Record levels infectious ferentz and slow Vaccine Roll out further complicating
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Im Melissa Chan thank you for joining us South Koreas 2 biggest cities and seoul have held their mayoral elections and the results show a conservative sweep this could mean trouble for president progressive democratic party particularly with president ial elections taking place in just under a year Frank Smith reports the election of new mayors for their Capital City saw all here in the Port City of busan might not seem that important because after all theyre just by elections and the numers only hold office for a vote 14 months but they are indicative of a broader Sea Change in so crean politics if we go back just a year the democratic party 180. 00 out of 300 seats at the countrys national assembly and then of Course Yesterday they took a trouncing the question is how is. Fluent chill will this result be in terms of next Years President ial elections to take place in a boat 11 months are we going to see the conservatives hold on to a favorable public sentiment if we do then were goin
Of live Lives Profit driven. And globally connected. Or has this pandemic sparked irrevocable change. How we live in the future. After the pandemic. Hello and welcome to covert 900. 1 this week were taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic for what it means for cities 2 economies and even nutrition a recent study has linked higher obesity rates with higher Cova Death rates the World Obesity Federation report says Cova Death rates were 10 times higher in countries where the population was on average overweight further almost 90 percent of Cova Deaths occurred in countries with high obesity rates the report calls for people living with obesity to have Priority Access to vaccines. Meanwhile the pandemic itself has increased Hunger And Malnutrition around parts of the world to brazil for the 1st time a whopping half of brazilians dont have access to safe nutritious food thats according to reddy pence on a local Food Research Group lines are swelling by the day at soup kitchens and Fo