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Are thought to still be on furlough. alex penn runs a company, which looks after sound at gigs and festivals. as you can imagine, his business isnt generating any income. we provide sound systems for live events ranging from arena shows, festivals, last weekend we would have been doing the wedding in leeds festival. we do mainstage and second stage on both sides, so a very busy weekend for us. this year, obviously none of that is happening. we put around 170 staff onto the furlough scheme, leavi...

The fate of its 170 staff, whove so far had their wages subsidised by the state. the fact that our costs would be ramping up in relation to the furlough scheme, as of september the 1st, that was when we decided we needed to go through our initial round of redundancies. so we entered a consultation period injuly, we spoke to everybody in the company. we wanted to make sure that we were preparing ourselves for the worst. with social distancing requirements a challenge, more than half of those in t...

Raise money for other aspiring doctors. doctors. in san diego, california. weve had a ton of obstacles in finding ways to be more sustainable for a big company. we were one of the first stations to pilot a fleet of zero emissions electric vehicles. the amazon vans have a decal that says, "shipment zero." were striving to deliver a package with zero emissions in to the air. i feel really proud of the impact that has on the environment. but were always striving to be better. i love being outdoors,...

This is bbc news, im ben brown. the headlines... tributes tojohn hume — the nobel peace prize winner who helped end the troubles in northern ireland — whos died at the age of 83. i have to say on this sad day that we would not have the peace that we enjoy today if it was not forjohn hume. his contribution to peace in northern ireland was extraordinary. i dont think we would ever have really got the peace process going and implemented. a new test to detect coronavirus and flu that can give re...

All nonessential travel and really putting all of our efforts in the next two to three months before the winter into trying to get covid essentially to zero in the uk and ireland. that would be a significant move and obviously there were the cries of pain notjust from individual holiday—makers from the travel industry. what would be your a nswer to travel industry. what would be your answer to them? i am not an economist but i understand that we britons spend more money abroad than people from...

Make a lot of epidemiological sense. what does make epidemiological sense? would you be saying to people, just stay at home? this is a pandemic. it hasnt happened for 100 years. when things like this happen, rarely, i think it is very reasonable to do things very differently. we have a domestic tourism industry. i know people want tourism industry. i know people want to take a vacation where it is warmer, but this might be the one year where, as warmer, but this might be the one yearwhere, asa w...

And infections among medical staff. i do suspect that they have been doing some cover—up locally at wuhan. the local officials, who are supposed to immediately convey information, has not allowed this to be done as readily as it should. for three weeks, beijing had silenced frontline doctors but onjanuary 20, it sighted the evidence from shenzhen and wuhan, to acknowledge what many had warned from the start. three days later wuhan was locked down. china says it has been open, transparent and r...

Crucial imports and investment. 70% of the branded cell phones in india are made by chinese smartphone companies. more than half of indias technology start—ups that are worth more than $1 billion have chinese investments. 70% of the raw material used by indias pharmaceutical makers comes from china. that is particularly important during this pandemic. but with china exporting five or six times more to india than the other way round, there are suggestions to reduce indias reliance on its neighb...

People that own these companies. they weaponize them. maria: through this policy all companies based in china are virtually operated by the chinese government and have to share any technology they create or information they gather with the communist party and the military of china, one of the greatest examples of the civil military fusion threat is the chinese telecom company huawei. >> huawei is an instrument of the chinese government. theyre deeply connected. its something that hard for americ...

This is a dictatorship, very few people that own these companies. they weaponize them. maria: through this policy all companies based in china are virtually operated by the chinese government and have to share any technology they create or information they gather with the communist party and the military of china, one of the greatest examples of the civil military fusion threat is the chinese telecom company huawei. >> huawei is an instrument of the chinese government. theyre deeply connected. i...