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This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am here in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan, and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing govern...

Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 9am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste, much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing government, is about to stop most of that, and it co...

Imports of a range of waste materials in 2018. 2a different substances have been outlawed, as china tries to tackle environment damage caused by hazardous waste. Each year, the world uses more than 800 Million Metric Tons of scrap commodities to make new stuff. And china is the biggest importer of that. In 2016, the country took in 27 of global scrap imports. Plastic is one of the most environmentally damaging materials, yet plastic production is expected to grow by 40 over the next decade. Chin...

Im going to call the meeting to order. The subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, we are going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committee, but primary reason being the issues that we deal with are of sufficient magnitude generally dealt with by the whole committee. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or v...

Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise ...

Sen. Corker the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We thank all those in attendance. In rolling out its new south asia strategy last august, the administration underscored the United States hardfought security gains in afghanistan and reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. With the recent reports of shrinking government control of territory, continued high attrition of Afghan Forces and deadly attacks in kabul, it is clear that f...

Guests, friends, family and most importantly, my fellow pennsylvania pennsylvanians. [ applause ] okay. Before i begin, i want to take a moment, a moment, to congratulate the philadelphia eagles, the city of philadelphia, but all of us, all of us in pennsylvania. I know just like we are sometimes split between parties, we are also split between eagles and steelers here in the commonwealth. But you know what . We are all fans of pennsylvania and the eagles and their devoted fans deserve this mome...

Continues. Host each week, we look at the money and n of your federal policy and this week were joined by David Mitchell, founder of d patients for Affordable Drugs. Prescription drug prices. What is chell, first, your group . Guest what is your group . Guest patients for Affordable Drugs, we are the only National Patient organization focused exclusively on lower drug prices. Take monfreany organization, profit from development or distribution of Prescription Drugs. Speak for patients, 50, last,...

Take money from any organizations that have profited from the development. Host you are a patient yourself. Yes. About seven years ago i was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. Its incurable, thats the bad news. The good news is that its treatable but with very expensive drugs. The drug i took was 450,000. This experience of having a cancer that is tough and having to deal with these expensive drugs brought meth facetoface with the challengess people confront and nobody was really speaking...

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