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Hello to you. Scientists have discovered particles of plastic falling in snow in the arctic, highlighting the scale of plastic pollution. A region so many of us think of as pristine is contaminated with microscopic particles, carried on the wind from thousands of miles away. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin travelled to the Arctic Circle as the Research Teams were working. Heres his special report. The arctic, a place of pristine beauty. Smothered with snow, clean and pure. Or, thats how i...

A warm welcome for me too and hope that you stay with us for the next half hour on the phone from johannesburg and south africa heres whats coming up. How an app can help protect a rare species in south africa. And why solar energy doesnt always have to be expensive. And how music group was formed in congo thanks to trash. South africas western Cape Province is home to stunning plants some of them found nowhere else on the planet however recent reports show that the province is experiencing the ...

Last week, anyway, we put a graph up here showing the result you probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies in 25 year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain . And if you remember, the graph shot up kind of like. Like this. Over the words. In other words, as colonies move along from jamestown in 1776, more people as time passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. They dont need to be ruled from westminster and of course, enough of them de...

That is been brewing for 12 or 13 years has started. So today we will talk about what is called am i pronouncing it right . Probably close enough. This is april, 1775. Right after lexington and concord. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution where probably more people supported the war than any other time. Why do you think so many people supported the war during this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel. Everybody started fighting and they d...

Same place after story tonight residents of the bahamas say death is everywhere the eye can see food water and shelter are not im bord gulf in berlin this is the day. Everybody gets the longer the night the darkness theyve been on this earth they have never seen anything like that you can imagine but i was in the front row and i. Watched our to nato and my room. And i was just the place this can be real. Is concrete real. I was. Going to be d. I mean one. Day after day week after week. After tha...

Author series and we always like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them so thank you. The many have been to the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and be wave. Two. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many t...

Done and reform but this is a very sensitive issue as we all know we have taxation thats high on the agenda so we might get some kind of minimum tax form which a National Corporations we have migration on the agenda we have to digitize ation how to educate people how to use digitisation as a source for economic froze so there are many issues that need to be tackled but actually everybody will look at how does Climate Change in trade come out of it so its will be a very critical summit ok climate...

Also taking comments from top fed president. Trade turmoil, white house economic adviser larry kudlow signaling new in person trade talks with china and ecommerce on alert a new porch pirate threat that could have Online Shoppers running to protect their picnic baskets. Its friday, august 23rd and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. He faces one of the most divided Central Banks we have seen in ten years. Those comments are due out at 10 00 a. M. And well take you there live on cnbc those comme...

Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media. Witter. Com cspanwj you can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. You will you will be able to hear the program when you are on hold. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally. He talked about the problems facing American Cities. [video clip] has paid a no one higher pr...

Well, thank you, commissioner. I am a public social worker for more than ten years in the city and i am a storer for the Government Employees and the director of public regulations, the San Francisco chapter. I have been a resident for San Francisco for more than 33 years. I love my city. I have been coming to you as the commissioners many times with other Government Employees in in room in different dates in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last time i was here was june 28th, 2019. I came before ...