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seven changes against bournemouth, poker stars, sanchez on the bench, for that on the bbc sport website. more from us on bbc news throughout the rest of the evening. from us, goodbye for now. you're watching bbc news. the uk's biggest coffee chain costa coffee has pledged to recycle as many disposable cups as it sells by 2020. around two and a half billion disposable coffee cups are used in the uk every year and fewer than 1% recycled. each year we use 2.5 billion cups and hardly any, less than 1%, get recycled. the coffee companies are under pressure and racking their brains.
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and now the head of costa says he has a new idea. to put recycling bins in stations and offices to get them back in. we introduced a scheme which has been successful of recycling the cups in store but we also realised that was not enough and we did need to do more. that is why we've taken this step today. some recycling like this already happens. it is expensive to do on a large scale because the cups are a mixture of plastic and card. but costa says it can be done. at the moment waste collectors are paid £50 per tonne for the cups, not enough. costa will top it up by an extra £70 and with £5 for monitoring it says that the scheme will be viable. this is part of the problem, that cups are dumped in the street and the ones that are thrown away in the bin are more difficult to deal with because basically they have been chucked and even so costa is planning that by 2020, in two years‘ time, it will recycle all the cups that it produces, around half a billion of them, by dealing with as
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many of its own and other companies as it can. what do you think of the idea? it is a good idea having proper cups out here is a bit dangerous, if they get broken. i was looking at buying my own cup yesterday. i think that is a better idea. better for the environment. i think they should all take responsibility for it so yes. if you bring in a reusable cup, starbucks is giving you 25p off and trying out charging extra for disposable ones. waitrose plans to do away with disposable cups completely. the environmentalists want them all to collaborate. we welcome the announcement today from costa but now we would like other retailers to follow suit and the whole industry to move collectively in the same direction.
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the government is asking for views on a tax on disposable cups and other single use plastic so action is building against the waste created by throwaway living. malaria cases are on the rise again, nearly half the worlds population is at risk with young children the most vulnerable. now the philanthropist and founder of microsoft bill gates has announced nearly $4 billion of new funding has announced nearly $4 billion of newfunding in has announced nearly $4 billion of new funding in an attempt to stop the disease spreading further. he spoke to the bbc about the challenge. it is one of the oldest diseases in the world but malaria still kills nearly half a million people a year, most of them children underfive. and people a year, most of them children under five. and half people a year, most of them children underfive. and half of people a year, most of them children under five. and half of them people a year, most of them children underfive. and half of them in commonwealth countries. entrepreneur and philanthropist bill gates says it is urgent to keep up the fight.
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0ur it is urgent to keep up the fight. our goal is to cut the deficit in half again and this is mostly young children in africa so it's an awful disease but unless we rededicate ourselves the money for the research and the money for the delivery, the deaths could go all the way back up toa deaths could go all the way back up to a million which is where it was when we started this little over ten years ago. drug resistance, climate change and a drop in funding are all factors that may have led to an increase in the number of malaria cases over the past two years. it is an uphill battle, is it when you can win? well, it's not easy. malaria, you know, the mosquitoes change, the parasite changes. the world has been a bit naive about how hard it is to get rid of malaria. if we don't stay focused on it, no, we will lose. a vaccine is in development, research into the gene editing of mosquitoes may also help.
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new bed nets are planned and improved technology to map outbreaks will enable experts to track the disease. historically it was more at country level so you would see a map of africa and each country would be shaded. now we are trying to get down literally to the one square kilometre level and say, ok, how many cases either in each of those little squares. bill, you and melinda deserve particular praise... theresa may says britain will contribute half £1 billion every year until 2021 to tackle the disease. bill gates is also pledging a further billion dollars from his foundation and with one child dying every two minutes of malaria, they both hope they can persuade commonwealth leaders to do the same. rebecca kesby, bbc news. prince harry and meghan markle, have been meeting delegates at the commonwealth youth forum, in central london. they were introduced to young leaders debating the challenges
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facing their generation. a number of events are taking place in london and windsor this week, as part of the commonwealth heads of government meeting. time for a look at the weather with helen willets. today showed what a difference the sun makes at this time of year, it isa sun makes at this time of year, it is a strong so when we see it temperatures when he saw. and those averaged 25 degrees in central london today but as we collect the figures i'm sure this evening somewhere will have reached 26 celsius which is apart iberia, spain, and the low countries. it has been sunny and warm across parts of the northern ireland and scotland well we have seen high teens, 18 and 19 but we have more cloud around because of the proximity of the weather front which through this evening returns eastwards bringing a few spits is of rain to northern ireland in western scotland, not as much as we have seen but it tempers
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the amount of clear skies and sunshine that we will have to start right. elsewhere, like wind in the east, mist and fog first thing if you're up early. it should clear quickly, a south—easterly with pollen levels high and at this time of year the sun is strong as august so of year the sun is strong as august so it is lively out there. for most of us, another warm day, warmer than today, the warmth spreading northwards but a little bit more cloud in the north and west and perhaps for parts of western wales and the south—east it should burn back to the coast but with onshore breezes. as we go through friday, we lose a south—easterly flow and pick up lose a south—easterly flow and pick up more than atlantic influence so things will feel cooler and russia but lots of sunshine around, more mist and fog in the morning and for english channel coast it should come onshore at times with those sea breezes. the most diverse, lovely sunshine to enjoy, strong sunshine evenin sunshine to enjoy, strong sunshine even in the wind is higher and the
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temperature is a lower with a few showers in the north and west. a decent day. the high pressure that is with us at the moment is willing pushing its grip allowing this cold weather front so cool air to come in and then with its moisture and after the heat that will be released with showers, sharp showers potentially by sunday in particular they could be heavy with thunder around and look at the dip in temperatures as we return to average the time of year. on sunday, some real warmth for marathon runners and spectators, one of the warmest marathons so far but the risk late in the day of a heavy shower. you're watching beyond one hundred days. where would you host a summit between the north korean dictator and the us president? the hunt is on for the right location after news broke that america's mike pompeo flew to pyongyang for a secret meeting.
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over the easter weekend, kim jong un said denuclearising north korea would be on the table in a meeting with mr trump. the president now needs to reassure america's allies that it isn't being soft on north korea — shinzo abe is down at mar a lago pushing japan's case. also on the programme. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau tells the bbc he wants a bi—lateral trade deal with the uk the day after the brexit transition ends. we are, you know, very happy with trade with britain. it's our largest trading partner in the european union.
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