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stollins in new york. he's your of heading for a nuclear, renee songs as the czech republic takes on the e, you council presidency. it's pledging to push from more atomic power. and as a major drought in italy threatens to wipe out this year's harvest. how can we avoid mol, fears of food insecurity. is this database business on robots in berlin? welcome to the program. travel chaos threatened to plague americans hoping to get away. for the 4th of july, holiday weekend, airports and airlines are bracing for the biggest jump in demand. since the pandemic devastated the industry, the seo of delta airlines apologize this week for recent summer travel disruption me, while us outlines cancelled or delayed 21000 flights during recent memorial day and june 10th holidays. shortage of pilots and other aviation workers laid off during the pandemic and staff sicknesses due to coven,

19 ost stretching flight schedules. to breaking point on the slides crossed to our financial correspondent in new york. teddy australia. teddy, how well prepared? ah airlines. in the u. s. for the weekend ahead. well, what is there to say rob 12300000 people were trying to go on vacation and the u. s . airlines are completely unprepared if we see anything like the cancellations we saw during memorial day weekend. tens of thousands of people could be stranded for a day or more on the way to where they're going. let's remember, there was a 54000000000 dollar bail out of the industry in 2020, and there was a condition not to lay off workers. while these airlines were heavily indebted and they were looking for profits, so they found a loophole following workers, as well as encouraging the pilots to go into early retirement. now we have all the

man returning people want to go on vacation, and the airlines are completely unprepared. and can just hope that the worst of it doesn't match to come to pass of it in the, in the short term on despising the medium term. what was the plan for on behalf the airlines and maybe even above the u. s. government to take the pressure off the ation industry. well, they're trying to get workers back to work. it's been a struggle. some airlines are offering passengers. these fee waivers to those fees that you get when you try to change your flight or you try to cancel your flight. but really the cancellations are what are going to ease some of this pressure. and some critics are actually calling for punishment of the airlines to deter some of this behavior sen. bernie sanders, for example, is calling for hefty fees on the airlines. and this is because in his view, the airlines are committing a kind of form of fraud when they're offering passengers of these tickets, sometimes 11 months in advance, full well knowing that they have

a labor shortage and that they're knocking, going to be able to carry out the flights, so eyes are on the punishment and deterrence for the future. okay, said he, oscar at the new york stock exchange for us. thanks very much. that is europe on the cost of a new era of nuclear power. the controversial energy source is getting more support at european union level as the czech republic assumes the e, you cancel presidency. it is their se boosting support for atomic energy. the priority of special delivery from russia as the war rages in ukraine, uranium fuel rods are being delivered to the timely nuclear power plant and the czech republic. many lights would go out in the country without the russian uranium fuel rods. nuclear power accounts for 40 percent of the country's energy production . the delivered fuel rods will keep the nuclear reactors running for the next few

years. i'm for nuclear energy. it's one of the few energy sources where everything works. yep. yep. yeah. literally, i'm a geologist. i know about it and i have a clear opinion which i mean we should have built more nuclear power plants long ago. then we would have safe energy today unless clinical uses. the check republics to nuclear power plants at 10, moline and duco vonny. our aging both were built during this soviet era. the reactor in duke albany is a mix of western control technology and soviet engineering. the nuclear power plant has never reached western safety standards. there were repeated emergency shut downs caused by defective components. meanwhile, the expansion of renewable energies has been prevented and delayed. as that is, the geographical location of our country is not good for wind energy. for example,

we don't ever see where the wind blows strongly name our nuclear and we don't have much sun, especially in winter go be because that's why nuclear energy is so important in our energy mix. the czech republic has never had a significant anti nuclear movement. one of the country's few well known opponents, his career, poland ascii. he's critical of the government's plans to build 2 new nuclear power plants by 2036. the model that's perceived is a major capacity of the country to master a complicated technology like nuclear power. because many people are proud of the fact that the check republican organized the construction of a nuclear power plant, echo echo. it seemed as something positive to seems of them either capital. the latest you rhenium fuel rods from russia will keep the check nuclear reactors online for another 3 to 4 years. after that,

they will be replaced by western made ones, which will have to be technically adapted. now some of the other global business stories making the news general notice has posted a 15 percent drop in sales for the 2nd quarter. us comic assess supply chain problems mean is holding 95000 unfinished vehicles in storage at harvest. as the pent up demand is driving strong pickup truck. so average inflation in europe rose to another record high in june and seem of prices in the 19 euro zone. countries reached 8.6 percent off a percentage point up from may. germany, inflation dropped to half point one. inflation in spain rose above the 10 percent threshold the 1st time since 1985 and we price is have dropped 27 percent close to rates available before the war in ukraine. cent price is the

record levels are less believe this is due to recent comments via russia and turkey . they say they're willing to discuss the safe passage of ukrainian grain from blocked ports are numerous parts of europe. so record june temperatures in recent weeks, and the extreme heat has been taking its toll on the continents harvests. in italy, the farmer's association says, a lack of rainfall could cost their members, 3000000000 euros this year. this rice, paddy isn't italy's resort to heartland in the not like many others. it's been scarred by the heat wave that is causing the worst drought in 70 years luigi phaedra says he has never seen anything like it. a lot of he or i've been working as a farmer for 35 years, and i've never seen a situation like this may be sort of lost around 30 percent off my crops. because with the little water we have, we're not able to irrigate animal

a ballpark. what caviar more, no rush hour more than a tour of italy's agriculture depends on the poll reba. but it's been drying up due to a local freight worse that's coast salt, water from to see, to enter the rumor contaminating the irrigation canals that supply cornfields. and rice patties. that's deadly for the crops when you walk, walk will upon where that is. i a, this rice paddy which hasn't been irrigated for 2 weeks. got fat and 90 per cent of 2 plants have completely dry dock put a chain through the piano. they complete the main fish mccarthy. the draught comes with the russian war against ukraine. that is already causing shortages and driving prices. and even if it starts raining to day, much of the damage has already been done. now plastic waste is a major contributor to pollution around the world, clogging up landfills and 13 bitches. but a company out of kenya has found

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