this city is known as the diesel capital of india over 60 percent of vehicles in calcutta august and even driven but it is hard for businesses to find investors for emission free rental systems since this is an extremely new market bags are on willing to finance it as the founders of expedience however devoted consider changing that approach. we really want to make sure that none of it goes well you the air and you know as many people ask as would we ever going to internal combustion scooters and we tell them no we might move to maybe higher speeds what does that leave in never that is that that is the ethos of our bad move i'm never going to i see i.c.t. . compared to a 4 stroke engine and electric scooter has a much lower carbon footprint depending on how the electricity was generated but switching to immobility is also a technical challenge as there is still a lot of manufacturers of scooters and the batteries they need. to start ups like gives the necessary impulses to get those waves rolling. just like in kolkata people in cities all over the world are keen to lower their stress

the bright yellow taxis and don van crowns will tell you you are in calcutta no no university as the city of joy. but the city also faces major difficulties like lack of public transport and traffic pollution. electric scooters could help reduce the burden of air pollution especially if. we get some research and found out that only 15 percent of india actually have the driver's license so there was a majority of indians didn't have a license and that was the market that we wanted to we did a little bit more research and found out that electric scooters where the speed of 25 kilometers an hour doesn't require a license to write and that was the aha moment. and that's when we decided that we want to start this company. founded his rental service is over 2 years ago with 60 scooters now he runs a feat of $85.00. the rental service. clients can pick up and drop off discounters x. 7 different points across cog on average a scooter is used by 3 to 4 right as a day. all of us who does have probably came on batteries so 8 time battery is green or about to be green customers can go to any of

sort of food doomsdays an art is more of go does not serve relevant when for a city like bangkok or calcutta will be completely submerged and go underwater but more important is when the poorest and most vulnerable within these cities actually really struggle to provide for themselves when they see freak weather events that they can't really recover from they don't have the finances or the cities and so if they actually have the curse the protections to deal with this for those folks are questions that scientists are really not pushing governments to act on that sounds very wise to to address all these add on issues of gee thanks very much for joining us today from the environment department. let's review down some of the other stories making the news at this hour at least 5 people have been wounded in a bomb attack on a bus carrying police in the southern turkey city of adama sayed known who's responsible stories have launched an investigation. the opera megastar placido domingo has called off performances at new york's metropolitan opera that after allegations of sexual misconduct have bee

in calcutta, there has been some flooding and also some flooding and it will be a northern parts of indiaually turning dryer and there may be some sunshine as well. looking elsewhere across asia, the weather is changing injapan. we've had some dry weather here but it is going to be turning later. this is likely to develop into a typhoon and head northwards next week, a few showers heading into parts of china as well as indonesia. sunshine for the most part, cool and cloudy and also tasmania, some wet weather for the south island and ran the north island. —— dry in the north island. now, i'm wrapping a little earlier because it's time for the third edition of brexitcast. obviously the biggest thing that has happened this week was what happened in the house of commons last night. everyone's reactions to the other things that happened in politics, andi things that happened in politics, and i watched on my tablet, so tiny and i watched on my tablet, so tiny and grainy, hundreds of miles away and grainy, hundreds of miles away and even that was quite emotional. even today, laura, that boiling

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stuart mcinally — who led scotland to victory in the calcutta cup in the six nations championship earlier. edinburgh hooker has been chosen as skipper ahead ofjohn barclay and greig laidlaw. coach gregor townsend has left out forwards josh strauss, matt fagerson and magnus bradbury. rugby sevens will be switched to a smaller stadium at the 2022 commonwealth games in birmingham, after villa park was withdrawn as a venue. there'll be an earlier start to the football season that year, due to the world cup in qatar starting in november, so the sevens will now be played at wasps' home ground, the ricoh arena in coventry, great britain'sjohanna konta will be aiming to reach the semi—finals at the us open for the first time later. she beat the third seed karolina pliskova in the last round, her quarterfinal opponent is the fifth seed elina svitolina. she is an incredible player, she has got a massive game, she has got tremendous power behind her ball and her ability to really play big and similarto ina her ability to really play big and similar to in a way and some other players, there will be t

stuart mcinally, who led scotland to victory in the calcutta cup in the six nations championship earliern barclay and greig laidlaw. coach gregor townsend has left out forwards josh strauss, matt fagerson and magnus bradbury. that's all the sport for now. hello there. for the rest of this week, temperatures will be around or a little below the seasonal average, and infact a little below the seasonal average, and in fact wednesday will be one of those days where the temperatures will be below the seasonal average. and in fact, with strong winds it is going to feel quite cool, especially across northern areas, especially where the showers come along. it is all because of this area of low pressure skirting around this area of high pressure. it's going extend two weather fronts our way, this one bringing outbreaks of rain to central, southern and eastern areas first thing on wednesday. that will clear away. sunshine behind this next weather front will enhance the shower activity across scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales. some of them will be heavy, maybe even thunde

successfully against the traffickers but truly it's the exception charities estimate for example that in calcutta some 50000 people work as domestic servants in delhi that figure is 80000 and across india charities say some 11 and a half 1000000 people work for a pittance in somebody else's house some 70 percent of them are children. child trafficking is the 3rd largest illicit trade in the world in the west trafficking carries connotations of the clandestine illegal smuggling of people across international borders. but in india the practice is more open there are more than 10000000 child work because there is no anti trafficking law india's children a right to exploitation. but some of beginning to fight back was there when i was there at this demonstration thousands of children who turned out to lend their voice to the empty trafficking because. this is very important because we have been fighting against child slavery child bonded labor child live apart hard sometimes more than 2 and a half decades but we have. 30 per cent off india 10000000 children who are involved are the victims of traffic

the fact that it was also helping to alleviate some of the pressure that is on beijing's existing calcutta all airports part of that pressure because part of those delays and those cancellations that passengers have been seeing there is because china's military controls about 80 percent of the airspace over china that gives a very narrow corridor for pilots to be able to fly in and out of china it's going to be interesting to see whether or not the chinese military is going to be able to prove that we're going to be prepared to either relax or change the regulations to allow more flights to fly in and out of this new airport and therefore make it more effective. and engaging for us thank you. brazilian president. tomorrow was the 1st world leader to address the united nations general assembly he is the platform to hit back at the international response to the farmers in the amazon rain forest accused other leaders of attacking his nation's sovereignty and promoting lies based on the left in ideology are latin america editor lucien newman has this report from the capital of the mon an amazo

the area around calcutta, 60 million.of the impact a couple hundred thousand refugees and then imagine 100 million. >> it has been 13 years since the ground breaking film called "an inconvenient truth" hit theaters who starred al gore who has not stopped fighting for climate change. i sat down with al gore in his office in nashville, tennessee. there's this gap growing. i mean the public opinion is moving quite swiftly right now in a way -- i mean as an empirical matter, 70/80% numbers. >> 60% of republicans. >> it's moving up the priority list of democratic voters. not only do you see more and more >> one of the other network polls in the summer said it was the number one issue among registered democrats. >> so frump the perspective of mass opinion and you're seeing all this organizing happening. a president who's not just doing nothing. it's almost a socio pathic way. seemingly bent on mocking the problem worse in every possible way. >> it has a strange aspect to it because i want crystal clean water even as it's stripp

successfully against the traffickers but truly it's the exception charities estimate for example that in calcutta some 50000 people work as domestic servants in delhi that figure is 80000 and across india charities say some 11 and a half 1000000 people work for a pittance in somebody else's house some 70 percent of them are children. child trafficking is the 3rd largest illicit trade in the world in the west trafficking carries connotations of the clandestine illegal smuggling of people across international borders. but in india the practice is more open there are more than 10000000 child workers and there is no end to trafficking law india's children are ripe to exploitation. yet but some a beginning to fight back i was there i was there at this demonstration thousands of children have turned out to lend their voice to the anti trafficking cause. this is very important because we have been fighting against child slavery child bonded labor child labor for quite some time more than 2 and a half decades but we have. 30 per cent of india 10000000 children who are involved in these other victims of t

down the road the annual street pageant sees dances and elephants parade through the streets of calcutta india's prime minister has called for a global ban on single use plastic narendra modi made the comments while hosting the 14th conference of parties to the un convention to combat desertification india is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags cups and stalls in its most sweeping measures yet to stamp out single use plastics over 2022 my government. and now that in year every. single year the in the coming year we are is from a good recovery of manpower. and about a man families of 3 and also in their vision mark big going to try and disprove them and i believe. well you run the wrong. group. and remind of the headlines on al-jazeera british m.p.'s of boxen motion that will force the government to publish its assessments of how a no deal breaks it will affect the country private communications on the decision to suspend parliament will also be made public opposition m.p.'s have also said they will vote down johnson 2nd attempts to call an early election u.s. president donald