claire hoang there.und that household waste — nappies and food packaging — were being sent to china in may and june 2015 under the description of waste paper. but the very fact that biffa was breaking the law in this way raises the issue of what is happening to our waste — and why. simon ellin, ceo the recycling association. everything changed about two years ago when china said it was no longer going to be taking a large amount of otherwise, what is happening to it at the moment, what is it all going? it is going to a variety of places. we retain significant amounts of it in the uk, we export the surplus to europe, and largely into south—east asia. is that a satisfactory state of affairs? i know a lot of the south asian curried cheese would like to follow china soon and stop it going there. —— south asian countries. we don't really face any choice in the uk at the moment, we do not have the manufacturing capacity to process the materials we are collecting. plastics and packaging are 65% net exporter. we

claire hoang — who is involved in the legal action — said thomas cook hadn't been realistic about theat the leaders were doing their best to kind of like get a deal over the line. and to be honest, i didn't think the government would let us down. i didn't think that anyone would say, "we are not going to support you." such a large number of people. so you were shell—shocked. twenty two years after his mother's iconic walk through an angolan minefield, prince harry has retraced her footsteps. the duke of sussex wore body armour as he walked through an area partially cleared by the same landmine charity supported by princess diana. the prince said the halo trust was helping communities to find peace, by eliminating the ‘unhealed scar of war‘. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell is following the royal couple's tour of africa and sent this report. it's 17 years now since the civil war here in angola ended. yet, there are still more than 1,000 minefields just like this one scattered across the country. the task of clearing these minefields, of course, is an immense one. it is being l

claire hoang is a former employee at thomas cook and aneil balgobin is from the law firm simpson millaryou forjoining us on the line. tell us about yourjob at thomas cook and how you found out the company was in trouble.” thomas cook and how you found out the company was in trouble. i worked in the airline side so i kind of ran the social media pages over there. soi the social media pages over there. so i have kind of been monitoring the situation. as a business we had kind of knowing that it was a bit up—and—down but we were hoping it had been resolved, there was a deal on the table, it was a really good deal and we were hoping it was all sorted out. and about a week ago it seemed there were a lot of rumblings and a lot of things in the media. last friday, we were given a bit more of, actually, we don't know where this is going to end up. and i was literally watching social media on sunday morning, really early in the morning with everybody else, and gotan e—mailat 1am the morning with everybody else, and got an e—mail at 1am to say you have got an e—mail at 1am to say you have got noj

made redundant and just over 3,000 employees are currently retained. 0ne thomas cook employee, claire hoangher. we were told by e—mails that the leaders were doing the best to get a deal over the line. to be honest, i didn't think the government would let us down, i didn't think that anyone would say, "we are not going to support you." we are such a large number of people, so you're shell—shocked. you suddenly go, "do i go into the office?" i was one of the lucky people who knew what was going on because i was reading the e—mails at 1am in the morning. a lot of people weren't. i have heard stories of people who are travelling or in the air, they haven't even had the monday morning debrief. even the monday morning debrief was like, "we are going to read a really cold to statement out to you. 0h, pack up your bags, leave your computers. off you go." we were supposed to be paid, we're not going to be. cash flow is going to be a massive issue for a lot of staff. i'm one of the really lucky ones, you know, my husband works, i've worked freelance so i kind of know the issues. there are people who