shaimaa khalil, bbc news, south australia.ina where from the first of january its ban of all imports of solid waste from abroad came into effect. the country was at one point the world's biggest recipient of waste, which it used to recycle for raw materials — but since 2017 china has sought to phase out such imports. the practice has become increasingly unpopular given its environmental impact and concerns about its effect on the health of workers in the sector. the question is where will the world's waste go now? isabel hilton is chief executive of china dialogue an independent think tank that focuses on china and it's environmental challenges. tell us a bit more as to why china made this decision. when china made this decision. when china was importing waste, its economy was in rather a different place. it started off as a low end, high volume, low added value manufacturing base and it wasn't producing enough waste itself to service its feedstock for its industrial sector. as the economy has grown more sophisticated, it has

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, new south wales.pt off the top of the charts in 1984 by band aid's ‘do they know it's christmas'. the dj richard blade has been explaining what wham's belated success, means to him. # last christmas i gave you my heart # but the very next day you gave it away. . . # i mean, it's one of those tracks that people, when you hear it, you think about george, you think about wham, and you think about the time of year, it's the perfect track. # last christmas i gave you my heart. ..# i was really shocked, actually, it had never been to number one on the uk charts before. it's one of those songs that people request all the time because they love wham, they love george. i was very, very lucky to know wham from their earliest days. when they first came over in 1982, i had them on my radio show. they did their first ever live gigs with me at the beginning of 1983. i took them to the 321 club in santa monica, california, and that was the first time they played live when they lip synced to young guns and bad boys.

shaimaa khalil, bbc news.al currencies, has started phasing out one of them. the government is getting rid of the convertible peso to try to improve the economy. but that'll mean soaring prices, worrying many, even though wages are also going up. gail maclellan has more. cubans call it day zero — the end of a 26—year, two—currency system. over the next six months, the convertible peso, pegged to the dollar, is on its way out. the government says it has to go to make the economy more efficient and easier to understand for foreign investors. the only problem is that leaves people here with the cuban peso, and it's worth 2a times less — or, in other words, us$i equals 2a cuban pesos. that means prices will soar by an eye—watering i60% and, to make matters worse, the government is also ending subsidies on many goods. translation: i trust it's better than what we have been through. it has been a very difficult year from every point of view — economic, emotional and social. so now, with these changes, i always trust

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, new south wales. you're watching bbc news.en a cold wintry start to 2021. temperature is still below average. this was the picture on saturday afternoon. quite a lot of snow around for many parts of northern england, scotland into wales, western england the midlands as well. over the next few days is going to stay cold with further wintry showers at times. certainly we re wintry showers at times. certainly were all can be some ice or frost around. a cold start to your sunday morning with subzero temperatures from many areas. as low as —5 or six across parts of the western scotland first thing for them after that cold frosty start the weather is looking generally settled. high pressure in charge of our weather. but we will have the breeze coming in from the north easterly direction. as it blows over the north sea is going to be bringing some showers. they showers will be across parts of england scotland, northeast england as well. one or two for the south into wales and midlands. maybe sleet and snow confined to higher ground.

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, new south wales.and we'll start with the news that the french champions paris saint germain have confirmed mauricio pochettino is their new manager pochettino left tottenham just over a year ago and there's been a plenty of speculation on where the argentinian would move, among europe's top clubs. pochettino, who was a psg player between 2001 and 2003, has signed a contract with the club untiljune 2022. spurs are up to third in the english premier league table, after beating leeds 3—0. it's their first win in the league for almost a month. they are now four points behind liverpool and manchester united. harry kane had already scored from the penalty spot, when he put son heung—min through to make it 2—0 just before half time. son with his 100th goalfor the club. toby alderweireld made it 3 early in the second half. to the other games in the premier league this afternoon, crystal palace 2—0 up against struggling sheffield united. an early goalfrom jeff schlupp there. wolves travel to brighton later. th

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, new south wales.a were allowed to come. this man hoped to pave the way for others, but a lawsuit and fears of intimidation have stopped authorities from appointing others as priests. i am from a lower hindu caste. i was influenced from spirituality from childhood, but only the highest cast were allowed to become priests. in 2006, the government decided to allow priests from any cast. i enrolled into the first training programme. i came into this profession wholeheartedly. 0ver over 200 students completed the course, but their future over 200 students completed the course, but theirfuture is now unclear whether they can become priests. we all dreamt of a bright future. i got ordained asa bright future. i got ordained as a priest, but others didn't get the chance. there are wasted yea rs get the chance. there are wasted years waiting. we all trained together. but now, they are unsure whether to follow a priest life or a normal one. before jobs were linked to your cast. now, it's not like that anymore. i

shaimaa khalil reports from south australia. vats holds the equivalent of almost a00,000 bottles, and much of it is destined for britain. pumped into shipping containers, it's sent to the other side of the world to be packaged and sold. brands made here are some of the uk's best sellers. britain leaving the eu has allowed it to negotiate free trade deals, including with australia, a prospect they relish here. but brexit isn't all good news for australian winemakers who still don't know what it will mean for moving their products from the uk into mainland europe. and there are questions over how labelling requirements will change and the costs involved. we're doing everything possible to minimise any disruptions on the back of brexit. i think for us, regardless of the outcome, what we're looking for now is the potentials associated with the free trade agreement between the uk and australia. at the moment, the tariffs imposed on australian wine imports into the uk are anywhere between 13 pence and 15 pence per litre. that is compa

the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil is in sydney and joins me now. what happens now? do we know?hat his son spoke to local media and reportedly said that after abu bakar and reportedly said that after abu ba kar ba'asyir was and reportedly said that after abu bakar ba'asyir was picked up abu bakar ba'asyir was picked up by abu bakar ba'asyir was picked up by his family, reportedly taken back home to central java, that he was going to go back to school which is an islamic boarding school that he himself had founded back in the 19705. himself had founded back in the 1970s. the graduates of the school were linked to militant groups and two attacks. whether that will happen or not we still do not know. whether the indonesian authorities will allow that to happen, we still do not know. but as you say, abu bakar ba'asyir, one of indonesia's most will most notorious extremists, really, the former spiritual leader of the former spiritual leader of the al-qaeda affiliated jemaah islamiah, responsible for the bali bombings but also responsible for the jw attack injakarta in responsible for

the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil is in sydney with more details.bakar ba'asyir was picked up by his family from jail and reportedly taken back home to centraljava. as you say, the 82—year—old is the spiritual leader of the al-qaeda—affiliated jemaah islamiah, responsible for many attacks. the most consequential, of course, were the 2002 bali bombings. 202 people died, 88 of them australian, so this news brings up so many raw emotions for so many people here. of course, not very far after in 2003, the jw marriott attack in jakarta. important to note, though, that even though abu bakar ba'asyir was strongly linked to those two attacks he was never really convicted for them. he was actually imprisoned in 2011 for links with a jihadi training militant camp in aceh province. we also know that he has received a number of jail reductions to his sentence, and now we have heard from indonesian government officials that he has completed his sentence and he is now a free man. interesting, and we saw those pictures of him being picked up by friends and family.

our australia correspondent shaimaa khalil reports.is there and it's there to remind us. if we get hot days and huge winds, that really starts to make the hairs on your back stand on end. itjust makes you feel — not again. you know, we don't want that again. last summer's bushfires were unprecedented in their ferocity and the huge destruction that they caused. most scientists agree that climate change played a big part in creating the catastrophic fire conditions and a royal commission enquiry now says that further global warming is inevitable within the next 20 years and that australians should prepare for more extreme weather. new year's eve was a defining moment of the bushfire season. oh, my god! this was the town of rosedale in new south wales on the day. holiday—makers and locals sheltering on the beach, watching in horror. oh, my god! two—thirds of the homes here were destroyed. i felt very focused on just staying alive. and, secondly, doing what they could with our defences to save our property. but ultimately that wasn't possi

our correspondent shaimaa khalil in sydney has more.ts international border closure, and even the state border closures as well. so at a time when players are complaining about being locked into this quarantine, remember that many australian families are still stranded outside the country, trying to come back home. many families are actually stranded outside their respective states because of state border closures, and how strict that was. so they're watching all of this unfold with a great deal of frustration, too. as shaima mentioned, thousands of australians are struggling to return home amid strict travel restrictions. and hopes that things could get easier have been dealt a bitter blow. department of health secretary brendan murphy told national broadcaster the abc... travel restrictions are set to continue throughout 2021 around the world as well. in the uk, new controls on travellers entering the country have come into force to try to keep out variants of coronavirus from other countries. here's our transport correspondent caroli

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney.should end and pippa should be allowed to die. representatives of indian farmers are meeting government ministers in the capital, delhi, to try to resolve a dispute about new agricultural laws. yesterday, thousands of farmers in tractors clogged up a major motorway on the outskirts of delhi. they say they need the protection of government price controls and an official purchasing system. the government insists the reforms will help farmers by allowing them to do their own deals. boeing has agreed to pay £1.8 billion to settle us criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of its 737 max planes. the usjustice department said the firm chose "profit over candour" when it misled regulators over the planes' failings. two of the planes were involved in deadly crashes in indonesia and ethiopia that killed nearly 350 people. most of the money will go to the companies that bought the plane and were affected by its grounding, but half a billion dollars will go

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney., as our south america correspondent, katy watson, now reports from sao paulo. history is repeating itself in the amazon. nine months after the biggest city in the rainforest was overrun by cases, manaus is once again struggling to cope with covid—19. it is a picture that is being repeated throughout brazil — hospital beds filling up, medical teams working relentlessly. on the very day brazil registered 200,000 deaths, it also clocked another unwelcome record — nearly 88,000 new cases in 24 hours, the highest number since the pandemic began. in total, nearly 8 million people in south america‘s largest economy have been infected. but it feels like the pandemic has been forgotten here. it is peak summer, holiday season — people are relaxing and dropping their guard. it doesn‘t help that the country‘s leader refuses to take it seriously. this was president bolsonaro on new year‘s day, doing what he‘s always done — very little, when it comes to setting an example to try and curb the spread

but we don't respond to threats. 0ur correspondent in sydney shaimaa khalil has more on that proposedoogle, facebook and other tech companies to acknowledge thejournalism of these media outlets and pay them for using it on their platform. the government argues that because these tech platforms gain millions of customers with people who go on it to read the news, billions of dollars in advertising revenue, that they should pay news outlets for their journalism. and this really is an essential and badly needed financial support avenue for news outlets that have essentially been haemorrhaging money, really, for decades. we have official reports that say the print media in australia, for example, have lost 75% of its advertising revenue, so the operators are becoming smaller, tighter, they are losing jobs. so this money in the proposed law is hopefully going to support them going forward. but, of course, very strong resistance from google and from facebook as well. 0ur correspondent talking about google and its operations in australia. i think i canjust bring you some newsjust australia.

shaimaa khalil reports from south australia.know what it will mean for moving their products from the uk into mainland europe. and there are questions over how labelling requirements will change and the costs involved. we're doing everything possible to minimise any disruptions on the back of brexit. i think for us, regardless of the outcome, what we're looking for now is the potentials associated with the free trade agreement between the uk and australia. at the moment, the tariffs imposed on australian wine imports into the uk are anywhere between 13 pence and 15 per litre. that is compared to new world competitors such as chile and south africa which have a zero tariff. australia exports more wine to the uk than anywhere else in the world, but most of it is that the cheaper end of the market. so could a free trade deal with britain help producers here sell their more expensive brands competitively? we are going to the old bailey, the chief executive of coghlan is talking about the judge prospect decision not extraditejulian a

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, south australia.t the weather set—up for the next few days is different to what we had last week. high pressures to the north of us, low pressures to the south and east, and that means we are getting more of an east to north—easterly flow across the country. it is still going to be cold, and by night, temperatures dropping below freezing, so some frost and some ice around, but much more in the way of wind across the southern half of the uk. and whilst there will be some sleet and hill snow, for a fairfew of you, what falls from the sky will be rain, particularly so across the south—east corner. this is going to be the wettest part over the next few days, over the hills of north kent, over the east of surrey, and across the channel islands too. we could see as much as 50 millimetres of rain in one or two spots. certainly raining there at the moment. there could be some minorflooding. and for the rest of the day, that rain just continues here on that brisk wind. a few showers mainly across eastern areas