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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak demands that unionists end their boycott of the devolved government in Northern Ireland, in a speech marking 25 years of peace in the divided territory. "I urge you to work with us to get Stormont up and running again. That's the right thing to do in its own terms. And I'm convinced it's also the right thing to do for our union (UK)," Sunak says in Belfast. SOUNDBITE
Quezon City, Aug 30 (EFE/EPA).- Healthcare workers in Manila staged a protest Monday, calling for release of government funds to employees in medical facilities during pandemic as well as the resignation of Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III over allegedly mishandling efforts to combat COVID-19. (Camera: ROLEX DE LA PENA).SHOT LIST: HEALTHCARE WORKERS HOLD A PROTEST OUTSIDE THE ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL, IN QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
Maidstone (UK), 22 June, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Neil Hall).- A growing number of British workers are turning their hand to fruit and vegetable picking amid a national campaign to salvage a summer harvest jeopardized by coronavirus travel restrictions. Widely-regarded as a strenuous job, with early starts and the ever-unpredictable British weather, manual fruit and vegetable harvesting has in recent years been dominated by migrant workers, many of whom travel from Eastern Europe to work on a seasonal basis. With only a third of those workers expected to make it over this year, the UK government has actively encouraged students and furloughed workers to fill the vacancies.FOOTAGE OF RASPBERRY PICKING IN THE UK AND STATEMENTS BY STEPHEN TAYLOR, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF WINTERWOOD FARMS, AMELIA RAWSTONE, STUDENT AND TEMPORARY WORKER AT THE FARM AND BECKY PAVEY, PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND FARM WORKER
Britain's finance minister says the government will help cover the wages of people hit by the coronavirus outbreak by allowing companies to apply for a grant for up to 80 percent of salaries of retained workers, up to a total of £2,500 ($2,900) a month. SOUNDBITE
This remote-controlled, wheeled robot is called Thorvald and it was designed to able to fill the gaps in British farm labor which some people anticipate when the UK finally pulls out of the EU. The four-wheeled device, which is controlled by a joystick and comes equipped with a GPS, is a modular robot created by Norwegian and British engineers to handle manual labor jobs such as picking and seeding. According to the Government’s official figures, 22,517 EU-born workers were employed in UK farms in 2015. Agriculture all over the world is going through a major technological change and Thorvald is one of many new machines out there leading the charge.
Members of the British Parliament are calling for a worldwide ban on microbeads, after the U.S. passed a law last year banning them in personal care products by July 2017.