Description
Added on the 23/01/2023 12:04:26 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Residents of China's Wuhan say they are hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. Since Beijing ordered the city to be sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak in January 2020, Covid has spread across the planet, killing millions and plunging the global economy into turmoil.
Since mid-July, Europe has been experiencing a resurgence in cases of Covid-19 due to the emergence of new variants.
In 1953, a gigantic storm swept across the North Sea and caused a tidal wave in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Many dykes controlling water levels were simply swept away as the water spread far inland. While more than 300 people died in the UK, more than 1,800 lost their lives in the Netherlands. At the time, around a fifth of the Netherlands was below sea level. More than 2,000 square kilometres of land were flooded there, including almost the entire province of Zeeland. Protective structures have since been created. But will they be sufficient to hold back the expected rise in sea levels due to climate change? FRANCE 24's Alix Le Bourdon reports.
On the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster experts in nuclear power generation and safety share their hopes and fears for Ukraine's atomic power sector.
After almost 14,000 performances, the curtain finally fell on the longest-running show in Broadway history amid losses sustained during the Covid-19 pandemic.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
