Officials in charge of European Airspace say air traffic across the continent should be back almost 100% on Thursday. Airlines are continuing to restart services after almost a week of a unprecedented paralysis caused by atmospheric ash from volcanic eruption in Iceland. Domine Hus has more.
Restrictions on flying remain in place only most of Northern Parts of Europe. Finland in particular still seems to be affected by the cloud vocalic ash. But further South planes have been flying again in and out of Europe busy airports, London's Heathrow, Paris's Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt. Euro control, the air traffic control agency based in Brussels says around 28,000 schedule flights around 21,000 will go ahead, But such as the chaos cause by the long shut down of European Airspace that it would take weeks before service is running normally again.
The French government has announced plans to introduce a bill next month to ban the wearing of a full-face Islamic veil in public. A move is expected to affect about 2000 women. President Nicola Shacozi has said such garments will place women and were not welcomed in France. The National Federation of Muslim in France said the plan legislation will transgress personal liberty, a government own legal advisor said that the law could well be overturned in French or European courts.
The White House says welcome an announcement from the American Car Company General Motors that it's repaid all of its government loans and $8.4 billion as a bright spot on the road to economic recovery. GM collapsed a year ago, filed for bankruptcy and was kept afloat by the governments. Ruasor Padel reports.
The Chief Executive Aidwordic said repaying all the upstanding loans years ahead of schedule is a sign of plan for building a new GM is working. He also claimed that a real possibility the company will sell shares on the market by the end of year, that would mean the Canadian and US tax payer getting a return on the $15 billion spent bailing the firm out. The US government owns nearly 61% of GM while Canadian government controlled the stake of about 12%. The White House, the another big US car maker Charsley now are run by Italy's Fiat Group, said it will break even this year.
A team of German researcher says pledges is made of Copenhagen climate summit to contain green house gas emissions are now likely to help tackle the problem. The team concluded many countries were pledging slower rates of carbon cars, that the NATO had already been the achieving. Our Valoment correspondent Richard Black has the details.
Analysts at the Potsdam Institute for climate impacts research had been through various pledges made the summit and concluded they will probably set world that caused at least three Celsius of warming by the end of century. That's likely to mean fall in crop yields virtually everywhere in the world. Hundreds of millions more people struggling for access to water and serious damage to most coral reefs.
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