UN: Businesses 'destroy' nature's systems

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A report from the UN talks of the world's failure to protect biodiversity and the responsibility of businesses to do something about it. The tariffs that the Whitehouse levied on China and which started the trade war in 2018 were "inappropriate" says the World Trade Organisation – but there is not much that can be done at the moment, as the BBC’s Samira Hussain reports from New York. Plus, as Asian economies get smaller in the coronavirus pandemic – as reported by the Asian Development Bank, we assess with experts what a contraction for the first time in 60 years really looks like. We discuss all this with guests Rhonda Vonshay sharpe, founder and president of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race, in Richmond Virginia, and Enda Curran, senior reporter, Bloomberg News in Hong Kong. (Photo: A Thai elephant walks in the jungle in the early morning fog at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort, Thailand. Credit: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)