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lets start with china, because its currently holding its annual two—day national peoples congress and has set out its economic forecast for the year. premier li keqiang told a packed audience in beijing on sunday, that the government hoped to achieve economic growth of around 5% in 2023. the figure is in—line with most analyst predictions. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed chinas growth. official figures show the worlds second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which...

within 48 hours of a request. in northwest syria, that didnt happen. what matters in terms of responding to an earthquake is time and what the sort of, the immediacy of the response. and the un just stood there, like, completely paralysed. in this film, we ask, what took the united nations so long? to deliver humanitarian aid across an international border, we need either the consent of the government or in the case that we have in syria, a binding security council resolution. on monda...

with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria — conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the countrys president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying t...

a woman has shot dead at least six people at a private christian primary school. a number of children are among the dead. the gunwoman herself has been killed. the police gave this update a short time ago. we know at this point that this shooter is a female and she appears to be in her teens, although her identification has not been confirmed at this juncture. we know that she was armed with at least two assault type rifles and a handgun. freddie oconnell is a mayoral candidate in nash...

dismissed the possibility of negotiations with the paramilitary rsf. the violence is now thought to have killed at least 330 people with thousands more injured. many khartoum residents have been trapped inside their homes. dalia abdelmoniem ventured outside for the first time in almost a week ahead of the upcoming eid holiday. no—one is celebrating. what these men have done to us, i dont think — theres no words to describe if — you know, the ramifications of what theyve done. i d...

lets turn to ireland now — where us presidentjoe biden has already had a busy day and where in the next hour hes expected to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament. in the past hour weve seen him arrive at farmleigh house in dublin for a meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. . , relationship between the us and ireland. ., , , relationship between the us and ire...

for the first time, our world unveils a criminal underworld of puppy traders trafficking dogs across europe. they came here to resell those dogs in england. those englishmen, they also dealt in drugs. the criminals are breeding dogs in unlicensed puppy mills in hungary. these dogs suffer abuse and neglect. the dogs are sold into a vast pet trade network in western europe that handles 8 million puppies a year. many are illegally passed off as the offspring of a much—loved family pet. ...

happens. lets go to mcallen, texas, on-site hearing, a field trip, if you will, at the highest level at the southern border after what you saw broke off on sunday. a bum rush in el paso, texas. some of them had already booked travel, democrats are pulling out of this unique opportunity to get hands on after the border crisis. again, the white house with a familiar line today calling the hearing itself a stunt. any news and well bring it to you immediately. get to this. tensions escalat...

discussed during nine days of meetings. the chinese leader xi jinping is due to be confirmed as president for a third term. now on bbc news, our world: inside the illegal puppy trade. chloe, would we like to be in a video about how much i love you? and you, bambi? dogs have never been more popular. in the uk, we bought 3.2 million pets during lockdown. in europe, puppies are now a multibillion euro industry. but where are all these puppies coming from? for the first time, our world unv...

mr trump is due in court injust over an hour. we will be looking at exactly what charges donald trump faces and what the consequences might be for him. also on the programme — a court in swansea finds two—year—old lola james was murdered by her mothers partner, who claimed her injuries were caused by the family dog. a fine of more than £12 million for tiktok for allowing children under 13 on to the site without parental consent. and the illness that affects the brain and nervous...