There have been questions about china beyond its former economic woes. The four day meeting is held once every five years, and lays out the country s future economic direction. What did we learn? i m nowjoined by our asia pacific editor micky bristow. Explain what they were discussing, here. There are so many issues facing the chinese economy, it is hard to know where to start. What were they hoping to achieve in a meeting? were they hoping to achieve in a meetin: ? , , , meeting? this is held every five ears in meeting? this is held every five years in the meeting? this is held every five years in the communist meeting? this is held every five years in the communist party i meeting? this is held every five i years in the communist party cycle and it is usually at this meeting of the communist party set out its major overall economic agenda for the coming years. So, broad brush ideas, essentially, that is what they were going to discuss. When you read the communique that they came ou
says officers acted appropriately and were not heavy handed at a vigil for sarah everard in london. and traffic resumes in the suez canal after the stranded container ship blocking the waterway was eventually freed. hello and welcome a witness to the arrest of george floyd whose death sparked race protests around the world says he believed that what he saw was a murder. donald williams was testifying on the second day of the trial of a white police officer, derek chauvin, who is accused of killing mr floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. our correspondent, aleem maqbool reports from minneapolis. do you swear or affirm. the first full day of testimony was an emotional one. it started with the playing of an emergency call that was made by an eyewitness. he just pretty muchjust killed this guy that wasn t resisting arrest. he had his knee on the dude s neck the whole time. donald willams is heard describing how he saw a man handcuffed and on his f
watch the allegations flying around the scottish parliament as the first minister is accused of misleading msps. it used to be possible in this country to have rigorous, robust scrutiny and political debate without a scorched earth policy of conspiracy theory and damaging the integrity of the independent institutions of the country. questions over the fate of shamsa, another dubai princess, missing for 20 years. why was a cambridgeshire police investigation closed? a five day match done and dusted injust two. a wicket bonanza as england go down in the third test against india. and coming up in sport on bbc news. scotland s match with france in the six nations on sunday is postponed, after an 11th french player tests positive for coronavirus. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. after last year s exam fiasco when grades were decided by an algorithm this year the government has opted to pass the responsibility of gcse and a level grades on to teachers. with so
a daughter of the ruler of dubai asks british police to reopen their inquiry into her sister s disappearance, 20 years ago. how thousands of thermal images of elephants could help protect endangered species. and india thrash england by ten wickets in an eventful third test to take a 2 1 series lead. the uk s covid 19 alert level has been reduced. the alert has been at level five the highest since early january and is now going down to to four. it means the risk of the nhs being overwhelmed in the coming weeks has fallen. our health editor hugh pym has more on the alert level change. it is based on a decision by the uk s four chief medical officers, working with officials from the joint biosecurity centre. it is, in a way, a nonpolitical, independent take on how serious the alert level is. it was level three from may onwards all the way through to september, when it was moved up to level four that s when cases were really beginning to accelerate again and then leve
of myanmar are now learning at firsthand that the myanmar military far from defending people wages war against them with pitiless savagery, crushing them as enemies. germany is to suspend the use of the astrazeneca vaccine for the under 60s because of more concerns about its safety. and as a decade of fighting in libya comes to an end, the horrors of those years are now being exposed. we have a special report. hello to you. brazil has registered 3,780 covid 19 deaths, a new record in the latin american nation which now regularly accounts for about a quarter of coronavirus deaths worldwide on any given day, more than any other country. meanwhile, brazil s defence ministry has announced the commanders of the army, navy and air force will be replaced as the president, jair bolsonaro, struggles to head off a crisis over his leadership. mark lobel has the story. getting vaccinated in brazil takes on a new urgency with overcrowded hospitals and a record death rate haunting the