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pro—iranian militias. the strikes were in response to a drone attack on a us military base, killing three american soldiers. a third successive week of protests against the far—right in germany. more than 100,000 people demonstrate in berlin. now on bbc news — newscast. so earlier this week we were chatting slogans with our fellow newscasters after an email that we received. and the question was, if we were a political party, what would our slogan be? that is fantastic, because in this year of one heck of a lot of slogans, we've got to up our game, haven't we? we've got to thin...

it, and of course i am super happy to be in anotherfinal of it, and of course i am super happy to be in another final of the grand slam, and hopefully i can do in the bit better than the last time. —— a little bit better. jhung, on the other hand, is through to her first grand slam final, ending ukrainian qualifier dayana yastremska's incredible run with a 6—4, 6—4 win. jhung is aiming to become the second chinese woman to win the australian open singles title, 10 years after li na's famous victory. cricket now, and india trail england by 127 after day one of the first test i...

against the dollar in early trading. it's recovered most of those losses during today's trading session but investors remain nervous. safe haven assests like the gold have risen. gold was up around 0.6% a short while ago with brent crude also rising throughout the day. let's speak now to sergey vakulenko, nonresident scholar at the carnegie russia eurasia center. welcome, great to have you on the programme. what has been the noticeable impact so far on the russian economy since the events of saturday? there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, ora there were none. indeed, it was mutiny,...

to go above 30,000. japan has just released growth figures. asia's second—biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicted. i spoke to neil newman from macquarie capital. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn't really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp number certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy now contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up 0.9 on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even private consumption was also...

second—biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicting, thanks to private consumption and an unexpected rise in capital expenditure. let's bring in neil newman from the quarry capital who joins us live from tokyo. thank you for joining us. the data has come out a lot stronger than expected, talk us through what's been doing quite well. this is a very big and positive surprise. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn't really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp numbers certainly does indicate t...