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has set out its economic forecast for the year. the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national people's congress which is poised to implement the biggest government shake—up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the world's second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decades. janet mui is head of market analysis at brewin dolphin. talk to me about this slowdown because ...

clashes in pakistan as imran khan's supporters try to stop police arresting him outside his home a move the former pm has said is outside the law. you it is not the law of the land, it is the law of the jungle. stricter rules ron jockeys whipping the horses stricter rules around jockeys whipping the horses hello and welcome to the programme. the us has summoned the russian ambassador to express concern about a collision between russian fighter jets and an american drone over the black sea. washington has accused moscow of irresponsible behaviour and said the drone was involved in a r...

let's start with big news here in the uk. scotland's longest serving first minister, nicola sturgeon, has resigned. she's been the leader of the scottish national party — which wants independence from britain — for more than eight years. she steered the country through brexit, covid, ukraine, five conservativce prime ministers and enjoyed huge ongoing public support. have a listen to some of what she had to say. in my head and in my heart i know the time is now. let's take a look back at her career. she entered politics full—time in 1999 — when she was elected to the new scot...

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 country's 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 to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is wh...

and extreme poverty. hello and welcome to bbc news. us defence chiefs have identified what they say is a second chinese surveillance balloon, this time over latin america. the first balloon is floating across the us mid—west. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has cancelled a trip to beijing, and accused the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china insists the balloon is a weather monitoring device which has blown off course amd has called for tensions between the washington and beijing to be handled in a "cool—headed and prudent" manner. our north america corres...