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Consolidate his power. china set an economic growth target of "around 5%" for 2023, one of the lowest in decades. earlier, i spoke to didi tang, the beijing correspondent for the british newspaper the times, who explained more about the government's economic plans. every year when congress, national people's congress, when they meet, one of the things on the agenda is to approve the annual budget, this is always of high interest, the public always interested in how much money will be spent in china on its military. the military spending has always been increasing at a higher rate than national...

And there's certain places that americans are still continuing to spend. one, restaurants up 7.2%. people still liking going out to eat, spending money there. auto sales up 6.4%. that's because there may be a lag in inventory and folks may be just getting the opportunity to spend and buy their car, but of course this is despite rising interest rates which affects car sales. also people shopping at department stores, up 17.5%. there's a couple of reasons why. good weather. believe it or not, good weather makes people want to go out and spend at restaurants, go shopping. also a strong labor mark...

The roman city was struck by a 7.2 earthquake that killed a quarter of a millian people or more. >> and it is now on top of turkey dech vastated by monday' earthquake. they are on top of a hot spot and many of the major cities are built along fault lines. of course earthquakes are natural disasters but when they are combined with manmade mistakes, they become truly devastating. one such devastating earthquake in 1999 led to more than 17,000 deaths and inspired the turkish government to reform its building codes. turkey also began to require mandatory earthquake insurance for all buildings. but...

Devastating. up just played that video showing that little girl being pulled out of the rubble. scenes all too familiar. of course, in this case, it's a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has devastated the area. president bashar al assad has called an emergency meeting ordered his ministries, any sources they have towards those affected areas. as you can imagine, over a decade of war, more than 12 years of conflict in that country, there's very little of those resources left. when you think of hospitals and clinics, those are places in the conflict. they have images from these places where doctors...

Ofjust 11 miles. since 1970, this region has seen three earthquakes greater than magnitude six. this is magnitude seven, nearly magnitude eight, this was a big one. this was an earthquake such as we don't get more than about 20 of every year somewhere in the world. so this was big, and it was also quite shallow. if the rupture is closer to the surface, you get greater shaking of the ground surface than an earthquake of the same energy that happens at a greater depth. so it is a particularly nasty one. an earthquake of the same magnitude hit northern turkey in 1939. 30,000 people died. and in 1...