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let's start with china, because it's currently holding its annual two—day national people's 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 china's growth. official figures show the world's second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of five and a half % and its slowest for decades. lets dis...

former met police officer, wayne couzens, serving life for murdering sarah everard, has now been sentenced to 19 months in prison, for indecent exposure. police in south wales searching for five people have found three dead and two seriously injured, two days after they went missing following a night out. after a century, perfectly preserved at the bottom of the antarctic ocean — lloyds of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton�*s ship the endurance. it's a month now since the earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria. many families still...

conditions further north. more snow to come in northern scotland. not quite so cold in the south, where we have still got that cloud that will linger through the day in southern england and south wales. a lot of that wet weather will peter out. further north, some sunshine and more snow showers pushing into northern ireland, particularly across the north of scotland on that cold wind from the arctic. whether you have got the sunshine in the north or the cloud in southern parts of england, it's going to be cold everywhere. these weatherfronts are sliding in slowly from the atlantic. a...

imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling. i see killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto up out of me, though. >> it's a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and it's pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, there it is, platinum record. >> country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon's over. now w...

and my guest today is baaba maal, a world—renowned musician whose roots lie in northern senegal. his voice, guitar and rhythms have won him worldwide acclaim over five decades. he's sometimes labelled the �*voice of the sahel�*. but how much influence can that voice yield? baaba maal, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, it's great to have you back in this hardtalk studio. now, you have a new album out, being — your first for several years — and i was interested to see the other day you describe yourself these days as an elder. does it mean your music is sort of changing a...