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good morning to you. yesterday was a really cloudy one right across the board. today we've got a lot more sunshine around, but it is feeling on the cool side. high—pressure sticks with us into much of this upcoming week, so it looks like it is going to stay largely dry and settled, but i will have all the details on that very shortly. it's sunday, the 5th february. our main story: the business secretary, grant shapps, has given energy firms a deadline of tuesday to say what action they will take for vulnerable customers who may have had pre—payment meters wrongfully installed. it...

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...

so they really are looking for some political and economic stability. well, for now, markets are calm. but investors say any mis—step in appointing a new leader could see the uk plunged back into financial crisis a place in uk political history — as the shortest—serving prime minster ever. she lasted just 44 days in office before announcing her resignation yesterday. but she's also contributed another record — to the english language. the shortest—lived economic catchphrase. we started using the term trussonomics just six weeks ago. a plan for a low—tax, low—regulation,...

ali velshi and katie turner continue to pick up our special coverage right now. >> rounds and territories of the -- citizens >> morning it is ali velshi here at msnbc. joining me from london's -- you are watching the proclamation of king charles the their, or in, edinburgh scotland. this is one of four proclamations we will be watching this morning. there is one and, card of whales. there is one in belfast, northern ireland. , three actually. let's just listen to this for a moment. >> northern ireland now has all around us and territories, king, head of the commonwealth, defender of ...

the only survivor behind the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people in the biggest trial in modern french history following the country's worst peacetime attack. it shook paris to its core in november 2015. as well as those killed, hundreds were injured during horrendous attacks on bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and the bataclan music venue. arrested in brussels four months after the attacks, salah abdeslam said he was a soldier of the so—called islamic state group, but later apologised to victims and claimed he decided not to detonate his suicide vest on th...