we start in china where earlier today we got to see more evidence of its economic difficulties. new home prices fell for the fifth straight month in november while property investment dropped 9.4% over the year so far. retail sales growth missed forecasts but on the plus side, industrial output, what those factories churn out, expanded in november at its fastest pace since the start of last year. the world bank is forecasting that china s economy will slow next year, with annual growth falling from 5.2% to 4.5%. duncan wrigley is chief china economist at pantheon macroeconomics. he told us more about the economic data we ve seen come out today from china. the general picture is pretty soft, soggy. one standout piece of data, actually, is the accelerated decline in existing home prices. now, property market, as i m sure everyone knows, is very weak in china. but part of the process is going to be clearing some of the excess overhang. there s a lot of investment properties boug
for girls and women in sport. absolutely brilliant. cannot believe it. 2 1, england, get in! in other news us house speaker nancy pelosi prepares for a tour of asia, amid strong warnings from beijing not to visit taiwan. hailing frequencies open, sir. and the american actress, nichelle nichols, best known for her ground breaking role as lieutenant uhura in the original star trek, has died, age 89. england have won the european women s football championship beating germany 2 1 at wembley. the lionesses, as they are known, had never won a major trophy before, and this is the first seniorfootball honour for england since the men s world cup victory in 1966. a crowd of almost 90,000 people were at the stadium, with millions more following the game on television and radio. mark lobel reports. a euphoric moment for english sport with a pitch perfect performance from the lionesses, bringing football home in front of a record crowd of over 87,000 at wembley and many more watching
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push us back. president putin went on to say. for more on this, we canjoin my colleague vitaly shevchenko who has been much of that news conference. we will go on to some of the other that president putin has been saying in a moment. what we just cut to was the president taking a question from a member of the public who appear to be at home, that s something isn t it? ~ , , ., ., it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of russia, - it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of russia, but i it? well, it might be unusualfor. leaders outside of russia, but this is what vladimir putin has been doing for more than 20 years. he s been holding these 0 and a sessions called direct lines with members of the public, but the thing to remember is that very little is left unscripted during these events. whereas vladimir putin has taken difficult questions now and again,
he also predicted labour would win the election, and that as a member of parliament, he could provide more of an opposition to sir keir starmer, than the conservatives. lucy manning has all the details. mr farage, are you standing? we will find out in the moment, won t we? why have you changed your mind? who says i have? iyou said ten days ago you are notl going to stand, so why the change? do you ever change your mind about anything ever? he said he wouldn t, but now he will. a major u turn, a change of heart thrust nigel farage into the heart of the general election campaign. i can t let down those millions of people. i simply can t do it! it would be wrong. so i have decided. i ve changed my mind. it s allowed, you know! it s not always a sign of weakness. it could potentially be a sign of strength. so i am going to stand in this election. margaret thatcher famously said she wasn t for turning. you are obviously for turning. why the massive u turn all of a sudden? this is