hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the international monetary fund, which has published their prediction for the year ahead. global growth will shrink in 2023 from 3.4% last year to 2.8% this year. the economies in germany and the uk will shrink. the imf also expects high interest rates to be temporary forecasting them to fall back to pre pandemic levels. let s hear what the chief economist had to say. hear what the chief economist had to sa . ,, . ., hear what the chief economist had to sa ,, ., ., , hear what the chief economist had to sa . ,, ., ., , ., ., say. starting to bring inflation back towards say. starting to bring inflation back towards of say. starting to bring inflation back towards of targets, - say. starting to bring inflation back towards of targets, but l say. starting to bring inflation | back towards of targets, but at say. starting to bring inflation - back towards of targets, but at the same time, risks have emerged. in our latest foreca
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c
and as ukraine celebrates its orthodox christmas, russian backed forces say they ve downed a drone in breach of a temporary ceasefire. hello and welcome to bbc world news. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after republicans won a slim majority in the house
good afternoon. the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in kent was motivated by extreme right wing ideology and met the threshold for a terror incident, police have said. 66 year old andrew leak carried out the attack at the site in dover last sunday. two members of staff at the centre were left with minor injuries. he is believed to have later taken his own life. jon donnison has the latest. an act of terror. this is the moment andrew leak threw one of up to three makeshift firebombs in a drive by attack on a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday. today police said leak was motivated by terrorist ideology. in a statement, tim jacques, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said. the suspect, andrew leak, is thought to have taken his own life shortly after the attack which police say was likely motivated by extreme right beliefs. it led to around 700 migrants being transferred from the dover processing centre to this one at mansto
penny mordaunt has less than an hour now to make that 100 threshold. her team say this lunchtime that it s going down to the wire and it s extremely close. we ll bring you that announcement at 2 o clock live in our specially extended coverage programme this afternoon. also this lunchtime. western allies denounce a russian claim that ukraine could use a dirty bomb there are fears the kremlin might use it as a pretext to escalate the war. phosphate pollution of rivers threatens the building of tens of thousands of new homes. and he s back in the tardis david tennant travels through time once again to return as dr who. and stay with us here on the bbc news channel 4 continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good afternoon. within the next hour or so, we could know who is britain s next prime minister. at two o clock, norminations close in the conservative party leadership race. rishi sunak has a commanding lead, with 192