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two weeks since nicola bulley disappeared whilst walking her dog in lancashire. now the police are extending their search downstream. and 10,000 tickets to a concert to mark the king s coronation in may are on offer via a ballot. the uk saw no economic growth in the final three months of last year according to the latest official statistics released this morning. it means the country narrowly avoided what s defined as a recession two consecutive quarters when the economy shrinks. the government says it shows the uk was more resilient than expected, after the bank of england had warned of a long period of stagnation. but the economy did shrink by 0.5% in december, and business leaders warn that firms are still struggling. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, says there is reason for optimism. well, the fact that we have avoided a recession, in fact we were the fastest growing major country last year, shows there is underlying resilience in the uk economy. but we are not out of the w
are facing off in an all or nothing televised debate. this is the last chance for the candidates to reach millions of brazilians before sunday s election run off vote. good morning. now on bbc news, amol rajan talks to 19 year old greta thunberg, the climate activist who has become the unlikely voice of a global youth. when i was 15, i wasjust discovering the joys of hip hop and dreaming of playing cricket for england. at the same age, greta thunberg launched an international movement by skipping school. she s not a politician or a scientist, nor is she the first to campaign against climate change. at school, she was bullied for years, before being diagnosed with asperger s syndrome. but in 2018, this swedish schoolgirl found herself hailed as the unlikely voice of global youth. she s become the symbol of a generation, which, as she puts it, is not being listened to by older people, who won t suffer the consequences of not listening. whether you admire her or despair of her,
and in other news. on the eve of the us midterm elections: democrats and republicans make their closing arguments this is the scene live in the state of maryland, where president biden is due to address the crowds. and bursting at the seams: we meet 72 members of the same familyall living under the same roof. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in egypt where the cop27 climate summit has started in sharm el sheikh, with the darkest of warnings from the head of the united nations. antonio guterres said the world was on the highway to climate hell with no sign of slowing down, and that humanity needed to co operate or perish . last year s climate conference in glasgow agreed a number of pledges on cutting emissions, but the un says progress on these has been woefully inadequate . our climate editorjustin rowlatt is at the summit in egypt and sent this report. in the egyptian desert, world leaders have been gath