important this is to you on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions united in music the slogan for this year s eurovision contest is unveiled as the official eurovsion handover ceremony takes place today in liverpool. and coming up on the third anniversary of brexit, we ll have a special phone in on the impact. my colleague nicky campbell will be asking what your experience has been so far, in the next half an hour. hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk economy is due to get smaller this year and do worse than other major nations, including russia that s according to the world s most important international financial organisation, the international monetary fund. it predicts the uk economy will shrink by 0.6% this year. it believes the uk will be the only country among the world s major economies to see its economy get smaller. it says its forecast reflects the uk s high energy prices, high inflation and high interest rates. the us, germany, france, italy and japan are
eurovision song contest. we have kids on the way, ukrainians on the way, superfans on kids on the way, ukrainians on the way, super fans on the way and there is no bigger superfan dan rylan and aj. is the british transfer record set to be broken twice with chelsea bidding £105 million for world cup winner enzo fernandez as arsenal make a world record move for lioness alessia russo? we have a band of cloud and rain clearing the south of england. then most will have a day of sunshine and some showers, most of which in the north. the wind is also going to strengthen with gales later, especially in the north. all the details through the programme. it s tuesday, january the 31st. the world s most important financial institution, the international monetary fund, expects the uk to be the only major advanced economy to shrink this year. it predicts the economy will contract by 0.6%, as the cost of living continues to hit households. nina is here and can tell us more. it is pretty st
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a ho
across england and wales. a drier slice of weather, but then the rain returns. it could become quite heavy, particularly across the western areas. it s all about the storms, loads of them tonight. that is bbc news at six. have a look at the bbc online, all of the latest analysis and development is there, building on the news stories. and, of course, cross the nations and regions our colleagues are waiting with the news where you are. but from all of us here on bbc news at six, thanks for watching and goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. our headlines. chelsea sack their manager seven games into the season and less than 18 months after thomas tuchel won them the champions league. keira walsh becomes the world s most expensive female footballe but manchester city lose another star as the lionessjoins barcelona. and alex hales has returned to the england fold for the first time in three years when he was dropped because of an off field incident that s kep
Take part in the apartment draw, russian the military responds to the criminal shelling with counterbattery fighting within 24 hours in various directions of the north, several american m37 systems, an m119 gun, as well as msta b20 and d13 howitzers were destroyed. As for the numbers of enemy personnel, in the donetsk direction alone there were more than 230 personnel and the situation pavel prokapenko. The artillerymen are working on a wide section of the front, but they ask not to specifically name the location of their positions; the only thing that can be said is that the road to them is getting worse worse and worse with every kilometer. We drive to the position to the sounds of air defense, there are characteristic smoke trails in the sky, these are downed enemy missiles flying towards donetsk. At the site of the upcoming shooting, the cellars have already been opened, as the artillerymen call the boxes hidden in the ground. With fragments, highexplosive fragmentation shells, to