to their countries of origin? well, my guest is the director of the humboldt forum, hartmut dorgerloh. is germany right now the leader in the restitution movement? hartmut dorgerloh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it s a great pleasure to be in this amazing museum. i think it s fair to say this is perhaps the most ambitious cultural project launched since the unification of germany. what is the. the motivating idea behind it? yes, it s the most prominent cultural project since the reunification in germany, and it is a debate also about the new heart of the new capital of reunified germany. so it was in the beginning more a discussion about the architecture, about urban development, what to do with the site where originally, for centuries, the main residence of the hohenzollern monarchy. a prussian palace was here. yes, a prussian palace. and after the second world war, when it was torn down, heavily damaged in the war by the communist regime, it was replaced in the 19705 by the
a bit more persistent. so, in general the market s expecting maybe one or two more interest rate rises, up to about 5%. the fact we are not in recession probably doesn t change that thinking. the man in charge of the uk s economy has welcomed the rise. here s chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt. these are much better figures than anyone would possibly have predicted even three months ago. that is partly because what the governor of the bank of england said yesterday. measures in the budget that are helping to help companies to recruit and tackle some of the underlying problems in the economy. but there is still much work to do. we still have inflation that is much too high, that is causing a lot of pressure forfamilies up and down the country. that is why we have to stick to our plan to get inflation down, to get growth up, and to get the economy motoring in the way that we all want. the uk remains the only g7 country in which the quarterly measure of gdp has not recover
Of the exchequer. President zelensky says hell keep asking western allies to send modern tanks to ukraine, after a meeting of more than 50 countries ended without agreement. Hundreds of people have been protesting for the right to wild camp in Dartmoor National park in the uk. Last week the Uks High Court ruled that the permission of landowners was required before camping on dartmoor. Millions of people Around The World are preparing for the start of the lunar new year. You are watching bbc news. Political thinking with nick robinson. Hello and welcome to a new series, conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guess this week is the leader of britains second largest trade union, Sharon Graham who replaced the rather better known mark. We are at a time restriction on the health service, strikes on the railway, strengths and schools, strikes in the civil service. Foryears, and schools, strikes in the civil
here s louise lear. the weather in the uk has been quite recently but we have seen rain today for the debris so far has been quite dry but this was highland a few hours ago the you can see how heavy and persistent rain is. if we take a look, you can see how widespread it was across scotland today, accompanied by gales and severe gales at times. the white stuff is snow across the mountains, but if we push sequence on over the last couple of hours, you can see how quickly it fragments and weakens, now pushing its way into north west england across the lake district. that band of cloud and light, drizzly rain will sink in south but we will continue to seek a rash of showers across scotland, which could lead to some ice first thing in the morning on untreated roads. it looks likely the cloud continue to push south and east, so if rust free start to the morning, taken off a bit of drizzle. you can see weather weatherford sits through east anglia towards the south west but it will
for the uk in this year s eurovision song contest mae muller will be heading to liverpool in may. on bbc london: more than 200 people arrested by the met police and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. four days after their 7 0 thrashing at anfield, how will manchester united respond in europe? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the cost of childcare is rising making it increasingly difficult for many parents to go to work. one children s charity found the average cost of childcare for under twos in britain is almost 15,000 pounds a year though that varies greatly depending on where you are. (ani look at the difference in the amount of your wages you ll spend roughly 44% for full time workers on average pay but in scotland it s around 35% and more than 50% in london. the government says its invested £20 billion over five years to help families with childcare. labour says it would completely overhaul childcare calling the current sys