she was one of a handful of children named the world s 7 billionth baby by the un. translation: the whole world saw me when i was born. - look now, you ve come to see me. 11 years later, the world s population has hit 8 billion. bangladesh, where oishee lives, has 17 million more people and it s still growing. translation: there s been a lot of change. | prices have shot up. the fallout from covid hit families hard. we had big losses in our business and we were forced to move back to our village from the city. but the number of children women are having here has fallen from six in the 1980s to two today, thanks to girls education. bangladesh now has to harness the potential of its young educated people, like oishee. translation: i want to become a doctor to help people, - to give them special care.
in his family s flat in rochdale. and still to come, the england and wales football teams are both flying out to qatar today, ahead of the world cup. coming up on the bbc news channel: multiple reports in australia suggest novak djokovic will be able to play in the australian open injanuary, with the new government they are expected to overturn his visa ban for not having a covid vaccine. the global population has hit 8 billion people, according to the united nations. officials chose 15th november to mark the milestone though they acknowledge their assessment could be out by a year or two. the report says the growth rate may now slow, and half of the next billion is expected to come from just eight countries, five of them in africa. our population correspondent stephanie hegarty has more details. the day oishee was born was extra special.
had shut down several missiles, but as i say, the bbc has not been able to independently verify this. from what we are seeing, we are getting reports that russian missile attacks have targeted cities across ukraine from the east to west including the capital, kyiv, and we will bring you more details as they come into it here in the bbc. the global population has hit 8 billion people, according to the united nations. officials chose the 15th november to mark the milestone though they acknowledge their assessment could be out by a year or even two. the report says the growth rate may now slow, and half of the next billion is expected to come from just eight countries, five of them in africa. our population correspondent stephanie hegarty has more details. the day oishee was born was extra special. she was one of a handful of children
named the world s seven billionth baby by the un. translation: the whole world saw me when i was born. - look now, you ve come to see me. 11 years later, the world s population has hit eight billion. bangladesh, where oishee lives, has 17 million more people and it s still growing. translation: there s been a lot of change. | prices have shot up. the fallout from covid hit many families hard. we had big losses in our business and we were forced to move back to our village from the city. but the number of children women are having here has fallen, from six in the 1980s to two today, thanks to girls education. bangladesh now has to harness the potential of its young educated people, like oishee. translation: i want to become a doctor to help people, - to give them special care.