to clean up air and water, boost nature and reduce waste in england by 2030. under the 25 year environmental plan, everyone will live within 15 minutes walk of a green space or water, habitat for wildlife will be expanded and there will be 25 new or enlarged national nature reserves and more money will go to protecting rare wildlife, such as hedgehogs and red squirrels. joining me now is our climate editor, justin rowlatt. good morning, just in. the independent office for environmental protection said government efforts to improve england s environment and protect nature are far short of what is needed. there is a frequent failure to meet its own legally binding targets, its report said. what will this plan due to try to change that? the what will this plan due to try to change that? what will this plan due to try to chance that? ., . ., , ., , change that? the overall ambition is to halt and reverse
spend to get the economy moving again. the government does not agree and the calculation it has made as if you get inflation down, people will have more money to spend. i don t think people will change their mind on that. don t think people will change their mind on that- mind on that. thank you, nick eardle , mind on that. thank you, nick eardley. our mind on that. thank you, nick eardley, our political - eardley, our political correspondent. we can speak now to yael selfin, chief economist at the global accountancy firm kpmg. good to have you with us, just the imf s good to have you with us, just the imf s forecast for it with kpmg s? they are actually a little more optimistic than us and quite a few other analysts to expect the economy to shrink by more like 0.9% at this stage, although dato keeps coming. we could see changes, these are just forecasts at the start of the year. i wanted to put it into context in the sense that this is a relatively mild contraction. if you look at t
take money out of the economy and take money out of the economy and take some of the heat out of edge, some of the upward pressure on prices. fiscal policy, the government says it has a plan to tackle inflation and what that effectively means there is a keep saying we can t afford this, this and that, meaning it is putting less money into the economy than it otherwise would and that is one of the reasons there is less money for everybody to spend and why the imf projects we will be the weakest economy for growth next year of any advanced economy, notjust the g7 but the top 15 most developed countries. it is really striking that they predict that russia will grow in spite of all the international sanctions, whereas our economy won t. international sanctions, whereas our economy won t- economy won t. finally and briefly, when a big economy won t. finally and briefly, when a big organisation economy won t. finally and briefly, when a big organisation like - economy won t. finally and
we have been given exclusive access to extraordinary police transcripts and investigation records that show in detail exactly how street level police are targeting people online. in some of the exchanges, the police seem to be pressuring people into offering sex for money. but in others, there is no mention of any financial transaction, so the transcripts appear to show evidence that people are being arrested for their sexuality. police forces in egypt receive training from the uk via the un. the egyptian interior ministry did not respond to the bbc s request for comment. yahia denied involvement in any attacks. lgbtq people in egypt are forced
this stigma and the way the law is being used leaves people like leila vulnerable to attack. by interviewing other victims and through online research, we were able to confirm the identity of one of the leaders of the gang. his name is yahia. he is the man with the knife in the video. we have evidence that his gang has carried out at least four similar attacks. sahid is just 18 and another of yahia s victims. translation: he asked for money, which i didn t have, so he called my parents, and the video spread all around egypt. he wanted to report the attack to the police, but his lawyer advised him against it. translation: he said, - both of you will be jailed. because i am a gay man and because he stole. he said his offence isn t as big as mine in egyptian society. we found the police themselves have been impersonating users on dating apps to find and arrest members of the lgbtq community.