welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest. or at least it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security , that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole countries going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making these supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here, and across the world, accor
aimed at countering china s influence. (singing). and we meet the nigerian queen who fits in her role as a royal with entertaining her subjects. hello and welcome. documents seen by the bbc that are said to have been hacked from chinese police computers show that uyghur prisoners in the western region of xinjiang are shot on sight if they are caught trying to escape. thousands of photographs shed light on a secretive system of mass incarceration. the chinese government has dismissed as fake news , claims that uyghurs are arbitrarily detained in the region. john sudworth, who spent many years reporting from xinjiang as the bbc s china correspondent, has this special report. these are the faces of china never intended us to see. from inside its system of mass incarceration and xinjiang. they insist these camps are vocational schools for willing students. the photos, almost 3000 of them show the reality of how whole swathes of uyghur society have swept up person by person stopp
Weve got our forecast down from 1. 7 in april, down to zero point a present. We have already said risks were the downside when we made this forecast was up is down by almost one percentage point. There are number of factors, the continuing crisis in the world that we see and now of course we have the crisis in The Middle East. We have the slowdown in growth in china, we also have high Interest Rates that have continued. We see weak demand across the board for them in most sectors in most geographies. Thats why we cut the forecast. Cut the forecast. How much of this is actual cut the forecast. How much of this is actual policy . Cut the forecast. How much of this is actual policy . Were. This is actual policy . Were hearing from the west this idea of nearshore income of french or income of Rebuilding Supply Chain away from east asia for the friend sharing. How much of this is here to stay and how much of a problem is that . We saw there much of a problem is that . We saw there is much o
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. It is Triple Threat thursday. Good global event create time oil in the market. A new generation of robots hitting the Factory Floor. A Factory Helping Manufacturers prepare for the future. It is a thursday, everyone. Good morning, asia, hello, world. We start off the programme with the us dollar dropping seven week low to what some are calling Triple Threat thursday and it will indeed be a busy day with plenty to make traders edgy. Sacked fbi Directorjames Comey gives a testimony to the Senate Committee and the European Central bank deciding on Interest Rate policy and of the uk is waiting in its general election that will choose a government that will steer it through brexit. What will it mean to the pound and the euro . I asked an expert if these global events are likely to have significant impact. The fact the Trump Administration has managed to get nothing through in its legislative agenda is starting to see this tru
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