By the state of the economy shrinking 11. 3 in 2020, not recovering for a full two years. Indeed, five years from now, itll be 3 smaller than had been expected. Stefanie bolzen, when you look at those figures, we are told that the british economy has not shrunk this much since the great frost of 1709. Not sure how they worked that out, but there you go. The government has a lot more power now than it has in those days to shape the economy. What do you make of rishi sunaks response . Well, it has been very interesting to see how the chancellor, who was also supposed to be one of the possible successors of borisjohnson, and who is highly popular currently in the uk, how he is trying to bridge the situation. So on the one hand, protecting people and we have a kind of new lockdown coming on in the uk on the 2nd of december which is called tier system which, in the highest tiers where cities such as manchester will still be in, is quite stark. Pubs and restaurants cannot open. But on the ot
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories to audiences back home with the dateline london. This week england emerges from lockdown only up to a point. Why has ethiopias man of peace turned to war . And in washington, transition begins, but isjoe biden too invested in the past . To discuss all that, were joined by stefanie bolzen, uk and ireland correspondent for germanys welt. The author agnes poirier, who writes for the french weekly news magazine marianne. With me in the studio, mark urban, diplomatic editor for the bbcs Daily News Programme newsnight. Now, after the good news about vaccines, a harsh reminder this week that covid i9 will shape our lives for months notjust the restrictions that almost everyone in england will be under when the current lockdown ends next week, nor the christmas rules agreed for once between all four countrie
Su ccesso is supposed to be one of the possible successors of borisjohnson, and who is highly popular currently in the uk, how he is trying to breach the situation. In the one hand, protecting people, and we have a kind of new lockdown coming on in the uk on the 2nd of december, which is called the tier system. In the highest years, we are city such as manchester will soon be in, is quite stark. Pubs and reference cannot open. 0n the other hand, keeping the economy going. If you look around europe, this is the dilemma you have everywhere. In germany, my country, where cases are lower, still than in the united kingdom, government is keeping the lockdown until christmas. It is even harsher than it has been before, and no restau ra nts a nd it has been before, and no restaurants and pubs, nothing is opening. There is a real big crisis all over europe in terms of covid. Agnes poirier, we have on saturday during the course of the weekend, the shops opening up in france for the shops opening
Now on bbc news, its dateline, london. Hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories to audiences back home with the dateline london. This week england emerges from lockdown only up to a point. Why has ethiopias man of peace turned to war . And in washington, transition begins, but isjoe biden too invested in the past . To discuss all that, were joined by stefanie bolzen, uk and ireland correspondent for germanys welt. The author agnes poirier, who writes for the french weekly news magazine marianne. With me in the studio, mark urban, diplomatic editor for the bbcs Daily News Programme newsnight. Now, after the good news about vaccines, a harsh reminder this week that covid 19 will shape our lives for months notjust the restrictions that almost everyone in england will be under when the current lockdown ends next week, nor the christmas rules agreed for once between all four countries that make up the United
International Atomic Energy agency has arrived in supper orgy city. Located adjacent to that of the Nuclear Power plant. The agency wants to create a Permanent Mission at the site and assess the state of the facility after repeated attacks. Mission, typically the emissions that seeks to prevent a Nuclear Accidents and the reserve at these important the largest, the biggest Nuclear Power guns in europe, the, the whole of europe, not only in ukraine. So this is what we are concentrating the Agencies Mission and comes a bit numerous ukrainian attacks on a nearby city of antarctica dog as well as the Nuclear Power plant. Its some the one drone attack to a City Administration building in another local official say, no one was heard. While another drone was shot down off the firing on the nuclear plot, waste facilities thats according to the russian military. Now the visit comes after another global watchdog out of im misty international, came under fire fruits criticism of kiev and had to b