hello there. a significant easing of restrictions in shanghai, which will allow most people to move freely around the city after more than two months of a full lockdown. hooray! the curbs on movement have crippled demand and production. on tuesday, beijing unveiled a stimulus package with 33 measures to try and revive the economy. but china s overall policy of zero covid remains very much in place according to our reporters on the ground. joining me now is iris pang, who is the chief economist at ing wholesale banking. iris, is china open for business? yes, it is. the unwinding of long down in shanghai is a very big step but lockdown is a very big step to the recovery of china. very big step to the recovery of china- very big step to the recovery of china. ~ ., i. ., ~ ., of china. what you make of the olicies of china. what you make of the policies john of china. what you make of the policies john has of china. what you make of the policies john has had of china. wh
Carol ann gallon was the only woman among 18 people convicted as part of operation sanctuary, as fiona trott reports. The trafficker and the abuser. Carolann gallon targeted children as young as 13. Abdulhamid minoyee raped a woman with learning difficulties. Both part of a grooming network jailed for over 160 years. The police say the perpetrators were mainly men from indian, bangladeshi and pakistani backgrounds. You cant escape the fact that they are from particular communities. And i think that however difficult it is, that avoidance of Political Correctness has to expand into the debates that we need to have. It may well be that there isnt something at the end of that debate, that there isnt an underlying reason, that its something that has just happened. Operation sanctuary started in 2013 when the victims of gallon and minoyee came forward. The next stage was this, raids across the city. In houses like this one, vulnerable girls and women were abused. They were given drink and d
Used as an opportunity to tighten the laws in england. The lgas calling for england to come in line with wales and northern ireland, and scores on the doors, the food hygiene ratings, are published on the premisess door, so that you know when you arrive at a restaurant exactly what is rating is. The lga says the change would encourage food outlets to improve hygiene, and reduce cases of food poisoning. Jon donnison, bbc news. Now the weather. A blustery weekend of sunshine and showers for many of us. The showers more widespread across england and wales. After a dismal start, there will be fewer showers into scotland and northern ireland. Highs of 19 celsius. Through this evening and overnight, the showers will ease away and the winds fall lighter. Thats going to allow patchy mist and fog to form. It wont be long before another area of low pressure sta rts before another area of low pressure starts to show its hand in the far north and west and it will bring wet and windy weather into s
It was found in a burial site on the west bank of the nile, near the city of luxor. 0ur middle east editor Alan Johnston has more. Staring out of the past, remains from the world of ancient egypt. They lay here in the darkness, deep beneath the banks of the river nile for well over 3,000 years. Now theyre emerging from their grave. Every detail of their surroundings is being examined. And slowly, the story of this burial place and its dead is becoming clearer. Its believed that this was the tomb of a goldsmith, and we even find an image of this man captured in the sculpture. He sits beside his wife, who is closed in traditional headwear, and dress. Lower down, between their legs, is the outline of another figure, thought to be one of their sons. The archaeologists believe the goldsmith would have dedicated his work to the glorification of the god in. Along with the mummies and decorated cottons, the tomb has given up other bridges, including masks, jewellery and figurines. All now on s
Ties with brussels. After more than eight hours of debate late into monday night, lawmakers voted by 326 to 290 in favour of the eu withdrawal bill. It will now go on to face days of line by line scrutiny. Ministers rejected the labour partys claims that the legislation amounted to a power grab. Heres our Political Correspondent alex forsyth this was one of the first big parliamentary tests for the government. This was a bill they wa nted government. This was a bill they wanted to introduce to bring all existing European Union law into uk law. When the uk leads the eu they would not be a big black hole and things could continue as usual. What was contentious was the government wa nted was contentious was the government wanted to allow ministers to make changes to some of those laws without full parliamentary scrutiny. Now, some opposition labour mps, including the labour party leader, said that was a power grab, that it was trying to bypass parliamentary scrutiny and it was not accepta