in the north west of syria. our other main story this hour, ambulance workers join nurses taking strike action in what will be the biggest ever nhs walkout in england over pay disputes. we have been discussing this coming year from april s pay with the unions. we have the process - through the review pay body, it s an independent process, - and we are keen to get the evidence that reflects the pressure the nhs. has been under and the wider context in terms of inflation. the headteacher of one of the uk s top private schools has been found dead, along with her husband and 7 year old daughter. the first day of sentencing for david carrick here is how he carried out a catalogue of violent and brutal sexual offences hears how. and beyonce breaks records at the grammys and harry styles picks up album of the year at the music awards. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. more than 1,900 people are reported to have been killed by powerful earthquakes which struck southern tu
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
let s start with china, because it s currently holding its annual two day national people s congress and has set out its economic forecast for the year. premier li keqiang told a packed audience in beijing on sunday, that the government hoped to achieve economic growth of around 5% in 2023. the figure is in line with most analyst predictions. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed china s growth. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of five and a half % and its slowest for decades. lets discuss this with louise loo, senior economist at oxford economics. there s widely expected to be a big shakeup in the team handling the economy. around 5%, it probably implies that growth as low as 4.5% is probably acceptable to the government and we do think that means the policy matters that we see will be a little bit more than what we expect last year. more than what we expect last ear. , , , ye
in ukraine fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is almost destroyed. and the stars behind the irish comedy the banshees 0f inisherin speak to usahead of the oscars on sunday. to feel it as colloquial and then see it go out into the world and be received by people from all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe that we share is pretty surprising and cool. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. exactly a month after the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria, an unprecedented number of people are living without proper shelter. the united nations development programme the undp estimates that in turkey alone at least one and a half million people still inside the disaster zone are homeless. the true figure could be even higher. let s show you some live pictures from hatay in turkey which was one of the worst affected