junior doctors in england are on strike until the weekend in an ongoing row over pay that set to cause major disruption to services. welcome back to bbc news we will be back with lucy in belfast. sport first. here s will perry. hello from the bbc sport centre. huge night in the champions league at the etihad. pep guardiola has defended his record in the competition with manchester city, as his side take on bayern munich in the quarter final first leg. guardiola comes up against the man who denied him in chelsea s 2021 final victory in porto, thomas tuchel, and the spaniard has failed to win the trophy since his 2011 triumph with barcelona 12 years ago. the champions league has long been city s goal since the takeover of the club in 2008, yet guardiola says success is far from guaranteed. how many masters have played in his career? in 30 or a0 years as a golfer? 30 years, four majors, like it is a champions league in comparison, how many? 130. 18 out of 130. he loses more than
and a pair of trainers worn by the us basketball superstar michaeljordan sells at auction for a record 2.2 million dollars. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has arrived in belfast for a four day trip to mark the 25th anniversary of the historic good friday agreement. the landmark deal largely brought to an end the 30 year conflict in northern ireland, known as the troubles. president biden says he looks forward to reiterating america s commitment to preserving the peace. my colleague emma vardy has more. air force one arrives at belfast international, and northern ireland s first presidential visit in ten years is under way. time for a short hello with rishi sunak on the tarmac before the president was whisked away for the night. a ring of steel is in place in belfast city centre in what is one of the biggest security operations here of recent years. we ve been planning for this for a number of weeks. we ve prepared for all the various contingencies. our st
contingencies. hello ,welcome to the programme, plenty to look forward to this evening, including joe biden s pending arrival in northern ireland. this was him departing joint base andrews earlier this afternoon. air force one expected just after nine, we will take you to live to that when it lands. elsewhere, we will discuss the latest assessment on the world economy. the imf warning today we are locked into a perilous phase of low economic growth. what does that mean for disposable income and our collective spending power? and what about those leaked us documents? the washington post reporting today that egypt, one of the united states oldest allies in the middle east, had secretly planned to supply rockets to russia. all that to come. but we start in belfast, where a huge security operation is in place tonight forjoe biden s imminent arrival. the main event, a speech tomorrow, at the new, ulster university campus. where it is understood the president will talk about the
let s start in china, where the latest figures just released show the world s second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year at 4.5%. this is the first set of quarterly gdp figures following the end of strict covid 19 restrictions in december. they also follow the easing of a three year crackdown on tech firms and property. lets get reaction from julian evans pritchard, head of china economics at capital economics. this is better than expected. most people are saying we re looking at 4% growth, give us your take on this number? really the strength is all about the consumer centre, we saw the vigors beads on the retail sales numbers are more generally in qrs or the household savings rates, so households are feeling more comfortable, households are feeling more comfortable, spinning again, they have comfortable, spinning again, they have the comfortable, spinning again, they have the possibility - comfortable, spinning again, they ha
which could lead that kicked off on monday in washington. and north america correspondent is they are and has a preview of those meetings. high inflation continues to plague countries around the world. central bankers are raising interest rates to try and slow down those price increases. as a result however, we have some of the weakest growth projections by the international monetary fund since the 1990s. with the worlds finance ministers and central bankers all meeting in washington this week the increasingly fragile global economy will certainly be the focus along with ways for countries to try and mitigate some of the negative impacts of those interest rate rises. the high inflation however is already having an impact on poorer countries, pushing them further into financial distress, given the uncertain global economic outlook the imf believes many more countries will be looking to the imf for help. for more we can speak now to don lipski, he s a share of the national bure