Just stronghold. The u. S. Army sergeant held hostage by the taliban for. Gets a disHonorable Discharge because skates prison time. Thousands protests around catalonia over the jailing of eight of their government ministers. And the novelty are a warning sign couldnt robot take over. And im joined again with oil sports news of the day is patrice evra suspended for kicking a fine in the head for your bro police match ill have that story and more later in the program. Iraq and syria have dealt a major new blow to the slum extent of iraq on the bones the iraqi Prime Minister has Just Announced the recapture of chi him on the Syrian Border earliest syrias army said it now controls a city of darrows all which has been. Divided rather for three years just five months ago i still still control vast swathes of territory marked in brown here including major cities on both sides of the border since then its been driven out of mosul itself declared capital rocka and now dare as all the capital of
Showing a continued slowdown. Of it over to Stephen Engle in beijing with the latest. A very good morning to you. What are the numbers telling us . You said it. The Economic Indicators from the weekend and generally from the that 7. 5 ths, missing growth target for the full year. Does that really matter . I will get into it. His options have definitely narrowed, stimulate, or you are probably going to miss that target. We have the weakest growth since the Global Financial crisis and the data released over the weekend. Fixed assets investment, retail sales also moderated. We saw the second straight decline in imports, a 40 drop in the aggregate financing. The numbers are not necessarily looking good for the program of cap. Helen xiao at Morgan Stanley this isimportant an apartment wakeup call. Slowdown, engineered or is this happening a bit faster than they wanted . Will they stimulate more . Will they ease policy . Those are the big questions. They have done so with targeted measures.
Scotlands Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is holding the Scottish Governments Coronavirus Briefing lets listen in. Normally, they start on time at 2 30pm. It is just normally, they start on time at 2 30pm. It isjust one minute late today but we understand there had been a another nine deaths in scotland. The total number of deaths using that particular measurement now 2103. It was only one week ago that scotland made absolutely clear that scotland made absolutely clear that the stay at her message which you can see there on the screen behind those podiums was going to continue in scotland as indeed it would in Northern Ireland and wales. That message has changed in england, of course, to stay alert. The Prime Minister trying to explain the nuances of that again today in an article for a sunday newspaper. So we will go back to i think it is st Andrews House in edinburgh when that starts. Now, before that we have got used to spending much of our lives staring at screens. Now, we are becom