widodo s indonesia is no exception. from jakarta, our asia business correspondent, nick marsh, reports. this is a country on the move. super high speed rail has come to indonesia. whoosh was built by chinese engineers and financed with chinese loans. once upon a time indonesia s largest trading partner was the united states. that train has left the station. now, it is china. they were given the nod to build this over america s ally and the master train makers, japan. this train is notjust the testament to chinese engineering. the fact it was chosen overjapan s offer is a vote of confidence in china. the truth is that countries like indonesia are hungry for infrastructure and china is more than happy to provide it. but china cannot provide everything. this is boeing s brand new office injakarta. presidentjoko and i started meeting when he was governor. the relationship goes back a long way. indonesia is wary of the chinese military power and when it comes to defence, it still
singing. what must it take for a mother to comfort her child. ..when reality is so devastating? two year old fatima was stuck under the rubble of a bombing in gaza three weeks ago. nehal and her husband had tried for 14 years to have a baby. and then fatima was born. translation: what is her fault? what did she do wrong? we have to constantly give her painkillers. as soon as the effect of one wears off, i give her another. her life revolves around painkillers, and every other day she undergoes surgery. trapped in gaza, under the constant threat of being bombed. hospitals fill up with more wounded children. amira, 13. seven of her brothers were killed and her mother, too. her father says they d fled to southern gaza for safety. that s where they were bombed. amira has spinal injuries. i want peace and security. i want to be treated and go back to normal life to my home, she says. i want to feel safe. it s not clear if amira will be able to walk again. yogita limaye, bb
with an ankle problem. he s withdrawn from the england squad today. micky van de ven will be out for a similar period with a hamstring problem. it s a big test for the manager ahead of their game at wolves. all the absences kind of have an effect on the team. i guess the unusual one for us, and again, i ve known many times and again, not many times in my career where we ve had such disruption in one game, we ve lost 4 5 starters in one game. so that s kind of where we get affected more than anything else. if it was just mickey, you would miss him because of the qualities he has, it wouldn t affect us as much, but we have three players from the back four, and that s a real challenge for us. manchester united lost midweek in the champions league, courtesy of a dramatic late goal in copenhagen, a match in which marcus rashford was sent off in. but manager erik ten hag is confident the england striker, who s only scored one goal for united this season, will come good. he s not in
would benefit israel. he said we do urge them to stop this bombing in gaza. he spoke to the bbc s europe editor katya adler. we have had weeks of aid organisation sounding the alarm about gaza, and you have now said that humanitarian pauses and fighting aren t enough and there needs to be worked towards a ceasefire. are you disappointed that other world leaders aren tjoining you in that call it like the us are the uk? i you in that call it like the us are the uk? ., , , you in that call it like the us are the uk? .,, , a, you in that call it like the us are theuk? , a, a the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear. i the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, i was the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, i was one the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, i was one of the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, i was one of the - the uk? i hope they will and let s be clear, i was one of the first. be clear, i w
essentially moving sideways, but on my forecast, i think it will tip into the economy contracting over the next couple of quarters as the drug wins out. the next couple of quarters as the drug wins out- the next couple of quarters as the drug wins out. that means you are ”redictin drug wins out. that means you are predicting an drug wins out. that means you are predicting an official drug wins out. that means you are predicting an official recession. - predicting an official recession. that is right. we are predicting a mild recession by historical standards. i wouldn t get too worried about whether it is a recession, the big picture is we ve got an economy which is weak and essentially on its knees, before the full impact of higher interest rates has been felt. so i think that is the main message, whether there is a technical recession, which is defined as two quarters of consecutive contractions in gdp, or whether we bounce around with the economy moving sideways. the