chancellor s budget tomorrow as new figures show wage rises are no longer accelerating. the neonatal nurse accused of the murder and attempted murder of babies a court hear how a consultant raised concerns with hospital bosses, which were ignored. we ll report on why some well known cough medicines sold behind the counter at pharmacies have been withdrawn from sale. and some 36,000 people turned up for the opening day of cheltenham. we ll bring you the latest on the horse racing action. andy murray faces a man he mentored, and emma also aims to reach the fourth round. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a 22 year old woman has been jailed for eight and a half years for making up a series of false rape allegations. eleanor williams posted pictures of herself on social media with injuries she claimed were from being beaten, abused and trafficked by asian men. in fact she had inflicted the wounds on herself using a hammer. the court heard that the three me
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an asteroid, estimated to be between a0 and 90 metres wide passed harmlessly between the orbits of the earth and the moon this evening in what astronomers are calling a once in a decade event. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, ourworld: facial recognition fighting crime? across america, police are increasingly using facial recognition technology to fight crime. speaks spanish. can you open the door? we want law enforcement to have more tools at our disposal, not less. images can be fed into a database to search for matches and track people down. but critics argue the use of this technology is opaque and could be inaccurate. if law enforcement knows how accurate that is, how come they are fighting so hard to keep that information from us when we ask for it? why won t they share it? i m james clayton, and i m investigating whether the police should be using this controversial tech. the technology itself is harmful. it is too danger
figures amongst a host of other key data. the quarterly figures will be the first since beijing scrapped its zero covid restrictions late last year. the chief economist at hang seng bank china told us she is expecting to see an economic rebound that could fade in subsequent quarters. in terms of gdp growth for the first quarter it is very likely to exceed expectations because the trade data was just exceptional, so now we are anticipating a growth rate of about 4.5% and in terms of infrastructure, housing, consumption, all those figures will improve significantly in the first quarter as well. there might be some downside risks but it will mostly show up in the coming months. in the first quarter data probably is just right spots. it s the first set of numbers we are getting in the post pandemic restriction error. we are really going to get a sense of how china has recovered but can it sustain that economic growth going forward? there is certainly some discrepancy between 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