to fall into recession this year and will maintain positive growth this year. news welcomed by the uk finance minister as a big upgrade in the uk outlook. but for many right now, it might not feel like things are looking up with double digit inflation pushing up the cost of living, and pushing living standards down. here s the chancellorjeremy hunt reacting to the news. today the imf s assessment shows we are on the right track. the report forecast growth of 0.4% in 2023 and 0.7 percentage point upgrade since the aprilforecast. 0.7 percentage point upgrade since the april forecast. that s even higher than the bank of england forecast published last week for 0.25% growth in 23. the imf says we have acted decisively to fight inflation which will substantially reduce to around 5% by the end of the year. in the imf say our approach to fiscal policy will help to significantly reduce the deficit over the forecast by 3% of gdp between 20 to 23 and 2728. so together these forecasts
that affidavit. a day after the cdc makes a statement about its management, the white house is set to make an announcement about vaccines. a new york city sex offender arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and back on the streets tonight. we will show you his later alleged crime sucker punching a stranger. america s gripping new legal drama vum tr svdoj in a florida courtroom on thursday and matt has that story tonight. during that in person hearing, federal judge bruce rineheart says he s inclined to release some of the affidavit on the raid at former president trump s home. the justice department has a week to suggest any redactions but the judge will have the final say. judge rineheart ordered some of the documents represented to the search warrant to be unsealed including the application for the warrant. the affidavit will likely reveal the inform ant and what information they supplied. the justice department objects to the affidavit s full rest, saying it would c
exports was high on the agenda and mr putin said progress had been made. now on bbc news, the travel show s emeline nsingi nkosi finds out what life s like as an international volunteer onboard the world s biggest civilian hospital ship. the green guide asks how to travel sustainably on a budget, and the team s in india looking at a new record breaking rail bridge in the himalayas. this week on the show. on board the world s biggest civilian hospital ship. where would you like to go, do you have any ideas? aruba. 0h, nice, aruba! i like that. greening up your trip while staying in the black. affordable travel is definitely green travel. and building a record breaker in the himalayas. when covid swept the world back in 2020, shutting borders and grounding flights, holiday makers weren t the only travellers to be stuck at home. many overseas volunteering projects were also locked down. in fact, voluntourism provider projects abroad say numbers will not be back to normal until 2
kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and he s trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. in the op-ed, biden writes from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that s been a strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council and is now working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. i know there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to saudi arabia. my views human rights are c
a jury will decide whether he ll face the death penalty or life imprisonment. wales recorded its hottest day ever on monday. the temperature reached 37.1 celsius in flintshire. the heat is a particular challenge for farmers trying to keep their livestock cool. hywel griffith reports. if you re feeling hot and bothered, spare a thought for this highland cow far from home at the royal welsh show. chloe s hoping she can keep her cool for the competition. they re coping all right at the minute, touch wood. i mean, hopefully it just stays like this. there s a nice breeze coming through now, but fingers crossed it all goes well. good luck. thank you. this is britain s biggest agricultural show, the first in three years due to the pandemic. roasting heat wasn t going to stop them. we ve never actually got to the point where we would have cancelled the show. if that point would have come, we would have taken it seriously, but we were confident that we ve got sufficient mitigations in