mother of two nicola bulley, who s been missing for a week, fell into the river while walking her dog. and the spanish fashion designer paco rabanne has died at the age of 88. hello and welcome to bbc world news. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected in the sky above the united states. china says a balloon is a chinese civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. us defence officials said they believe the balloon, seen above sensitive areas in recent days, was a high altitude surveillance device. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right, i can sate. it s not the moon, nor a ufo, but, us officials claim, a chinese spy balloon. it
of the financial crisis, 2008 ish? yes. and they have said they will stay about that level for quite a while, so the idea that interest rates are here to stay is here to stay. and the big picture message is not great, it s pretty bleak, but they are kind of saying things might not be as bad as had been predicted. yes, that s where the graphs come in. we will now try and paint graphs with words, but they looked at inflation, which they do in all these reports and actually, they are now suggesting that inflation will fall faster than they predicted when they lasted this back in november. politically, that helps rishi sunak, showing his first pledge of halving inflation by the end of the year is comfortably going to be met on this trajectory. yes, and voters and lots of people will say hurrah to that. as far as the politics is concerned, there will be, as there was when he announced this, a slight scepticism about the extent to which he is actually responsible for that. it is qu
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conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more compl