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by russia s invasion of ukraine. in response, moscow says the finland nato alliance increases the risk of conflict and that it will strengthen its military presence in the region. the head of the military alliance, jens stoltenberg, is calling finland s accession a historic moment. here s what he said earlier. in a few hours we will welcome finland as the slst member of our alliance. this will make finland safer and nato stronger. on this very day in 1949 the washington treaty, nato s founding treaty, was signed in washington, and it s hard to imagine a better way of celebrating our anniversary than to have finland becoming a full member of the alliance. nato s foreign ministers meet at a pivotal time for our security. we see that president putin s war of aggression against ukraine grinds on. we will meet in the nato ukraine commission with the foreign minister where we will address how to sustain and ramp up support from nato allies to ukraine. both the urgent needs, but als
british regional airline flybe ceases trading for a second time, cancelling all flights to and from the uk after going into administration. a seven day state of emergency has been declared in new zealand s largest city, auckland, after three people are killed in severe flooding. this is an unprecedented event in recent memory. in the aftermath, will have plenty of time to evaluate the response. and he s only sixteen but he s already the best flat jockey in britain. we meet the teenager who s the talk of the racing world. israeli police say that two people have been wounded in a terrorist attackjust outside the old city in occupied eastjerusalem. it comes a day after a palestinian gunman killed seven people near a synagogue. israeli police say they ve arrested 42 people in connection with friday s shooting. the gunman was killed. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has urged israelis not to take matters into their own hands. on thursday, nine palestinians were killed du
job vacancies in the uk fall for the eighth time in a row, according to latest figures published ahead of wednesday s budget whether government is expected to encourage more people back to work. a state of emergency s been declared in malawi, after tropical storm freddy struck the country for a second time, killing nearly 100 people. hello and welcome to bbc news. the leaders of the us, britain and australia, meeting in california, have unveiled details of their plan to create a new fleet of nuclear powered submarines, aimed at countering china s influence in the indo pacific region. under the aukus pact australia is to get its first nuclear powered subs at least three from the us. beijing has strongly criticised the significant naval deal. our political editor, chris mason, has more from san diego. military band plays. a packed and democracies coming together to tackle a new and growing adversary, china. , . . . china. australia and the united kinudom china. australia
series of spring meetings with the world bank in washington this week stop it is also downgraded its overgrowth forecast for this year and exciting weaker performances in some leijer economies. our business reporter has been looking into this story for us and joins us now. always go to get you on the show. you have been sifting through the report, what are the projections?- report, what are the projections? they are predicting projections? they are predicting that - projections? they are i predicting that economic projections? they are predicting that economic growth this year maybe to next year 3%, that is a downgrade on what they had said injanuary about one tenth of a percentage point, in the medium term they have given the weakest forecast in more than 30 years. they say there is potentially a perilous combination of factors and that those far as could lead to economic crisis and they are calling there for for central bank around the world to keep tight monetary polic