hello there. we start here in the uk, where we are about to find out if the economy has fallen into recession that s defined as two quarters in a row of negative economic growth. we already know the uk s entire economic output, or gross domestic product, shrank in the three months to september by 0.3%. injust over an hour, we get gdp figures for october to december. anotherfall would mean the uk is officially in recession. let s talk to melanie baker, senior uk economist at royal london asset management. her group managing funds worth over £150 billion. melanie, what is your prediction? for what we will hear today? fellow consensus is for a flat figure today so the economy having stagnated and i ve pencilled in the small increase but lost the forecasters expect a small fall in output and i think either way, it s not the healthiest place for the uk economy to be. ideally, you want an economy to be growing brusquely quarter on quarter and that isjust brusquely quarter on qua
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particularly wales, the midlands, south west england and the cloud has been thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle. the guys are clouding up for northern ireland as the warm front starts to move in skies. plenty of scott sunshine further south and east. mid to high teens and we could be looking at 22 degrees across the south east. play continuing for wimbledon. this evening, that weather front brings outbreaks of rain too much of scotland, particularly north and west of scotland, it could be quite heavy and persistent. some showers likely for northern england and elsewhere further south clearer skies and temperatures in single digits but further north and west, quite a warm and muggy night. wednesday looks like being another cloudy one for northern and western areas, murky and feeling quite humid. spots of rain across scotland and it will be quite windy. best of the sunshine in parts of wales, the midlands and we could see the temperatures peaking at around 25 degrees, t
least six states already. omhouse republicans are pushing on legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationwide. the united states is joining the ranks of nicar nicaragua, polan el salvador to roll back abortion rights. reporter: large crowd here at the united states supreme court, let s look around, i ll show you the vast majority, the people here at this time are abortion rights supporters. you can that by the proponents. we had verbal confrontations, cursing, what have you, but it has remained peaceful. still the folks here projecting a sense of anger, projecting almost shock if you will, and that s one of the things i m asking people about in the crowd here, given the fact there was so much advance warning that the court was headed in this direction, abortion rights opponents have been protesting, if you will, roe v. wade for 50 years and then just a few weeks ago, we got that advance opinion that leaked opinion of justice alito really signaling the court was headed