And a pioneer of rock and roll, fats domino, has died. He was 89. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, a new managerial appointment in the premier League Tonight as claude puel is appointed as the new manager of leicester city. Good evening. The uk economy grew slightly faster than expected in the three months to september, raising the prospect of a rise in Interest Rates as early as next week. An initial assessment by the office for National Statistics suggests the level of gdp or the total amount of goods and services produced in the uk rose by 0. 4 , with strong performances in the services and manufacturing sectors. However construction is continuing to perform poorly. Heres our economics editor kamal ahmed. Not exactly firing on all cylinders but today better news on the economy that will have cheered the chancellor. He visited the Francis Crick Research Centre in london, just the kind of high skilled innovation he would like to encourage. Well, its a solid performance by the u
For his late father, King Bhumibol adulyadej, who died a year ago after seven decades on the throne. The funeral urn was blessed by monks at the grand palace in bangkok ahead of a series of elaborate processions to the royal crematorium. Andrew plant reports. A funeral procession on a scale rarely seen before. A chance for tens of thousands of thai people to say a final farewell to the only monarch most have ever lived under. The body of the former king, kept since his death in october last year in the throne hall of the royal palace. After ruling for 70 years, this is the beginning of a final journey, transported towards a spectacular golden crematorium representing heaven, taking over one year to build. Here, his body will be cremated. This procession will last much of the day. His body will be carried atop a huge wooden chariot pulled by 222 soldiers and led by his son, the new king, and members of the royal family circling the golden crematoriun three times. The death of the king,
A huge shake up at b. W. These takes over as c. E. O. And hopes a new man at the top in the reshuffling of some major brands can prepare the auto giants for the future. Also on the show sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words in the story behind this image the winner of the World Press Photo the. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining Us International inspectors are on their way to the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria right now now this is a marked shift in tone emerges from washington the white house says no final decision has been made on how to respond to this a speck that attack now fears of a confrontation between the west and syrias main ally russia have been growing since President Trumps comments that missiles will be coming. The destroyer u. S. S. Donald cook and u. S. S. Port have been positioned off the syrian coast but if and when they get the order to strike its not yet clear after this bellicose tweet in which he threatens syrias ally russ
finishing a one hundred kilometer protest march in support of her husband you know you spoke to her in beijing. li wenzhou and her son kwan kwan have found safety in the apartment of friends and relief is palpable. yesterday i didn t think i d be able to leave my home and come here i still feel tense. the wenzhou has a terrifying ordeal behind her on wednesday her apartment was besieged by an angry mob one of her friends was beaten up and those who wanted to come to her aid were prevented from doing so when she tried to leave she was threatened with violence the crowd was probably acting on orders from china s intelligence service believes that attempts to highlight her husband s plight have made her enemies in high places. was arrested in twenty fifteen along with over two hundred others. because allegedly no one