civil servants. meanwhile, separate data from the bank of england shows british lenders reported a sharp increase in the rate at which households and businesses defaulted on loans such as mortgages. the chancellor said the economic outlook was still brighter than expected. let s bring in the chief economist at kpmg. the uk economy remains weaker than any other country in the g7. we still have twin drives of high inflation and rising interest rates. how resilient do the you think the uk economy is? the latest data has been think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more positive - think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more positive than i data has been more positive than what we feared late last year so it seems like the overall economy is more resilient and the majority of the weakness that we saw more recently is related to strikes rather than any fundamental weakness of the economy but obviously w
confirms it carried out tuesday s deadly bombing. we speak to the un s special rapporteur on human rights. welcome back to bbc news. more on all of those headline stories in a moment or two, but let s round up the sport needs and head to the bbc sport centre. well, more european football tonight? the runaway siri a leaders, napoli, going to ac milan. frank lampard will need a heroic performance from his chelsea side, who go on to take on holders, real madrid. chelsea s season has been one to forget so far, 3 wins in their last 13 games, 17 points off the top 4 in the premier league with lampard back at stamford bridge as caretaker manager. former chelsea striker chris sutton believes all the focus is on carlo ancelotti s side ahead of this one. everyone is looking at real madrid, the mentality monsters, they always find a way to get out of the hind stop we saw last season some incredible comebacks when they were down and out on the last legs, and they found a way. chelsea hav
Demonstrations against the war in gaza are continuing at dozens of universities across the united states, with arrests taking place on multiple campuses. I spoke to robert cohen, a professor of Social Studies and history at New York University who has studied Student Activism about how these protests compare to others in us history. The protests, initially, going on now were much more moderate in their tactics, whether its 1960. Actually, the greatest upsurges in active American History occurred in may 1970 after nixon authorised the invasion of cambodia. He had promised to end the war, and he was expanding it into cambodia. So that created a lot of fury that was compounded by the massacre at kent state, where four students were shot by, were killed by the National Guard and nine were wounded. So that was much more confrontational. The war been dragging on forfive years. So, i mean, compared to that, the protests, for example, that started at columbia and then spread initially at nyu w
Samira hussain reports. Protests, rubber bullets, tear gas. This latest flare up is the largest since Ethnic Violence began back in may. These protesters were marching in the capital when they were met by Security Forces. Several dozens have been injured an internet ban imposed, a controversial Anti Insurgency law in effect, giving Security Forces full control of the state. This comes after photos emerged of the two teenagers who had been missing sincejuly. The bbc spoke with the girls father just last month he was hopeful to the end. Translation i the end. Translation ,. , translation i expected that she would come translation i expected that she would come back, translation i expected that she would come back, with translation i expected that she would come back, with this translation i expected that she would come back, with this hope, l translation | expected that she j would come back, with this hope, i keep living even though there is so much sorrow. For the kind of person she is