inflation and high interest rates, and banking instability have contributed to this year s gloomy economic forecast stock but it is a global recession is not likely stop business reporter katie silver has been looking into this story for us and joins me now on the programme with the details. great to get you on the show. talk through what you have seen today. 50 talk through what you have seen toda . ~ ., , talk through what you have seen toda . ~ .,, , today. so the imf has seen it has been today. so the imf has seen it has been a today. so the imf has seen it has been a perilous - today. so the imf has seen it i has been a perilous combination of vulnerabilities and they are calling on central banks around the world to keep monetary policy tight and that means high interest rates in order to stave off dental economic crisis or a decrease in economic growth. so the fund has revised their forecast for this year and next, lowering both from what was predicted in january by
also meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak. the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there many mistakes made along the way? of course. and james clayton explained how the in
to deal with the situation on our own. a us fighterjet has shot down a mysterious object flying over canada s airspace making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. bbc chairman richard sharp is accused of making significant errors ofjudgment by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping britain s former prime minister, borisjohnson secure a loan. # holding me back.# and at the brit awards in london, as predicted, harry styles is one of the night s big winners, with four awards, including the much coveted album of the year. the head of the un s emergency relief operations, martin griffiths, says the international community has failed the people of north west syria, where thousands of people have died in the earthquakes that struck syria and turkey. the number of people confirmed dead following devastating earthquakes six days ago has now risen to above 28,000. meanwhile, prosecutors investigating standards of building construction in turkey h