the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and david yelland, formerly editor of the sun, deputy editor of the new york post, and now running his own communications, advisory firm. welcome to the programme. it will take several days to develop a full picture of the devestation across turkey and north west syria. but it is highly likely the death toll, which stands at more than 3,500, will rise. the first earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, struck at 4.20 this morning, while most people were in their beds, 20 miles from the city of gaziantep. note the time strap, on the footage from this security camera. the shelves rattled continuously for over a0 seconds. and that gives you a fair idea of what was happening outside. the emergency teams say at least 3,000 buildings have collapsed across eight provinces in turkey. here s the before and after, the gazientep castle, walls that have stood for over 1500 years. in daylight, the badly damaged housing blocks were still falling. this one in
let s start with china, because it s currently holding its annual two day national people s congress and has set out its economic forecast for the year. premier li keqiang told a packed audience in beijing on sunday, that the government hoped to achieve economic growth of around 5% in 2023. the figure is in line with most analyst predictions. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed china s growth. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of five and a half % and its slowest for decades. lets discuss this with louise loo, senior economist at oxford economics. there s widely expected to be a big shakeup in the team handling the economy. around 5%, it probably implies that growth as low as 4.5% is probably acceptable to the government and we do think that means the policy matters that we see will be a little bit more than what we expect last year. more than what we expect last ear. , , , ye
On the road parameter. We had 156 fires around the country of which 11 are still active and two are preoccupying. Several firefighters are among those seriously injured or missing. France and spain sent aircraft to back up portugals own effo rts aircraft to back up portugals own efforts but with temperatures expected to remain high, firefighters face another difficult day. A reminder of how serious the heatwave can be in some circumstances. We can go to The Other Side of the studio, and looking at those pictures, it must really strike you as a meteorologist. Yes, it is the dry weather they have had across iberia, temperatures in the 405, and weather they have had acro55 iberia, temperatures in the 405, and the thunderstorms which dont help, because the lightning can 5park 5torm5. We have already got up to 31. 9to 5torm5. We have already got up to 31. 9 to the south of london. Relief close to the coast, that was a lovely picture from cornwall. Sea breezes developing near the coast. Anot
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priorfive year period are much higher than in the prior five year period if you look back, the reality is that there are still those there that could result in a rising demand, we have not completely weaned ourselves off russian gas. on the factor of china which could also result in competitive demand for energy sources. if competitive demand for energy sources. ., ., ~ competitive demand for energy sources. ., , sources. if we look at why the institute for sources. if we look at why the institute for fiscal sources. if we look at why the institute for fiscal studies, i institute for fiscal studies, for example, says that yes the government could afford to do this and could afford to continue to cut people s bills at two and a half thousand for another three months, is that because the price of energy has fallen sharply in recent weeks. and some of the reasons why is because the winter has not been as cold as was feared and because in much of europe they were able to store an awful