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both with one another, and also with our many allies and partners. and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team? live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birth rate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was over 1.4 billion people, according to official data that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for ....
and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team 7 live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the program. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birthrate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century. the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was more than 1.4 billion people, according to official data. that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for the national birth rate, it sank to just 6.77 births per 1,000 people ....
who apologised in writing for comments he made about meghan in a newspaper column. andy murray will be on court shortly at the australian open in melbourne. novak djokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. the italian movie icon gina lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in south asia. rescuers in nepal have recovered two more bodies from the site of sunday s plane crash. they say they don t expect to find any survivors. 72 people from at least nine countries were on board yeti airlines flight 691. a british man, ryan calum crighton, is one of the latest victims to be named. the plane was on an internal flight from the capital, kathmandu, to the tourist town of pokhara when it crashed just before landing. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from the scene. scattered across the riverbank, fragments of flight 691. windows still intact. seats mangled close by. like pieces of a ....
a record low. and in the australian open, andy murray beats italian matteo berrettini in a thrilling five set first round match. hello and welcome to the programme. social media bosses could face jail if they repeatedly fail to protect children from online harm, under new changes to the online safety bill. the prime minister rishi sunak agreed to calls for tougher punishments as part of the legislation after his own backbench mps prepared to vote against the bill. the new legislation begins its final stages in the house of commons today but lucy powell, labour s shadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, says the bill doesn t go far enough. we would go further in terms of the measures that take buses would be accountable for so we are notjust looking up the narrow issue of directly causing harm to children which is what really the bill has been massively scaled back to focus on measures that tech buses would be accountable for. so things like vi ....
with a large number of passengers overturned in somerset in the uk amid warnings of icy road conditions. a new documentary on tensions between indian prime minister narendra modi and india s muslim minority investigates claims about his role in the 2002 gujarat riots that left over 1,000 dead. a constitutional row develops between the uk and scottish governments after westminster announces plans to block a scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we start here in the uk where, under new changes to the 0nline safety bill, social media bosses could face jail if they repeatedly fail to protect children from online harm. the prime minister rishi sunak agreed to calls for tougher punishments as part of the legislation after his own backbench mps prepared to vote against the bill. the new legislation begins its final stages in the house of commons today but lucy powell, ....