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a happier new year: after months of covid chaos, can china s economy pull a rabbit out of the hat? hello there. we start in the swiss ski resort of davos, you know what, stay. stay with me. sometimes, this happens. just to prove it is live. chuckles. we will talk about what keir starmer is talking about. the opposition labour party leader. he has very much been sweet talking the elite, the top bankers at the world economic forum. he has been reassuring the financial elite that labour is pro business and pledging to do more to attract foreign investment into the uk if they win power next year. labour points to un figures, showing the uk s share of world foreign direct investment has declined since the conservatives came into government in 2010 from 8% tojust1.7% the lowest since records began. that s according to the un figures. the bbc s economics editor faisal islam reports. at the world economic forum, some of europe s top bankers and ceos assembled to meet the le ....
rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is there and they promise they will bring back the rate of interest tax to fund nhs staff. other news this afternoon. a moment of history in italy georgia meloni looks set to become its first far right leader since the second world war and its first female prime minister. a school shooting in russia has left at least 13 people dead, seven of them children. and nasa prepare to crash a space probe into an asteroid to find out how hard it would be to save the planet. welcome to bbc news, very good to have your company and it is going to be a busy afternoon. the pound fell overnight to its lowest level against the dollar for half a century. asian markets were reacting in part to the government s announcement last week of tax cuts and increased borrowing to pay for them. of course, that had come too late for their trading week on friday. at one stage, sterling plunged to around $1.03, before regaining ground. a weaker pound raises th ....
uvalde, texas, community. there s no details here about the police response at robb elementary. police called and waited for back-up and tactical teams. those teams didn t arrive until an hour later. we re now hearing from the shooter s family. our correspondent spoke to the gunman s grandfather about the tragedy. [speaking foreign language] tragedy. [speaking foreign language the shooter s grandfather sending blessings to the family and facts. he also criticized the gun laws that allowed his grandson at 18 to get a gun. we re also hearing from survivors, including the lengths one little girl went to. she had a friend next to her that she was pretty sure was already dead and laying on the ground bleeding out. she put her hands in her friend s blood and then smeared it, she said, all over her body. she wanted to look like she was dead. she was scared the gunman was going to come back through that adjoining door back to the classroom and she wanted to be able to play ....
being weighed down by many weaknesses. at the heart of his vulnerability is of course his age. nearly half of democrats say it is their biggest concern and 74% of voters don t think he is sharp enough. if you are a liberal perhaps most worrisome of all an eye opening 67% of democrats prefer another candidate. let me reiterate. two-thirds of his own party want someone else to run. the issue is not just his age. nearly 60% of americans believe that biden has made the economy worse. in a moment james carville joins me to react to that but first here is a taste of how some democrats are spinning today. let s not forget donald trump has three fewer candles on his birthday cake than joe biden. sure. he also has 91 more criminal counts on his record than joe biden. if a year from now these numbers are the same, and this were a referendum, he would be in deep, deep trouble. he would not win that. joe biden has an incredible record to run on. i ll note this poll has a ....