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us financal watchdogs target two more big names, the exchange genesis, and the crypto lender gemini. plus, pack your bags, travel is back. but where are people going? we ll hear from the boss of hotel booking site trivago. we start here in the uk, where we could get confirmation, in the next hour or so, that the economy is heading into recession. figures for november are expected to show a fall in britain s gdp, gross domestic product or economic output, after growth ofjust 0.5% in october. we already know the uk economy shrank in the three months to september, two quarters in a row of negative growth means a recession. businesses and consumers are feeling the pressure of soaring energy bills and rising interest rates, as one company owner has been telling the bbc. from our point of view, we can feel that yeah there is probably a recession coming on. people are finding it difficult, they are kind of worried about their basic of heating and fuel and all the rest of it in ....
you can get all the latest on our website. you are watching bbc news. now, time for the travel show. hello and welcome to this very special edition of the show, coming to you from the spectacular valley of the kings here in luxor in egypt. if you were watching last week, you d have seen me unearthing the story of how tutankhamun s tomb was discovered here 100 years ago this year. well, it s such a breathtaking location that we thought we d stick around for a while to bring you this our best bits of 2022. well, from the baking sun of here in egypt, let s switch to the snow of switzerland where, back in march, carmen got to experience a horse race like no other where the jockeys don t need saddles. they use skis. this is st moritz in the swiss alps. it s the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting history. it s where the bobsleigh was created, but skijoring is an even stranger sporting event tha ....
irc, has become the latest agency to halt its activity in the country. now on bbc news our world: eurovision: ukraine s victory. music plays this is kalush orchestra, winners of this year s eurovision song contest. but they are no ordinary band. they are from ukraine, a country in the midst of a bloody war. in the lead up to the contest, all the band members faced a difficult decision. now, their winning song has become a powerful statement of defiance. and they hope their global stardom will help ukraine s plight. i am viktoriia zhuhan. i work as a journalist for bbc in ukraine. i don t normally cover eurovision, especially when there is a war raging in my country, but kalush orchestra isn t an ordinary, typical eurovision contestant. but after following the kalush orchestra for ten days, i ve learned that for them this is much more than a singing competition. it s a way to tell the world about the war that s destroying ukraine. we are on our way to a rehearsal in th ....
at least 2a people have died in the united states as north america faces severe winter conditions. police in liverpool, in the north of england, are hunting a gunman after a 26 year old woman died and four were injured in a pub shooting on christmas eve. four aid organisations have suspended their activities in afghanistan, in response to a ban on women working for humanitarian agencies. you re watching bbc news. it s time for click. well, ho, ho, ho, ho! and merry clickmas! it s the first one from our new glasgow base. so we are here in the middle of pacific quay, in the studio. yeah. yoo hoo. good, innit? and we ve got all the latest tech decks. ..low carbon log fire. ..cgi baubles. ..and sustainable signage. now, this is our last show of 2022, and i think we can all agree it s been a year, hasn t it? it s been a year. here we go. so he s doing the launch sequence now. seven, six. ..four, three, two, one. i started it with the maddest idea i ve heard of in ages laun ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in three weeks time, italians vote in a general election. now, if the opinion polls are to be believed, the country is about to embrace a political movement with its roots in post war fascism. what would that mean for italy and for europe? well, my guest today, here at the ambrosetti forum a sort of italy style davos gathering is enrico letta, a former italian prime minister and leader of the centre left democratic party. is his effort to keep the far right out of power doomed to fail? enrico letta, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation. we appreciate your time, particularly because you are in the middle of a fiercely fought election campaign. would you accept that right now, you in the centre left look as though you are going to lose? no, i think we will win. how can you think that, when the raw mathematics of this election look so bad for you? and i say that because the right has coordinated, it has org ....