we begin in china where we ve just had a slew of data that shows how deep the impact of both the pandemic and its demographics is having on society and the economy. data from the national bureau of statistics shows china s economy grew by 2.9% year on year for the last three months of 2022. that beat expectations reuters expected the economy to grow byjust1.8%. for the full year growth came in at 3% far below china s official target of 5.5%. excluding the year covid hit in 2020, this is china s worst showing in nearly 50 years. also today, the news that china s population has shrunk for the first time in more than 60 years a change that is expected to have deep economic, social and political implications for china. for more on that let s go to katie silver in our asia business hub. tell us more. that s right. the bi . tell us more. that s right. the big figure tell us more. that s right. the big figure that tell us more. that s right. the big figure that we ve tel
world. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters
trouble for democrats with the key group of midterm voters. with white suburban women now favoring women for converse by 15 percentage points for that is a 27-point shift away from democrats and see journal s august pulpwood leicester and poster and fox news contributor market dependent priest chairman of the harris poll and ceo of stag well. mark and to see you. lessen your hair you talked about inflation and the economy driving voters. it sounds to me from all the polls i have seen and your analysis that is still number one voters minds. i think there is no question that has what has happened here. the closer we get to the election, inflation has not been moderated. the fed took another tough action. some of the events i thought was outstanding here. horrific crime events and the wad of major cities still continue to occur. only democrats have not really confronted those issues dir directly. they have instead gone on with a message of this election being about a threat to
cj sansom. yes. yes, there we go. absolutely. sorry, you can t compete there. listen, it s good. murders up here, murders up here. and there s still more to come from the thursday murder club. steven spielberg has bought the film rights. rebecca joan, bbc news, east sussex. rebecca jones. time for a look at the weather. here s susan powell. even in, it was a day of sunshine and showers across the uk, producing beautiful sunsets across the isle of man. even in, it was. tomorrow it is a similar mixture, more sunshine and fewer showers. we had some pretty lively showers sinking south tonight out of northern ireland into the midlands out of northern england into the midlands. a few feeding in further north. to the east of the showers, quite chilly overnight, perhaps three degrees in the most rural parts of the south east of england and east anglia. showers in the south should get out of the way quickly by the end of rush hour, looking largely dry for much of england and
International monetary funds Chief Economist Pierre Olivier gourinchas. The imf and the world bank are having their annual meeting in marrakech and later today, Finance Ministers from the 620 and Central Bank Governors will be meeting to discuss the health of the Global Economy. According to the imf, Global Growth remains dampened by Supply Chain Disruptions linked to the covid 19 pandemic and russias war in ukraine, persistently high inflation, and spiralling borrowing costs. Heres our economics editor faisal islam. The message from the imf for the 190 Finance Ministers and central governor business in marrakesh is that the World Economy they hope had turned a corner after three years of rolling your clinical crisis. Well, it is limping forward rather than sprinting forward now with geopolitical crisis. Slowdowns in very specific countries like china that they had not expected. There is an additional worry about this new higher for longer Interest Rate world that might affect the bank