Commitment to deliver letters six days a week. Hello, im maryam moshiri. A very warm welcome to Bbc News this morning. The family of the missing british Tourist Jay Slater are waiting to find out if a body found on tenerife is his. Its almost a month since the 19 year old disappeared after attending a music festival. Spanish police say all the evidence suggests the remains are those of the teenager from lancashire. The body thats been discovered was found not far away from a house hed been visiting near the village of masca. Its thought he may have suffered an accident or fallen. Joe inwood has more. It was in the deep ravines near the last known location of Jay Slater, that Search And Rescue teams found human remains, along with the missing 19 year olds clothes and possessions. The body has not yet been formally identified, but local authorities are confident they have found Jay Slater. In his hometown Of Oswaldtwistle, where blue ribbons have become a sign of support, the news was me
not materialised yet. there are also worries about the indebted property sector today, moody s downgraded chinese property giant country garden again the firm faces a crucial vote to avoid defaulting on a bond repayment. earlier i spoke to janet mui who is head of market analysis at rbc brewin dolphin. china is facing a number of problems. it all comes down to the slowdown in the property market. house prices are falling and housing transactions are slowing so that is why the largest developers in the country are suffering. country garden, for example, it was the largest property developer once, but they have suffered a loss of $6.7 billion. it is likely to go into default, it is warning. it adds further pressure on the general sector, the property sector, which affects consumers and the wider economy. this tells us an interesting story and it paints a picture of how china has managed its economy for so long. it has seen growing wealth and the money has been put into the ba
to help priced out renters find somewhere to live? in sport, there s no stopping liverpool as they hit five in europe against sparta prague including a stunner from in form darwin nunez. including a stunner good morning. a good deal of dry weather on the cards today, some will say sunshine but they will be a cold easterly wind blowing. i will have all the details for today and for the weekend throughout the programme. it s friday the 8th of march. presidentjoe biden has used his state of the union address to criticise donald trump his likely opponent in the election and to claim that freedom and democracy are under assault around the world. president biden also announced that the us military will construct a port in gaza to allow the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the territory. tonight, i m directing the us military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food,
lives he saved. fi refox and aid corridor in gaza should begin operating this weekend. aid agencies have said hunger has reached catastrophic levels. the us, uk and eu will open a maritime corridor is to allow the delivery of additional supplies. they will continue to to urge israel to allow more trucks into gaza. ursula von der leyen is in cyprus and said the corridor should be operating within days. today, the republic of cyprus, the european commission, the united arab emirates and the united states, of course supported by other critical partners, announced our intention to open the maritime corridor, to deliver much needed additional amounts of humanitarian assistance by sea. we are launching this cyprus maritime corridor together. cyprus, the eu, the united arab emirates and the eu, the united arab emirates and the united states. it is your relentless work to get the squad are up relentless work to get the squad are up and running despite all the challenges and this is t