The worlds number two economy, china, grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in the past three months, hit by the us china trade war and weakening global demand. Gdp came in at 6. 2 between april and june, the weakest pace for at least 27 years. The economy expanded by 6. 6 percent in 2018. June marked the first full month of 25 us tariffs on 200 billion of chinese goods, after the rate was raised from 10 weeks earlier. Figures on friday showed the impact of the increased tariffs on trade. Exports fell 1. 3 in june, while imports slumped 7. 3 , on flagging domestic demand. Elsewhere car sales plummeted a whopping 12. 4 percent in the first half of the year. The imf last month lowered its forecast for chinese growth for 2019 as a whole to 6. 2 , warning that uncertainty around trade tensions remains high and risks tilted to the downside. Chinas already brought forward a raft of stimulus measures to cushion the impact of its cooling economy, including tax cuts worth 297 billion
From knife crime londons mayor, sadiq khan, sets out his plan for the School Holidays. Car insurance on the rise average premiums are approaching £800 a year, according to one comparison site. Ill be finding out why, and what you can do about it. And it is since wednesday today, dry start to the week. Will it last that way for the next a0 days or is there actually some rain on the horizon . I will have all of those details here on breakfast. Its monday, the 15th ofjuly. Our top story england have won the mens cricket world cup for the first time in an extraordinary finish to a tense final at lords. The main match ended in a tie, which meant the game went to a super over to decide the winner, and it went down to the very last ball. We all now fully understand what is super over is now. Heres our Sports Correspondent john watson. Englands men, World Champion for the very first time. Proving it on the very first time. Proving it on the biggest stage by the tightest of margins. After seve
Of london show what he says is a clear link between poverty in the capital and rising youth crime. And it went to the wire at wimbledon. Novak djokovic makes history, after beating Roger Federer in a final set tie break. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Englands Mens Cricket Team will this morning celebrate winning the mens cricket world cup for the first time, after an extraordinary finish to a tense final at lords. The main match ended in a tie, which meant the game went to a super over to decide the winner, and it went down to the very last ball a run out. Another tie, and england winning on the number of boundaries theyd scored. Heres our sports correspondent, john watson. Englands men, world champions for the very first time. Proving it on the biggest stage, by the tightest of margins. After seven weeks of compelling cricket, who wouldve predicted this . Oh, no but we did it we did it 0h, jofra delivered and we were brilliant. Jofra delivered jofra delivered. Hes the
We will have more on the oval celebrations plus the latest on england at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later england at the netball world cup. They take onjamaica later on. England at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later on. Nick is looking at the weather. High pressure to start, low pressure later. I have the forecast plus i will be getting on your goat, simon, with news of something old but increasingly popular in the way of dealing with spreading wildfires. More celebrated in death than in life alan turing the mathematician who helped invent modern computing and break the german enigma code will be the face of the new £50 note. 1966, 2003, and now 2019 the years we heard the words england have won the world cup first in football, then rugby, and now of course cricket. And those words are still echoing in our ears after that remarkable cricket game yesterday described by many as the best final ever. And one of the most remarkable games ever. The players he
Now, this, Sex Education guidance is due to be published tomorrow. But as always happens, it seems to have been leaked almost in its entirety to the press. And theres lots of different rules. So under 19 is complete ban on Sex Education. Theyre allowed to talk about under nines. Under nines. Sorry a complete ban on Sex Education. Apart from talking about nice things like families and, being nice to each other and having respect and all that, whats the most controversial thing, i guessis most controversial thing, i guess is a overall ban on teaching gender ideology, or essentially that you can change your gender . Yeah, i suppose some critics are saying that this is going to be over interpreted, and that schools are sort of going to tear books out of libraries and not not be able to say that transgender people exist, because some schools back in the days of section 28, when you werent allowed to teach that gay people existed or you werent allowed to teach lgbt issues , schools over inte