Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
expecting to keep his promise and their other methods to cancel student their other methods to cancel student loan debt in america, we do not and in a blow to lgbt rights, the us supreme court has ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same sex weddings, ruling in favour of a web designer who cited her christian beliefs in challenging a colorado anti discrimination law. our correspondentjessica parker is in washington. great to see you. we have two separate rulings, two separate stories it comes to both of those of the moment, why we submitting rush of rulings from the supreme court? we ve been waiting for these rulings are some weeks now and this reproach at the end of term has now ended and we knew that these outstanding cases would have to land today and we had this rush of cases and of course, the one yesterday which is highly significant as well for the supreme court rules universities were able to
in peshawar in pakistan has claimed more than 90 lives a plan to allow everyone to live within 15 minutes of a green space or water is unveiled by the government and united by music liverpool s new slogan as it prepares to host this year s eurovision song contest coming up in sport on the bbc news channel, the latest on football transfer deadline day as arsenal agree a £12 million deal with chelsea to sign italian midfielderjorginho. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. there s a gloomy prediction about the state of the uk economy this year from the international monetary fund which says it will perform worse than all other major advanced nations. and that is including russia. their assessment suggests the economy will shrink by 0.6% that s a sharp downgrade from an earlier prediction, although they do say the uk is now on the right track. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, said the uk had outperformed many forecasts last year. here s our economics correspo
interest rates are expected to rise sharply today, as the bank of england attempts to tackle soaring prices. the bank is expected to increase its base rate by three quarters of a percentage point from 2.25% to 3%. that would be its eighth consecutive increase since december, pushing the rate to its highest level for m years. it would also mark the biggest single increase since 1989, and could have a big impact on the cost of living and people s finances. our correspondent navtej johal has this report. omar is a veterinary surgeon based in derby. he came to the uk four years ago and had planned to buy a home and settle here long term. with interest rates here expected to rise further today, which is likely to make mortgages more expensive, omar says he s now considering whether he should even stay in the uk. have you lost trust in the uk? i trust my colleagues, i trust my friends, i trust a lot of people in the uk. it shook my trust in the system. and you may move, you may lea
more travel misery, including the biggest daily rise in petrol prices for 17 years. that s all from the bbc news at six so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. hello, and welcome to sportsday i m sarah mulkerrins. on the eve of the new saudi backed golf venture, the big name players taking part are being grilled over their participation. if the money was right, is there anyway you wouldn t play? i if the money was right, is there anyway you wouldn t play? i don t need to answer anyway you wouldn t play? i don t need to answer that anyway you wouldn t play? i don t need to answer that question. - world cup celebrations be gone wales are back in action in the nations league, with a tricky tie at home to netherlands. and just three months after giving birth, cyclist elinor barker talks to us about making the wales team for the commonwealth games. you re very welcome along to sportsday. is this the eve of a new era for men s go