time for a look at the business news now. we the business news now. have growth on the agendi we start in the us where we ve learned today than the world s largest economy grew by an annualised rate of 3.3% in the last three months of 2023. the growth figure was higher than expected. as always the big question is how this will feed into the us central bank the federal reserves next move on the cost of borrowing. michelle fleury is in new york for us. take us into the detail of the growth figures to begin with. where did this surprisingly high figure come from? $5 did this surprisingly high figure come from? did this surprisingly high figure come from? ~ , i. ., come from? as you said, in the final three months come from? as you said, in the final three months of come from? as you said, in the final three months of last come from? as you said, in the final three months of last year come from? as you said, in the final three months of last year on - come from? as yo
mystery surrounds the crashing of a russian military transport plane, which moscow says was carrying ukrainian prisoners of war involved in a prisoner exchange. it s accused ukraine of deliberately targeting the plane. ukraine says kyiv had not been advised, on this occasion, to ensure the safety of airspace where it happened. according to moscow, it crashed about 44 miles north east of the russian city of belgorod. there are said to have been 7a people on board, including 65 ukrainian pows. the un security council is to meet tomorrow to discuss what s happened. in a moment, we ll speak to sarah rainsford in the ukrainian capital kyiv, but first our russia editor steve rosenberg is in moscow for us now, steve. thank you. at around 11 o clock this morning local time, a russian military transport plane crashed in a field near the village in southern russia fund that news in itself was making headlines here, but very soon the story became even bigger when russia claimed that on
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none of the details surrounding those on board can be independently verified. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has demanded an international inquiry into the incident. translation: it is obvious. that the russians are playing with the lives of ukrainian prisoners, with the feelings of the relatives and the emotions of our society. we need to establish all the clear facts as much as possible given that the downing of the plane occurred on russian territory, which is beyond our control. russia says its radars detected the launch of two ukrainian missiles before the crash. russia s foreign minister sergei lavrov was the one who called an emergency meeting to be held immediately. translation: ukrainian prisoners of war were - transported to the belgorod region for the next exchange agreed upon between moscow and kyiv. instead of this exchange taking place, the ukrainian side from the kharkiv region launched an anti aircraft missile attack on this plane, which became fatal.