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
more than 100 schools in england have been told by the government that they must shut buildings immediately that have been built using what s known as crumble risk concrete. it s a type of lightweight concrete that is prone to collapse. some schools will have to relocate children to other teaching spaces until safety work is carried out. we have not yet been told which schools are affected. our education editor, branwen jeffreys, reports. yellow temporary classrooms in bradford, the stairs being craned into place today, an emergency measure just days before term starts, part of the building closed forfear starts, part of the building closed for fear of a starts, part of the building closed forfear of a sudden starts, part of the building closed for fear of a sudden collapse. parents absorbing the news. i for fear of a sudden collapse. parents absorbing the news. i heard about the school, parents absorbing the news. i heard about the school, there parents absorbing the n
7a people, including 12 children, killed in a fire that swept through an abandoned five storey building injohannesburg. these are images of the blaze. there are reports that some of the dead, who lived in a maze of shacks and other makeshift structures, threw themselves out of the windows to escape the fire. emergency services says a further 52 people were injured. that search and recovery operation is being carried out floor by floor, with fears the death toll could rise further. a resident of the building, who managed to escape, gave us this account of what happened. i don t know how it start, but when we wake up, the whole building, it was fire. we don t know how it start. how did you get out? we jumped out of the window. yeah. i jumped out of the window, and my wife throw me the baby. i catch the baby, and hejump, i catch him. yeah, and we were out, but all our things burned. president cyril ramaphosa is heading to the scene to be briefed by the emergency services. a few
we all do lots of different things in shock. i don t look at it like that, i look at it as a group of women where it s always been normalised for them. i think finding a smile in something that is quite reveals an awful lot about the situation rather than the person. i think for someone likejenni, you could see in her interview directly after the game, she was completely uncomfortable but no one has been listening to them for such a long period of time. jordan henderson has been named in gareth southgate s latest england squad, the first following his move to al ettifaq in saudi arabia. the former liverpool captain is in line to win his 78th cap. levi colwill has been named in the senior squad for the first time in defence while harry maguire has been included despite not featuring for manchester united this season. arsenal striker eddie nketiah gets a first senior call up but raheem sterling misses out. the basis of the squad is, we left old trafford after a couple of really
more than 70 people now known to have died after a fire in a tower block. it s thought a locked gate prevented people from escaping the flames. our correspondent shinghai nyoka is injohannesburg and has been witnessing the aftermath. the sound of screaming piercing the night in the heart of africa s richest city. fire! fire! they shout from a burning building home to hundreds of people. officials say many residents were trapped inside by a gate, blocked by the bodies of those who had already died. i was watching out of the window, all of the building was on fire, so i decided myself tojump first. ijumped down, my wife throw for me the baby, i catch him. i tell her to tie a bed sheet. she tied a bed sheet and came down it. i catch him. relief and shock etched on the faces of those who managed to escape, but the rows of body bags are a grim reminder of those who didn t. many who lived inside this building were migrants from across the continent. the residents here were living