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days. scottish national party s chief exec as it has resigned with immediate effect, after the snp was forced to reveal a massive drop in its party member ship this week. you are watching bbc news. time for the media show. my guest today has covered some of the most defining stories of our time. gary younge briefly became part of nelson mandela s entourage, joined revellers as president obama was elected, and has covered much else too gay marriage, brexit, the windrush scandal, and the black lives matter movement. gary left as a full time journalism at the guardian in 2020 to become professor of sociology at the university of manchester. although he continues to write articles for various publications and books. his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in yourfinal ....
of classrooms and morale in schools, we have one big question this morning. how best can parents and the public judge what s really going on? for her first interview since the death of ruth perry, the chief inpector of schools, amanda spielman, is here to answer our questions. after the prime minister s friend and deputy quit after he was found to have bullied stuff, the government s new number two oliver dowden is here too. the leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey, will be back in the studio, with only a couple of weeks until the local elections. vying for attention with labour, still well ahead in the polls their pensions spokesman, jonathan ashworth is with us too. and with me at the megadesk. henry dimbleby, foodie, author, who until last month was helping the government with their plans. lorna hughes, editor of scotland s sunday mail. who s made the running on a series of important revelations about the snp. and the voice of thousands of teachers, and crit ....
may wish to send spy balloons. we will shoot it down as soon as it s safe for us to do so and we won t hesitate, and we will in fact also retaliate against your country and other ways in which we will determine for ourselves. you will not enter our airspace. there will be punishment. this is. and that s the sort of messaging i hope the biden administration will engage in. and viscera string. we mentioned biden there. we could listen again now for him. just to recap. breaking news over the last few minutes. phone but wasn t big enough just to see with your eyes? a chinese spy balloon has been shut down by the us, they waited for it to get over the sea, they didn t want to wait while it was overland but it cleared south carolina, got over us waters, they took it down with a jet and a missile and they are now recovering that balloon from the sea. once we had confirmation that that had all happened, president biden gave a short interview to reporters, let s take a liste ....
the global economy is expected to grow a paltry 3% over the next five years, according to the head of the international monetary fund. her comments were made ahead of the imf and world bank s spring meetings, which kick off today in washington. our north america business correspondent samira hussain is there. high inflation continues to plague countries around the world. central bankers are raising interest rates to try and slow down those price increases. as a result, however, is we have some of the weakest growth projections by the international monetary fund since the 1990s. now, with the world s finance ministers and central bankers all meeting in washington this week, the increasingly fragile global economy will certainly be the focus, along with ways for countries to try and mitigate some of the negative impacts of those interest rate rises. now the high inflation, however, is already having an impact on poorer countries, pushing them further into financial distre ....
welcome to the programme. beforejoe biden spoke in warsaw this evening, the white house pushed back on a narrative that this was a split screen moment, pitting the american president against vladimir putin. yet the very fact the two men were giving wildly different accounts of the war, on the same day, and just hours apart, makes the comparison unavoidable. in fact, at certain points in this address, joe biden tackled head on the charges president putin had laid earlier in the day. the appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. they must be opposed. autocrats only understand one word no, no, no. cheering no, you will not take my country. no, you will not take my freedom. no, you will not take my future. here wasjoe biden returning to a familiar theme. that global confrontation between democracies and autocracy. since he first picked up that theme in the wake of january 6th, western democracies have recovered some of their swagger. that confidence, said the presiden ....