Of Thousands Ofjobs for other programmes leaving the state. Our business correspondent, theo leggett, joins us now. As we heard, this is Notjust A grievance about rejecting a 25 pay rise, this is problem going back over 15 years, what is the history . We have seen in this vote which was absolutely emphatic, 96 of both pulled voted for the strike shows the depth of feeling between the workforce against management and how little trust there is between the workforce and bowing management. As you say, that does go back a long time because in past renegotiations of Contracts Bowing was in a strong position and it went into these negotiations threatening to remove production from the pacific Northwest Area and take it into other states. That went down very badly with Boeing Workers in the region who are to accept reduced terms and conditions including the removal of Pension Schemes and those resentments have remained. Over the past few years as well while boeing has been trying to mmp while
australian economy has been incredibly resilient. one difference though between here and the us, the us is a little bit further along than us, and rba, our central bank, generally is a lot more conservative and always looks to the us for guidance. what are the key factors driving the current interest rate movements in australia and how do they impact the economic outlook for the year? the economic outlook at this point is looking at a real tdp growth about 2% with inflation sitting at about mid single digit level. with the rate currently most economists expect no rise today and potentially three cuts by the end of this calendar year. our inflation rate, the last report was actually a lot better or undershot our central bank s forecast and hopefully that will be on its way down in the next few prints. how resilient is the australian economy then expected to be? you sound very optimistic about it. what are the key areas of strength but also areas perhaps of vulnerability? the a
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions the prime minister s expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle later this morning, as he replaces conservative party chairman nadhim zahawi. a third earthquake hit central turkey early this morning, as the rescue operation continues across the region to try to find survivors of the two massive quakes which struck yesterday. in the last few minutes, we ve learned that now more than 5,000 people are known to have died in turkey and in northern syria, with that number rising all the time. these are the scenes live in hatay in southern turkey. many images that we ve seen of the quake since yesterday morning have come from the city. you can see on the left of the screen how those buildings have been pancaked, flattened by the two huge tremors, really the 7.8 quake we heard about which struck just really the 7.8 quake we heard about which struckjust before dawn yesterday. and then a few hours later another quake of around