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before france s top judges and betting on a crackdown: premier league clubs agree to remove gambling sponsors from shirt fronts within three years. campaigners say it s nowhere near enough. hello there. giving in to big pay demands by striking workers would be, quote, a terrible mistake so says the uk s finance minister chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, who s been defending his policies after official figures confirmed the economy flatlined in february with growth of 0%. industrial action is seen as a key factor dragging on the economy with teachers, rail workers, civil servants and nowjunior doctors among those walking out in a wave of strikes over pay. mr hunt is in washington for the spring meetings of the world bank and imf, where he was asked about the strikes. the one thing we won t do, because it would be a terrible mistake, is to agree to an inflationary pay rise that means that we are still talking about inflation in one year s time. if we stick to the pl
To be forgotten. you have such diversity in the brics coalition and while there may be nations like russia and china who intend to directly challenge the west, there are others like brazil and south africa and i include india as well as the nations who have a much more nuanced, much more complicated relationship with the west. south africa is in the midst of trying to renew the african growth and opportunity act, which gives them tax free access to the us market. india s trade with the us is now tops 190 billion, we re their largest trade partners. there is a lot of complexity there and a good deal more nuanced. we will be live injohannesburg with more on the brics summit. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let s look at some other stories making news. a ukjudge has ruled that the child killer lucy letby will never be
Opponents of the party. in the next few hours we bring insight and analysis on that full thailand. world leaders have started arriving injohannesburg for a meeting of the group known as brics brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. these are pictures of china s leader xijinping touching down. the summit will shine a light on the member nations links with the kremlin. the russian president, vladimir putin, will be attending by video link. mr putin has sent his foreign minister sergei lavrov who was welcomed by a troupe of traditional dancers at the airport. so could brics become a rival to the g7 group of nations? here s our africa correspondent, nomsa maseko: 40 countries have also applied