our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this morning s top stories. we begin in asia. china s economy stabilized last quarter, showing greater than expected strength if december. fourth quarter g.d.p. rose from the year earlier. joining us now on the phone from beijing is james, bloomberg-china economy editor. walk me through the details and where the question marks are still going forward? reporter: looking at the data that came out today, it really was a surprisingly strong finish for 2019, for china s economy. i think if we look past the g.d.p. numbers, china s g.d.p. is more a political target than a real indicator of what s going on. if you look at the retail sales, industrial production and fixed investment numbers, there was a bit of a rebound in december. sort of ending the year on a high note. a part of that was, i think, the chinese numbers efforts to sort of support companies is working and also i think the optimism you may have seen in december from the sign
winds. in between, some pretty decent weather across the eastern borders of scotland, coming down to the eastern side of england. too far towards the west, you start to run into showers, pretty heavy across wales and the south west, urged along by a noticeable breeze, and it is cold and miserable underneath that band of rain and snow and strong winds and that eases further north, followed by showers, turning wintry across higher ground, and then a new set of weather fronts across the south west quarter. this is the feature that evens out the weekend because having had the bulk of the sunshine through saturday, england and wales are not doing quite so well. it does bug up along the south coast. further north, scotland, after a disappointing saturday, gets better sunday, for the most part, save for the far north east. see you later. hello. this is bbc news with maxine mawhinney. the headlines. sinn fein make big gains in northern ireland s assembly elections. the dup is still t
breaking the wall of silence the wives separated from their husbands, shunned by their communities and treated as tainted goods. the moment their daughter has been left by her husband, her status becomes zero, nil! the impact for women who are left, who have been abandoned, is quite devastating. it s leaving them almost in chains within their society. with thousands of brides branded as outcasts, we reveal the injustices and indignities many of them encounter. they marry us, they bring us over, then they treat us like a dirty rag. ritu has just arrived from india. she s embarking on an extraordinary personal mission to find her estranged husband. i am feeling a bit nervous as well as emotional, as i have not seen this man since one and a half years. i don t know how he will react when he sees me. she s used up all her savings and put her teaching career on hold to come to london and get out of a marriage in which she feels abandoned. i felt betrayed. i felt that my whole wo
game hunting in some areas the lions can no longer find enough to eat because their natural trait is also targeted by poachers. we come from europe so we like lions but that s easy for us to say because lions don t produce any direct threat to us but here it s not simply a matter of telling people to live in harmony with lions because they re only dangerous species you really have to help them find ways to better coexist with lions and that s what we re trying to do. conflict some not uncommon in july and phillip are responding to an emergency call for a cow was attacked by predators near a mass i village the livestock is valuable so the villages are understandably upset . aware of how research the mochas call in galle are mama simba the mother of the line. there.
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