The number of mobiles snatched on the street. And the former Childrens Laureate Michael Rosen laments the loss of britains Libraries. Im sangry, thats what i am, sad and angry about this, that this wonderful facility that weve had, and perhaps taken for granted, has been eroded just bit by bit, taking it away from us. And coming up on Bbc News, Jack Draper is being hailed as the new king of british tennis after reaching the quarterfinals of the Us Open. He will play Alex De Minaur next. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. Israels prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the uks decision to suspend some Arms Sales to his country as shameful and misguided. He said the move would embolden hamas, but the Defence Secretary John Healey has defended the legaljudgment. It marks a shift in the uks approach to the conflict from the positon held by the previous conservative government. Our political correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. From supporters of the israeli gov
13 showed their resilience, their determination to win this game and we have had so many setbacks im really proud of the team, not only in this game but the whole season there have been so many setbacks and they can deal with it. There are very strong it helps also that the defence behind us and we got the win. Defence behind us and we got the win. So lets take a look at how those semifinals line up. Manchester united taking on coventry, who got the better of wolves in another late thriller this weekend. The championship side have former united striker mark robins as their manager. Also a huge tie which sees holders Manchester City against chelsea. Those ties in a months time. Bayer leverkusen are closing in on their first ever bundesliga title after a 3 2 win at freiburg. It means xabi alonsos side are ten points clear of Bayern Munich at the top with only eight games left to play. Leverkusen havent lost a game all season in any competition. Their head coach, xabi alonso, is keen to u
Risk of your shower, mainly in the South East Of England, but many places will be dry. These are the temperatures, similar to yesterday, 1415, temperatures, similar to yesterday, 14 15, could be 16 in the South East Of England but we got that rain coming in to Northern Ireland and we will see a couple of bands of rain sweeping eastwards overnight. The second one could turn heavy with some gusty winds in scotland, gail is perhaps in the far north but the rain tends to ease off later in the night because we got cloud and some breeze and a bit of rain here and there it will be milder than last night, no lower than 9 10. You can see there two bands of Rain Decaying and turning more showery, and many places brightening up with sunshine. A few showers for england and wales and perhaps Northern Ireland. The early heavy showers in scotland should move away and the winds will ease as well and we will get more sunshine around here. Maybe a bit coolerfor sunshine around here. Maybe a bit cooler f
There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
System and, of course, in china as well. I think what it means also is that amongst all of the various imbalances in the economy in china right now, the Property Sector might be the weight on the economy that lasts the longest simply because it is going to be such a slow slog in terms of restructuring this debt. We have seen pictures of unfinished buildings, families and even sometimes having to squat in those buildings because they cannot afford to pay the rent and pay their mortgage on these properties. What can china do to try to boost this up . Somehow the key to this issue right now is to complete Unfinished Projects because this will at least keep some of the financing flowing. As you mentioned, many, many projects are presold and the households that buy those properties, they make Mortgage Payments even if they are not able to take delivery of the product but as construction has come to a halt, they stop making those and that means no Income Accruing to the Property Developer th