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as the official eurovsion handover ceremony takes place today in liverpool. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk economy is due to get smaller this year and do worse than other major nations, including russia that s according to the world s most important international financial organisation, the international monetary fund. it predicts the uk economy will shrink by 0.6% this year. it believes the uk will be the only country among the world s major economies to see its economy get smaller. it says the forecast reflects the uk s high energy prices, high inflation and high interest rates. the us, germany, france, italy and japan are all expected to grow. but there is a note of optimisim the imf believes things will improve in 2024, forecasting the economy will grow by 0.9%. the chancellorjeremy hunt has said that the uk outperformed many forecasts last year and that if we stick to ur plan to halve inflation, the uk is still predicted ....
and united in music, this year s slogan as, the eurovision song contest arrives in liverpool. mass strike action on wednesday will cause significant disruption , downing street has said. teachers, university workers, civil servants, train and bus drivers are all taking action. workers from seven unions will be on strike tomorrow, with around 500,000 workers due to take part in the walk outs, making it the biggest strike in more than a decade, the trades union congress said. during the day of mass strikes, the tuc will hand in a petition to downing street on wednesday in protest at the government s proposed anti strike legislation. i m joined by our political correspondent, jonathan blake. it is clear the government is doing its best to prepare people for what it believes will be a dairy of significant disruption tomorrow with those multiple unions out on strikes in various different sectors of the economy. downing street has it this afternoon that there will be at signific ....
the princess of wales says her new campaign on early years development will be her life s work . the eurovision song contest arrives in liverpool as the official handover takes place in liverpool today with united in music as this year s slogan. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. the uk economy will perform worse than all other major advanced nations this year, including russia. that s according to the international monetary fund, which suggests the economy will shrink by 0.6%. that s a sharp downgrade from an earlier prediction, although they do say the uk is now on the right track . the chancellor, jeremy hunt, said the uk had outperformed many forecasts last year. here s our economics correspondent, andy verity. british workers don t need a washington financial institution to tell them that rocketing prices for energy and food are making them poorer and the economy weaker. that is true the world over. economists at the imf forecast our economy will be worst hit than ....
we start in france, where hundreds of thousands of workers are out on strike for a second time. they re protesting against president emmanuel macron s plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. eight big unions are taking part in the strike, which has disrupted schools, public transport and oil refineries. let s take a look. the first marches had started in the morning across the country, like this one, in rennes in north western france. thousand of people also took to the street in toulouse, marseille and nice in the south of the country. and this was the scene in paris. the main cgt union claims more than a million people were protesting against the president s plans. there was also some clashes, police deployed tear gas, the authorities said they were stopping what they called radical elements from damaging shops. let s hear from some protesters in marseille. i have to do another year because of this proposal which i hope will not come to anything, because that is wh ....
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last ....