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BBC OS: 2022/11/17 16:06 GMT: UK economy in recession

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UK economy in recession

2022/11/17 16:06 GMT

2022/11/17 16:06 GMT: UK economy in recession

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The UK government has announced tax rises and spending cuts to bolster economy

The UK government has announced tax rises and spending cuts to bolster economy.

The British finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, has announced tax rises and spending cuts to bolster an economy that he says has already entered recession. We’ll hear how people in the UK are struggling with soaring prices.  

Three suspects accused of mass murder over the downing of a Malaysian Airlines plane in 2014 have been found guilty by a court in the Netherlands.  A fourth was acquitted. Our correspondent has been following the trial. 

With the start of the football World Cup just days away, we’ll look at what life is like for Qatari women in the strict patriarchal society.

Our reporter at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt talks to his guests about what the gathering has meant for the African continent.

(Photo: A food trolley at a supermarket in central London, Britain, 17 August 2022. Credit: ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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