£3 a bee! 6: em a s-ecial funds to - urchase a s-ecial funds to -urchase the special funds to purchase the housing as government subsidised housing. this policy will be synergise with other supporting policies, to further broaden the channels of local financing. which can effectively digest the imagery, promoting the balance between supply and demand but also optimise the increment and raise affordable housing through multiple challenges. we will continue to work with government departments to further clarify the implementation roles and requirements to ensure the implementation of those policy as early as possible. next question please. so far, the minister has vowed to stablise the real estate market. he's also said that the government will add 1 million village urbanisation projects. and all registered real

estate projects on china's �*white list�* will see financing be made convenient and quicker. we'll be keeping a close watch on this and bring you updates as we get them. the housing briefing isn't the only big event this week on china's calendar. we're also expecting the latest quarterly growth numbers due on friday. as we've been reporting, the government in beijing has been busy rolling out measures they hope will turbo—charge growth in the world's number two economy. for a summary, and to find out if they will work, here's our business reporter katie silver. how do you solve a problem like china's economy? after decades of rapid expansion, china's growth has slowed and its recovery after the pandemic hasn't been what many would have hoped. businesses and local governments are riddled with high levels of debt, raising questions about stability. and there is that ongoing real estate prices with defaults among property developers. all of this means they have never been more reliant on exports, and making

money by selling the goods abroad. but in something of a perfect storm, it comes as china's straight gaps deepens with the us and the european union. figs with the us and the european union. �* , , _, , with the us and the european union. a , , , , union. as the g7 countries push back with anti-dumping - union. as the g7 countries push back with anti-dumping duties, | back with anti—dumping duties, that's going to put downward pressure on the growth numbers in china. , ., ., ., in china. this among other concerns — in china. this among other concerns led _ in china. this among other concerns led the _ in china. this among other. concerns led the government in china. this among other- concerns led the government to hedge their bets and set a growth target of around 5% of the country's gdp. that is certainly a good way of getting some wriggle room. last quarter it came in at 4.7% and many economists have predicted this quarter would be about the same. but in china, just in the last few weeks there have been changes. the government has announced a raft of measures to boost growth from spending tens of billions of dollars to reducing a few different key interest rates, to issuing almost a third of $1 trillion in government bonds. the moves about trying to encourage people to get out and spend money but the devil is in the

detail and so far investors say the details lacking, seeing an early boost to the stock market retreat after the golden week holiday. retreat after the golden week holida . ~ ., �* ~ ., ., , holiday. we don't know how deep these suworts — holiday. we don't know how deep these supports will _ holiday. we don't know how deep these supports will be, _ holiday. we don't know how deep these supports will be, we - these supports will be, we don't know when they will be permitted, we don't how they will be implemented, and for a lot of investors that really did leave them wanting more. there are fears that even with this latest stimulus, china could miss that around 5% target so how is the government tracking? stay tune, we will find out on friday. just to give you a quick update on that housing briefing, talking about people getting to the housing ladder. more highlights from that innovative bulletins. 2024 appears to be the year of business travel — with spending set to reach $1.5 trillion. that's higher than pre—pandemic levels according to a new report by the world travel and tourism council. but according to the chief executive of accor, one of the largest hospitality companies in the world,

chinese tourists are still not spending big. china is actually good outside, so people travelling outside china, but china domestic is still pretty slow. very strong in the release, strong in indonesia and extremely strong in southeast asia, so thailand, laos, cambodia, vietnam. still robust in south america. decelerating in western europe. coming back in america, so it actually is very diverse in terms of geography. but overall it is a plus 5% demand market. supply is going probably less than 2%. that will remain the case for the next 20 years, it is one of those things about travel and tourism, it some of the two factors, democracy which is actually rising and emerging middle classes, which is also rising stop if you have those two in your favour, you will have a pretty rosy days in front of us for the next 20 years. front of us for the next 20 ears. ., , , ., years. to spend more time in china, years. to spend more time in china. we _ years. to spend more time in china, we know— years. to spend more time in china, we know their- years. to spend more time in | china, we know their economy has been struggling, have scene reflected? ~ �* ,

reflected? well, it's reflecting _ reflected? well, it's reflecting on - reflected? well, it's l reflecting on domestic reflected? well, it's - reflecting on domestic travel in china. 0r domestic tourism, which is kind of negative for the last six months. it will probably remain negative for the next three months. we expected it. the one thing that is striking that you have a greater demand from chinese going outside, people to have money to spend but they are spending outside china. meanwhile airbus' rival boeing has been facing a lot of headwinds. the plane—maker is looking to raise up to $35 billion while at the same time dealing with industrial action by more than 30,000 workers. the company also plans to lay—off around 17,000 workers from next month. despite those efforts to reduce costs, aviation analyst mark martin isn't convinced about boeing turning things around. these are a second or third—generation worker. we have seen boeing in the 70s and �*805. it's have seen boeing in the 70s and �*80s. it's notjust the pay they are talking about, the reason why they're not coming on the table as they want better work quality standards. they want better safety standards, they want greater

accountability with boeing. this is about accountability. though not willing to commit. if you're going to get rid of them, where are you going to get the people from? because we know how unions work, the word is going to spread like wildfire, and nobody is going tojoin boeing. i'm not sure how good or bad it is but the row no takers for the 77 max, there are delivery is delayed, they really don't have a value proposition on the market except for the much hyped 797 which will come out and about 34 which will come out and about 3k months. so this is, it 3a months. so this is, it sounds almost as a poet is on the verge of closure. it's good to be extremely unfortunate because as much as we talk about this and highlight the risks, we need a revival at boeing because the market cannot be driven by airbus, we cannot be driven by airbus, we can have a monopoly in

aircraft, orthis can have a monopoly in aircraft, or this changes due to political aerospace dynamics and are committed to the forefront but the 919 and some of the leading chinese aircraft makers into the market. so we're on the cusp of complete whole new revival revolution, so i would like to be a little positive about this, i would like to see a stronger boeing but it doesn't seem likely. a s you may have noticed, this week we've been following developments at the paris motor show, with the help of our roving correspondent, theo leggett. he s spoken to some of the biggest names in the business ? but that doesn t mean he hasn t been looking at some of the smaller players as well. among them is micro ? best known for making scooters, aimed at kids but often ridden by adults. and now they ve made — well, something else. what are we sitting in? you are sittin: in what are we sitting in? you are sitting in a _ what are we sitting in? you are sitting in a magazine, - what are we sitting in? you are sitting in a magazine, small- sitting in a magazine, small electric city car with two seats, and a range of up to 1230 kilometres. it

seats, and a range of up to 1230 kilometres.— seats, and a range of up to 1230 kilometres. it is made in ital . 1230 kilometres. it is made in italy- macro _ 1230 kilometres. it is made in italy. macro is _ 1230 kilometres. it is made in italy. macro is a _ 1230 kilometres. it is made in italy. macro is a scooter - italy. macro is a scooter company, you make kids toys, what give you the idea to make a car? , ., ., ., what give you the idea to make acar? , ., ., , a car? very good we are family company. _ a car? very good we are family company, founded _ a car? very good we are family company, founded by - a car? very good we are family company, founded by my - a car? very good we are family| company, founded by my father in 1999, we are really coming from the scooter industry, my father basically in vented the micro kick scooter and with the microlino we sort of started as keddar pr act to be honest and people really liked it. we had the first, c, show car on view at the motor show in 2016, and we had a reservation list and we had a reservation list and we said, ok, if people preserve it we will produce it. in just two days we had more than 500 reservations, that is what the vote of no return where we sit we will bring it on the market. so who will be buying this? the market is really _ so who will be buying this? tue: market is really for so who will be buying this? tt;e: market is really for a so who will be buying this? tt9 market is really for a lot of customers of ours, it is the replacement for the second or

third car. so a lot of customers still have a long—distance vehicle with maybe five seats or more, and this is sort of like the replacement for their second car. at the end of the day it is sort of like a perfect way to get around in the city, it's very easy to park, because you can basically cross park the microlino like that on one parking spot. microlino like that on one parking spot-— microlino like that on one parking spot. but it is small enough. — parking spot. but it is small enough. i — parking spot. but it is small enough, ithink_ parking spot. but it is small enough, ithink i _ parking spot. but it is small enough, i thinki could - enough, i think i could probably lift it up and stop how safe is it in a crash? so we are the _ how safe is it in a crash? sr we are the first manufacturer in the motorcycle category that has introduced a sort of unibody structure would is standard in normal cars into our category as well. so when it comes to safety and stability, i must say we are leading in our category. but it has to be said, it is not a real car, is not 100% occur, it's a mix between a motorbike and a car, we collect the ipad of the were involved.-

of the were involved. with a little bit of _ of the were involved. with a little bit of scooter - of the were involved. with a little bit of scooter in - of the were involved. with a little bit of scooter in there l little bit of scooter in there as well. ~ ,,:, , little bit of scooter in there aswell. , , , :, just rekik, the chinese housing minister has found to stabilise the housing sector, he has also said that 11.5 million people live in affordable housing by the end of this year.

hey, i'm ben and this is the catch up. tonight — driving test delays, peanut bans on planes and pandas. but first, england has a new manager. thomas tuchel says he's very excited and honoured to be the new head coach. ijust had the chance to read a quote from pele in the building in wembley, who said that wembley is the heart,

the capital and the cathedral of football, and i think he was absolutely right. some other stories now. have you had to wait months or drive hundreds of miles to take your driving test? well, that's what mps have been talking about this week. they're trying to resolve the issue. the dvsa, who do the tests, say they're trying to buy back leave from examiners and recruit more of them to get it sorted. new research suggests that nut bans do little to help allergic passengers on planes. experts say that passengers shouldn't be worried about food being transmitted in the air, but that cleaning their seat with a wet wipe could be the best way to prevent an allergic reaction mid—flight. and the victoria's secret show has returned five years after it was cancelled because of low ratings and criticism that it was sexist and lacked diversity. this year's show promised to celebrate all women, with 25 different countries represented, as well as plus—sized and transgender models.

and time now for ten seconds of pandas. bao li and qing bao have arrived from china at the smithsonian national zoo in washington, dc, where they will live for the next ten years as part of the two countries' panda diplomacy. adorable. right, you're all caught up. have a good night. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm will perry. here's what's coming up. new england head coach thomas tuchel faces the media at wembley and vows to win over his critics. pakistan's spinners rip through england's middle order to turn the second test on its head in multan. and great britain cut new zealand's lead in the america's cup after winning both of wednesday's races.

welcome along. so, he says he's excited, proud, honoured and sorry for having a german passport. thomas tuchel didn't duck any questions at wembley on wednesday, talking about his love of england, even the national anthem that he hasn't decided whether to sing or not. he'll take over as head coach injanuary on an 18—month contract that will see him through to the world cup, if, of course, england qualify. tuchel�*s coaching career took off 17 years ago via augsburg and mainz, before he went on to win the german cup with borussia dortmund. he then moved to france and psg, winning two league titles, including a domestic treble in 2020 — that caught the attention of chelsea. he managed them from january 2021, winning the champions league, the club world cup and uefa super cup before being sacked in 2022.

tuchel then returned to germany, winning the bundesliga with bayern munich, but left after a trophyless season that followed. he'd been out of work for five months until the fa came calling with an offer that he says he couldn't turn down. i understood very quickly that it's a big job. i think it's always the job you are in is the biggestjob that you don't get. and and it does not make a lot of sense to compare, but it feels big and it feels, like i said, like a privilege. i'm sorry, ijust have a german passport, but i can just tell them and maybe everyone, all of these supporters also felt my passion for the english premier league, my passion for the country, how i love to live here and how i love to work here. so my memories are on the highest level of that. that played a huge role. and hopefully i can convince them and show them and prove them that i'm proud to be the english manager. i will do everything to show

respect to this role and to this country. i think, first of all, they are there, we are there. the players proved, the group of players proved that they are there. the consistency of quarterfinals, semi—finals and finals is impressive. we will need luck, we will need the momentum. we will need to be lucky to not have injuries and so on. and little decisions within the games, that is a given. even if we speak out now very openly what the target is about the second star, we have to prove ourselves all the time, and then we need to show it in qualification and build an atmosphere with the supporters and the country that extra special things can happen. well, we revealed on tuesday the five players on the shortlist for the bbc women's footballer of the year award. it's a public vote and you can pick your winner right now on the bbc sport website or app. first in the spotlight is 0rlando pride

and zambia striker barbra banda. she's been one of the top goal—scorers in the nwsl since her move to the us, and is the highest—scoring african player, male orfemale, in olympic history. i want to be the greatest footballer in the world. everyone can read about me and say, ok, we had barbra banda. yeah. for me to be inspired in football, it came from my father, because my father used to play social football. so he's the one that i was looking up to when i was growing up. african parents were against women to play soccer, so it was very difficult for my mum to accept that. but she would always encourage me to go to school instead of doing soccer. it's just now that it has changed in africa. so it was a challenge, but the moment she accepted that, it's when i was called

for the national team. she's now my number one fan! every time we have a game, she's the first person to be in the stadium. putting on my zambian shirt, it's very important for me. we qualified to the olympics and i managed to score another hat trick. it was a great moment for me. we were hoping to do better, but it's unfortunate that we didn't go further. it was a great experience to me and i think i'm still learning more from that. banda swerves, shoots, tallies! ifelt like i needed something to challenge myself. it's very different here. the league is more competitive. you have to up your game to get better. for me, all what i think of when i have the ball is to look off my team—mates. if i see i'm in a good position, then ijust have to take on the defender, because i know every defender is scared to be taken,

so it's my advantage. i feel i've changed my game and i've improved in so many ways for this season with pride. banda delivers this one to the back post. it comes in the middle. banda scores! honestly, even my growing up, i've been looking up to marta. she's a very good person. the way we interact, the way she took me as a younger sister. because she has been my idol for a long time, i feel so great to be with her. it's very good for me. it has been a greatjourney for me in the past 12 months. football is what i love doing, so it'sjust in my dna. don't forget to get your votes in via the bbc sport website or app. now, sticking with women's football, there were 21 goals in the four champions league games on wednesday. nine of them came for the holders, barcelona, against swedish side hammarby. manchester city came from behind to win at sankt polten in austria. alessia russo was on the scoresheet for arsenal

in a 4—1victory over valerenga in their first game since jonas eidevall resigned. and bayern munich, you can see there, made it two wins out of two for the season's competition with three points atjuventus. england had a tough day in the second test against pakistan. they bowled them out for 366 in their first innings, but then collapsed in theirs, despite a century from ben duckett. he was one of four wickets for sajid khan as they slid from 211—2 to 225—6 at the close on day two. alex hartley was there for test match special and spoke to my colleague 0lly foster about khan's brilliant spell. i've actually got his figures written on my hand, or the passage of play that he did. he got 4—11; in 18 balls. i was writing that down furiously, when he was just tearing through england's middle order. look, he was fantastic today. he's not played test cricket since 2021, so i guess he'll have a point to prove when it comes to that. but pakistan, outstanding today. there was a lot of questions

on if they pick the right team, what's this pitch going to play like? they only had one seam bowler and england got the ball to reverse seam early on on day one. but i mean, pakistan, absolutely fantastic today. sajid in particular. we weren't sure if this pitch was going to break up and it was going to turn. but it obviously has done and it's what pakistan wanted. it's unprecedented times, using the same pitch twice in a row. and i think it's brilliant to see from a pakistan point of view, it gives them the best opportunity of winning this test match, and they'll be hoping that they can tear through england tomorrow and with a lead of 70, 80, and then, you know, it's their test match to win. with how the pitch was turning, i guess ben duckett�*s century looks all the better for it, doesn't it, really? i mean, he plays spin so, so well. he looks like a completely different player to when he first played test cricket against bangladesh. he couldn't really play the spin. he's worked on it so much, and he was sweeping the ball, reverse sweeping the ball, and he was in total control. he was absolutely outstanding today. and yeah, as you say, itjust makes it look even better.

yeah, alex hartley there in multan. so, england resume 127 runs behind. it could have been a lot worse, couldn't it, without that 114 runs from ben duckett? first session tomorrow. i think it's going to be huge for us. you know, if we can bat for as much as we can and try and get as close to their total, you know, i think we'll actually be favourites. we'll certainly believe that. i think they've shown, this game, you know, with the bat and the ball that they're going to fight every single ball right till the end of the game, and try and make it as hard as they can for us. so, you know, we'll always keep believing. ithink, you know, they've had a good day today. but yeah, as i say, that first morning session is going to be huge. great britain won theirfirst gold medal on day one of the track cycling world championships. sophie capewell, katie marchant and emma finucane matched their victory in this summer's 0lympics with another gold in the women's team sprint on wednesday. the trio defeated the netherlands to become the first british women's squad to be crowned sprint world champion since 2008.

gb have also qualified for thursday's men's team pursuit final, where they'll face the hosts, denmark. for me personally, it felt harder than winning the olympic gold medal because of the high that we'd had from the games, you know, to get back into training and to get back prepared and get in the headspace after what's been an absolutely exhausting year, to be able to come to a world championships and produce three really, really solid rides to win a gold medal, it's really, really tough. like, really, really tough. and yeah, i'm so proud that we were able to do that today. so, well done, girls. elsewhere, great britain cut new zealand's lead in the america's cup to 11—2 by winning both races on wednesday. ben ainslie's ineos britannia team went 4—0 behind on monday in the best of 13 series in barcelona. new zealand have won the past two america's cups, while britain have never won the competition in its 173—year history. races seven and eight take place on friday. a reminder of our top story... thomas tuchel unveiled as england's new head coach and he says he can't wait

to make all the dreams come true at the world cup in 2026. don't forget, you can get all the latest news from the bbc sport website and our app as well — bbcsport.com. but for me and the rest of the team, its goodbye for now. have a good one. hello. wednesday brought some very heavy falls of rain across parts of wales and western areas of england too, caused some localised flooding, for example, here in shropshire. and shropshire was one of the wettest areas, along with southern wales, parts of south—west england. we had up to 73mm of rain around the brecon beacons, 60mm into parts of shropshire, whereas further eastwards on wednesday, some very warm weather for mid—0ctober. we had temperatures peaking at 22.5 celsius in central london. the average at this time of the year is 15. now, over the next few hours,

we've got this zone of heavy rain pushing eastwards and northwards, so heavy rain for northern england, some heavy bursts in eastern scotland and some heavy rain for a time across the south—east of england. but all that lot will tend to clear out of the way. the hill fog patches will tend to lift. it'll be a mild start to the day on thursday with temperatures 11 to 15 degrees, and overall it's a better kind of day. we do start off with rain, though, across the far north of scotland. that will be slow to pull out of the way. sunshine follows for most of the uk, so it should be a lovely morning thursday morning. a bit of high cloud in the sky for east anglia and south—east england. and come the afternoon, we do have a trough running into northern ireland, western scotland, the northwest of both england and wales, so here through thursday afternoon, there is a risk of a few passing showers, but some of you will dodge them altogether. now, looking at friday's weather charts, another area of low pressure is on the way, this one with fairly tightly packed isobars on the cold front. so it's on and ahead of this main band of rain that we'll get some pretty strong gusts of wind, gusts of around 50 or 60 miles an hour working

into western scotland. eastern scotland, central and eastern england, probably staying dry all day. temperatures still on the mild side, quite widely between 1a and 17 celsius. we do have that rain friday night and into saturday that will be affecting central and eastern parts of england, eastern scotland. slow to clear saturday morning. eventually, though, it will get out of the way and we'll see sunshine and some blustery showers working into western areas. 0ur temperatures continue to run a few degrees above average for this stage of october, but then second half of the weekend, we've got another area of low pressure on the way, bringing wet and windy weather conditions, but the winds will be of some concern to the northwest of scotland, where we could get gusts of 70 or 80 mph, making it the strongest area of low pressure we've seen so far this autumn — a risk of some disruption.

live from singapore, this is bbc news. liam payne, the former 0ne direction singer, has died after a fall at a hotel in buenos aires, argentina. he wasjust 31. fans have gathered outside the hotel to mourn the death of the singer, and tributes are coming in from around the world. in other news, trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter gaza, as israeli strikes intensify in the north, while at the united nations, the us turns up the pressure a quote—unquote "policy of starvation" in northern gaza would be horrific and

unacceptable and would have implications under international law and us law. and as donald trump and kamala harris embark on a media blitz with less than three weeks to polling day, we assess how china views this crucial us presidential election. welcome to newsday, i'm steve lai. we start with that developing news from argentina, that liam payne, the former 0ne direction singer, was declared dead at the age of 31. local police say the british musician died after falling from the third floor of a buenos aires hotel. hailing from the uk, liam payne rose to global stardom with other band members harry styles, niall horan zayne malik and louis tomlinson. these pictures are from outside the hotel in bueno aires, where fans have gathered

to pay their respects and lay tributes to the musician.