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Hi, I'm Mariko Ohi from Asia-Pacific,
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We're looking at China's efforts to shield its giant economy from the economic fallout of the Iran war.
After years of growth, China is now slowing down.
So is it still on track to become the world's largest economy in the coming decades?
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Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with a war whose effects it feels are causing ever larger eruptions around the world.
One major development we'll be looking at in much more depth in 30 minutes and that is the naming of a new supreme leader in Iran,
the son of the last supreme leader.
Who is he
though and what does his appointment mean for the way in which the Iranians fight and the way in which the country is run?
In terms of those effects beyond Iran's borders though, Well,
today one of the biggest has been on global markets,
with the price of oil hitting $100 a barrel for the first time in years and stock markets juddering downwards.
Here's a sense of how that news is being reported around the world.