China's Sichuan lifts birth restrictions
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The Chinese province makes the decision to allow couples to have as many children as they want as the country faces a decline in population. We find out the impact this will have on families and the economy. Boeing has produced its last 747 jumbo jet in the United States. The 'Queen of the Skies' first appeared in nineteen-seventy. We look back at the history of the emblematic aircraft. The International Monetary Fund has updated its World Economic Outlook for 2023. We explore the figures and what they tell us about the global economy. Rahul Tandon is joined throughout the programme by two guests in opposite sides of the world: Maggie McGrath, editor of Forbes Women in New York, and James Mayger, China economic editor for Bloomberg in Beijing. (Picture: A medical worker gets a newborn baby's commemorative footprint at a hospital in China. Picture credit: EPA)