preparing a series of murders of peaceful residence in chernihiv. the preparation for this bloody crime has already begun. the massacre can happen this evening, the 6th of april, end quote. which is especially concerning considering that the pentagon says that as of today russian forces have fully withdrawn from chernihiv. so now that the russian troops are gone, the press can finally get a closer look. but no matter what the western press finds, russian press likely ready to say that what we see was either staged, or carried out by an extremist nazi faction within ukraine. so how does the west help tackle this problem? especially if russia can just create its own reality out of whole cloth and tell their people whatever they want? joining us now is a russian american journalist who worked at the russian state run news agency from 2009 to 2012. she also brings a unique insight into what is going on inside
who looked like the russian soldier. i mean and what happened to that neighbor? were they able to get help? well, he got help from us neighbors, we somehow they brought him to our shelter and they gave him the first aid, and we all understood that he needed medical care and professional medical care, but there was no way to get it. and i know you would sneak out to your now i m sorry. now on the 6th of april he s okay because he also managed to esca escape. one of the neighbors took him to his car. so, inna, i know you would
on the 6th of april, national insurance contributions will go up byi.25%, which the government says will help clear the nhs backlog and contribute towards social care costs. and for 2.5 million workers on the minimum wage, they ll see their income rise by 59p an hour, to £9.50. with more on the unprecedented rise in energy bills, here s our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith. there s more chances of us going into debt with the rises of the electricity and water bill, the council tax, everything is having a rise, plus the petrol. mum of three qurat is making small changes in the house to try and keep those energy bills under control. my washing, i normally do it throughout the week but now i m doing it over the weekend.
who would like to see further measures introduced. we had some conservative mps calling on the government to scrap that rise to national insurance tax coming in on the 6th of april as well, so they have been under pressure with other groups as well saying that the energy bill loan scheme and the council tax rebate should be more generous as well. we have had some criticism too from personalfinance experts like martin lewis describing the energy bill loan scheme or criticising the loan aspect of it with the loan having to be repaid when bills are inflated because we know the price cap will rise again in october. labour have been calling for quite some time for a windfall tax on some of these north sea oil and gas companies, which they say could raise money to help people further with energy bills and this is something the labour leader keir starmer reiterated when he was talking to bbc breakfast this morning. we would lower those bills using the windfall tax, using vat receipts as well,
0n the 6th of april, national insurance contributions will go up by1.25%, which the government says will help clear the nhs backlog and contribute towards social care costs. and for 2.5 million workers on the minimum wage, they ll see their income rise by 59 pence an hour, to £9.50. let s speak now to our political correspondent ione wells. morning correspondent ione wells. ione. we finished effectively morning ione. we finished effectively on the good bit of news about the national living wage, but there will be a lot of people as these energy price rises come into effect today, despite all the talk, this is the reality check and it s something the government is really agonised as to what more they can do. ~ ., ., ., , agonised as to what more they can do. ., , do. morning, charlie. that s exactly riuht. we do. morning, charlie. that s exactly right- we have do. morning, charlie. that s exactly right. we have known do. morning, charlie. that s exactly right. we have known that