To reply to. This is d. W. News live from berlin hong kong authorities invoke of urgency powers in a bid to and months of one rest mass transit is suspended and a ban on face masks takes effect but protesters brimming defiant well get the latest from our correspondent in hong kong also coming up. In iraq dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded in 4 days of violent protests reports say 5 more people have died in renewed conscious today between demonstrators and police. And a new green spaces for copenhagen in the danish capital is the latest Landmark Offer Schemed with a city view on the roof of a giant trash incinerator. Omarion evanston thanks for joining us we begin in hong kong where protesters have been defining a government ban on wearing face masks to conceal their Identity Hundreds of people have formed human chains with their faces covered risking jail and have to find the citys subway and many shops remain closed after a night of violence on friday there were mo
visiting my mother law in detroit. and in new jersey i shop in all of these. carley: and the other thing we mentioned, gas prices and you are carpooling because you have kids that play sports. yes. carley: gas prices are an issue in national average gas price $2.39 when president biden took office. now the average is $3.48. are you struggling with that as well? not as much as [indistinct] carley: one of the issues i was reading about when it comes to the dollar store is that there aren t a lot of healthier options. it is a lot of prepackaged foods and things like that. how are you navigating that?
level for ia years, and said they could rise further still if prices continue to soar. the benchmark rate has been lifted to 3.5% from 3%, in a widely expected move. the chancellor said it was vital to take action to lower inflation. andrew verity reports. in pudsey in west yorkshire, clive turner works in customer service for a large supermarket chain, earning around £20,000 a year. together with his girlfriend, on a similarly modest income, he is already struggling, like millions of families, to cover energy bills which have doubled, and now, his five year fixed rate mortgage is due to expire. every time he hears about an interest rate hike on the news, he winces. it s absolutely mega stressful. because i m trying to work, but then you re looking at the news, it s, like, interest rates, you know, going up, inflation coming up, it s, like, what can i do? withjust over 100,000 left on his mortgage, his interest rate is going tojump from 3.48% to 5.76%. we re now going onto mortgage
it s absolutely mega stressful. because i m trying to work, but then you re looking at the news, it s, like, interest rates, you know, going up, inflation coming up, it s, like, what can i do? withjust over 100,000 left on his mortgage, his interest rate is going tojump from 3.48% to 5.76%. we re now going onto mortgage which is basically about 750, so it s about £120 difference, at 5.76. so, it s a lot more. today s interest rate hike is the ninth rise in a row. rates are now seven times as high as they have been the bank of england has raised uk interest rates to their highest for the last 13 years, when interest rates were kept at emergency lows because economic growth was so weak. what the bank of england is aiming to do is to make it more expensive to borrow and spend, which should mean that households and businesses spend a little bit less overall, so there is a little bit less buying pressure, upward pressure on prices, and that should reduce inflation over the medium term. but
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