surrounding british gymnastics, damning report brings to light the physical, emotionaland damning report brings to light the physical, emotional and sexual abuse suffered by young athletes. the hollywood actor kevin spacey appears in court in london charged with sexual assualt. and temperatures soar in england and wales it could hit 3a degrees tomorrow. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the new premier league fixtures are out. premier league champions manchester city take on west ham united to start the season. good evening. the bank of england has raised interest rates to their highest level for 13 years as it tries to dampen down the rapidly rising cost of living. they ve risen from 1% to 1.25% the fifth increase in a row as it tries to curb inflation. but inflation s still on the rise the rate at which prices go up is currently at a a0 year high of 9%, and there are warnings it could top 11% later this year. and if that wasn t difficult enough already on t
he says apple slowed down the performance of some iphone models by hiding a power management tool in software updates. apple said the idea was to preserve ageing batteries and lengthen the life span of older devices. it s a process known as throttling . mr guttman s claim has been filed with the competition appeal tribunal. he s seeking damages of 768 million pounds. he says apple misled users over the incident by pushing them to download software updates it said would improve the performance of their devices and make them more secure, when it actually slowed them down. the legal claim says apple did add a mention of the power management tool to its website later on, but says it didn t make it clear it would slow down older iphones. those models range from the iphone 6 up to the iphone x. apple did later allow iphone
in effectiveness of masking is crystal clear. today, instead of hanging their heads in shame, as the biden administration discusses a belated plan to send every household high quality n95 respirator masks, we saying stuff like this. we shouldn t just willie nearly send them to everyone. it s really a waste of money, and a waste of resources. a waste of money? senator bernie sanders a cosponsoring a bill to send every person a package of n95 masks, something they say would just cost five billion dollars. to put that in context, last month, congress passed a 768 million dollar defense bill, which was 20 then the biden administration and asked for. still, some in this administration or actually resisting the plan to send out free masks. kill me now. according to now, political just the n95 or, kn95 masks to
lawrence haddad is the executive director of gain, the global alliance for improved nutrition, and an organiser of the summit. hejoins me now from brighton. i want to start by asking you how much hunger has accelerated globally during the pandemic? during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has one during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has gone up during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has gone up faster during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has gone up faster than during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has gone up faster than i ve - during the pandemic? yeah, hunger has gone up faster than i ve ever . has gone up faster than i ve ever seen it go up. it s gonna buy about 20% in one year which is the largest ever increase we ve gone from about 768 million people are hungry to about 811 million people hungry, which is a massive increase. the most vulnerable kids under the age of five and the kids were stunted and wasted, which means the bodies are literally deformed by malnutrition, those numbers have gone u