Behaviour, is still employed by harrods the Uk Chancellor says she has hard decisions what will make. Decisions to assist the economy. Also coming up on the World Today prosecutors say the suspected gunman, arrested near donald trumps golf course, wrote a letter saying he planned to assassinate the former president. Welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc Lebanons Health Ministry says at least 274 people have been killed and more than A Thousand injured in israeli Strikes Today the deadliest day of the Israel Hezbollah Conflict in the past year. Israel says its broadening its strikes against hezbollah as citizens in southern lebanon have received Phone Messages warning them to leave places used by the iran backed group. The israeli Defense Minister and i2 gallant says there been strikes across southern lebanon. The pentagon says it is sending a small number of additional us troops to the Middle East among the growing crisis. This comes among Special Editio
Favour over the past month. Weve seen sterling rise that will help temper the Price Pressures from imports. Weve also seen other pressures in the markets where theyve been raising some questions about the Bank Of Englands credibility, as in Mortgage Rates going up without decisions being made that has all calmed down, too. And the public s expectations of where inflation is going, which were really very high, have now begun to temper. So thats also going in the banks favour. But a crucial issue is that they have raised rates by 5 the impact of that has really taken some time to filter through into the economy, there is sort of turning the type of rate rises on. Turning the tap. We are beginning to see the impact of that now weve seen in the Housing Market, weve seen it in some corporate insolvencies too. So that all leads back to this Balancing Act between crushing inflation, but avoiding a downturn its a tight rope and we are probably approaching the most narrow, trickiest part of tha
how one woman turned freebies for the famous into a multimillion dollar branding business. hello there. we start here in the uk where the government is under pressure to tackle a chronic shortage of workers when it publishes its budget next week. it is adding to wage pressures pushing up inflation and holding back economic growth. soaring childcare costs have priced many people, usually women, out of the workforce. post brexit restrictions on foreign workers have added to the problem. and many older people have simply decided they can afford to retire early. our economics editor faisal islam has the story. get back to work the economy needs you. not to be taking walks on a monday morning, but to be at work. that s one government message to people such as mike, who retired at 5a during the pandemic from managing software programmers in cambridgeshire. let s go for a walk! it s wonderful. i can t believe it s two years already, to be honest. it s absolutely flown by.
for the uk in this year s eurovision song contest mae muller will be heading to liverpool in may. on bbc london: more than 200 people arrested by the met police and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. four days after their 7 0 thrashing at anfield, how will manchester united respond in europe? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the cost of childcare is rising making it increasingly difficult for many parents to go to work. one children s charity found the average cost of childcare for under twos in britain is almost 15,000 pounds a year though that varies greatly depending on where you are. (ani look at the difference in the amount of your wages you ll spend roughly 44% for full time workers on average pay but in scotland it s around 35% and more than 50% in london. the government says its invested £20 billion over five years to help families with childcare. labour says it would completely overhaul childcare calling the current sys