nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
referendum, i think that is most important thing we, we bring back the special conference we planned and we should be consulted on that rather thanks, than being told it is a de facto referendum, it is important the membership debate this and see what it wants first. tqm. and see what it wants first. ok, alex an der and see what it wants first. ok, alex an der swanson, and see what it wants first. 0k, alex an der swanson, thank you for your time. thank you. thank you. now it s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. more of you will see the sunshine this afternoon compared with the morning. a few places, though, will stay fairly cloudy parts of southern wales, the midlands, east anglia, southern counties of england here the cloud thick enough for some light rain or drizzle, the cloud breaking up in northern ireland into the afternoon. and then, as i said, for many there will be some sunny spells. temperatures up a little bit on recent days, but always feeling coo
martha: a lot riding on this. catherine herridge joins us now live from washington. what are lawmakers saying they expect will be revealed today, catherine? reporter: thank you, martha, and good morning. they expect the head of the nsa will make the case that the sweeping collection of phone records, the so-called metadata from millions of americans, is justified and a necessary tool to connect the dots. i think it s very important for the general to get out as much of the details as he can without compromising sources or methods. i believe that general alexander is going to actually talk about specific cases he mentioned last week that there s dozens. this is one of the most valuable tools we have, and don t forget, the tools are changing so rapidly because this data mining is occurring in every part of the globe. reporter: today it s crucial to listen to the language general alexander uses as he describes the role data mining has played disrupting
and some real battles with police, using tear gas and at times rubber bullets. but the makeup of the protesters, a lot of middle class, families, anger at the performance of their own government. martha: the building of a mall in a park in turkey. there is a lot of anger out there. bill: the world cup is in a year. moment from now a rare look inside our national security operation. the head of the nsa will reveal terror plots disrupted by the government spying efforts. we ll take you there live with general alex an der. e gulf, bp : help the gulf recover, and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i ve been with bp for 24 years. i was part of the team that helped deliver on our commitments to the gulf - and i can tell you, safety is at the heart of everything we do. we ve added cutting-edge safety equipment and technology,
hood. how was the privacy of those two terrorists protected under this program to the extent the fbi had no idea who these two young then were. how is it that this large program does not catch these two terrorists in these instances? no one is going to defend the fbi s failure to identify these folks sooner. i wish they had. general alexander wishes they had as well. no program is perfect. some of the limit there impact the capacity to determine the full scope of what s going on. but i think those limit are appropriate and general alexander shares those views. but it s frustrating where you have instances where we have failed to identify folks when we are doing all of this work. having said that, i think when