a mutual security pact with sweden, pledging support should the military come under attack. more could be done to help you with long term chronic pain, specialists say, is a bbc survey suggests a quarter of uk adults live with the condition. doesn t matter how hard i tried, or how much i wait or how much i pray, it most likely isn t going to change. downing street says its target of building 300,000 new homes in england per year still stands after the housing secretary michael gove has said the government was no longer trying to meet it. mr gove said ministers were now focusing on building homes people can be proud of and said that people in england would be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their neighbourhood as part of its new levelling up and regeneration bill which has been introduced in parliament today after yesterday s queens speech. labour has said the queen s speech didn t contain enough measures to help people with the rising cost of living
away from taking action. it s been reported that she will remove the border checks on goods arriving in northern ireland from the rest of the uk. an aljazeera correspondent called shireen abu akleh has been shot dead while covering an israeli army raid in the occupied west bank. aljazeera says she was shot in the head by israeli forces. video on social media suggests the palestinian reporter was wearing a flakjacket bearing the word press when she was killed. another journalist was wounded. israel denies its forces targeted journalists and says it has offered to carry out a joint investigation with the palestinian authority. our correspondent tim franks joins us live from jerusalem. tell us more about what you know about this killing.
this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. a new report suggests around 1.5 million uk households will struggle to pay food and energy bills this year and a quarter of a million will fall into extreme poverty. the british government says it s taking action. we are constantly looking at ideas in order to ensure that we relieve the pressure on people who are facing incredibly tough times. aljazeera correspondent, shireen abu akleh, is shot dead while covering an israeli army raid in the occupied west bank. the us house of representatives votes overwhelmingly in favour of another huge aid package for ukraine. the uk prime minister borisjohnson