are off the menu for school dinners according to some caterers, who blame shortages and rising costs. are you worried about the food on offer at your child s school? you can message me on twitter on @benmboulos. in other news, a man s died and thousands have been told to leave their homes amid torrential rain and majorflooding in sydney. a new species of giant water lilly has been discovered by scientists despite hiding in plain sight at kew gardens for 177 years. hello, good morning. borisjohnson is facing more calls to reveal what he knew about allegations of inappropriate behaviour by chris pincher. mr pincher resigned as deputy chief whip on thursday, following allegations he groped two men at a private members club. in his resignation letter, the mp said he drank far too much and embarrassed himself and other people. he was allowed to continue as a tory mp until late on friday, when he was suspended. mr pincher now faces a series of new claims of inappropriate beh
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the value of uk wages has fallen at the fastest rate since records began after taking into account the rising cost of living. household budgets are being squeezed by rising food, fuel and energy costs. average pay fell by 3% between april and june, when adjusted for inflation. that means prices are rising at an even faster rate, despite growth in regular pay excluding bonuses. meanwhile, job vacancies continued to increase, although the rate is slowing. the rise in the cost of living has prompted workers and unions across several industries to call for inflation matching pay rises with some, such as rail workers, going on strike. but the government claims the employment figures show the resilience of the uk economy. our business correspondent nina warhurst has more details on those uk job figures. average pay is growing faster than for 15 years but what is crucial at the moment, what everybody watching will
From the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, when we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we dont know if any of our bombs have killed them. Here in london, thousandsjoin pro palestinian demonstrations. Similar protests take place Around The World, calling for a ceasefire. Fresh aid enters gaza, and the un tells the bbc theyve managed to re establish some contact with their teams on the ground. Welcome to the programme. Ijust want to start of some Breaking News brought to us by our correspondent paul adams. We have seen some comments on social media for the first time, seemingly, from hamas leader in the gaza strip. He has offered to release all hostages in return for the release of all hamas prisoners in israeli jails. In a statement on hamas official website, it says this, we are ready for an Immediate Exchange deal that includes the release of all prisoners in the prisoners prisons the zionist enemy in exchange for the zionist enemy in exchange for th
If the conflict spreads to other parts of the region especially iran, it could immediately impact well prices because even though iran has been under sections for the last two years it has pumped well quietly and provided them to customers across the globe. The white house has turned a blind eye especially with the last year or two because its been trying to smooth relationships between iran and the western world. Now if the white house enforces the sanction that means the supplier from sanction that means the supplierfrom iran could be cut off and comes at a time when oil supplies have been tightening because saudi arabia and russia, the two largest exporters of oil in the world, also part of 0pec , have been reducing Oil Production by 1. 3 alien Barrels Per Day and will keep doing it until the end of the year. There is a good chanceit the year. There is a good chance it could continue into next year as well so if this happens and they will be a where there will be less oil supply, wh
Richard parker, narrowly beat the conservative s Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary, mark harper, said while the results were disappointing, the General Election was still all to play for. But speaking to the bbc, Suella Braverman insisted her party here is this report from our correspondence, damian grammaticas. Its a result that will send a shudder through conservatives. The shudder through conservatives. Tie Conservative Shudder through conservatives. Tue Conservative Party candidate, 224082. , Conservative Party candidate, 224082. ,. , 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. I 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. Al