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
as frank gardner reports. war planes from another time. memories from 80 years ago. today, a chance to honor those men and women who took part in d day, the operation that helped end the second world war. service chiefs, prime ministers past and present, the royalfamily and of course, the veterans. roy haywood was 19 on that day, a trooper in the sherwood rangers. i landed in on the evening of d day, and three weeks later i was so badly damaged that they had to amputate both my legs below the knee. i returned home eventually, and i have to say that i always considered myself one of the lucky ones that survived because so many of us didn t. this was the largest ever amphibious invasion in human history, over150,000 british, us, canadian and french troops landing on normandy s beaches under withering fire from german defenses. let us once again commit ourselves always to remember, cherish and honor those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for. honoring
was desperate, who was talking about having to do batch cooking, who couldn t afford to put her cooker on, who was having real problems making ends meet, and the minister had answered that with assorted lies. he had 45 seconds, and what is his priority? to talk with this woman or deal with the noise and nonsense coming from his left hand side. it is difficult to know, that was the choice he made, and i think is a human being he was right to talk directly to the woman who was having such difficulty is about what labour could do to help, and also to make it clear that given his background, he does understand. he comes from a family that had to have the telephone cut off because they couldn t afford the bills, he understands where people are coming from, and we want to do everything we can to help people with the cost of living crisis. whatever lies come from the government, to a certain extent, you have a choice. do you spend your time dealing with that?
Are you running on fumes all week long, struggling to keep up with the demands of life and grabbing take out far too often? Is your body yearning for more nutritious meals without spending your precious time slaving