The eu. What do you make to that . And from attitudes to gay sex and single parent thing to views on abortion and the role of women in the home . Britain is now more liberal than ever. Yes, thatis now more liberal than ever. Yes, that is good news. But is it always a good thing . Is Society Better for you . Tell me. Well have it to all come and more. But before we get into it, lets grab tonights latest headlines. Michelle thank you. Good evening. Well, as youve been hearing, the bank of england has left its Interest Rate unchanged at 5. 25. Our economics and Business Editor Liam Halligan has more. Were a couple of hours on now, but at 12 noon today, the bank of england behind me, their Monetary Policy committee, did make the really important decision Interest Rates decision to hold Interest Rates at 5. 25. Finally, finally , at 5. 25. Finally, finally, finally, after 14 successive rate rises from 0. 1 at the end of 2001, all the way up to 5. 25, the bank of england has finally decided
And inflation is down. It fell to 3. 2 in the year to march, down from 3. 4. Heres the Prime Minister, rishi sunak. Todays figures show that our economic plan is working and inflation continues to fall, having been 11 when i became Prime Minister, its now fallen to just over 3, the lowest level in two and a half years. That smacking debate is going to get you wound up, im sure, because in scotland at and, wales its already banned. But what i as one who was smacked by my mum a lot, how do you enforce it . Well , the problem is what you well, the problem is what you will find is that children will then snitch on their parents. Children who might be just. Just from the goodness of their heart for the wanting those kids to behave better might smack lightly smack their children. The children will then turn around to the parents and say, you cant do that. Ill call the police. Its awful division. Its anti family. I have got another smack for that. Oh well, exactly. Unfortunately now theyve bu
Whether by role, road, rail or nl. A scheme offering shopping vouchers to new mothers could help them breast feed their babies. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The latest inflation figures out this morning show the rate has risen to its highest level in nearly six years, suggesting that the squeeze on what households can afford, continues. The office for National Statistics said that airfares and Computer Games contributed to the increase. Our business correspondent, ben bland, is here. The governor has to write a letter to the chancellor. Debbie remind people what we are talking about. These are the average increases in prices in november compared with the vendor last year. On average how much they have changed. The figure is 3. 1 . That is the average increase in prices. For everything from food to fuel, hotels the hairdressers, the lot. There is variation within that. But as you say, the governor of the bank of england, one of his mainjob is to get inflation to hit 2 . I
Meeting is overshadowed by the ongoing roxette talks well take you live to brussels for more also coming up for children killed a nanny others injured after a passenger train heads a school bus in france the bus was split in two by the force of the clash. And fury in argentina protests against pension reform turned violent causing parliament to suspend the debate. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes the woman who is single handedly taking on cobbles drug epidemic theres no support available for addicts in the Afghan Capital and soul leyla are you dari uses her own money to rescue and rebel lets say. And as israel looks forward to its seventieth anniversary of bolivia looking back at german israeli relations defined by the darkest chapter in german history. Im sorry paul and welcome to the show its good to have you with us. Air leaders meeting in brussels are heading for a showdown over the issue of migration a mandatory quota for refugees has been described as quote highly divisiv
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev