in ukraine a russian solider pleads guilty to killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. we have a special report on the taliban s vice and virtue enforcers who have returned to the streets of cable. tonight with the context, former conservative ministerjustine greening and democratic strategist mary ann marsh. hello. welcome to the programme. inflation has hit a ao year high. figures out today showed the rate at which prices are rising jumped 9% in the 12 months to april, up from 7% in march. that is driven by the cost of household energy that rose on average £700 last month. and for millions of people wages are not keeping up. the average pay rise excluding bonuses in the three months to march was 4.2%, which meant given the rate of inflation british workers suffered a fifth consecutive cut to real term wages. the inflationary problems are not unique to the uk, farfrom it, but uk now has the highest rate of inflation of any g7 country an
result of the night, republican state senator doug mastriano rolled to victory in the pennsylvania gubernatorial primary. trump has endorsed mastriano. in fact, he ran on a stop the steal. would have been a fringe candidate not so long ago. maybe good news for the democrat running against him that s the state s current attorney generaljosh shapiro. and if you want evidence of how much influence donald trump has in some of these races, you need only look at the north carolina senate primary. republican ted budd won the nomination with trump s endorsement. before trump had weighed in behind him, he had just 9% of the vote. last night, he romped home with 59% of the ballot. that is a trump endorsement that worked. here s nomia iqbal in pennsylvania. there was a sense of deja vu here in pennsylvania. i was here in 2020 when things were tight. it took days to decide. we re now waiting to find out which republican candidate has won the race it to the fight for the senate seat. we re lookin
was john democrats side. the interesting one wasjohn fetterman. he revealed at the weekend that he had a stroke. yet he won a blow out victory. what more interesting is he s very much on the bernie sanders inside of the party. annual pennsylvanians what happened there? i want to make a oint, it s what happened there? i want to make a point. it s nice what happened there? i want to make a point, it s nice to what happened there? i want to make a point, it s nice to see what happened there? i want to make a point, it s nice to see you again, i a point, it s nice to see you again, frank a point, it s nice to see you again, frank two a point, it s nice to see you again, frank. two thirds of republican voters in frank. two thirds of republican voters in pennsylvania voted against trump s voters in pennsylvania voted against trump s endorsement. fetterman s more trump s endorsement. fetterman s more a trump s endorsement. fetterman s more a blue collar democrat, and he
biden will be less effective in his last two years in office. last two years in office. just on that building last two years in office. just on that building coalitions, - last two years in office. just on that building coalitions, mary | last two years in office. just on - that building coalitions, mary ann, we talked aboutjohn fetterman. the man he was running against, connor lam, he was out of difficult central. he s the sort of guy that the state party would have come to fight this man democrat central. they backed out and didn t seem to take a interest in all. the democrats. did they know where they are on this spectrum of centre ground all the way to the progressive left? do they know where the majority of their voters are? i the majority of their voters are? i think you see both parties moving a little more to both sides. the connor little more to both sides. the connor lam was a dream candidate out of the connor lam was a dream candidate out of the 905, connor lam wa
welcome back. it was the biggest day in the primary season so far. on tuesday, five states voted, from pennsylvania in the east to oregon in the west. they re choosing primary candidates that will battle it out in senate, governor and house races later in the year. pennsylvania is a key battleground state, and this year, there s an open senate seat. republican pat toomey is retiring. so, whoever wins the republican primary has a fair chance of replacing him, but it s too close to call. the trump backed mehmet oz, a celebrity physician better known as dr oz, is around 2000 votes ahead of dave mccormick, a former hedge fund boss with plenty of plenty of mail in votes to count. with plenty of mail in votes to count. john fetterman, who had surgery this week after suffering a strike, won the democratic primary at a canter. in maybe the most consequential