and she is still alone to this very moment. a russian missile strikes a hospital in the ukrainian city of dnipro, killing at least one person and injuring 15. british cycling bans transgender women from the female category of its competitions. of borrowing in europe how worried should we be about the global economy? and as the iconic rocky horror show celebrate s 50 years on the stage, we speak to one of its original stars. hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start in sudan where the family of an 85 year old uk national has told a bbc news arabic investigation that his disabled wife died of starvation after the british embassy there left the couple to fend for themselves during the recent fighting. despite repeated calls for assistance, abdalla sholgami and alaweya rishwan were offered no help in leaving their home which is just yards from the embassy in the capital, khartoum. the foreign office said t
to april but remained at 8.7%, still more than four times the bank of england s official 2% target. well speaking earlier the chancellorjeremy hunt made clear he supports the prime minister s aim to halve inflation this year, saying it is a big task, but we must deliver it and we will even if it means precipitating a recession . he went on to say: if we want to grow the economy. we have to support the bank of england in the difficult decisions that they take . but that has caused panic on bond markets prompting a new mortgage shock for homeowners as borrowing britain s borrowing costs have risen to the highest in the g7 for the first time since the financial crisis because of economic uncertainty. it is the first time british yields have topped the g7 group of advanced economies since the financial crisis in 2008, a sharp reversal of britain s fortunes. in march 2020, the country s borrowing costs were the fourth currently at a.5% will rise to 5.5% by the end of the year, putting