ukraine. officials have said offensive actions are under way in the countries ease where the company eight catches deputy describing bakhmut as the epicentre of hostilities in claiming russian forces are also on the defensive in the south. we ve been looking at the video footage circulating. we ve been looking at the video footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are shifting footage circulating. ukraine says its forces are shifting to - footage circulating. ukraine says| its forces are shifting to offensive actions in some parts of russian occupied territory. earlier today the russian defence ministry said they had forwarded a major ukrainian offensive. what s going on? let s take a look. russia claims at this video shows evidence of a major ukrainian offensive being repelled. the video is bad quality and all we can see is military vehicles being under heavy fire. we can t say anything beyond that. we know that the vi
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying
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the temperature up here in the alps is rising by about twice the global average. it s already increased by 2 degrees celsius. and 20 years since the us led coalition invaded iraq to topple dictator saddam hussein, we look at the legacy. hello and welcome to bbc news. the world s financial markets have reacted with unease following last night s emergency takeover of the troubled swiss bank credit suisse. shares in credit suisse fell by more than 60% this morning after european markets opened and the value of banking shares across europe have dropped sharply. credit suisse was bought by rival swiss bank ubs in a deal brokered by the swiss government over the weekend. here s the chief executive of ubs explaining the rationale behind the deal. translation: it means we bring back stability and security for credit suisse clients, but also that we keep the reputation of the swiss financial centre high. and finally it means we are stemming the turmoil in the international financial