Its tuesday october the 17th im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Inflation has risen to its highest level in more than five years. The rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices index, increased to 3 last month, up from 2. 9 in august. The figure is significant because the government uses data from september to set pension and benefit increases. Our Business Correspondent ben bland is here. You are here to chew over these latest figures. What is behind this rise . When we talk about inflation, cpi, typically the things we spend oui cpi, typically the things we spend our money on like food, this figure relates to an average how those prices have gone up this september with a year before, and as we were talking about that figure was 3 , in pa rt talking about that figure was 3 , in part driven by food prices going up, transport cost going, but also as you mentioned the weak pound, after brexit, which affects Raw Materials and foods, imported, the prices you and foods,
Great ormond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow the terminally ill baby to travel to america for experimental treatment. Thousands of people gather at an Opposition Event in istanbul to protest against the government of president erdogan. Hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of Mobile Phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. The government has described the situation as unacceptable. The church of englands ruling body, the general synod, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming transgender people and offering special Church Services for them. Now on bbc news, its time for The Travel Show. On this weeks travel show, were in a Surfing Community trying to hold back the tide of development on the chilean coast. Also coming up. We go looking for lost ships beaneath the canadian waves. We discover a novel way to make a cake in rural france. And our global guru, simon calder, tackles the biggest question in travel. Where next . Lets start
Great ormond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow the terminally ill baby to travel to america for experimental treatment. Thousands of people gather at an Opposition Event in istanbul to protest against the government of president erdogan. Hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of Mobile Phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. The government has described the situation as unacceptable. The church of englands ruling body, the general synod, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming transgender people and offering special Church Services for them. Now on bbc news, its time for The Travel Show. On this weeks travel show, were in a Surfing Community trying to hold back the tide of development on the chilean coast. Also coming up. We go looking for lost ships beaneath the canadian waves. We discover a novel way to make a cake in rural france. And our global guru, simon calder, tackles the biggest question in travel. Where next . Lets start
Great ormond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow the terminally ill baby to travel to america for experimental treatment. Thousands of people gather at an Opposition Event in istanbul to protest against the government of president erdogan. Hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of Mobile Phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. The government has described the situation as unacceptable. The church of englands ruling body, the general synod, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming transgender people and offering special Church Services for them. Now on bbc news, its time for The Travel Show. On this weeks travel show, were in a Surfing Community trying to hold back the tide of development on the chilean coast. Also coming up. We go looking for lost ships beaneath the canadian waves. We discover a novel way to make a cake in rural france. And our global guru, simon calder, tackles the biggest question in travel. Where next . Lets start
Bringing the near nine month battle for the city to an end. The Iraqi Military was made to fight for every street. Haider al abadi has been seen walking through mosuls streets, congratulating the troops alongside him. He was expected to make a speech, formally declaring victory, but that has not yet happened. A few hours ago, mr al abadi took to twitter to deliver the news. Iraqi Security Forces have been celebrating on the streets of mosul. Its three years since the Group Calling itself Islamic State seized control of iraqs second largest city. It still holds territory to the west and south of mosul. These images from the old city show the scale of the destruction. Earlier there were reports of continuing clashes, the so called Islamic State group still holds territory to the west and south of mosul. Our Correspondentjonathan Beale reports from the front line. What was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. Every building deeply scarred, or destroyed by months of war. We join