At the emirates. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Downing street has described as unacceptable remarks alleged to have been made by one of the conservative partys biggest donors about the mp, diane abbott, during a Business Meeting in 2019. The guardian claims that frank hester said ms abbott made him want to hate All Black Women and that she should be shot. This morning diane abbott has called the alleged comments frightening. Mr hester has admitted making comments about her which he described as rude, but his spokesperson has said this is not a confirmation of the quotes in the guardian. Henry zeffman has the story. Some people who give millions to Political Parties have high public profile is. Frank hester didnt. Until now. This is what the guardian says mr hester told staff at the Health Care Software company he built from scratch at a meeting back in 2019. Its like trying not to be racist, but you see diane abbott on the tv and you just want to hate All Black Wom
Thats slightly higher than expected and driven mainly by higher costs for gasoline and rents. In the 12 months up to february, the cpi rate increased by 3. 2 , compared to 3. 1 injanuary. The core rate, stripping out those volatile elements such as fuel and rents, fell to 3. 8 from 3. 9 injanuary, but that was still higher than the 3. 7 expected. This latest data suggests there is still some stickiness with inflation that will be scrutinised by the Federal Reserve as it weighs up a highly anticipated Interest Rate cut injune. Lets head over to new york and speak to our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. As far as the fed is concerned, it is about how they respond to this number. It is not going in the direction they wanted it to. The tricky word direction they wanted it to. The tricky word that direction they wanted it to. Tue tricky word that you direction they wanted it to. Tte tricky word that you were stumbling over, sticky, and a lot of this is to do with housin
We have a Special Report to start the programme. We have a Special Report to start the programme. The bbc has seen evidence that doctors, nurses and other Hospital Staff were detained, beaten and prevented from carrying out vital medical duties when Israeli Forces overran the Nasser Hospital In Gaza last month. Weve also heard accusations that some detainees were stripped and kept in Stress Positions for several hours. Israel said it occupied nasser believing it was used by hamas and several released israeli hostages have said they were held there. Wyre davies reports and a warning, you might find some parts of his report distressing. Not for the first time in this war, Israeli Soldiers have been filmed standing over stripped and kneeling detainees in gaza. But these are medical staff, detained after the israeli army overran the nasser hospital in khan yunis. Most of them are still held captive. For weeks, the medics had witnessed israels military advance closing in around their hospit
that raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from today s pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato s strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. success. a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can t say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president s biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. and pose a reasonable threat to the sa
destroyed. nobody picked up the phone in that instance. john? lucas tom lion son. analysis retired general keith kellogg. former then will vice president mike pence. biden gave them the authorization to shoot it down. a lot different than they treated the first one that came by. significantly different. this is what is amazing to me when they talk about object. getting it shot down. the first report in war is always wrong. what s going to happen? where is this going in the fact that they used the term object. they didn t use weather balloon or something similar. and when you think about okay. were they a drone doesn t fly that high. can t get up to that altitude about 35 though. weather balloons generally travel 60,000 feet or higher. so you have got something in between. so what exactly do you have? do you have a weather balloon that didn t get to altitude or do you have a new drone out there gone to that altitude.