he scores! and, manchester city sail past bayern munich to reach the semi finals of the champions league. and coming up on bbc news, kyren wilson scores the first 147 break of this years world snooker championship in sheffield. but is it enough for a place in round two? good evening. the unrelenting pressure on household budgets has been demonstrated by the latest inflation figures, which showed a very sharp rise in the cost of food and soft drinks, pushing the cost of living even higher. inflation remained in double digits last month, falling only slightly to 10.1% in march. that s down from 10.4% in february, but experts had predicted a biggerfall. more expensive bread, cereals and chocolate caused the overall average price of food and non alcoholic drinks to increase by a rather hefty 19% in the year to march the fastest annual rate for nearly half a century. economists say it s now far more likely that the bank of england will raise its base interest rate next month, a
payloads with final information on the capabilities. todd: alexandria hoff joins us with the latest, alex. todd, ashley, good morning. the payload where the evidence was found, the fbi official says that remains underwater. what has been recovered at this point the wiring and small electronics. the u.s. officials believe the u.s. surveillance within tan is the intercept and listen in on american conversations. according to the pentagon for we know the people s republic of china gives these balloons for surveillance. high-resolution imagery the fly altitude balloons with intelligence operations. senates briefing, jon tester pushed for answers from the biden administration. i want to know if we knew what the chinese were trying to collect with that balloon come up with that reconnaissance ballooned. senator, thank you for the question. what we can probably get into details and a classified setting. you can say yes or no. you don t have to get into specifics, do we kno
measures ahead of his visit to el paso this weekend. before he travels, it appears the needs to study up on specifics. we re going to have to use title nine title eight am i right? we begin in washington where 11 rounds of votes over three days, the house of representativeses have failed to elect a speaker. a deal might be coming to move more support to kevin mccarthy. kevin cork is live in d.c. with the latest on this. good evening, kevin. the house has gavelled out tonight and will come back again friday at noon. as it stands, the majority of republicans, some 200 of them, want kevin mccarthy to become the speaker of the house. the other 20 have backed everyone from florida republican byron donalds to even former donald trump. they don t seem to be budging. this isn t chaos. this is a constitutional republic at work. i m a mom of four boys. i know what chaos and dysfunction looks like. mccarthy, meanwhile, said all he needs to do is flip at least 11 votes. ton
people. inflation, crime, bordeinflr. all fitt security, all fitting into an these four categories. number one , an economy strong ,a nation that s safe , a future that s built on freedom and a government that s accountables. here s the republican leadership today. they control the house, contsenate, the white house. they control the committees.itt, they control the agencies. it s their plan, but they have f no plan to fix all the problems they created. be hope, there can be hope. there can be opportunity so that wheunity so n you wake up, it s not just to go to work for yourself, it s to go to work. se to make sure your kids can havee a better future. in and there s nowhere else inity the world where that moms an opportunity exists. moms and dads across this cocountry, they know that parens are the primary stakeholders ins our kids education, which is why we will pass a parent pas bill of rights. now, comparspe thateed with president biden palling around today wi
marilyn monroe, blonde bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn poor marilyn, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time. and she was very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered. they re funny. they re tender. they re human. they feel modern. bingo. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. she was a businesswoman. what a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s actually rather frustrating that people can t