won t feature of members of the royal family. and beyonce has announced her first new tour in nearly seven years. there have been passionate appeals for us police reform at the funeral of tyre nichols, who died after being beaten by officers in memphis last month. speaking at the service, the us vice president, kamala harris, urged congress to pass a bill promoting police accountability. five policeman have been charged with murder in connection with the 29 year old s death. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger, as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man had been white, you wouldn t have beat him like that that night. applause. america s first black vice president demanding congress pass police reform legislation. and when we look at th
and winds of change. cloud computing, augmented reality, and 100km/h yachts! how sailgp hopes to get the video game generation on board. this we start with the cost of borrowing because it is on the rise again. in the next few hours the bank of england and the european central bank are both expected to increase their main interest rates by half a percentage point to their highest in m years as they battle to bring inflation under control. good news for savers of course, but piling more pressure on businesses and many people with loans and mortgages. for the bank of england, it would be the tenth rise in a row and would take the cost of borrowing to 4% its highest since 2008. on wednesday the us federal reserve announced a quarter percent increase a much smaller rise than in recent months. but its chair, jerome powell, warned that it would not be the last. as samira hussain in new york reports after in new york reports a year of aggressive rate increases after a year o
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila where there s been a big strategic development in the pacific rivalry between the us and china, with america sealing a deal to greatly increase its military presence in the philippines. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and in manila the agreement was signed off by the us defence secretary lloyd austin, after talks in the capital of the philippines. it represents a change in approach by president marcos. previous adminstrations tended to weaken their ties to washington. the deal gives the us access to four more military bases in the philippines, which will make a total of nine. neither country has said exactly where the new locations would be although it has been acknowledged that washington has requested access to bases on the northern land mass of luzon, the closest part of the philippines to taiwan, and on the island of palawan, facing
who s asking what s going on? the government offers this explanation. it s the legacy of covid and it s, of course, what putin is doing. but are ukraine and covid the full story? i think the uk is probably poorer than most people think. the system isn t producing like it should. that is the result - of choices we ve made. this is definitely not what normal looks like. this is what failure looks like. the government rejects talk of failure or decline, and it s true, britain is one of the richest countries in the world, but if that s the case, why do so many people feel so poor? cornwall is home to more than half a million people. it s where i grew up and where my parents still live. these days, cornwall relies on fishing, farming and, most of all, tourism. it s one of the most popular destinations in the country. it s also one of the poorest in the uk. cornish workers are among the uk s lowest paid. with rising food, housing, and energy prices, life has got harder in the last