a social gathering, that was clearly against the rules at the time. now, borisjohnson knows this and he knew this all along, and he s just trying to lie to the british public, and it seems like he s laughing at them now. any day now, the senior official sue gray will publish her report and its expected more images will be unveiled. we ll have more on the latest revelations and the new questions for the metropolitan police on the way they decided who should be fined. also tonight. nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, held in iran for six years on spying charges, says she was forced to sign a false confession before she could leave. the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the uk has reached 57, including the first case in scotland. and with a buggy at the ready, the queen was determined to visit the chelsea flower show in platinum jubilee year. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel: high fives all around, as raducanu battles back at roland garros to book her place in t
aimed at countering china s growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome. the united nations world food programme has described russia s blockade of ukrainian ports as a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor, faisal islam, reports. across the world, food and energy crisis are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. with russia s war in ukraine making the supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here and across part of the problem is that the natural response that should bring down energy orfood prices producing more
we start with the soaring cost of living because prices here in the uk are now rising at the fastest rate in a0 years. the annual rate of inflation hit 9% in april up from 7% in march, driven bya bigjump in energy bills. britain s finance minister, chancellor of the exchequer, rishi sunak is warning of tougher times ahead as pressure grows on him to take action. our economics editor faisal islam has more. when prices rise this fast it hits everyone, the fracture seen on every street, office and household in the country, including in lancashire. she recently ran her business, after the pandemic she finds money running out as bills get more expensive and even essential things become too expensive. essential things become too “pensive- expensive. gas and electric because i expensive. gas and electric because i got expensive. gas and electric because i got in expensive. gas and electric because i got in arrears - because i got in arrears because i got in arrears beca
stephanie rawlings blake, the former mayor of baltimore, and lord peter ricketts, the uk s former national security adviser. hello, welcome to the programme. borisjohnson will face no further action from the metropolitan police over the parties that were held in downing street while covid restrictions were in place. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, were both fined last month for breaking covid laws at a birthday party in the cabinet room injune 2020. in a lengthy statement, the met said they had issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices, fines to 83 men and women most of them understood to be civil servants who were at events on eight different dates between may 2020, at the height of lockdown, to april 2021. here s our political editor chris mason. it was not long before christmas that partygate was first exposed, and since january, officers here have been investigating it, investigating the prime minister and the government he runs and whether they abided b
shooting. ten people were killed when an 18-year-old white male opened fire at a super market in buffalo new york, largely african-american neighborhood. witnesses describing a scene that s horrifying and heartbreaking. police are calling the attack racially motivated. this was pure evil. it was straight up, racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. comining into our community and trying to inflict evil upon us. i urge everyone to stay calm, and we are there to protect the citizens of buffalo. the suspect has been charged with first degree murder. investigators revealed 180 page manifesto written by the shooter, peyton gendron. the suspect drove to buffalo wearing tactical gear. the news conference following the shooting, the mayor explains how the shooter came from outside the community to commit the crime. the shooter is not from this community, in fact, the shooter traveled hours from outside this community to perpetrate this crime on the