the un warns that global food shortages and mass hunger in poorer countries could follow russia s invasion of ukraine. soul legend diana ross, queen and duran duran are among the star studded line up for the queen s platinum jubilee concert. and, we will meet the couple who have won £181; million on the euro millions lottery. britain s biggest ever lottery win. they go public with a press conference in just over half an hour. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ministers are facing growing calls to bring forward large increases in benefits and the state pension which will be paid from next april. charities say they want benefits to increase now to help people. last night the chancellor rushi sunak warned the next few months will tough, as he spoke to business leaders. inflation to business leaders. in the uk has hit a a0 year inflation in the uk has hit a a0 year high of 9%. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake reports. thank you. high
Concerned parents, children and teachers are and i want to start by assuring them that the government is doing everything it can to fix this quickly and minimise the disruption to childrens education. We make no apology for acting decisively in the face of new information and let me provide the house with an update on where we are. Of the 22,000 schools in england, the vast, vast majority wont be affected. In fact, in two thirds of inspections of suspected schools, raac is not actually present. And to tackle the 1 of schools that have been affected so far, the 1 , we are assigning each of those schools a dedicated caseworker and providing extra funding to fix the problem. In the majority of cases, children will attend school as normal and the mitigations take typically just days or weeks to complete. We will do everything we can to help parents, support teachers, and get children back to Normal School life as quickly as possible. Lets listen to what the Leader Of The Labour Party had t
And is expected to meet National Security adviserjake sullivan. Blinken told the Un Security Council on tuesday that he would work with the Chinese Foreign minister to prevent the middle east conflict from spreading. But talks with china are also expected to focus on trying to resolve disagreements on other issues, including trade. Earlier this week, beijing restricted the exports of graphite, of which it produces 90 of the worlds supply. Graphite is a Critical Metal used in many products including electric cars. The us responded by advising its top tech firms which included nvidia to stop exporting some of their latest ai products to china. Soaring demand for its chips has driven nvidias share price up by more than 200 over the past year, with china being its leading buyer. Joining me now is rory green, chief china economist, and head of asia research, at ts lombard. Thanks for being with us today. What you expect to come out of these talks . ,. ,. , you expect to come out of these ta
Dozen ges of conservative mps now joined by one of the biggest tory beasts of all. Housing secretary michael gove. Handshakes and hugs in parliament tonight, as more and more mps bid farewell, and Andrea Leadsom the latest big beast to go. We hearfrom our election panel. And live from a Sunak Loyalist who is standing. Labours ahead in the polls but is there danger from the left, asJeremy Corbyn says hell stand against the party he led . We talk to a member of the Shadow Cabinet. Also tonight. With policing being stretched now more than ever, could live facial recognition help . And what impact could it have on people who get misidentified . Im just focussed on, you know, getting through. And then all of a sudden thats when i felt the nudge on the shoulder, saying, oh, at that time im wanted. You could call it the big goodbye, the Great Resignation perhaps a giant surrender even. Tonight, as parliament is prorogued, the number of conservative mps standing down continues to grow. Joe pik