stonehenge this morning. thousands still celebrating the first sunrise following the solstice. while the sun stays here all day long, for some in the west there is change in the way. details on breakfast. good morning. it s friday, the 21st ofjune. lindsey burrow has told bbc breakfast that her husband rob made the world a better place to be. speaking for the first time since his death three weeks ago, she also revealed that rob left personal messages for their children, which she s not yet ready to hear. john maguire reports. rob and lindsey burrow married in 2006, having first met as teenagers. hello, girls. how was your day at school, my little princesses? since his diagnosis with motor neurone disease four and a half years ago, they faced the condition together as a couple and as a family. i couldn t put into wordsjust how proud i am of rob. i think he wasjust such an inspiration to so many people. he was the face of the mnd community for so many people and gave so many p
live now to professor tim benton, research director, environment and society centre. thank you very much forjoining us today, tim. lots of things of course influence the price we end up paying for ourfood, things like transport, wages and supermarkets. are the increases that we are seeing in the costs of food commodities being passed on to consumers in foal, orare being passed on to consumers in foal, or are they being absorbed, at least in some parts, in the supply chain? to a parts, in the supply chain? trr a certain extent, both. if you think back to our current period of inflation, where we ve had, post ukraine, post pandemic, a global cost of living crisis. sorry, i m getting a lot of feedback, i m getting a lot of feedback, i can t hear myself. thank you. global cost of living crisis, some of that is being driven by environmental effects, some of it being driven by politics, but as climate change increasingly bites, we are going to get a lot more pressure on everyday co
welcome to hardtalk. thank you. the recent indian election, it was a result which nobody really expected. your party, the congress party, did better than the polls had suggested it would. many in your party expressed contentment, evenjoy. and yet you still lost. isn t that the key point? that is true. but i think the expectation from the ruling dispensation, a lot of the popular mainstream media was that the propaganda will suffice and people will give a bigger majority to the ruling party. what really happened was, this was a vote by the people to check what we thought were excesses by the government, and the congress party and our allies together have done remarkably well, compared to last time. if you look at the numbers, the ruling party has 290 odd mps and we have 240 odd. so it s not that much of a gap. but more than that, it shows the robustness of our democracy, and the way people have voted is that issues that are important to the people is what finally matters. sure