to the foreign office. the foreign office has long condemned the exploitation of british civilians and prisoners of war being held by pro russian forces in ukraine, but the kremlin sees them as diplomatic pawns who can be used to put pressure on the west, and officials here don t expect that strategy to change soon. james landale, bbc news, at the foreign office. everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a covid booster vaccine this autumn to top up their immunity. the announcement comes amid a continuing rise of covid cases across the uk, with some parts of the country nearing the record levels seen during the spring. our health editor hugh pym has all the details. yes, reeta, there was confirmation of those groups who are set to get another covid boosterjab in the autumn, including those more vulnerable who were offered a fourth dose in the spring. now they will qualify for a fifth. health experts say everyone aged 50 and over should be offered a booster in the autumn. prev
ship. look at your screen, biden earlier today in israel as tucker just showed you, literally appearing to not even know where to sit down here and where do i sit down, what do i do? let me say hello, let me shake the hand of the air. hello, error it s not the first time we see this. and once again appearing totally disoriented thank goodness, the israeli prime minister helping him, dazed and confused. these latest struggles come as biden s agenda is imploding here at home because, yes, it was yet another day with another bad, horrific batch of bad economic news for the biden economy. this is on top of yesterday s you know, for biden this was his 41 plus year record high inflation, 9.1%. today we learned that wholesale inflation, just the measure of inflation before it gets to you at the retail level, consumers, is surging even more, a whopping 11.3%. that is nearly the highest number ever. yet another painful reminder of the failures of this far left disastrous, destruct
including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people s republic of korea. warnings from doctors that monkeypox could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. australia goes to the polls in an election pitting two political veterans for the country s top job. and could this be the first of a record breaking heatwave across europe? hello and welcome if you are watching here in the uk or around the world. relations were already difficult after finland applied tojoin nato prompted by the war in ukraine. now moscow has taken action against its neighbour over energy supplies. russia s energy giant, gazprom has switched off gas deliveries it says finland is refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. meanwhile, the british foreign secretary has said she wants to see ukraine s neighbour moldova armed with nato standard military equipment, to guard it against potential russian aggression. in ukraine itself, russian forces are int
And theres no catch, its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan with john berman in new york, and sara sidner is in jerusalem, and this morning the number of people taken hostage by hamas is being raised to 222. And sources say that the u. S. Is asking israel to delay a Ground Incursion into gaza to allow more time to get these hose tajs o hostages out. And nevertheless, there is a huge build up of Military Armor stationed around the enclave, and israeli sources say they are preparing for Ground Assaults even as it has conducted more intensified ache strikes overnight. Our Nic Robertson who is stationed here in sderot says it is some of the most intense shelling that he has seen into gaza for some time. We go right to sara sidner who is here in tel aviv, and Nic Robertson is right there in sderot. Yes. I have come over to jerus