nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
declared in five regions, including auckland, as strong winds and heavy rain have brought down trees and damaged power lines. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. the cities that went to sleep for the pandemic are waking up, but how much are the world s great metropolises bouncing back and can they ever get back to where they were? with hybrid and remote working still in place in much of the world, what is the impact on our great cities, their restaurants, economies and property prices? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. dr megan walters, global head of research at allianz real estate, and julian metcalfe, the big boss of the asian food chain itsu. plus, i sit down with yuriko koike, the governor of tokyo, to get her view on how one of the world s great capitals is faring after the olympics and the pandemic. and if that wasn
now on bbc news, talking business hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. the cities that went to sleep for the pandemic are waking up, but how much are the world s great metropolises bouncing back and can they ever get back to where they were? with hybrid and remote working still in place in much of the world, what is the impact on our great cities, their restaurants, economies and property prices? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are. dr megan walters, global head of research at allianz real estate, and julian metcalfe, the big boss of the asian food chain itsu. plus, i sit down with yuriko koike, the governor of tokyo to get her view on how one of the world s great capitals is faring after the olympics and the pandemic. and if that wasn t enough, we ve got the global boss of christie s who talks dealing with antiques, technology and real people i
warnings that could persist right through the weekend, severe storm, even tornado type the possibilities. rick reichmuth following all of that. are rick, what are we looking at? rick: rolling fork is really the first town to get hit by this. they don t have any cell service. a lot of the cell towers have been taken offline, so it s the hard to get any communication in and out, we re having a hard time getting reporters to be able to talk to us about exactly what they re seeing. this is a look at the storms. this one right here, that s the path of what was likely the strongest of the storms last night, and you see touching ground just to the east of the mississippi river about 4 or 5 miles east, that s where that town is, rolling fork, and watch that line of storms. that one tornado probably on the ground maybe up to the about 100 miles or so. now they ll go out and investigate that today, as they re doing that, weather good. 9 all the search and rescue efforts that are going