and making a splash the olympians who ve joined forces with campaigners trying to stop pools and leisure centres closing because of soaring energy bills. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, we ll get the latest from bristol as the england lionesses look to extend their winning run in the deciding match at the arnold clark cup. good evening. welcome to the bbc news at six. the uk s biggest retailer, tesco, has become the latest supermarket to impose limits on the sale of some fruit and vegetables. customers will not be allowed to buy more than three peppers, cucumbers or packs of tomatoes, for example. aldi is also introducing limits. asda and morrisons did the same yesterday. the shortages are being blamed partly on temporary supply challenges because of adverse weather conditions abroad. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. if you ve been to the supermarket, chances are you ll have seen this. a shortage of tomatoes, cucumbers and s
also tonight within the past hour, an off duty police officer has been shot in the town of omagh, county tyrone. shamima begum, who fled the uk tojoin islamic state when she was 15, has failed to regain her british citizenship. another big supermarket limits sales of some fruit and vegetables extreme weather is blamed for damaging harvests abroad. and. tonight, the winning streak and coming up on the bbc news channel chasing the biggest prize the club s yet to win. can manchester city edge closer to the quarter finals of the champions league? good evening. ahead of the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine, president putin has put on a show of outright defiance. addressing a crowd of tens of thousands in moscow, insisting that his decision to launch military action was entirelyjustified to protect russia s security. mr putin went on to stress that the cooperation between china and russia on the world stage is very important to stabilise the international
occupation on the western bank occupation on the shamima begum, who fled the uk tojoin islamic state when she was 15, has failed to regain her british citizenship. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president putin has been addressing crowds filling moscow s main stadium for a patriotic gala concert to mark one year of russia s invasion of ukraine. he insisted that his decision to launch military action was entirelyjustified to protect russia s security. mr putin went on to stress that the cooperation between china and russia on the world stage is very important to stabilise the international situation. our russia editor steve rosenberg in moscow. to russia s largest football stadium they came in their tens of thousands, not to cheer on their team, but to support their president. from colleges, factories and state enterprises, they had been bussed in specially for a kremlin show, designed to sho
world steel production is now dominated by china, which produced a billion tonnes of steel last year, with the uk producing less than 1% of that, atjust six million tonnes. steel industry bodies say energy costs are 60% higher here than in germany, for example, and that means the uk just can t compete. unless government absolutely addresses this problem, then we won t have that competitive business landscape in the uk and, therefore, it doesn t take a rocket scientist to work out that we ll be priced out of the market. the government said today s news was disappointing given negotiations are ongoing to provide british steel and port talbot owners tata with around £300 million each in support. but those offers are conditional on long term job guarantees and are tied to decarbonisation goals the firm say will cost billions. they haven t proved enough to stop jobs leaving this site today. simonjack, bbc news, scunthorpe.
wants to preserve. but recently, the new business secretary said it wasn t a given that the uk needed a domestic steel making industry, which is sending alarm bells ringing here in scunthorpe and at port talbot in south wales. uk steel production has been steadily falling over decades and our output is now less than a quarter of what it was 50 years ago. world steel production is now dominated by china, which produced a billion tonnes of steel last year, with the uk producing less than 1% of that, atjust six million tonnes. steel industry bodies say energy costs are 60% higher here than in germany, for example, and that means the uk just can t compete. unless government absolutely addresses this problem, then we won t have that competitive business landscape in the uk and therefore it doesn t take a rocket scientist to work out that we ll be priced out of the market. the government said today s news was disappointing given negotiations are ongoing to provide british steel and port talb