i loved gymnastics when i started. i had a real passion for it, and my coach and the culture within the gym was just. it was horrible. and a month after mcdonald s pulled out of russia because of ukraine, a homegrown version opens called tasty and that s it. good evening. days after the cost of filling an average family car hit a record £100, ministers have sought an urgent review into whether the government s 5 pence cut in fuel duty, introduced in the spring, is being passed on in full to drivers. as the cost of energy, food and fuel spirals upwards, the competition and markets authority is to examine the fuel market for local variations in petrol and diesel prices. it comes at the start of a busy week for the government, with new post brexit legislation set to dominate the agenda. more on that in a moment, but first here s our political correspondent helen catt. the cost of filling up has been going up, and up. this week, the cost of a full tank for an average family car
Putin is bluffing this war by putting his entire economy onto a war footing in a way that isnt sustainable for russia over the years he would have to continue it for. Its important that the west does not blink. When you see what has happened in kharkiv, the second biggest city in ukraine, it is because, im afraid, the civilised world took their eyes off the ball just for a little while, we saw how long it took to get that package through the us congress because of internal politics there, and this is the actual upshot, this you are blaming the us, then. Im not blaming them but the internal politics meant that the money did not flow in the way that in the uk were giving consistent amounts of money, then we increased it again, added an extra half a billion so we are giving them 3 billion this year, plus different packages. It is important that support is consistent because if you stop these are the problems you see. At the moment it is some villages on the outskirts of kharkiv, and it is
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Several israelis injured, at least one critically. The wounded evacuated to hospital. The Israeli Military showed this drone footage. Ten projectiles fired before the Israeli Air Force destroyed the launcher. America and britain had been urging israel to open this crossing to aid. For now, its shut again. Today, israels embattled Prime Minister reacted to hamas s demands for a permanent cease fire and an israeli withdrawal from gaza. The state of israel is not willing to accept this, he said. Capitulating to hamas s demands would be a terrible defeat for israel. This afternoon, Israeli Police raided the offices of the tv channel aljazeera within hours of a unanimous cabinet decision to shut down its operations in israel. If youre watching this prerecorded report, then aljazeera has been banned in the territory of israel. The government accused it of being a mouthpiece for hamas. Its Regional Bureau chief called this a dangerous decision. Israel cant claim all the time that it is a demo
most of all, they need to be convinced. to vote for it because change doesn t happen unless you vote for it. labour s leader, sir keir starmer, has been rallying his party at an event in london this evening. there is a buzz within labour, confident but terrified of complacency, too far ahead in the opinion polls, but knowing it still needs to mobilize the party s voters. rishi sunak has been on the stump tonight too, at a temple in west london. the conservatives have spent the last few weeks defending the seats they currently hold, and warning voters not to risk a change of government. education, hard work, family. those are my values. those are your values. those are conservative values. still having more fun than any other leader on the campaign trail, the liberal democrats ed davey began his final tour of the country in scotland. we re here to win as many seats as we can, because if we have lots of liberal democrat mps in the next parliament, we will be able to get changes