and the rate of core inflation which strips out volatile items like food and fuel is actually going up. rising interest rates are piling the pressure on millions of mortgage borrowers here in the uk who are facing steep rises in monthly bills. the bbc has been hearing from some of them. rebecca from greater manchester, craig in cambridgeshire, and rose who lives in hampshire. just three homeowners out of hundreds of thousands of people facing a huge rise in their mortgage costs over the coming months. at this moment in time, at the end ofjune, i will make my final payment of £434 when my current deal ends, and thereafter i have been told to expect my payments will be over £1,800. i m currently paying £560 a month. at the end ofjuly, it will go on to variable and it will go up to £1,200 a month. 0ur mortgage has gone up by over £2,200 a year. - it s a huge impact on our- expenditure and has an impact on the family as a whole. rose has already been cutting costs on
story tonight, charles watson is live with the latest. charles. good evening. the man who the fbi infamously branded as the unit bomber has died in federal custody in north carolina according to a spokesperson for the federal bureau. he was 81 years old and was found inside his cell at the federal medical center in north carolina where he was housed. the federal bureau prison cell fox news and a statement responding staff immediately initiated lifesaving measures, staff requested emergency medical services and lifesaving efforts continue. he was transported by ems to a local hospital and pronounced deceased by hospital personnel. up until 2021 he was held in the super max prison for his role in a 17 year terror campaign targeting scientists at colleges and universities across the country including northwestern university and illinois where his first device exploded. he later admitted to committing 16 bombings and it would eventually kill at least three people and injured do
we start injapan, where the g7 summit is getting under way. leaders of seven of the world s most powerful democracies are gathering in hiroshima. you see these pictures here? that is the french president emmanuel macron who has just met the japanese prime minister kishida who has been welcoming everyone to the memorial piece garden there in hiroshima. this meeting is expected to get under way shortly but what the japanese prime minister has been doing is welcoming all the leaders of the g7 nations as they have been arriving just a moment ago. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau also arriving at this meeting. there is plenty on the agenda, we know the leaders will be discussing the war in ukraine for one, certainly china s presence in the region stop either has already been a flurry of news in the lead up to this summit,, a us official saying there would be new steps to economically isolate moscow and we can its ability to wage war. we are looking at the hiroshima memori
millions of people in the us and canada are spending christmas in the grip of a severe winter storm, which has brought extreme frost, heavy snow and strong winds. at least 33 people have died in weather related incidents and around 175 thousand homes are without power. our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports. a very white christmas has turned more into a deep freeze. the city of buffalo in new york state is used to tough weather conditions but this storm has left it paralysed. many don t even have any power to cook their christmas lunch. i m really glad that i have a fireplace because otherwise i d be freezing right now. 43 inches of snow fell here as of christmas morning. driving is banned as the blizzard conditions leave roads impassable, power substations frozen and at least seven people dead. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature and she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday and into friday, saturday and now