for not backing a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry to give vulnerable residents of high rise buildings personal fire evacuation plans. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we will have more news on that breaking story aboutjordan gatley, the former british soldier who has been killed fighting in eastern ukraine, from our correspondent in kyiv. we willjoin him injust we willjoin him in just a few moments. but first, aleading business group has told the bbc that households have been cutting back on spending because of the cost of living crisis, and will go into their own recession this year. tony danker, the director general of the confederation of british industry, says the government needs to take action. meanwhile, the competition regulator has promised to look into government concerns that the 5p cut in fuel duty is not being pas
it is unfair because of human rights, the equality act and the public sector equality duty, it is unfair to treat disabled people differently. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome to bbc news. a former british soldier has been killed fighting in ukraine, his family have announced. jordan gatley who left the british army in march died in the battle for the eastern city of severodonetsk, the scene of intense fighting in recent days. he s the second british man to die fighting russian forces in ukraine. i asked our correspondent in kyiv, joe inwood, what we know about mr gatley and how he died. we understand jordan gatley had been a british soldier, he left the army in march to come and fight in ukraine. according to his family he had been involved in training at the start of this but that had changed because he was in the city of severodonetsk which is very much the front
entrepreneur and youtube jamaal edwards says her son from cardiac arrhythmia after taking recreational drugs. a man who remained a member of the neo nazi equipped national action after it was banned in 2016 has been jailed action after it was banned in 2016 has beenjailed for eight action after it was banned in 2016 has been jailed for eight and a half years. good afternoon. tens of thousands of rail workers will stage three days of national rail strikes later this month, the rmt union has announced. it ll be the largest outbreak of industrial action in the industry in a generation and will shut down the entire rail network in england. with all the details i m joined by our correspondent, jon donnison. dramatic means. tell us more. the union said it would involve a many batch as many as 50,000 workers coming out for a strike in three days. that will be a 21st, the 23rd and the 25th ofjune. that gap in between each of them it s a tuesday, thursday and saturday. it s going to c
Warns that gaza is fast becoming a hellhole and is on the brink of collapse. These are live images. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Getting various live feeds from various locations the region. This is the picture of garzo, the skyline at there. We know within gaza people are on the move from north to south. However, the challenge of a Million People moving in and around gaza city in the north to the south is a huge potential task. Lets quickly show you our other live feeds. We have previously been seeing pictures from the west bank of people on the streets throwing stones. There have been objects being thrown and fires as you can see. There are reports of four people being shot. We are trying as we speak to establish more details on what has happened, just to be clear this is not in gaza, this is the west bank. And finally, these Life Pictures coming into us, this is yemen and you can see huge crowds on