conscription to deter vladimir putin. time for a look at the business news now with egon cossou. we start in the uk where the government has unveiled how much companies will have to pay to import certain food from the eu. small imports of things like fish, salami and cheese will attract fees of up to £145 from the end of this month. earlier i spoke to phil pluck. he s the boss of the cold chain federation which represents companies working in the temperature controlled supply chain. i asked him about the impact on food prices. i think it s almost guaranteed to have a negative impact on food prices. food inflation is bound to be affected by the extra cost of administration due to the new food import regulations which are coming in on the 30th of april. so there are two obvious costs. the first cost is actually to the importer, the food producer in europe, they will have to pay for something called an export health certificate issued by a vet to say that their food produce
and something that the wta can point to as they try and bring about this goal of equal prize money. but the wta chief executive knows that there will be criticism in some quarters, although the players have either been supportive or not spoken out against it for the most part. he knows he will have to justify his decision and his argument is that by going to riyadh, tennis is supporting growth and improvement and change across the region. staying with tennis news. third seeded dan evans is out of the atp tour event in marrakech. the british player and world number 42 was beaten in straight sets by the defending champion roberto carballes baena. the spaniard moves into the quarterfinals. rafael nadal has withdrawn from the upcoming monte carlo masters where the 22 time grand slam winner was expected to make his atp tour comeback. writing on the social media platform x, nadal said, unfortu nately i have to tell you that i am not going to be playing in monte carlo. my body si
has been found guilty of her murder, after nearly two decades and an internationl manhunt. piran ditta khan, who s 75, fled to pakistan shortly after pc beshenivsky and a colleague were shot when they interrupted an armed raid on a travel agents. emergency workers in taiwan say around seven hundred people remain trapped in buildings and road tunnels after yesterday s powerful earthquake on the island s east coast. nine people were killed, and more than a thousand injured. the epicentre of the magnitude seven point four quake was the strongest to hit the country for 25 years. president biden has told the israeli leader that future us support depends on israel s immediate steps to reduce civilian harm and ensure the safety of aid workers in gaza. this is president biden on his call to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. here s secretary of state anthony blinken
mr biden said that while those deaths lead to a debate here in the uk whether the government should suspend arms sales to israel. more than 600 legal experts, in fact, have written to the prime minister, rishi sunak, saying exports must end because the uk risks breaking international law. earlier we spoke to one of the signitaries of this letter, he says that patients for western allies with israel does appear to be running out. we allies with israel does appear to be running out- allies with israel does appear to be runnin out. . ., , . . . running out. we have seen a gradual tou~~henin running out. we have seen a gradual toughening of running out. we have seen a gradual toughening of the running out. we have seen a gradual toughening of the rhetoric running out. we have seen a gradual toughening of the rhetoric and - toughening of the rhetoric and public toughening of the rhetoric and public and toughening of the messages in private both from washington and from lond
speaking to someone who knows who i am, and i m trying desperately not to come across as rude. the messages continue. the former mp then replies, asking who it is he s talking to. charlie falsely says he used to work in the office of another mp. he later sends a sexually explicit image, and the former mp blocks the number. the questions now are how widespread this is, who is behind it and whether the attackers got hold of any useful information. we ve seen another series of messages sent to a political journalist from the same number and following a similar pattern. according to the website politico, which first reported the claims, at least 12 people with connections to westminster have been targeted. this wasn tjust, as i d thought, someone being stupid and doing something that they d regret the next day. maybe this is something more sinister than that, potentially malicious. we tried to call the number associated with the messages, but nobody picked up. a parliamentary spo