Higher savings for some. In the last half an hour, weve had this reaction to the rate rise from the chancellor, jeremy hunt. Well, of course any rise in Interest Rates is a worry for families with mortgages, for businesses with loans. But underneath that decision is a forecast that says that this time next year, inflation will be 2. 8 and we will have avoided recession. What the Bank Of England governor is saying is that we have a plan that is bringing down Inflation Lay solidly, robustly and consistently. So the plan is working but what we have to do as a government is make sure we stick to that plan and dont veer around like a shopping trolley. We stick to that plan so that families and businesses can start to feel the benefits of that plan actually working. So, jeremy hunt says the government is sticking to its plan. But this was the reaction from labours shadow chancellor, rachel reeves. The government need to take responsibility for the fact that inflation in the uk is much higher
revealed that it had been told that the cabinet office did not have access to some of the material it was being asked to provide. i will been told by the cabinet office they have been engaging with boris johnson about some of this material including today. borisjohnson spokesperson said this evening that more material has been headed over from borisjohnson to the cabinet office and that borisjohnson is now urging the cabinet office to hang that over to the inquiry. in short, i understand that there is some new material that the cabinet office has been given by borisjohnson this afternoon and that they now understand that all the material requested from them has been handed over to the cabinet office. i am still waiting to hear from the cabinet office if they now have all the material they had been engaging with boris johnson the material they had been engaging with borisjohnson over and whether they have all of the material the inquiry has requested of them. that being said,
of england s chances later in the summer. i saw you of england s chances later in the summer. isaw you peering of england s chances later in the summer. i saw you peering down at those names, for all of us, we are trying to catch up, what are your initial thoughts on that squad? my initial thoughts on that squad? ij i initial thoughts on that squad? m: initial thoughts on that squad? m; initial thoughts are very simple, they are released at the end of a video, so you have to be able to pause at the right moment to be able to get the screen that you have just been showing everybody. yes, this is the thing that everybody does to buy themselves some time as we digest themselves some time as we digest the news that has just broken, that sarina wiegman has named her 23 player squad for the women s world cup. no surprises with the three goalkeepers chosen by wiegman, after a potential third choice made himself unavailable for the competition. not too many surprises in defence, we k
his formal resignation is expected to be announced at some point today. the bbc understands the president s military jet has landed in male, the capital of the maldives. he had been in hiding after protestors stormed his residence on saturday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from colombo. many sri lankans feel that leaving is their only option, in a crisis defined by endless waits. hundreds queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east, like vasana, whose hoping she ll find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she s going because she s struggling to even get food and that s one of the reasons why she s trying to find work in kuwait. me, i m planning to go to uk. we don t see any future. so that s basically we want to move on this country for our kids, not for
you lowlife ukrainian. mona lisa with cream cake, a man is held after attempting to deface the world famous portrait in the louvre museum in paris. hello and welcome to the programme. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states, as they impose further sanctions against vladimir putin s government, over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports, immediately, at a summit in brussels, where hungary, heavily dependent on russian oil, resisted a full oil embargo. the european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant, for reasons of climate, as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward, what we did today, because indeed we now have gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe and we