slows in the uk for a second month in a row, but remains close to a ao year high. there is still a long way to go in the battle against inflation for families up and down the country who are seeing food price inflation of nearly 17% and that is causing a massive hike in the cost of the weekly shop. philippinejournalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa is cleared of tax evasion charges. in tennis defending men s champion rafa nadal is out of the australian open at the second round stage after defeat by american mackenzie mcdonald. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. officials in ukraine have told the bbc that the country s interior minister denys monastyrsky and his deputy are among at least 18 people who ve been killed in a helicopter crash in a suburb of kyiv. there were nine people including mr monastyrsky aboard the helicopter. some of those killed were on the ground. the regional governor said the aircraft came down near a kin
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this year. there you can see him. it s an extraordinary turn-around in the fortunes of hosni mubarak, from long-time iron-fisted ruler to inform, elderly defendant. he faces the death penalty if found guilty. cnn s mohammed jamjoom is in cairo and he joins us. what can you tell us about these developments? reporter: we can t stress enough just how historic this is. it s unprecedented a ruler like hosni mubarak, the deposed leader of egypt would be in that courtroom wearing a prisoner s uniform in a cage on a stretcher as a defendant. it s shocking to people here in egypt. many people we ve spoken with today just didn t believe they would actually get to this point. they believed the trial might be delayed, might be adjourned, that maybe hosni mubarak wouldn t be transferred from his hospital bed in sharm el sheikh. that all happened. we re outside the police academy, the venue for this court. there s about a thousand people, pro and anti-mubarak factions. there are anti-rio