of choice, but i still use petrol. hybrids are available? indeed! it s like £1.69. but hybrids are available? indeed! it s like £1.69. but woe! hybrids are available? indeed! it s like £1.69. but woe! think- hybrids are available? indeed! it s like £1.69. but woe! thinkthey. like £1.69. but woe! think they don t drive that much, but some people will be hurting especially when they don t have the alternative of taking public transfer as i do. thus far people have been attacking the petrol companies like shell and bp for bolstering profits, they ve got so much money they don t know what to do with that, and that s why the chancellor and others are hinting at this idea of a windfall tax. people will now turn their ire as a result of this on the people at the forecourt, the people who say their margins are really timely. according to the rac research, the average margin for petrol was 9p a leader and 6p for diesel before rishi sunak s announcement where he cut the duty b
the british prime minister on a visit to northern ireland accepts that the political deadlock there is a result of his brexit deal. and a huge dust storm has covered parts of the middle east, resulting in the deaths of at least three people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine where it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol are reported to have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. more on that story as the information comes in. it is a developing story so we will be sure to bring you the latest right here on bbc news. meanwhile, ukraine says it has regained control of territory on the russian border near khark
and in another shooting in the us police say the suspect behind that mass shooting at a presbyterian church in california was a chinese american man motivated by hatred of taiwanese people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start with some breaking news from ukraine. it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. well i ve been speaking wtih vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring who explained the significance of these evacutations. this is very significant both to russia and ukraine coming into russia the completion of its huge project to seize the northern shore or the sea of as of, and thus failed a land route
Its crunch time in the nba. We are down to the final four teams, as the Conference Finals will be getting underway in the next few days. On wednesday, the Dallas Mavericks will travel to the Minnesota Timberwolves in game one of the western Conference Finals, but later on tuesday, the Boston Celtics will be hoping to get their Eastern Conference Finals off to a winning start over the indianna pacers. So far, its been reasonably plain sailing for the celtics on route to this point, but head Coachjoe Mazzulla is confident that his side are ready for their biggest challenge of the post season. If youre asking how well our team prepared, weve had a good couple days of practice and our guys focus on what it takes to give ourselves the best chance to win, knowing indiana is a good team, well balanced and dangerous. Weve had good days of preparation and our guys already to take on the challenge of playing indiana. They are a well balanced team, guys who can impact the game and thats the most
Good morning. It is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. For many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its tuesday 21st may. Rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the Infected Blood Scandal. Details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. Its been described as the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Yesterday a Public Inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Cheering and applause. A moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. Sir Brian Langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the Infected Blood Scandal. Outside, some of them reflected