here is the news from karishma patel. the government says it s taking action to tackle teenage vaping in england. the prime minister has pledged to close a loophole which allows retailers to give children free samples even though it is illegal to sell to them. russia has accused ukraine of launching drone attacks on moscow. the defence ministry says eight drones reach the capital. officials report minor damage to buildings on the strong swallow overnight attack on kyiv in which one person are said to have been killed. the government has until this afternoon to hand over more documents from boris johnson relating to the covid inquiry orface johnson relating to the covid inquiry or face prosecution. johnson relating to the covid inquiry orface prosecution. the inquiry orface prosecution. the inquiry wants to see unredacted messages but the cabinet office says some of the material demanded is irrelevant. a former top chinese government scientist has told the bbc the possibility
by stating he d already given the cabinet office all relevant material. here s our political correspondent ben wright our political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster. whether all the documentation as for has been handed over yet. do we know yet? an hour after that deadline we still haven t heard from the government or the inquiry itself as to whether any of the documents ask for have been handed over. so, we are still in a bit of a waiting game to understand whether the deadline was met or not. just to recap, for viewers about this. the covert inquiry is the big inquiry been doing and lots of work behind the scenes. it hasn t held public hearings yet but is has been after official records from the government as part of its work and it does ask for borisjohnson what s up messages and diaries during the course of the pandemic during the course of 2020 and 2022. in order to be able to assess the governments handling of the endemic. the cabinet office has resisted the
i m sally bundock and we start here in the uk where in the next few hours the latest inflation numbers will be released and its widely anticipated the news will be good with prices coming down. the bank of england says it expects inflation to fall sharply in april . this follows an upgrade from the international monetary fund for the uk economy. it says we should avoid a recession this year but the imf is warning inflation remains stubbornly high and higher interest rates will need to remain in place if it is to be brought down. so where are we at? if we look at february inflation measured as consumer prices stood at 10.4%. the soaring cost of food and energy being the key drivers. it then fell slightly to 10.1% in march. this was a surprise as a much biggerfall was predicted and rang alarms bells with concerns of sticky inflation that proves difficult to reduce. bells with concerns inflation is proving very sticky. difficult to bring down. and helps low prices with th
things for ourselves. what do you think? is limiting foreign labour about embracing opportunities and spirit as brexit, as the home secretary will say? that brexit enables us to build a high skilled economy that is less dependent on foreign labour, or is this cutting is on the national nose to spite the national face? does the uk need to reduce its reliance on foreign workers? are british workers ready and willing to fill the gap? our british workersjust our british workers just as good? do we need foreign labour? get in touch. here is the news. the uk is set to give more monetary support to ukraine, including air defence missiles and drones. downing street made the announcement as president zelensky arrived for talks with rishi sunak. senior doctors in england are voting on whether to strike. their union, the british medical association, said pay talks with the government ended on saturday, with the final offer it called unacceptable. the government urged to bma to consider
on all the preperation and plans for the day. hello, i m lukwesa burak. ukraine s president zelensky is visiting the hague where he s just given an impassioned speech, calling for president putin to be sentenced for his criminal actions over the invasion of ukraine. earlier, he visited the international criminal court in the hague for talks with court officials. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. before we listen in to what he had to say i m just going to show you the residence of the dutch minister, mark rutte, and we also heard from the deputy prime minister speaking earlier, introducing president zelensky. also the minister of foreign affairs. mr zelensky has been speaking to a number of key officials while he is at the hague, both within the icc and also dutch ministers. this is margretheofficial residence you can see here. mark bridger. these visits will continue thro