temperatures across the uk rose with a level three alert, and some rider means the uk could be hosting next year s eurovision contest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more reliable service for passengers. usually 900 flights run a day, but it ll be 825 injuly, and 850 in august. it comes after the government and regulators wrote to airlines telling them to make sure their summer timetables were deliverable . the decision means thousands of people will have their holiday plans disrupted, as theo leggett reports. this is what airlines and airports want to avoid. over easter and around the jubilee holiday, hundreds of flights were cancelled. some while passengers were preparing to board. people want to travel, but staff shortages at airlines and ground handling companies have become a s
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
the killer s a apparent hit list. ukrainian capital was rocked by several large explosions in the past couple of hours. and this video comes out of kyiv today and the mayor says at least one person was hospitalized after missile strikes. military officials say ukrainian forces were able to shoot down a russian missile south of the capital and ukraine s state run nuclear power operation is accusing them of nuclear terrorism after they flew critically low over a plant in the south. weeks of nonstoprous shan shelling have not led to any major changes on the battlefield. counterattacks are likely blunting momentum donbas. ukraine s military claims to have retain half of the city of severdonetsk and russian troops continue to storm the city and they are all throwing the resources and reserves into the battle. also in the line of russian fire, a revered church went up in flames. the all-saints church which had recently been renovated was deliberately targeted by russian forces.
one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m isa soares in london. just ahead here is this what we want to protect or are we going to do our jobs and protect our children? the community of uvalde deserves answers. my plan is to address inflation, respect the fed. i think that i was wrong then. there have been up an tis participated and large shocks to the economy. trying to hustle and bustle many streets in shanghai after so long. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. warm welcome to everyone. it is wednesday june 1. and we begin in uvalde where the governor has now declared a state of disaster. a week after 21 innocent lives were cut short in that horrific school shooting. the declaration will accelerate state and local resources to assist of course the devastated community. meantime questions are mounting over the police response to the massacre, but officials say the incident commander duri