they are not eating well. the us central bank announces the biggest rise in us interest rates in nearly 30 years to combat surging inflation. and spain, southern france, and parts of italy swelter through an extreme heatwave. authorities are warning of water shortages. hello and welcome to the programmable to have you with us. new us aid for ukraine worth a billion dollars has been announced by president biden. it includes additional artillery and coastal defence weapons, as well as ammunition for artillery and advanced rocket systems. new pledges came from nato members who met in brussels, the us defence secretary said he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs to combat russia s invasion. here s a little of what lloyd austin had to say. we can t afford to let up, and we can t lose steam. the stakes are too high. ukraine is facing a pivotal moment on the battlefield. and we re seeing what president zelensky warned us about. after failing to tak
reserve to combat surging inflation. rising prices are continuing to hit president biden s poll ratings. now on bbc news, click. this week, how a digital dolphin can help restore body and brain. i never imagined intense rehab to be games. up the reds! and then the blues, and the greens omar s using light therapy to sharpen his shooting. 0h! that was legit. i m sure it was, i m sure it was. and the tiktoker astronaut asking the big questions from the final frontier. what would the moon taste like? maybe the moon would taste like almonds. hey, welcome, welcome, i hope you are well. now it s often said we don t appreciate our health until we lose it. and if someone suffers a life changing injury, it might be necessary for them to retrain their brain to learn how to use their body again, maybe in a different way than before. there s a new idea called neuro animation, which is like gaming for brain repair. it s an immersive, emotional, and we are told enjoyable style of therapy,
eating. the us central bank announces the biggest rise in us interest rates in nearly 30 years to combat surging inflation. and spain, southern france, and parts of italy swelter through an extreme heatwave: authorities are warning of water shortages. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. new us aid for ukraine worth a billion dollars has been announced by president biden. it includes additional artillery and coastal defence weapons, as well as ammunition for artillery and advanced rocket systems. new pledges came from nato members who met in brussels. the us defense secretary said he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs to combat russia s invasion. here s a little of what lloyd austin had to say. we can t afford to let up, and we can t lose steam. the stakes are too high. ukraine is facing a pivotal moment on the battlefield. and we re seeing what president zelensky warned us about. after failing to take kyiv and rea
rising prices are continuing to hit president biden s poll ratings. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. russia s invasion of ukraine has raised anxiety levels across eastern europe, nowhere more so than moldova. this former outpost of the soviet empire shares a border with ukraine. it also hosts a pro moscow breakaway territory. it is poor, beset with corruption, and it could ultimately be in vladimir putin s sights. my guest is nicu popescu, moldova s foreign minister and deputy pm. how can moldova best protect itself? nicu popescu, in chisinau, welcome to hardtalk. it s good talking to you, stephen, hello. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. now, mr deputy prime minister, you ve had more than 100 days of observing vladimir putin s invasion strategy in ukraine. right now, do you fear that putin represents a threat to moldova, too? i think this war is making every single person living on the european continent not only feel the insecurity
this is bbc news, the headlines: the united states has announced a new package of military aid to ukraine worth $1 billion and urged allies to provide more weapons to help kyiv. the aid includes artillery, ammunition and advanced rocket systems. new pledges have also come from nato members meeting in brussels. police in brazil searching for the bodies of two men, a britishjournalist dom phillips and a brazilian expert on indigenous people, bruno pereira, have found human remains. detectives in the city of manaus, in the amazon, said a suspect has confessed to killing the two men. the us central bank has announced its biggest rise in interest rates since 1994. the three quarters of a percentage point increase is an attempt by the federal reserve to combat surging inflation.