hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start in germany where soaring prices and an energy crisis have europe s biggest economy on the brink of recession. and bracing for possibly its highest inflation in 70 years this autumn. rocked by limited gas from russia and the expensive business of weaning themselves off kremlin supplies, germany s central bank has warned that the current squeeze on the cost of living is set to continue. now, the government has put in place measures to save energy with things like lighting restrictions on workplaces, and they ve been asking people to use less while filling up national gas reserves. but with reports people are using up their savings as wages fail to keep up with prices, there have been warnings of possible social unrest come the winter. so, the latest inflation figures are due out today. joining me now is holger schmieding, chief economist at the german private bank berenberg. so what can we expect? when it c
welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan. a third of the country is underwater that s according to the country s climate change minister, who called the devastation caused by extensive flooding a crisis of unimaginable proportions. at least a thousand people have been killed and 33 million are affected. that s one in every seven pakistanis. let us have a look. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected, but mountainous regions have also been badly hit. our correspondent pumza filhani sent this report. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was a narrow escape. translation: our houses have collapsed because of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now, all our belongings are buried under 12 to 13 feet of water. when i left with my children, i saw my house collapse. the rivers are swellin
within thejewish community. why is this war deepening jewish anxiety? rabbi pinchas goldschmidt in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. hi, stephen. thank you for inviting me to hardtalk. it s the second time with you. it s the second time and it s a pleasure to have you back on the show. things have changed since you were last talking to me there. you sit in jerusalem. you served as chief rabbi of moscow for, what, pretty much three decades. you made your life in russia and just a couple of months ago, you chose to leave. why? i went to sleep the 23rd of february in the evening in moscow, and i woke up in the morning in a different country. it was still moscow, but with different rules, with different laws. and ifelt. ..that the world is changing and. ..isaw. ..the bombs, bombing of kyiv. the new laws in russia cracking down on dissent. we saw that the remnant of any free media was closed down. ekho moskvy, the novaya gazeta and others. and. but this is only the beginning. intere
to the 19805 which was made famous by a true crime podcast. win charlie blackwell has called a scrub for today. mission aborted for now. nasa postpones its flight to the moon after engine problems on its huge artemis rocket stop the launch. they came so close. the countdown stopping at 0 40 minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend my from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 3am in pakistan, where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now damaged or destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. and the catastrophe isn t over water is still surging down the indus river and will flood the the low lying sind province even further over the next few days. latest reports say 45% of the country s cotton crop has been washed away. pumza fihlani reports. a moment of quiet
of its test flight to the moon. officials say a problem with the engine meant they had to scrub the un manned mission, just minutes before it could have blasted off. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are are sam lister, the political editor at the daily express, and the author and journalist, yasmin alibhai brown. thank you both for being with us tonight. the yorkshire post carries a warning from brewery bosses, who say thousands of pubs could shut down forever unless the government steps in to help as energy prices continue to rise. the metro issues the same warning last orders for pubs, is its headline. the guardian holds a message from senior conservatives, who say schools face closure chaos, with headteachers struggling to pay soaring energy bills. the front page also pictures the devastating floods in pakistan. as the country awaits the winner of the tory leadership contest, the i says the front runner liz tr