hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the value of uk wages has fallen at the fastest rate since records began after taking into account the rising cost of living. household budgets are being squeezed by rising food, fuel and energy costs. average pay fell by 3% between april and june, when adjusted for inflation. that means prices are rising at an even faster rate, despite growth in regular pay excluding bonuses. meanwhile, job vacancies continued to increase, although the rate is slowing. the rise in the cost of living has prompted workers and unions across several industries to call for inflation matching pay rises with some, such as rail workers, going on strike. but the government claims the employment figures show the resilience of the uk economy. our business correspondent nina warhurst has more details on those uk job figures. average pay is growing faster than for 15 years but what is crucial at the moment, what everybody watching will
as they lose 4 0 to brentford in the premier league. us media outlets are reporting that the internationally acclaimed author salman rushdie, who was stabbed during a literary event in new york state, has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk. earlier the man accused of stabbing the author pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. hadi matar was formally charged in a court in new york state. he s been the subject of death threats ever since the publication in 1988 of his controversial book, the satanic verses, which some muslims considered blasphemous. this report from our correspondent nomia iqbal. sir salman rushdie remains on a ventilator inside this hospital after undergoing emergency surgery. his agent has said the author is in bad shape. he faces losing an eye, the nerves in one of his arms are severed and his liver is damaged. sir salman was flown here from the neighbouring state of new york. it was there at a literary event where the attack happene
tens of millions of households need that support, so i think that s the right approach. the uk s opposition labour party welcomes the move, but has criticised the government s response to the crisis, saying it called for a windfall tax on oil companies months ago. the chancellor, the prime minister were resisting it, and saying that it would deter investment, that it was un conservative, but it wouldn t raise enough money, but it would be silly to provide additional help. ukraine warns that russia s offensive in donbas could result in the region becoming uninhabited. a british health trust at the centre of concerns about avoidable deaths and injuries to babies has been told to make immediate improvements to its maternity services. it s been more than a0 years since abba s last tour, but they finally performed onstage again last night in digital form as abba tars. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. police in texas are facing criticism over th
Then my death is near. Please share this with whoever, and if possible, get it to the news if they are interested. The sending of the message containing the threat to kill the queen is the basis for count three. By the time he sent the video, the defendant must have been in the private part of the grounds of windsor castle. That is to say the area near the royal residence, rather than simply the grounds of windsor park. 0nly rather than simply the grounds of windsor park. Only four minutes later he surrendered himself to the Protection Officer as i have indicated. He was taken into police custody. He was examined by a nurse. He said he had had no Mental Health diagnosis. He did not consider himself to be suicidal. He did not want to kill himself but knew that he would die at the hands of others. He knew that his purpose was to kill the queen and then he would be killed. The nurse recommended that the defendant be detained under section 136 of the Mental Health act 1983, as a person who
An update on the Market Numbers for you heres how londons and frankfurt ended the day. And in the the United States this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. Just taking you back briefly to hamburg. This is theresa mays plane that has arrived on the runway there at hamburg airport. The Royal Air Force plane, it has been for a few minutes. No sign of the Prime Minister yet but pretty surely she will be coming down the steps there and joining the otherworldly users who have already arrived. Already there, he has been meeting angela merkel. The Prime Minister taking her time to get off that plane but the red carpet waiting for her and elsewhere in hamburg this evening we have been seeing demonstrations. These are live pictures of riot police with their White Helmets and early on were charging some of the protesters. Many of these protesters anti capitalist protesters. Welcome to hell was the name of one of the demonstrations. The police broke up a demonstration we were hearing ea