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 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 take kyiv and reasses
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
certainly he had the boos there. earlier this year police fined johnson for attending his birthday party in 2020 when fe fellow brittains were stuck at home under lockdown. cnn s bianca is there and staff writer for the atlantic is in london. bianca, i m going to start with you. first just lay out the process for us and the likelihood that boris johnson can survive this. reporter: victor, so it s started with letters from 54 of boris johnson s own mps to a committee that expressed they had no confidence in the prime minister. 15% had to be met, it could well have exceeded that number. this evening, right now, his own mps are voting whether or not they want boris johnson to remain on as prime minister or oust him. it requires a simple majority to stay on. even if he only needs 180 of his mps to vote for him to remain prime minister and live in the building behind me, he ll actually need more, decisively more, if he wants to continue with my semblance of political power and
a mutual security pact with sweden, pledging support should the military come under attack. more could be done to help you with long term chronic pain, specialists say, is a bbc survey suggests a quarter of uk adults live with the condition. doesn t matter how hard i tried, or how much i wait or how much i pray, it most likely isn t going to change. downing street says its target of building 300,000 new homes in england per year still stands after the housing secretary michael gove has said the government was no longer trying to meet it. mr gove said ministers were now focusing on building homes people can be proud of and said that people in england would be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their neighbourhood as part of its new levelling up and regeneration bill which has been introduced in parliament today after yesterday s queens speech. labour has said the queen s speech didn t contain enough measures to help people with the rising cost of living