most of the time patients have a great experience but we must not paper over the problems we face. we expect backlogs to rise before they fall. a teenager is arrested after a 15 year old boy was stabbed outside his school in huddersfield in west yorkshire. five british captives who were held by russian backed forces in ukraine are released in a prisoner exchange. ministers lift their ban on fracking in england in a bid to increase energy production but critics are warning about environmental damage and a risk of earthquakes. retiring tennis champion roger federer will play the final match of his career in a doubles team alongside his long time rival rafael nadal as part of the laver cup tomorrow. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. interest rates have been raised to 2.25%, the highest level since 2008. it s the seventh consecutive time that they ve been increased by the bank of england, in an attempt to curb soaring prices. the rate has gone up from 1.75%. the bank of e
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s great to be with you. we are following a major development in a criminal case against donald trump and his allies. the special grand jury in georgia investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election is now done. this is the panel set up by fulton county s district attorney after trump lost the election and made this call to georgia s secretary of state. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. well, since its inception nearly a year ago, the special grand jury has interviewed some of trump s closest allies. a new court filing reveals the panel is now dissolved and that its investigation is complete. cnn s correspondent nick valencia joins us now. this kind of grand jury we now understand, does not issue indictments. so now what? reporter: their work of may of 2022, this grand jury did not have the power or authori
use all the means russia has, and that his words are not a bluff translation: | repeat, | we are talking of a partial mobilisation only. only people in the military reserve will be drafted. the priority will be on people who served in the armed forces, who have military specialisation and experience. and ongoing crisis in maternity care. the royal college of midwives were in warns that new research shows that many units in england do not meet safety standards. the bbc obtains new material relating to the death of footballer emiliano sala, with the pilot of the plane which crashed calling it dodgy before it took off. welcome to bbc news. businesses could have their energy bills cut by a third under new government plans. we re expecting more details this morning, but the measures are believed to include a cap on wholesale energy costs for businesses which currently don t have an energy price cap. it is thought the limit will be 21.1p per kilo watt hour for electricity, compa
i don t understand why anyone signs up for a lawyer for donald trump. it ends the same way. i know. it is really wild to watch it happen over and over and over again.er and yet yeah. so it goes. the wheels keep turning. thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. imagine someone writes you a check. you take it to the bank. i you cash it, deposit it, whatever. and then that check bounces. now you didn t where you this check. you had no idea that it wasn t good. well, up in will today, bank as cross the country could charge you for that transaction. you would get charged a fee for being a victim of a fraud. that is a laundry list of junk fees. he announced his administration is cracking down nnon. have you ever shown to the airport and had the flight canceled and then the airline tries to charge you a fee to rebook you on a new flight? to replace the flight that they canceled? this thing happens. and biden is directing the department of transport
captions by vitac www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? reporter: he s hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy has made a number of concessions, ranging on political issues, how his outside group engages on key issues, as well as giving them more power and more sway over themselves, the rank and file at the expense of the leadership, some of these members sound like they re moving in direction. congressman mike cloud, for one, says the talks are moving in a positive light, in his view, as well as scot