Through an agreed route through the black sea, it then announces a humanitarian corridor without any kind of acknowledgement from russia, which has continued to target commercial vessels. Yet we have a cargo ship leave the Port Of Odessa this morning. It had been trapped there since before the invasion, and it continues to make its way south towards turkey. There are some in the insurance and Shipping Industry that are rightfully nervous about this because russia enjoys quite a lot of dominance on the southern ukrainian coast. It uses its vessels to blockade ukrainian ports. And yet this vessel seems to have made its way through. More could follow but there is a big if here on whether russia decides to leave the vessels alone and it is a big if because it continues to strike ukrainian ports with drone strikes. Earlier, i spoke with john allen, a retired Us Marine Corps Four Star General and former commander of the Nato International Security Assistance force, about that bbc reporting a
There are also interesting developments at sea where since the collapse of a major agreement last month that allowed ukraine to export grain through an agreed route through the black see it then announces humanitarian corridor without any kind of acknowledgement from russia which has continued to target commercial vessels. Yet we have a cargo ship leave the port of edessa this morning. It had been trapped there since before the invasion, and it continues to make its way south towards turkiye. There are some in the insurance and Shipping Industry that are rightfully nervous about this because russia enjoys quite a lot of dominance on the southern ukrainian coast. It uses its vessels to blockade ukrainian ports. And yet this vessel seems to have made its way through. More could follow but there is a big if here on whether russia decides to leave the vessels alone and it is a big if because it continues to strike ukrainian ports with drone strikes. As the war in ukraine continues, a bbc i
earlier today, despite objections from china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year. speaking after the meeting, mccarthy responded to warnings from china of escalating tensions. well, my first message to china, there is no need for retaliation. the one thing i will say to china, at no time, ims speaker of the house, there is no time that china is going to tell me where i can go and who can speak to, whether you be so all you befriend. the california visit is not the first stop on president tsai s trip. last week, she flew to new york where she met with three us senators. tsai then made her way to central america for official visits to guatemala and belize, two of taiwan s few allies on
office says there are now over 100 times more likely because of climate change. secret schools that are being set up to educate girls in afghanistan in defiance of the taliban. who have refused to let them back into the classroom. and one of the biggest games in rangers history isjust getting one of the biggest games in rangers history is just getting under way in seville. they are taking on frankfurt in the europa league final. official figures showing prices officialfigures showing prices now rising at their fastest rate for a0 years. inflation in the uk has jumped to 9% in april, up from 7% in march with around three quarters of the latest hike coming from higher electricity and gas bills. labour has called for an emergency budget to help people struggling with those energy costs. the prime minister and the chancellor are both under intense pressure to help people cope. whilst mrjohnson promised to look at all the measures needed the chancellor warned that he could not pro
in ukraine a russian solider pleads guilty to killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. we have a special report on the taliban s vice and virtue enforcers who have returned to the streets of cable. tonight with the context, former conservative ministerjustine greening and democratic strategist mary ann marsh. hello. welcome to the programme. inflation has hit a ao year high. figures out today showed the rate at which prices are rising jumped 9% in the 12 months to april, up from 7% in march. that is driven by the cost of household energy that rose on average £700 last month. and for millions of people wages are not keeping up. the average pay rise excluding bonuses in the three months to march was 4.2%, which meant given the rate of inflation british workers suffered a fifth consecutive cut to real term wages. the inflationary problems are not unique to the uk, farfrom it, but uk now has the highest rate of inflation of any g7 country an