keep control of congress in the mid term elections. with your support, i will sign a law codifying roe injanuary. netflix reverses a drop in customer numbers as a stream of new programmes helps it sign up almost 2.5 million new households. if they don t get at least five hours sleep a night. how much sleep have you had or not, we will be unpacking the mystery of sleep and what it is for our health, late in the programme. ukraine s civil defence service says more than a thousand towns and villages across the country are now without power. russian air strikes have hit the capital, kyiv, again on tuesday but there ve been attacks across the country. president zelensky says 30% of ukraine s power stations had been destroyed in the past eight days. sylvia lennan spence reports. children, the elderly even family pets, waiting for their turn to be taken to safety. this is the southern city of kherson, occupied by russian forces this february, civilians have begun to leave amid warni
i m across the city at the kayll road, one of sunderland s warm spaces as at survey conducted on the half of the bbc say many people are delaying putting the heating on this winter to try to save cash. the other main headlines this morning: a report on failings in maternity care at the east kent hospitals trust is to be published families have been warned it s likely to be harrowing. good morning. a terrific turnaround from crystal palace they come from behind to beat wolves in the premier league, with wilfried zaha s winner sending them up to tenth in the table. we are in for another unseasonably mild day across much of the uk and we also have some rain pushing up the western side of the country. the sunnier skies will be in the outer hebrides and parts of the southeast. i will have all the details later. good morning. it s wednesday, 19th october. welcome to the national glass centre here in sunderland. we are here to talk about the rising cost of living and how it s af
and her supposed best friend, the former chancellor, he s gone as well. they re all gone, so why is she still here? cheers mr speaker. sneers mr speaker, lam a fighter, not a quitter. and the other main stories this lunchtime: up to 45 babies may have survived if they d received better care at east kent nhs hosptials trust, finds a damning inquiry. russia says it s evacuating civilians from the occupied city of kherson as ukrainian forces make big gains in the area. and in cricket ireland beat scotland by six wickets, at the t20 world cup in australia. and coming up on the bbc news channel: we look ahead to a busy night in the premier league. five games including liverpool against west ham, while manchester united host tottenham. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc s news at one. figures show the cost of living is rising at the fastest rate for a0 years. inflation rose above 10% for the 12 months to september, with most of that increase due to higherfood prices. th
here comes our active, cold front and some heavy, thundery rain with hail thrown in and wind gusts of 50, 60 may be 70 miles an hour whipping up 60 may be 70 miles an hour whipping up some rough seas and that could give rise to some coastal flooding. the intensity of the rainfall as it comes down in a short space of time might give surface flooding as well. it moves north eastwards overnight, some showers following on behind. a mild night and i ll start to tomorrow. tomorrow will stay quite windy with spells of sunshine. some showers push in from the west towards the east, some of which will be heavy and potentially thundery. they should move through quite quickly. those temperatures again a little bit above where they should be at this time of year. those temperatures are set to rise further as the week wears on. this is wednesday and again sunshine and showers on the face of it, but signs that those showers will tend to ease as we go through the afternoon. a weak ridge of h
who started school after the first covid lockdown. researchers in the uk say blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people, in a world first clinical trial. it could help scientists manufacture rare blood groups. the head of the united nations has warned the cop27 climate conference in egypt that nations must co operate in the effort to reduce global emissions or perish. antonio guterres decribed the progress made since last year s gathering in glasgow as woeful. the prime minister, rishi sunak, is expected to warn world leaders later that it s essential that countries stick to the commitments made then to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from the conference. the world leaders swept into the conference centre in the egyptian desert this morning. among them the british prime minister, rishi sunak. there was a formal handshake with the un chief, all 120 world leaders at the