the rate at which uk prices are rising has slowed for a second month, but the cost of living is still close to a ao year high. ambulance workers in the uk willjoin nurses in taking strike action next month, piling huge pressure on hospital bosses. let s start in ukraine, where a helicopter crash has killed the country s interior minister, denys monastyrsky. he s the highest profile ukrainian casualty since the war began. the crash happened east of the capital kyiv in the town of brovary. at least 1a people have died. first, let s hearfrom the ukrainian president. a tragedy happened near kyiv. a helicopter crash claimed the life of the minister of the internal affairs of ukraine, his colleagues and helicopter cruel or found near a can or garden. 1a ukrainian families lost their loved ones today and many more families are losing daily because of the war near a kindergarten. so let s take you through what we know. nine people were on board the plane three from the interio
wards fell silent. emergency care is still being provided hospital bosses say they re hugely concerned. my message and that of many chief executives around the country is that this needs resolution. we cannot continue to go through periods of industrial action and the disruption it s causing to patients and to our staff. the thing is, there is no sign of a resolution tonight. i actually detect resolution tonight. i actually detect a resolution tonight. i actually detect a souring of the mood between health detect a souring of the mood between health unions and the government. also on the programme. one of the ukrainian government s most senior ministers has died in a helicopter crash in kyiv at least 1a people were killed. another slight fall in inflation but food prices continue to soar. the united nations sends its most senior woman to afghanistan for talks with the taliban, who ve stopped women working for aid agencies there. a major incident has been declared i
hello and welcome to bbc world news. the crucial midterm elections in the us, which will decide which party controls congress, are just three days away. ahead of the vote, the biggest names in us politics have all chosen to head for the key battleground state of pennsylvania. later on saturday, donald trump will be holding a prime time rally but within the past hour, not one but two democratic presidents, barack obama and joe biden, have been holding a joint rally in philadelphia. they re trying to get every last vote out for their candidate john fetterman. he s up against republican mehmet oz, who s been endorsed by donald trump. president biden laid out his message that this is a defining moment for us democracy. let s have a listen. this isn t referendum this year, it s a choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america. maybe it s in our blood butjohn and i believe it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i have said from the be
you can see how widespread average temperatures have been. temperatures way above where they should be and not just way above where they should be and notjust by day but also through the night. take a look at the uk first thing this morning, the second column is the average overnight low so you can just see how incredibly mild it was first thing this morning and that mild air is going to stay with us for the remainder of the day. not as wet as yesterday, still some rain around across southern scotland. western fringes seeing some showers. cloud the channel coasts producing some drizzle. sheltered eastern areas having the best of any brightness. a blustery afternoon with gusts of wind up to 40 afternoon with gusts of wind up to a0 miles an hour on land. temperatures will peak at around 15 degrees. not surprising when you saw those temperatures first thing this morning. 0vernight tonight the cloud and rain tends to fizzle away and we will see clearer skies so that allows temper