showers and breezy, cooler towards north sea facing coasts. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the government says middle income earners will need more help to pay their energy bills, notjust the poorest with families facing tough choices. it is going to be a choice of, you know, the kids need to eat, obviously. i don t. and that is the stark reality that we are facing at the moment. two men arrested on suspicion of murdering nine year old olivia pratt korbel, who was shot dead in her home in liverpool, have been released on bail. a national emergency has been declared in pakistan after millions of people were forced from their homes. it follows the heaviest monsoon rains in decades. the us state department has announced that president biden is planning to appoint an ambassador to the arctic region. the move comes as russia increases its military activity in the area. now on bbc news, weather world, record heat, drought and the fire that ripped through people s homes a
we start with the latest fallout from what has been a recent wave of travel dirspution hitting the airline industry. the chief operating officer of easyjet has handed in his resignation after he oversaw a series of flight cancellations and disruption for travellers in recent weeks. this comes after thousands of easyjet flights have been cancelled some at short notice. so what are we talking about here? it s understood that roughly 10 thousand flights scheduled to run overjuly, august and september have been cancelled. thats s about 6% of easyjet s scheduled flights and the airline says the majority of its flights are unaffected with it continuing to operate up to 1,700 flights a day. but easyjet is far from the only business affected by widespread issues hitting aviation at the moment from staff shortages to industrial action. joining me now is travel expert paul charles chief executive of the pc agency. good morning to you, paul. specifically, easyjet, it was all a bit
counts of sexual assault against three men the allegations date back to when he was in the uk. life to when he was in the uk. from our studio in singapore, life from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, it s newsday. the police in texas are facing criticism for how they responded to the mass school shooting in uvalde on tuesday. some parents say officers appeared hesitant to confront the teenage gunman after he barricaded himself inside a classroom, and that led to a delay in tackling the shooter. but at a news conference a texas police official said special equipment and negotiators were required, and officers also had to evacuate the rest of the school. the attacker killed 19 children and two teachers in the space of up to an hour before he was himself shot dead. our north america editor sarah smith sent us this report. all smith sent us this report. of the 19 inch children ar teachers all of the 19 inch children and teachers were in the same class. she had just bee
because not a lot of follow-up pieces about these man-made food shortages that joe biden was predicting and that is weird if you think about it because food shortages are inherently a big deal. you can argue that there even more significant than a slap fight between celebrities at an award show. food shortages they bring down empires and they often have. if you have a short food shortage of a potentially destabilizing problem on your hand. now we do have a food shortage and it s real as joe biden predicted. they released 26 states that half of the retail stores are completely out of baby formula. that includes the states of texas, missouri, and many others. these are major population centers without enough food for newborns. in memphis and nashville, 52% of stores have no baby formula. houston at des moines dimona reported similar shortages. in san antonio with unusual high percentage of small children 57% of all scores in the city have no baby formula. those are the numbe
emily: hello, everyone, this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno here with my co-host kayleigh mcenany. with us is tammy bruce and kaylee mcgee white and fox and friends cohost and host of one nation brian kilmeade. we are entering the final hours of the ceasefire agreement israel and hamas. negotiators are working to extend that deal which lasted for six days. so far, 81 hostage have been released by hamas with more expected to be released in the coming hours. new details are emerging about the conditions hostages are facing in the tunnels. hamas terrorists threatened hostages and held people with no light and forced them to watch the footage of the horrific october 7 attack. despite the heart-breaking attacks from israeli hostages, pro-palestinian supporters in the u.s. spewed conspiracy theories and expressed support for hamas s terrorist attacks against israel at a city council meeting in oakland, california. there have not been beheadings and rapeings. this is r