at stansted as heathrow extends its passenger cap to the end of october. and, at last, an apology for the native american actress, booed off stage at the oscars almost 50 years ago. good afternoon. new figures suggest the real value of wages, has fallen at its fastest rate since records began, leading to further concerns about the cost of living. the office for national statistics says regular pay, excluding bonuses, was up a.7% between april and june this year, compared to 2021. but taking inflation into account, wages are actually down 3%, hit by the rising cost of goods and services. the government says it recognises people are struggling with high prices, but is providing direct financia help for millions on low incomes. here s our economics correspondent, andy verity. from the outside, a.7% is the best average pay rise for years. but the inside story is the average worker is dealing with astronomical price rises that more than cancel that out. aiming to attract the insta
well, i m afraid to say tonight the situation is looking even more dire here in paktika, we are seeing hundreds of hundreds of families who have been left homeless. in other news, russian forces continue their advance on ukrainian held towns in the donbas. we join a group of volunteers rushing to evacuate civilians from the area. and after a three year hiatus, the iconic music festival glastonbury open its gates and welcomes back the fans. we start in afghanistan, where a powerful earthquake has killed over 900 people and left hundreds injured. it s the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in 20 years. it hit overnight in the south east of the country. and we know the tremors were felt in pakistan and india as well. most of the confirmed deaths are in paktika province. this is the head of the provincial health body there. buildings collapsing, yeah. you know, in afghanistan, there is no concrete buildings. most people injured and dead are under the building. 0ur dead bo
it is not to borisjohnson or to any tory prime minister. and in the us, 100 million people facing heat warnings with extreme fires in arizona, and torrential flooding at yellowstone national park tonight with the context, former senior adviser to george w bush ron christie and the former labour minister and member of parliament caroline flint. the uk government has confirmed that six asylum seekers will be leaving in just over an hour s time to rwanda originally over 100 had been due to fly but legal appeals have steadily brought that number down. the six men will be flown the 4000 miles or 6500 km to rwanda where they will have to make their asylum claims. they may be granted permanent refugee status to stay in rwanda. the government says it brought in the rwanda policy to tackle the trafficking gangs that are bringing ever larger numbers of people across the english channel. so far this year more than 10,000 people have made the dangerous crossing. last november 27 peo
good evening. a woman who was terrorised and abused by an mi5 agent is taking legal action against the security service. the woman, who we are calling beth, has lodged a formal complaint with the watchdog for the intelligence services, after a bbc investigation revealed that her then partner used his security status as a means of controlling her. the agent, whom the high court ruled cannot be named, also attacked the woman with a machete and threatened to kill her. 0ur correspondent daniel de simone reports. a violent mi5 agent who used his position to abuse. ultimately this position within the security services was used to terrorise me. last night, we revealed how the state informant attacked his girlfriend beth with a machete and threatened to kill her. the foreign agent a right wing extremist with a long history of abusing women can t be named because the government obtained a court order keeping his identity secret. he attacked his british partner before leaving the uk wh