is to launch next year. set off from london wake up in berlin. welcome to bbc news. cities across ukraine have been targeted by a huge wave of russian missile strikes in one of the largest bombardments since the war began. at least three people including a 14 year old girl were injured after explosions hit the capital kyiv. other cities targeted include kharkiv, odesa and lviv in the west. 90% of lviv is now without power. ukraine s military says 69 missiles were launched from air and sea, with air defences intercepting 5a of them. it comes as the head of ukraine s military intelligence has told the bbc that russia is running out of missiles. hugo bachega reports from kyiv. on the outskirts of kyiv, tears and anger. the front lines are far from here but this morning war has come to them. this lady s house was hit as russia launched another wave of air strikes. her granddaughter was in her bedroom when the attack happened and was injured. she was very scared, she was sc
into beijing s activities in america. and disgraced former hollywood mogul harvey weinsteen faces charges of rape and sexual assault in los angeles. hello and welcome to the programme. rishi sunak will formally become british prime minister on tuesday morning after an audience with king charles at buckingham palace. he was named conservative leader after his only challenger, penny mordaunt, pulled out of the contestjust before the deadline for nominations. mr sunak made a short statement in which he promised to work day in, day out to bring the party and the country together. it is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party i love and give back to the country i owe so much to stop in the united kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge. we now need stability and unity, and i will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together. so who is britain s soon to be prime minister? well, rishi s
Compared to the last asessment in january. Its big concern is about inflation the rate at which prices are rising. On the global measure the imf is using, it thinks it will be 2. 8 by the end of this year and warns that getting inflation back to their 2 target should be the priority for central banks. For many politcians thats been a key concern as they try to ease Cost Of Living pressures for people around the world. Heres the imf s chief economist. The Global Economy continues to display remarkable resilience with Growth Holding steady and inflation declining. But many challenges still lie ahead. Global growth was 3. 2 in 2023 and is expected to remain at that level both in 2024 and 2025. This represents a 0. 3 percentage point upgrade from our 0ctober projections for 2024, with stronger activity than expected in the us, china and other large emerging markets, but weaker activity in the euro area. 0ur correspondent Michelle Fleury is following this from new york. Lets begin by talkin
Borussia dortmund are 2 1 down after losing to Atletico Madrid in the first leg. For this second meeting, dortmund will be without forward sebastien haller, who has has been ruled out with a recurrence of his left ankle injury. Lets take a look at all the second leg fixtures for the quarterfinals. Later on tuesday, barcelona host Paris Saint Germain at the nou camp, while Atletico Madrid are in germany to play borussia dortmund. On wednesday, Manchester City and real madrid will meet at the etihad. Its 3 3 from the first leg. And Bayern Munich host arsenal its 2 2 from their first leg. Well, england captain harry kane scored a penalty for bayern in the first leg and hes been speaking to the media today. It is no secret that the club set out to win the champions league, every season, so there is an expectation and if you look at our performances this year, there has been a different type of performance in the champions league, we have been together more, willing to do more on the pitch,
Just take us through what shed been hearing at the inquiry this morning. Its building on a theme that started last week from senior managers at the post office. Today it was david miller He Were Benchley became the Chief Operating Officer of the post office. He started his officer in 1970 as a trainee. He was a Project Director of the Horizon It System and its implementation. He was in charge of how it was tested, how it was implemented in the late 19905. How it was implemented in the late 1990s. This mornings evidence was about how that testing wind, and there was off line testing, and there was off line testing, and there was off line testing, and there was live testing with Sub Postmasters. He was questioned about some of the bugs and faults that came up before the system was rolled out across the country. The inquiry heard that during the testing, some of these bugs, including the issue of how cash balances could be effectively changed in the accounts, how it had come to light even