after a father of four was stabbed to death having spent the day celebrating his two year old twin daughters birthday, the stark reality of drinking during the pandemic more people died from alcohol in england and wales last year than in any of the previous twenty years. unseasonal weather as people go to the polls in england, scotland and wales the biggest test of voter opinion since the last general election. and we meet the former royal marine commando who lost both legs in afghanistan in training for a charity swim across plymouth sound good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. french fishermen who staged a protest off the coast ofjersey about post brexit fishing rights have now sailed away from the area and back to port. two royal navy ships are still on patrol after escalating tensions in the last few days. the french claim their rights to fish off the island are being unfairly restricted by a new system of licences. leaders in jersey say they ve held positive
only one faction of their people into english scandal have received the financial compensation punished by the government in which they are entitled according to a damning report. what would also happen is the setting out of the substantive case. the lido of pc and your hyper the prime minister after she went a campaign to achieve mandatory life sentences for those who murdered members of the emergency services. in the former england cricket captain has been dropped from the bbc ashes coverage after he was accused of making a racist remark. a sombre mood in much of westminster and france tonight. at least 33 people are feared to have drowned while trying to cross the sea from france after their boat capsized. at least 26 have been resuced some of them in a serious condition and a rescue operation is still underway. the french coastguard said a fisherman had alerted the authorities after seeing bodies in the water near the port of calais. four people suspected to have be
hello ahmaud arbery was murdered in february last year, while running in a predominantly white neighbourhood of satilla shores in georgia s glynn county. he was black and 25 years old. some weeks later a video appeared of ahmauds last moments. and in it, travis mcmicheal, and his father, greg were seen hunting down their victim as he ran for his life near their parked pick up truck. travis mcmichael shot him three times, twice in the chest, with a pump action shot gun. the man who took the video was their neighbour william roddie bryan, who unwittingly had just handed the prosecution the most valuable piece of evidence. today after 11 hours of deliberation, and having three times come back to watch that video, thejury found all three men guilty of murder. this was the moment the verdict was read for travis mcmichael, who had pulled the trigger. cou nts counts one, malice murder. we ve had jerry find the defendant travis mcmichael guilty. guilty on all nine counts, including
with another installment. and coming up on bbc news. 80,000 fans are expected for the women s ashes over the course of the multi format series. it all starts at trent bridge today for the five day test. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc s news at one. in the last hour, the bank of england has put up interest rates by half a percentage point more than had been expected to 5% the highest for 15 years. the shock move means more difficulties for about 1.4 million people with a tracker or variable rate mortgage, whose monthly payments will rise again. interest rates have risen for 13 consecutive months now, in an attempt to curb inflation. the bank of england believes making money more expensive to borrow will deter people from spending, so in turn help reduce the rate at which goods go up in price. 0urfirst report is from our economics correspondent, andy verity. iam i am currently paying £560 a month. at the end ofjuly it will go on to variable and it will go up to £