On bbc news. The Champions League returns with tottenham in spain to take on the european champions, real madrid. Liverpool and Manchester City also feature. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Prices are rising faster than at any time in the past five years. The office for National Statistics says inflation rose to 3 last month up from 2. 9 in august. Rising food and transport costs are mainly to blame. Its good news for pensioners, who are in line for a 3 pension increase from next april. But for the working population and people on benefits, it will put more pressure on already stretched household incomes. Heres our economics editor, kamal ahmed. Running almost to stand still. As prices have gone up, our wages have remained stagnant making the income squeeze that little bit harsher. Over the last year inflation has risen above the increase in our wages, making ends meet is becoming harder. The basics i get all the timei harder. The basics i get all the time i going up,
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 2am in the syrian city of raqqa, which has effectively been recaptured from the so called Islamic State. Once an is stronghold, an alliance of kurdish and arab fighters have battled for more than four months to retake it. Two years ago, is controlled a large area across iraq and syria. But now they only hold a handful of towns on the border. Our middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville has the latest. At the heart of raqqa, theyre giddy with victory. The Syrian Democratic forces control the city that the so called Islamic State hailed as its capital. Three years ago, is did victory laps here. Paradise circle, its called, and here they beheaded people. Their hatred crossed continents. But now their caliphate is in ruins. A new flag flies in raqqa today. It was arab and kurdish fighters, men and women, who did a jig, celebrating the Islamic State groups retreat. This commander told the bbc in the city, but we will continue to patrol and
Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 3am in the morning in the syrian city of raqqa, which has effectively been recaptured from the so called Islamic State. Once an is stronghold, an alliance of kurdish and arab fighters have battled for more than four months to retake it. Two years ago, is controlled a large area across iraq and syria. But now they only hold a handful of towns on the border. Our middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville has the latest. At the heart of raqqa, theyre giddy with victory. The Syrian Democratic forces control the city that the so called Islamic State hailed as its capital. Three years ago, is did victory laps here. Paradise circle, its called, and here they beheaded people. Their hatred crossed continents. But now their caliphate is in ruins. A new flag flies in raqqa today. It was arab and kurdish fighters, men and women, who did a jig, celebrating the Islamic State groups retreat. This commander told the bbc is are no longer in control anywhere i
President xijinping has been reflecting on his last five years in office in a speech to top Officials Office in a speech to top officials of the communist Party Congress. In his opening address, president xi set out his future priorities. Its thought the line up of the politburo standing committee, which contains chinas most senior decision makers, will be revealed towards the end of the congress, next week. He received rapturous applause from the congress as he outlined the future role of the country and how that should roll out in the coming yea rs. That should roll out in the coming years. One in which china would take centre stage. Translation we need to work for them to words that further towards achieving socialism with chinese characteristics to build a country and to build a great power in the world. It is also the age for the party, for the people to unite together and to strive for a better life. It is time for all the generation of chinese to realise which organisation and t