Growing at a slower rate for the past two months, but inflation remains at nearly 8 , four times higher than the official target. Hannah miller has this report. For father of two peter, sorting out the Family Finances is proving hard. He and his wife bought their first home using the help to buy scheme. But when their mortgage comes up for renewal early next year, theyll have to find an extra £750 a month in repayments. Somehow were supposed to spend less and find £750 extra a month to pay for that. So, you know, for many families, its a terrifying situation. If you have young families like ourselves who have been swayed into the Housing Market by government, whose advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things become unaffordable, you cant simply turn around and say, thats your problem. A rise of 0. 25 Percentage Points would take the Bank Of Englands base rate to 5. 25 , the highest since april 2008. For someone with an average Tracker Mortgage of £200,000, tha
reception from congressional lawmakers both sides of the aisle during explosive hearing today. but, first, china s very bad intentions for the u.s. via hacking. the head of the fbi sounding a serious alarm tonight. correspondent david spunt has details. good evening, david. bret, good evening. fbi director christopher wray chooses his words carefully and his words today sobering. china s hackers are positioning on american infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to american citizens and communities. wray warned lawmakers during a hearing on cybersecurity and china s aggression. he says chinese hackers outnumber u.s. cyber personnel at least 50 to 1. u.s. intelligence agencies identified hundreds of routers that have been taken over by a china-backed hacking program called volt typhoon. the program injected malware into u.s. sectors like energy communications and water treatment. china s intent? to destroy or degrade the civilian critical
michael steele. these are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump s attorney and e. jean carroll s defamation case renewing calls for a mistrial. congressman jim hines is here to discuss the improving biden economy, and we are just 72 hours from primary day in new hampshire where the states could not be higher for republicans in for this country. grab your coffee, settle, and welcome to the weekend. we begin this hour with newly-released video from donald trump s april 2023 deposition and the new york civil trial trial against him and his company. during the interview, trump not only bragged about his finances and his brand, but also claimed his presidency save the planet from a quote, nuclear holocaust. you re too busy for the company? anyway, yeah. i can say, it another way of saying. it i was very busy. i consider this the most important job in the world, saving millions of jobs. i think we would ve had nuclear holocaust if i didn t deal with n
a tenth person has been killed by an explosion at a block of flats injersey earlier this month kathleen mcginess was injured by the blast and died in hospital yesterday. boxing day sales begin in the uk but will the high streets be busy or will shoppers be cutting back as the cost of living crisis bites? hello and welcome to bbc news. a russian air base hundreds of kilometres from ukraine has come under attack for the second time in less than a month. the russian defence ministry says the engels base in the southern saratov region was targeted by ukrainian drones during the night. russia says it shot down the drones, but that three of its servicemen were killed by falling debris. the airfield is believed to house russian long range strategic bombers. there has been no comment from ukraine. the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg says the last attack on the airbase, three weeks ago, led to calls for tighter security. this is deep inside russian territory. when the firs
the high pressure. once that clears, the story will turn more humid and there will be some rain in the far north west of scotland and some cloud around. but punch some holes in the cloud with the sunshine and a degree or so warmer and top temperatures of 25 degrees and will get warmer towards the weekend. thanks, louise. and that s bbc news at six on monday 4th july. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. good evening. welcome to wimbledon. day eight. it s not a mandate monday any more because we had planned sunday, but so much to come up as the quarterfinal line up gets clearer. coming up on tonight s programme, no circus from nick in the end, he s into the wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time in eight years. can the 2019 champion at halep it keep her impressive run go