You will not see this affect the consumer analysis unless this lasts another week or two and then see big shortages and really higher prices of all kinds of goods that will result from this. To ask you about crystal ball thinking, it can be a bit tough butjust elaborate if you could, mentioned how many days if this rumbles on that the consumer will start to feel it. The big question here is again, does it get resolved in the next week or two? if it does, you won t really see much, it will be a blip on the radar, but if this were to continue, you start to see massive bottlenecks as containers build up, both on the ships waiting off the coast, but also in places like china where they are unable to load these containers that are meant for the east and they start sitting there, and the real problem becomes a couple of months from now as these ships that are sitting here on the coast, off the coast of the us don t return home, don t go back to china to pick up more containers, you have a hu
to avoid a wider conflict in the region. we will take all necessary actions to defend the united states, our interests and our people. and we will respond when we choose, where we choose, and how we choose. earlier i asked our north america correspondent would any us attack may take place? we don t know us attack may take place? - don t know exactly when this military action will be lost, it apparently depends on the weather and on intelligence, but we understand that these strikes will take place over a number of days and today will include a range of targets. they include iranian personnel and facilities in iraq and syria. now, it is those two countries from where these militant groups, the iran backed militant groups have been operating and it is those groups that washington has accused of being responsible for the deadly drone attack on the us base injordan on sunday. that was when as you said, three us service members were killed, dozens more were injured and ever sinc
also on today s programme: nationwide puts up its mortgage rates by 0.45% and other lenders also increase the cost of new deals. the kent hospital where the maternity unit was almost shut down by inspectors as basic hygiene was not observed. a medicalfacility in ukraine is destroyed by a russian missile strike, killing two people and injuring over 20. and british cycling says it ll ban transgender women from elite female competition. and coming up on bbc news. three teams, two relegation places to avoid. leicester leeds and everton head into the final weekend of the premier league hoping to secure their survival. good evening. the parents of 10 month old finley boden have been sentenced today for his murder on christmas day in 2020. his mother, shannon marsden, was given a minimum of 27 years and his father, stephen boden, a minimum of 29 years. finley had been taken by social services soon after he was born, but was given back to his parents 39 days before he died. during