Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying
Own goalfrom joel matip. Not as a manager of liverpool, so much more as a football person, i think the only outcome should be a replay. That is how it is. It would happen again. I think a replay would be the right thing to do or the referee has the opportunity to bring both coaches together and say, sorry, we made a mistake, but we can sort it. And we start from there. Champions League Football will return to St James Park for the first time in 20 years later, as eddie howe s newcastle take on paris st germain. Newcastle drew their first game on their return to the competition against ac milan and will now face the french champions, who won their first game against borussia dortmund. Howe believes the Clubs Progress has been rapid since the saudi led takeover two years ago this week and both he and former captain alan shearer are hoping it can continue. I think initially nothing like this was in our thoughts at the speed at which it has happened. The only thing in our thoughts were sta
For the Us Government to borrow money for 30 years. The big spike at the end is the concern. That is the cost of borrowing over 30 years. The Us Government is being forced to pay more as investors worry they will lose out when compared to the returns they can get from those higher Interest Rates. Its a similar story in the uk where like other governments there will be concern in the corridors of power that it costs more to pay off the National Debt and so there is less cash for other things. Simon french is Chief Economist at the uk Investment Bank Panmure Gordon and i asked him to explain to me what is going on. Your summary was pretty accurate. The higher for longer Interest Rate environment is spooking investors who have been for at least 15 years of the view that Central Banks have their back in terms of keeping Interest Rates low, but also buying Government Debt, quantitative easing, money printing, which many viewers have been familiar with over the last 15 years, has gone into r
The legal advice, that the government had been given on whether israel was acting within international law, and of course that will have an impact on uk arms sales to israel, which have become a very, very live political issue here in the uk. So the deputy Prime Minister, as you say, 0liver Dowden, interviewed on sunday with Laura Kuenssberg here on the bbcjust a short while ago. Here is what he had to say. Have specific concerns about different areas of israels conduct. We are raising those concerns with israel. By the way, it is so important to remember this, we have gone from the horrors of six months ago to Holding Israel to extraordinary high standards. It is right that we do so and it is right that we raise these concerns where we say, look, what will you are doing in respect of not getting aid in, or what you are doing in respect of your targeting raises concerns for us, and we need you to engage with. Now, some mps in the House Of Commons in westminster calling for arms sales t