the opening night. good morning. a shameful shambles . that s how mps have described decades of errors at the department for work and pensions. women are owed £1 billion in missed payments. liverpool are heading to wembley. and it s a double from diegojota that beats arsenal and sends liverpool through to the league cup final against chelsea. it isa it is a freezing 7 in parts of southern england, it is milder, eight in northern scotland, and that milder air is eight in northern scotland, and that milderair is coming eight in northern scotland, and that milder air is coming for all of us this weekend. i will have all of the details later. it s friday 21st january. our main story. moscow has denied plans to attack ukraine even though it s amassed tens of thousands of troops on the border. the foreign secretary, liz truss, has warned russia that invading ukraine would lead to terrible loss of life. her warning comes ahead of a meeting between the us secretary of state, anton
a damning report by mps on the underpayment of the state pension to over 100,000 people, mostly women. i m gutted, it is so last minute. a tearful adele postpones her entire series of concerts in las vegas, saying half her team has covid. and tributes are paid to the us rock star meat loaf, who s died at the age of 7a. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the defending champion naomi osaka is out of the australian open beaten in three sets by america s amanda anisimova, who goes on to face ash barty next. good evening. we have no plans to invade that was the message from russia s foreign minister after talks with the us about russian intentions in ukraine. his american counterpart said their discussions in geneva had been frank and substantive but also warned of massive consequences if moscow were to attack ukraine. russia has amassed 100,000 troops near its borders with ukraine, leading to grave international concern, and to several european countries bolsterin
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for a while yet if in the future at all , pointing to an unstable global food supply pressurised by the war in ukraine. now the price of food in the uk rose by nearly 17.5% in the year tojune, which was actually a fall from a high of just over 19% in the year to march, following an overall drop in the wholesale price of food which you can see here peaking when russia invaded ukraine last year. it has been trending downwards. but prices are still much higher than before the war and have started creeping up again. let s discuss this with kona haque head of reserach at commodities house ed and f man holdings. good to have you on the programme. do you agree with the chief economist at the bank of england that actually high food prices are here to stay? i think at least for the sure term we still have got some pressures that will keep prices elevated. the factors globally, the stocks, global stocks of the stocks, global stocks of the grains, the staples such as grains and oil
regional expert who explained the economic impact of those floods. ~ , ., ., ., floods. while you re flooding so far in the floods. while you re flooding so far in the month - floods. while you re flooding so far in the month of - floods. while you re flooding so far in the month ofjuly i floods. while you re flooding so far in the month ofjuly is| so far in the month ofjuly is estimated to have cost around 25 billion us dollars then of course the season for these sorts of extreme weather events is not yet over. august and september historically have also often had severe weather events, such as typhoons and floods, as well as drought last year china was also hit with a very severe drought. so what we are seeing is increasing impact of severe weather events on china and this is, of course, linked to rising temperatures globally, climate change is very much linked to what we have seen at present in china and in recent years and there are a lot of concerns that as global te