Ever quarterly profits making over £7 billion in the first 3 months of the year. Thats almost three times the amount it reported this time last year. Interest rates are expected to rise again. Analysts believe the Bank Of England, could increase the base rate to 1 the highest level in 13 years. The japanese Prime Minister is visiting the uk, with the crisis in ukraine and a new Defence Partnership high on the agenda. Fumio kishida is due to speak in the next few minutes, before Government Meetings later today. And coming up this hour. Meeting some of natures newest arrivals. A new study, following great tits near oxford, suggests spring is starting sooner. And Manchester City are out of the Champions League after a dramatic Semifinal Comeback by real madrid securing victory with two injury time goals. Ukrainian Officials Say Russian Forces have launched an all out assault on the Azovstal Steelworks in the besieged city of mariupol. Around 200 civilians are still believed to be shelter
Will look at his policy priorities, having won a second term. We will talk about elon musk. He is closing in on twitter. The companys board might be ready to accept his offer to buy the whole thing. We start with the war in ukraine. Russia has continued its aerial attacks on ukraines cities, killing more civilians. Five Railway Stations were attacked, including in these cities krasne in the west, therynka and kozyatyn in central ukraine. This was the aftermath in krasne. Ukrainian railways, like this one, have become a ket target. Danjohnson who is at the scene explains why. This is one of the main routes between lviv, kyiv and the rest of the country. Attacks on the Railway Network were expected because these tracks have become the vital arteries maintaining the flow of weapons into ukraine, over to the east and onto the front lines, and the trains are still running. Lets look at russias offensive in the east. Remember, russias focus is now occupying the donbas region. There has been
number of contributions including from counsellor david mallon, the leader of the council. we will then have ross middleton, head teacher at huntington academy followed by professor cheryl west, vice chancellor of the nerve to eight university of nottingham. together with the reverend, the chaplain of the university. we will then hear from alex noris mp and caroline henry, the police and crime commissioner. we will then move back to counsellor david millan and move into a minutes silence. after that we will hear from some of our faith leaders across our great city of nottingham put up together with contributions from members of the family and our portfolio holderfor communities before we close the event. without further ado i m going to introduce counsellor mccullough, lord mayor of nottingham. thank you. as lord mayor i would like to welcome as lord mayor i would like to welcome you all here today and thank you for welcome you all here today and thank you for coming. this