At the Nato Summit in belgium, president biden said that China And Russia are trying to drive a wedge in the transatlantic alliance. Mr biden added that, while hes not seeking conflict with russia, nato would respond if moscow continued its harmful activities. As for china, Mr Biden laid out the groups concerns during a Press Conference with reporters this evening. We talked about the long term systemic challenges that China Plaza activities pose two hours collective security today. We agreed to do more to enhance the resilience of our critical infrastructures Around The World. Including trusted telecommunications providers, Supply Chains and energy networks. The us president also sought to underline Americas Support for the Nato Alliance striking a very different tone to that of his predecessor donald trump. Our North America Editorjon sopel is in brussels and has this report. Theres a new sheriff in town, and if nato members could have thrown Rose Petals in front ofjoe biden s motor
Beer to everything else will take a bite out of your wallet because inflation is rising. Is it transitory as the biden administration says or is it something more . What is the political impact of that as we head towards 2022 . Karl cove is here and tell us how he sees it. Lets start with Jeff Flock live at the pumps with what to expect as americans get excited to hit the roads. Hi, jeff. Hi, martha. Hello to you from sunny michigan. Im Aabove Interstate 94 out here. You can see america coming back to life. A lot more folks out there. Take a look at the numbers on what it will cost you. Were up to 3. 08 a gallon for a gallon of gasoline. Thats three cents more than last week. 6 more than last month. Almost a dollar more than it was this time last year. In addition to that, the question is how high can it go . We dont know how high it will go. We now high it has gone. That was 4. 11 for the average gallon of u. S. Gas in july of 2008. Diesel was high, too. Aaa says it will go higher but
tens of thousands of people in the north of england are preparing to spend a sixth night without electricity after storm arwen left infrastructure badly damaged. energy networks say at present there are around 30,000 households still without power. 15,500 of those are in the north east of england, 7,000 in the north west, and 7,500 in different regions of scotland. power has now been restored to almost every home in wales as our correspondent fiona trott reports. another day and another problem. if we can move all this here. engineers from across england trying to restore power in northumberland. we ve been without power since about, oh, seven o clock on friday night, and we ve coped, but boy am i glad to see these people, and apparently they re from bedford as well. in neighbouring county durham, a visit from the energy minister, greg hands. but when you ve been without energy for six days the frustration starts to show. the government has said we will stand behind as
also on the programme. reforming the social care system in england more details emerge of the £1.7 billion to be raised by a new levy. in england, scotland and northern ireland, university staff go on strike over pay and pensions students say their education is being damaged again. efforts continue to restore power to the tens of thousands of people in parts of england, scotland and wales who have spent a fifth night without electricity after storm arwen. and why the welsh government says there are too many second homes in wales, and that action is needed. and coming up on the bbc news channel: johanna konta announces her retirement from tennis but tells the bbc she plans to remain in the sport in some capacity. welcome to bbc news at six, which comes from cardiff today from the new headquarters of bbc wales. mark drakeford the first minister of wales has been in talks this afternoon with the cabinet minister michael gove and the first ministers of scotland and north
the act or bala says he did not pull the trigger of the gun. the women s tennis association suspends all tournaments in china amid concern for peng shuai, the chinese tennis player who accused a top official of sexual assault. the government outlines more details of its ten year plan to reform the social care system in england, including £300 million investment to help people live longer independently. tens of thousands of people face a sixth night without power following outages in scotland and the north of england caused by storm arwen. array collective! array collective is the winner of this year s turner prize. borisjohnson has not denied reports that christmas parties were held in downing street last year, but he insisted that no covid rules were broken. at prime minister s questions, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, accused mrjohnson of hypocrisy for ignoring the rules that he d imposed on everyone else. the bbc has spoken to a source who attended a downing street