time for a look at the weather. a wet the un refugee agency says up to 500 people are still missing among them, large numbers of women and children after that overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the mediterranean. there s claim and counter claim over the help or lack of it given to those on the boat. we ll talk to a man in kalamata, who s helping his friend search for his wife, and we ll examine the global migration crisis as well as bringing you a special report from the other side of the med, tunisia, where local fishermen constantly pull from the sea the bodies of migrants who tried to make the dangerous voyages. translation: the first time i was l afraid because i m not so tough. l i was afraid and then, step by step, i got used to it. after a while, getting a dead body out of my net is like getting fish out. and we ll ask the un official in charge of protecting refugees what can the world do about the millions of people on the move? england man
our aeroplane contrails. the water that aeroplanes check out the back makes controls. sometimes when there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, seven miles up in the sky, where the aeroplanes fly, they can persist for many, many hours, going the spectacular sunrise and sunset pictures. you get a sense of these contrails starting to work away, these lines of cloud you can see on the satellite picture. and they are, because we are starting to get drier air moving in across england, seven miles up in the atmosphere. you are less likely to see those contrails hanging around quite as long. weather wise today we have a bit of patchy cloud across south west scotland and northern ireland, may be an odd light shower. otherwise, the vast majority of the uk having dry weather with plenty of sunshine stop the sunshine, of course, is stronger this time of year. we have high levels of uv. the temperatures are widely reaching the high teens or low 20s. probably peaking at 23 celsius this
there is a roughly one in four chance that the us will hit the so called x date, when the us government runs out of money to pay its bills without a deal to raise the debt limit. that is according to the banking giantjp morgan chase. and they say the odds are getting worse. that forecast comes after house speaker kevin mccarthy said on wednesday that he thought progress could be made, but warned the two sides remain far apart. republicans are warning that any deal must cut future federal spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling a red line for the white house. on wall street, us stocks fell as investors have been watching these talks closely for any sign of an agreement. and even if a deal is done in time, economists say that depending on the details, cuts to government spending are likely create economic headwinds that could bring down inflation a possible silver lining for the federal reserve, which has been raising interest rates to fight inflation. fed officia
home secretary did not break ministerial rules in the way she handled a speeding offence last year. the baby boy murdered by his parents on christmas day three years ago it s emerged finley boden was returned to them more quickly than social workers wanted. and welcome to the world of unified football where players with intellectual disabilities are part of the team. and coming up on bbc news. valencia are punished with a five match partial stadium closure over the racial abuse suffered by real madrid s vinicius junior this weekend. good afternoon. inflation the rate that prices are going up has fallen below 10% for the first time since last august. in the year to march, inflation was 10.1%. figures out today show that last month it slowed down to 8.7%. so prices are still rising but at a slower rate than before. part of the reason for that is a drop in the wholesale cost of energy though food price inflation is still close to a as year high. here s our economics
has the latest from new york. there is a roughly one in four chance that the us will hit the so called x date that s when the government runs out of money to pay its bills without a deal to raise the debt limit. that is according to the banking giantjp morgan chase. and they say the odds are getting worse. that forecast comes after house speaker kevin mccarthy said on wednesday that he thought progress could be made, but warned that the two sides remain far apart. republicans are warning that any deal must cut future federal spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling a red line for the white house. republicans are demanding that any deal must cut future federal spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling a red line for the white house. on wall street, us stocks fell as investors have been watching these talks closely for any sign of an agreement. and even if a deal is done in time, economists say that depending on the details, cuts to government spending