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good evening. there has been some welcome news for the economy, with a sharper than expected fall in inflation that s the rate at which prices rise from li% injanuary to 3.1i% in february. that is its lowest level in more than two years. it means prices are still rising but at a slower rate. in a moment, we ll be speaking to our political editor chris mason, but first to our economics editor faisal islam with his assessment. thanks, reeta. today s fall means inflation has come a long way down from the peak of 11% back in october 2022 as you can see here. but inflation is still a bit higher than the bank of england s target rate of 2% in the dotted red line. earlier i spoke to the prime minister, who told me that the uk economy is notjust turning a corner but bouncing back, and that many people were seeing green shoots of recovery but i ve also been out and about near crewe, meeting people who are yet to see that. the first day of spring is often a turning point ....
contains some distressing images. although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. then shots ripped through the night. people start to move. then ran to escape. in this section of the crowd, panic. as casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. translation: the situation was unimaginably crazy. - if aid is going to come to us in this way, we don t want it. the israelis say that at 4:40am, the convoy left from here under israeli tank escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. the army supplied drone footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because there s no timestamp. at 4:16, the israelis say crowds began to surge around the trucks. in this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. also others can be seen crawling away. here someone looks as if they are dragging themselves using their upper body. what we do not see is exactly ....
gaza s biggest hospital has found that many palestinans who were injured as lorries were delivering aid on thursday, were wounded by gunshots. you can see here us military planes flying over deir al balah in the central gaza strip. us officials say over 35,000 meals were dropped by parachute. it comes after a pledge on friday by president biden following the deaths of 112 palestinians during a rush on an aid convoy on thursday. let s speak to our washington correspondent will vernon. he s following developments in washington. good to see you, tell us more about what your sources, what us officials has been saying.- us officials has been saying. the us military have us officials has been saying. the us military have said us officials has been saying. the us military have said that us officials has been saying. the us military have said that this - us officials has been saying. the us military have said that this airdrop l military have said that this airdrop will b ....
wigan and newport. let s speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. how rapidly have rents been rising? the bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. for the areas which have seen the biggest increases. this graph tells a story. this is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31%. these are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. but six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. these are towns within touching distance of cities. they have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. nearly 39% over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15% injust the last year. one of the estate agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasn t seen anything like it, he described a staggering. baez hasn t seen anything like ....
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