this whole thing has been one of the great blessings of my life. and back in belfast a standing ovation for an emotional bill clinton 25 years after he helped negotiate the good friday agreement. and coming up on bbc news: a champions league semifinal is within reach of manchester city. they beat bayern munich first time around, can they do the same again in germany later? good evening. the cost of living rose more than expected last month thanks largely to the soaring price of food. inflation, that s the rate at which prices are increasing, was 10.1% in march. down from 10.4% in february. but analysts had expected it drop more than that. the rising cost of food and drink takes a lot of the blame it has gone up by almost 20% in a year. our cost of living correspondent colletta smith reports. here come the sausages. it s hot dinner day in this little community kitchen in halifax. started off with about ten potions. in eight weeks it s grown to almost 150 portions. demand
most of the time patients have a great experience but we must not paper over the problems we face. we expect backlogs to rise before they fall. a teenager is arrested after a 15 year old boy was stabbed outside his school in huddersfield in west yorkshire. five british captives who were held by russian backed forces in ukraine are released in a prisoner exchange. ministers lift their ban on fracking in england in a bid to increase energy production but critics are warning about environmental damage and a risk of earthquakes. retiring tennis champion roger federer will play the final match of his career in a doubles team alongside his long time rival rafael nadal as part of the laver cup tomorrow. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. interest rates have been raised to 2.25%, the highest level since 2008. it s the seventh consecutive time that they ve been increased by the bank of england, in an attempt to curb soaring prices. the rate has gone up from 1.75%. the bank of e
three in the afternoon. a fourth leak is discovered in the nord stream 2 gas pipeline in the baltic, nato calls it a deliberate act of sabotage. and tributes are paid to the american rapper coolio who has died at the age of 59 in los angeles. coming up on the bbc news channel. it is victory for warwickshire on the final day of the county championship, which means relegation for yorkshire. good evening and welcome to the programme. the prime minister has insisted that her tax cutting plans are right for the economy and she will not be changing course. in her first interview since the chancellor s mini budget last friday, liz truss argued that record in the pound and record rapidly rising borrowing costs in the uk are part of a global crisis that has been sparked by the war in ukraine and she said the government s strategy would support people and businesses hit by rising energy prices. here is our economics editor faisal islam. an engine factory in darlington. the chancellor,
things the growth plan and making sure with things like the growth plan and making sure with things like energy intervention, that people right across this country are the queen s official death certificate has been published. it was signed by the princess royal and reveals the monarch died of old age. one of the most dangerous storms in us history hits florida, damaging buildings and submerging some coastal areas in floodwater. florida s governor, ron desantis, says the impact of the damage across the state will set records. tributes flood in from across the music world for the rapper coolio, famous for the 90s hit gangsta s paradise. hello. the chancellor, kwasi kwarteng, has dug in to defend his mini budget, saying the government will stick to its plan to try to boost the uk economy. he s said they will also continue to pursue efforts to help people with their energy bills, despite criticism of the tax cutting schemes he announced last friday. his comments came after th
we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat