and making a splash the olympians who ve joined forces with campaigners trying to stop pools and leisure centres closing because of soaring energy bills. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, we ll get the latest from bristol as the england lionesses look to extend their winning run in the deciding match at the arnold clark cup. good evening. welcome to the bbc news at six. the uk s biggest retailer, tesco, has become the latest supermarket to impose limits on the sale of some fruit and vegetables. customers will not be allowed to buy more than three peppers, cucumbers or packs of tomatoes, for example. aldi is also introducing limits. asda and morrisons did the same yesterday. the shortages are being blamed partly on temporary supply challenges because of adverse weather conditions abroad. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. if you ve been to the supermarket, chances are you ll have seen this. a shortage of tomatoes, cucumbers and s
stable agreement which works for all parts of the uk and i wish the uk government well in that but with the crisis in ukraine the last thing we need to be doing a thrashing around here pointlessly. domestic legislation even if passed will not wash away the need to comply with an international commitment already made and neither is it going to change the fact that if the uk is neither in or aligned with the single market in the customs union it is still going to create a trade border that needs to go some way. to restore devolved government in northern ireland and to resolve the self inflicted wounds of brexit it going to need goodwill, trust and a negotiated settlement. i m sorry to say that the threats of unilateral legislative action by this government override its own deal very unlikely to be taken seriously in belfast, they won t be taken seriously in brussels and there is no reason why they should be taken seriously in this place either. i have been very clear that we ar
of the post world war ii era. he passed away at his home in connecticut. here s a look back at his life from our diplomatic correspondent james landale. to landale. some, henry kissinger was one to some, henry kissinger was one of the cold war s most influential statesman who advised presidents and prime ministers for decades. two others he was a war criminal. whose ruthless defence of american interest cost thousands of lives. either way, the sweep of his life was immense. he was born heinz kissinger in nazi germany. his family fled to america in 1938 but the young henry, as he became, returned to europe fighting with the us army helping to liberate concentration camps. in peacetime the soldier became a scholar at harvard university making his name arguing that nuclear weapons could be used in conventional wars. n0 audio although in conventional wars. no audio although that is less desirable. it was president richard nixon who brought him into government, first as national s
The complete shambles that successive UK Governments have made of immigration policy is nothing to aspire to, but it would seem the Taoiseach is being influenced by the small but increasingly angry far right.