To receive migrants who will be flown at of the country as a deterrent and this is very different way to eat into the numbers that are still waiting to be processed and we will get to that a little later. Let us focus because the head of the cia, william the head of the cia William Burns told the Senate Intel Committee last night that more losses are likely in ukraine unless congress can pass joe biden s ukraine aid package, which has been opposed by republicans. It is our assessment that with supplemental assistance, ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024 and into 2025 and down another road without supplemental assistance, it seems to me that theres a much grimmer future. Ukraine is likely to lose ground and probably significant ground in 2024. There is a bi partisan majority in the house that would vote for the 60bn Dollars In Military Aid which the Senate Approved six weeks ago. But House Speaker mikejohnson is standing in the way. This afternoon the Senate Minorit
World cup semi finals equalised through Rebecka Blomqvist and it looked like the match would be going to extra time. Butjust 93 seconds later spains captain olga carmona scored an 89th minute winner to spark wild scenes ofjubilation among their supporters at eden park. Theyll face england or co hosts australia in the final in sydney on sunday. Even though they had the ball a lot, they did not create that much. I thought we had to work a lot in defence and i think we came out better in the second half but of course, losing like this and being so close to a final, it feels brutal right now. This is spanish history and that is it, its amazing. We make history playing the quarters, so to get to the final is just amazing. The players, we know how good we are, how good the team is, and we have to keep pushing. Wednesay s 2nd semi final is expected to be a sell out at the 81,000 capacity Stadium Australia and theres Fighting Talk from both camps as australia and england renew their Sporting R
barrels per day injuly, which is around 1% of global supplies. opec plus countries which account for around 40% of the world s crude oil said they would cut production by some 1.4 million barrels per day from the start of next year. but not all members of the cartel were happy, with nigeria and angola both wanting to raise production rather than cut it. sameer hashmi is our middle east business correspondent. let see how prices are faring just now. brent is currently up 1.5% so far in the day but keep an eye on it because there is a lot of volatility as you might expect as investors and traders try to work out exactly what the production cut could mean. sameer hashmi is our middle east business correspondent. perhaps not unexpected, this is what we expected, it cuts production and keeps prices up and we know how reliant many are on the revenue it creates but it will not go down well around the world. two creates but it will not go down well around the world. creates but
new figures here in the uk show that the rate at which prices are rising has fallen sharply, hitting single figures for the first time since last august. the annual rate for april fell to 8.7%, down from 10.1% in march, but still higher than predicted. a quick global comparison in the us, the rate of inflation stood at 4.9% in the 12 months to april, falling for the tenth month in a row. the eurozone rate rose slightly in april to 7%, but that figure is still down from 8.5% in february. the bbc s economics correspondent andy verity explained. if you want to be half full, at least it s in single digits now. for three months in a row, it s defied expectations it would drop into the single digits, and it stayed in double digits. so that has been coming down, and there are some nice signs like for example, petrol is cheaper than it was a year ago, some second hand cars have been coming down in price, and generally goods price inflation, which has been driving this, has subsid
his visit to germany later in the week will go ahead. the bbc has paused plans to scrap the bbc singers, the uk s only full time professional chamber choir, after a public backlash against the move. the singers were due to be axed just before their centenary because of bbc budget cuts, but now, the corporation says they will continue performing while it looks at other ways of funding them, as our media correspondent david sillito reports. singing the bbc singers a part of british musical life for nearly 100 years. however, what began as the wireless chorus of 192a didn t look as though it was going to make it to its centenary year. the bbc said it had to make cuts the choir would close in september. however, there s been a u turn. and in the queue for today s concert, there was relief that britain s only full time, salaried professional choir looks to have been saved. it s something to aspire to, certainly for young singers coming up professionally. ijust read on my phone