rory cellan jones and his wife, diane having been rescued from the streets of romania. she made her home behind the couple s sofa, only emerging briefly for treats of steak and cheese. and her story has gone viral on twitter, with thousands of people regularly tuning in to see how she s progressing. yesterday, there was a bit of a breakthrough, as sophie was coaxed out from her safe space for the first time for a quick cuddle. we ll have more on her story on tonight s six o clock news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. follow that! today, a good deal brighter with sunny spells and showers. but there are still concerns about flooding. look at this, the river severn coming out the flood low lying ground. and flood warnings in force, 82 across england, the majority of these four stretches of the river severn, and more heavy rainjust around the corner. on the satellite picture, this area of developing cloud and low pressure is going to bring a return of heavy
we start today with the problem staring at us every time we go to the shops and look at our bank balance: the cost of living crisis. today we ll get the latest estimate of inflation here in the uk for the month of may. we ll go back to april to set the scene: inflation that month was running at 9%, the highest rate here in the uk for a0 years. looking into the future, the bank of england has warned inflation might exceed 11% later this year as the prices of fuel and food put pressure on household budgets. the response by the bank of england has been to raise the cost of borrowing. rates have recently been increased from 1% to 1.25%, the fifth consecutive rise, pushing them to the highest level in 13 years. our business correspondent, emma simpson, has been speaking to the chairman of the supermarket chain asda, lord stuart rose he told her that his customers have been cutting back on their shopping. if you haven t got the money, i cannot eat. iii if you haven t got the mon
So that allegations of genocide can be investigated. Israel must also, according to this provisional measures, order ensure that the rafah Border Crossing stays open to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid to be delivered at scale and must report back to this court, the International Court ofjustice here in the hague within one month on how these orders are being implemented. Israels Prime Minister has rejected allegations of genocide. We have more reaction from jerusalem. Even as the judge was reading up the latest ruling there were plumes of black smoke over rafah, suggesting the military Campaign Continues for the israeli troops are deployed very close to the city of rafah, we dont exactly know how far they intend to put into the city and when that will happen but the Israeli Government indicated it is still determined to finish the job and what it regards as one of the last hamas strongholds in the gaza strip. The israelis are saying they are doing this according to international
Morning joe we can. Lets get to some conversations from this week that you might have missed an Arizona Grand Jury has indicted 11 of these local collectors, along with several other allies of donald trump, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A 58 page indictment including conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges related to attempts, by the defendants, to change the Election Results of donald trump this was the scene on december 14th, 2020, when 11 people met at the Republican Party headquarters in phoenix to sign a certificate, claiming to be arizonas 11 electors, despite joe biden winning. What are you guys doing . You are the 11,000 votes probably broadcasting it. What are they thinking . What are they thinking . I just cant. Like okay, we are fraudulent electors. There is a fraud scheme going on here. Lets put the cameras on. Maybe they are providing evidence. They were thinking ahead three and half years down the road, they are really going to need this as evidence. Here
been slated for a couple of days and their timetable has been fairly strict throughout this, but there is plenty of room for manoeuvre. they don t normally sit on a friday but i think they are expecting to speak to him. not that many people behind me today, but we have seen over the past four weeks, we have seen protesters, plenty of media, so we can expect all of that tomorrow as well, but his testimony crucially important, and he has received plenty of criticism from civil servants, advisers, scientific advisers, to name but a few, who said he showed nuclear levels of confidence in dealing with the crisis and he will certainly want to face some of that criticism down. but interesting, yesterday, we had from michael gove, the chancellor of the duchy of is that, that brilliant name in british politics, which basically means he was in charge of the cabinet office, and he was pretty defensive of matt hancock, who he said showed wisdom and foresight in many of the decisions he h