if you were in the area, please think back and let us know if you have any information. a guitar teacher one of many tenants evicted because of rent arrears during the pandemic despite a promise covid wouldn t leave anyone without a home. employees in much of the uk could be given the right to request flexible working from their first day in a job. and could covid give some people an allergic reaction to hair dye? and coming up on the bbc news channel, holders europe are in relaxed mood as they attempted to win over the american fans ahead of the start of tomorrow s ryder cup in wisconsin. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government says more energy firms may go bust over the next few weeks. already 1.5 million energy customers are being switched to new, potentially more expensive suppliers, because so many companies have gone out of business. their collapse follows a huge rise in the cost of wholesale gas. in the commons this morning, the gover
deal with it. if if you know in ten months ago what you know now would you ever taken hisjob? i doubt it. if i m being honest. i think i took thejob and are not if i m being honest. i think i took the job and are not prepared to walk away from it, i m here to fight for this club and for the staff to work this club and for the staff to work this club, her work so hard over the years, they need someone who can lead them, who understands what the going through and that s me. i wouldn t leave them in the lurch and i would fight for the staff, i want to fight for the man s and we will get through this. i don t think there s anybody the club will go into liquidation, we will get through this. and i believe we will come out of this better. let s take a look at some of the other sports news stories making the headlines. uefa has doubled the prize money for the women s european championship next year, to be hosted in england. the 16 qualified teams will now share 16 million euros. the
year only to come back and take the tampa bay buccaneers to the play offs. those are our latest headlines this our stop. that s all from me. sally is here at five o clock. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. here s the good news. the proportion of the world s population living in extreme poverty has declined sharply over the past 30 years. here s the bad news. still close to one in 20 of all the world s people relies on humanitarian assistance for survival. with many nations cutting their aid budgets, international ngos remain a linchpin of the global aid system. but are they fit for purpose? well, my guest is danny sriskandarajah, chief executive of oxfam great britain. he promised to reimagine what aid would look like. has he succeeded? danny sriskandarajah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. let s start with those two different ways of looking at what s happening to the world s poorest people. one in 20, almost
won t feature of members of the royal family. and beyonce has announced her first new tour in nearly seven years. there have been passionate appeals for us police reform at the funeral of tyre nichols, who died after being beaten by officers in memphis last month. speaking at the service, the us vice president, kamala harris, urged congress to pass a bill promoting police accountability. five policeman have been charged with murder in connection with the 29 year old s death. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger, as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man had been white, you wouldn t have beat him like that that night. applause. america s first black vice president demanding congress pass police reform legislation. and when we look at th
and winds of change. cloud computing, augmented reality, and 100km/h yachts! how sailgp hopes to get the video game generation on board. this we start with the cost of borrowing because it is on the rise again. in the next few hours the bank of england and the european central bank are both expected to increase their main interest rates by half a percentage point to their highest in m years as they battle to bring inflation under control. good news for savers of course, but piling more pressure on businesses and many people with loans and mortgages. for the bank of england, it would be the tenth rise in a row and would take the cost of borrowing to 4% its highest since 2008. on wednesday the us federal reserve announced a quarter percent increase a much smaller rise than in recent months. but its chair, jerome powell, warned that it would not be the last. as samira hussain in new york reports after in new york reports a year of aggressive rate increases after a year o