Increase in the first three months of this year. Supercharging the economy is central to the new labour government s plans. Our business correspondent marc ashdown reports. Football didn t quite make it home again but the euros certainly gave the uk sjune gdp figure a gentle kick in the right direction. Gross domestic product is a measure of all the economic activity of companies, governments and people in a country. And one off major sporting or entertainment events, along with seasonal sun or downpours, can affect how productive we all are from month to month. After a big week of data on employment and inflation, the latest monthly and quarterly readings give yet another indication of where the economy is heading. The economic story then continues to be one of recovery after the uk tipped into a brief but shallow recession at the end of last year. Two consecutive quarters of growth will be welcomed, even if some months may prove to be bumpier than others. Keeping that story going wil
To ease a little further. The headline rate has been running a little over three and most people now expect and hope it will lead to lower so that is the expectation. I think we are at the point now where it would not take a shockingly bad inflationary report to set the fed off this path. Even in 0k number will probably still have them cutting in september. Cost of livin: is them cutting in september. Cost of living is a them cutting in september. Cost of living is a persistent issue for us consumers even though official data says inflation is slowing, jobs are created in job seem to be going higher. Why is such a mismatch?. This is one of the hard things to unravel. I think it comes down to the technical thing about, sure, the rate at which prices are going up has slowed, that is the inflation rate, but prices are still high. When you look at us economic data, normally when it is is lowered is now, it is still low and wages are going up and people are usually much happier when asked i
For scotland as well. And what s next for emma? british tennis legends offer their advice to the teen queen, emma raducanu. Good afternoon. In the past few minutes, the four chief medical officers for the uk have recommended that all children aged 12 to 15 years old should be offered one dose of the pfizer covid vaccine. The decision comes after scientific advisers serving onjoint committee for vaccination and immunisation said the vaccine only offered a marginal health benefit for that age group and could not be recommended on health grounds alone. Well, ministers are now expected to back the new recommendation as part of the covid winter plan the prime minister will set out tomorrow. Let s discuss this further and get more detail. With me now is our health correspondent anna collinson. Take us through the details. The element up until now only 12 to 15 year olds with underlying health is year olds with underlying health conditions were allowed to have a covid i9 vaccine, and only con
Following the science or a soun policy, the number of infection as going down as we ve learned today, and vaccinations are going up there and after claiming 70 percent was the threshold for vaccinations, after claiming he d never issue a vaccine mandate, biden puppeteers pulled his strings again, and the opposite direction. If they cared about covid, they would have shut this other border down, they would have refused to resettle more than 1,000 migrants across america i they cured about covid, they would be promoting safe therapeutic that actually work. They would be talking about how ineffective these masks are at slowing viral spreads for the entire exercise yesterday was political bird the white house is not against covid, but against the inevitable collapse of biden s presidency. He is drowning in bad poll numbers, and democrats are bracing for a bloodbath and the midterms. Biden is angry with free speech was designed to do one thing, t fight pick a fight with republican governor
The taliban claim they ve captured the final afghan province not yet under their control. They released a video on social media showing their flag being raised at the governor s compound in panjshir province. The leader of the local resistance fighters has accused the west of allowing the taliban to advance and called for a national uprising against the taliban. As the fighting dies down, the un s humanitarian envoy has arrived in kabul for talks with the country s new leadership. Our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. A white flag of victory, the taliban flag. The centre of the scenic panjshir valley. This last redoubt of armed opposition, now claimed by the taliban. God is great, their fighters cry. In kabul today, the taliban spokesman had a message for the enemy. Translation: we have captured panjshir, with the will of god. We are telling those people who still want to fight, if they want a normal life, they are welcome in afghanistan, their home. But