from the bbc s headquarters here in sunny london. in our programme today: is russia s summer offensive turning out to be as successful as ukraine feared? this summer, notably, for the first time, they are saying things like, we don t really know what our goal is other than to stay alive. the idea of pushing the russians to the border, certainly in the east, feels far fetched to them. who owns the moon? and what are different countries planning to do there? you look at pictures of the moon, and it looks as bare as anything, but people have valued what s up there as being anywhere between sort of billions of dollars and quadrillions of dollars. and with the euros in full flow, who stands to gain from football success? if you get to a stage, and we ve seen this in certain leagues in europe, one team dominates too much, then perhaps that will begin to affect the popularity and the appeal of that competition. this time last year, we were seeing clear signs that ukraine s much he
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money in peoples pockets and it s meant to make the economy grow. but inflation is already over 10% and what it did was it was extraordinarily and unexpectedly large and left the bank of england a much harderjob to try to bear down inflation that s all we think now that the interest rates which were going to hit between a quarter now, are going to hit four by may next yearin are going to hit four by may next year in may hits six. as i people have been selling and particularly government bonds because as interest rates go up, the value of bonds go down which is why the bank of england has to step in to try to calm what is a very volatile situation. in another development, on tuesday the international monetary fund issued a rare rebuke of the government s tax cutting plan. the imf said developments in the uk were being and it warned the british government that its plans risk
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