Change Interest Rates from five percent. The decision, expected at midday, comes after inflation, showing the rise in consumer prices, remained at 2. 2 Per Cent last month. The Central Bank in the united states lowered Interest Rates by half a Percentage Point Yesterday the first cut for more than four years. Lets speak to our Business Correspondent peter ruddick. What is the expectation with the Bank Of England . I knew you will ask me that. I am not a betting man but the one thing we can predict is it is going to be a close decision. The last time the nine Person Committee voted five to four, as close as you can get to cut Interest Rates last time to the 5 level they are now, a quarter of a Percentage Point change. Why will it be so although there is disagreement really among the committee and economic experts about how sticky, how stubborn Inflation Price rises are, there is agreement that the trend is Price Rises and the rate of inflation is coming down but relatively slowly, relat
The country causIng severe floodIng and landslIdes. Lebanon has banned WalkIe TalkIes and pagers from all flIghts out of the countrys only commercIal aIrport In operatIon. The move comes after explosIons were trIggered In pagers and WalkIe TalkIes used by hezbollah. The attacks kIlled at least 37 people and Injured thousands. Israel hasnt confIrmed It was behInd the attacks but Is wIdely assumed to be, and Its Defence MInIster, yoav gallant, has saId Its openIng a new phase In the war. And these are pIctures from the IsraelI mIlItary, whIch says It hIt hezbollah Infrastructure In an overnIght attack across The Border. It says It carrIed out AIr StrIkes on seven targets In southern lebanon. The us says Its Involved In IntensIve dIplomatIc efforts to prevent the conflIct escalatIng further. The leader of hezbollah, whIch some western states have desIgnated a terrorIst organIsatIon, Is expected to address the events In a speech later today. ThIs Is the moment a blast rocks beIrut. Hezboll
Is perfomed by a team of vets in liverpool. And coming up on Bbc News, celtic get their Champions League Campaign off to a flying start with a Record Opening Win for brendan rodgers side. Good Afternoon And Welcome to the Bbc News at one. The bbc has today been contacted by more former harrods employees who say they were assaulted by Mohammed Al fayed when he owned the famous department store. It follows claims in a new Bbc Documentary by five women who say he raped them while they worked for him. The programme has uncovered evidence that, under mr Al Fayeds ownership, harrods not only failed to intervene but helped to cover up the allegations. Just to warn you, this report from Shaimaa Khalil contains descriptions of sexual violence. Yeah, i went back to harrods about a year ago. I knew if i could walk through and come out the other side, id be in a good place to be talking to you. Ijoined harrods because i wanted to be a buyer, and i ended up working for an absolute monster. When moh
Welcome back to bbc news. Stricter breaking news. A statement from Scotland Yard regarding mohamed fayed. They say they are aware of various allegations of sexual offences made against him over a number of years. The commander from the met said they are aware of the met said they are aware of the allegations made against the allegations made against the late Mohammed Alf fired which were reported to the mets. Each one was investigated and where appropriate advice from the Crown Prosecution Service was sought. No charges resulted from these investigations. We are committed, the statement goes on to say, that those who report them receive the best service possible from our offices and we have made progress in improving the quality of our investigations in recent years, including more than doubling our charges for rape since 2021. That is the statement just rape since 2021. That is the statementjust released rape since 2021. That is the statement just released from Scotland Yard because t
Monitoring a speech from the Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nazrallah, giving his first public response to two days of attacks in lebanon using sabotaged Communication Devices. The number of people killed has risen to 37, with over 3,000 wounded. The Hezbollah Leader accused israel of being behind the operation, which he said crossed a red line. Oi or humanely with me is ou or. Humanely r security with me is our Security Correspondent frank gardner. Some of what he says is true, some of what he says is true, some is not. They are in real trouble, they are trashed, they in real some is not. They are in real trouble, they are trashed, they are in no position to fight a are in no position to fight a war right now, other than the war right now, other than the low Level Exchange of fire they low Level Exchange of fire they are doing across the border. Are doing across the border. But where i think he is right but where i think he is right is when he says bring it on, we is when he it on, we welco