Speaker mccarthy with another new. Neil so tonight, a wake up call. It is bound to be the hottest year ever. What can we still do about it . Author john valiant helps us find some hope against this heat. This is american voices. We begin this hour with a warning from gop voters. Donald trump is a loser. It is a message republican candidate, will hurd, is preaching to anyone who will listen. And iowa heard predicted that if his party sticks by the twice indicted, twice impeached former president , that The Grand Party will get what it caught the last time. Donald trump is not running for president make America Great again. Donald trump is running to stay out of prison. And if we elect i know, i know, i know. I know. Listen, i know the truth, the truth is hard. But if we elect donald trump, we are willingly giving joe biden four more years in the white house and america cant handle that. Will hurd got booed telling the truth. Telling the truth. That proved the latest on the gop voters ar
our aeroplane contrails. the water that aeroplanes check out the back makes controls. sometimes when there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, seven miles up in the sky, where the aeroplanes fly, they can persist for many, many hours, going the spectacular sunrise and sunset pictures. you get a sense of these contrails starting to work away, these lines of cloud you can see on the satellite picture. and they are, because we are starting to get drier air moving in across england, seven miles up in the atmosphere. you are less likely to see those contrails hanging around quite as long. weather wise today we have a bit of patchy cloud across south west scotland and northern ireland, may be an odd light shower. otherwise, the vast majority of the uk having dry weather with plenty of sunshine stop the sunshine, of course, is stronger this time of year. we have high levels of uv. the temperatures are widely reaching the high teens or low 20s. probably peaking at 23 celsius this
over new claims that he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. he denies any wrongdoing. the independent police watchdog is to send investigators to cardiff following monday night s riot which started after two teenage boys were killed in a crash. the racism row in spanish football real madrid star viniciusjunior has his red card rescinded, as people protest in his native brazil over the racial abuse suffered by their star player. good morning. iamon i am on the roof of the bbc in london, where the sun is beating down. for england and wales we are looking at it day of sunny intervals, variable cloud. for scotland and northern ireland, cloud and spots of rain, but brightening up. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 24th may. our main story. inflation in the uk is expected to fall below 10% for the first time since august, when official figures are released injust over an hour. economists have predicted the current rate of 10.1% could drop sharp
home secretary did not break ministerial rules in the way she handled a speeding offence last year. the baby boy murdered by his parents on christmas day three years ago it s emerged finley boden was returned to them more quickly than social workers wanted. and welcome to the world of unified football where players with intellectual disabilities are part of the team. and coming up on bbc news. valencia are punished with a five match partial stadium closure over the racial abuse suffered by real madrid s vinicius junior this weekend. good afternoon. inflation the rate that prices are going up has fallen below 10% for the first time since last august. in the year to march, inflation was 10.1%. figures out today show that last month it slowed down to 8.7%. so prices are still rising but at a slower rate than before. part of the reason for that is a drop in the wholesale cost of energy though food price inflation is still close to a as year high. here s our economics
new figures here in the uk show that the rate at which prices are rising has fallen sharply, hitting single figures for the first time since last august. the annual rate for april fell to 8.7%, down from 10.1% in march, but still higher than predicted. a quick global comparison in the us, the rate of inflation stood at 4.9% in the 12 months to april, falling for the tenth month in a row. the eurozone rate rose slightly in april to 7%, but that figure is still down from 8.5% in february. the bbc s economics correspondent andy verity explained. if you want to be half full, at least it s in single digits now. for three months in a row, it s defied expectations it would drop into the single digits, and it stayed in double digits. so that has been coming down, and there are some nice signs like for example, petrol is cheaper than it was a year ago, some second hand cars have been coming down in price, and generally goods price inflation, which has been driving this, has subsid