most of the time patients have a great experience but we must not paper over the problems we face. we expect backlogs to rise before they fall. a teenager is arrested after a 15 year old boy was stabbed outside his school in huddersfield in west yorkshire. five british captives who were held by russian backed forces in ukraine are released in a prisoner exchange. ministers lift their ban on fracking in england in a bid to increase energy production but critics are warning about environmental damage and a risk of earthquakes. retiring tennis champion roger federer will play the final match of his career in a doubles team alongside his long time rival rafael nadal as part of the laver cup tomorrow. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. interest rates have been raised to 2.25%, the highest level since 2008. it s the seventh consecutive time that they ve been increased by the bank of england, in an attempt to curb soaring prices. the rate has gone up from 1.75%. the bank of e
inflation remaining stubbornly high. why this is worse than expected in a president biden from the study because of the white house was celebrating the inflation reduction act which is going to take a long while to make a financial impact. todd: kevin corke s fire, his reign, and you ll live in washington with more on all of it. cabin, good morning to become a mentor, you get the good stuff linebacker it was, let s be honest, and all just a position, right? to be at the white house yesterday, there was this plan is a mark the passage of the inflation reduction act with music legend james taylor, no less. but it was overshadowed by a stock market plunge that sent shock waves across the globe. talk about your fire and rain. the disastrous drop coming after a government report on consumer prices showed much higher than expected inflation persisting, up a crushing 8.3% in august. grocery bills skyrocketing up 13.5%. got a family? you know it s getting up the paper that is all h
these systems and trained staff to protect themselves against hacking. they have also been misleading about how many fake accounts and bots are on the platform, that s an attempt elon musk has used to try to get out of a deal with the company. there will be suspicions about the timing of this. are you guys carrying water for elon musk? absolutely not. we have been following the news like everyone else, but that has nothing to do with his decisions. he said he was fired by twitter in january of this year after he tried to raise the alarm internally. this is not any kind of personal issue for him. he was eventually fired in january of this year. but he hasn t given up on trying to do that job. in response to the allegations, twitter told cnn security and privacy had long been a priority at twitter. as for zacho, they said he, quote, was fired from his senior executive role at twitter more than six months ago for poor performance and leadership. he now appears to be op