temperatures are expected to reach well into the 30s across southern england today a level three heat health alert has been issued for the region on what could be the hottest day of the year england has appointed its first women s health ambassador with the aim of closing the gender health gap president zelensky says ukraine is closer than ever to the eu with senior officials in brussels expected to recommend it as a formal candidate for membership later today. welcome to bbc news. this morning we re looking at the impact of the rising cost of living with the bank of england warning that the increase in the cost of everything we buy and use could hit 11% later this year. the huge rise is being driven in part by events taking place thousands of miles away in ukraine but the pinch is already being felt right here in the uk. it comes as a bbc commissioned survey suggests we re cutting back on food and travel as those price rises hit our household budgets. four thousand
taking asylum seekers to rwanda. the government is taking on the courts at home and facing accusations from abroad of breaking international law. and a world first in biology, mapping the genome sequence of every species in the british isles. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. tantalisingly poised england set up a grandstand finish against new zealand as james anderson breaks yet another record. welcome to bbc news at ten. we start tonight with a special report revealing the slow but steady progress of russian forces in eastern ukraine. president zelensky has called again for western allies to provide advanced missile defence systems for the ukrainian army. the russians now control almost all of the strategic city of severodonetsk. the last remaining bridge was destroyed by the russians today, making it impossible to bring out more civilians. the ukrainian government says russia is able to keep up its military offensive because it s still earning huge amoun
the israel defense forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no running water or proper sanitation. israel says that since monday, about 300 thousand palestinians have already fled rafah. the us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city and today the un says a full scale offensive cannot take place . in the north there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. it says hamas fighters are regrouping there. meanwhile a top eu official, charles michel, has condemned israel s evacuation orders, saying people are being directed towards unsafe areas. from jerusalem, paul adams reports. one by one, the people of rafah are leaving. outlying parts of the city now all but deserted. i wasn t planning on going, hassan says, but since no one is left here, i decided to leave. i have to find out where my wife and daughter are. the un
we ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo gave us this update from city hall following the announcement. if you look all the way through the campaign, the opinion polls were always in sadiq khan s favour and evenif always in sadiq khan s favour and even if you remember that the results didn t actually get started counting until this morning, so any speculation was really wildly off the mark so counting started this morning but as soon as the first results came in, it was very clear that sadiq khan was looking in a pretty good place because he had already proved in the first two boroughs that he was capable of attracting more votes to the labour party than he did last time. as the day went on, and more constituencies declared, it was pretty obvious sadiq khan had actually increased his support and won a very comfortable victory. it would have been a hailjab set i think if susan hall had got any
good evening. had there not been an extension to this four day truce, then the fighting would have resumed in just under two hours time. as it is, both sides will stand down for a further two days. so far, 11 israeli hostages have been released with more palestinians expected to be freed. we can show your life prison images where authorities are standing by. the us national security council spokesman, john kirby, said the us welcomed the extension. the humanitarian pause in gaza now in its fourth day, will be extended for another two days through thursday morning. israel time. this humanitarian pause has already brought a halt to the fighting, together with a surge of humanitarian assistance. now, in order to extend the pause, hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. we would, of course, hope to see the pause extended further. and that will depend upon hamas continuing to release hostages. that is the picture you are looking at o