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to choose is fundamental. and as people across the uk prepare to go to the polls on thursday, we hear how the race for power at stormont could bring seismic change in northern ireland. hello and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has hinted he may be prepared to do more to address the rising cost of living but he has dismissed fresh calls for a windfall tax on energy companies. it comes as bp announced it made almost five billion pounds in underlying profits for the first quarter of the year more than double the figure for the same period last year. rising prices and energy bills are expected to be a big issue in the elections across the uk this week. here s our business editor simonjack. bp has driven straight into the middle of a political and economic storm is the soaring cost of fuel and energy has emptied the pockets of consumers and filled the coffers of those who sell it. bp recorded its highest profits in the decade, adding fuel to the far over whether ....
lord peter ricketts. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. it is a decisive moment in the race to become the next french president. tonight, the incumbent emmanuel macron is taking on marine le pen in the only televised debate of the campaign ahead of sunday s second round vote. two very different candidates and in front of the the french electorate two very different visions of the future. everything at stake, which is perhaps why the two teams have put so much focus on every detail of the preparation for tonight s debate, from the air conditioning, which we are told will be maintained at 19 degree celsius throughout. the two candidates are sat behind tables that are exactly 2.5 metres apart, each candidate has a director advisor in the gallery, who presumably will hover over the real director to ensure their candidate is treated fairly. eight issues are up for debate tonight, including the environment, youth and education, pensions and french diplomacy. those last t ....
news agency, tasnim, is quoting unnamed sources, saying that five people were killed in the consulate building. they claim the blast was the result of an israel air strike. other iranian media outlets say the building was completely destroyed. several diplomats are said to have been killed. we ve just received these pictures from damascus, showing a damaged building, with what appears to be an iranian flag in front of it, and another on top of the building. it s not known who was in the building at the time, but there are reports that some senior iranian military figures may have been affected. we are checking those reports. israel hasn t commented on the incident. syria s foreign ministry has said it is sure that israel was behind an attack, and has condemned the incident. much as remind you of that, we are getting reports from syria that there has been an explosion. it appears to have affected the iranian diplomatic mission in the capital damascus. we are hearing from ....
the country into one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history . the un special rapporteur spoke to the bbc earlier and gave this assessment it is the largest as well as the fastest displacement crisis in the world today. the needs are staggering and they continue to rise. and all the positive indicators, food security, access to health care, reproductive health, we see these rapidly declining, and what we see our negative indicators, malnutrition, child protection issues, access to health and rising food insecurity. since april last year, sudan has been torn apart by fighting between these two men one is the head of the country s military, general abdel fattah al bur han , and the other is his former ally, general mohammed ham dan dagalo who leads a paramilitary group called the rapid support forces. together, they took power in 2019 but the power sharing agreement that resulted has now broken down and there is fierce fighting and within sudan lies another hu ....
the white house says it is monitoring what it described as haiti s rapidly deteriorating security situation. france has become the first country to put a woman s right to an abortion in the constitution, almost 50 years after it was first decriminalised in the country. a specialjoint sitting of both houses of the french parliament voted for the amendment. representatives of all major and minor parties spoke in favour, saying women would no longer have to live in fear of their rights being rescinded. and the european commission has fined apple $2 billion for violating the eu s anti trust laws. the competition commissioner, margarethe vestager, said the company had, for a decade, abused its dominant position in music streaming apps, and ordered the us tech giant to remove all the restrictions, and to refrain from similar practices in the future. apple has said it will appeal against the decision. it s going to be a defining week for the 2024 presidential elections. tomorr ....