an announcement today. us secretary of state antony blinken arrives in ukraine for urgent talks, after warnings that russia could carry out an attack at any point . the united nations says it s intensifying its response to the volcanic eruption and tsunami in tonga. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the cost of goods and services in the uk is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years. the december figure for inflation showed that prices have gone up by 5.4% compared to the year before. energy costs and the price of food and drink drove the rise, which was higher than economists had been forecasting. in america, the scourge of rising prices now ranks among us business leaders top concerns, according to a survey out today. our business presenter ben boulos has been gauging reaction in skipton in the north of england. good morning, yes, here at skipton market, traders and customers are already grappling with that rise in average prices. dom runs
the prime minister says the booster roll out is working. we the prime minister says the booster roll-out is working. roll-out is working. we have a good chance of getting roll-out is working. we have a good chance of getting through roll-out is working. we have a good chance of getting through the - chance of getting through the omicron wave without the need for further restrictions and without the need certainly for a lockdown. one of the most prominent women tech billionaires is now a convicted fraudster. elizabeth holmes faces jail for conning investors. and justice at last more pardons for those convicted of past homosexual activity that s no longer illegal. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. we ll get the latest from sydney ahead of the fourth test with england s cricketers looking to salvage some pride from the ashes series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. prince andrew s lawyers have been trying to convince an
fire from lawmakers and regulators and former employees, social media giant facebook is rebranding. this is bbc news. the president of indonesia says that wealthy countries are not doing enough to ensure coronavirus vaccines reach all parts of the world. less than half of the country s 275,000,000 people have received their first dose of vaccine. joko widodo is calling for global solidarity to battle the pandemic and for vaccine manufacturing to be spread across countries. vaccine should be equally distributed to all countries there should not be a few countries they get the vaccines and some only get a little. therefore, indonesia was fairness for access to vaccines. this is hugely important. if that happened, then that would mean a high global solidarity amongst the advanced, poor and developing countries. we need, in the future, to make facilities and manufacturing vaccine centres in both developed and poorer countries, especially in countries, especially in countries with
stage there is no sign of rain to the rest of the month, with high pressure with us, keeping things so dry at the moment, pretty breezy with dust flying around, and that high pressure continues to slip south across the uk for the rest of this week. as well as being dry it is also cloudier today. you can see the extent of the cloud in the north and east on the satellite picture with the best of the sunshine across wales and the south west, where you have higher levels of pollen, tree pollen sufferers having those high levels to continue not content within the south and the west. plenty of sunshine, here, as well. to the north, more cloud across north yorkshire. the cloud is producing a few showers there. not numerous, but they are popping up and down across the pennines, into central and southern scotland, one or two in the south east of northern ireland. they could pop up anywhere but you would be unlucky to catch more than one. cloud increasing across england and wales, w