Reports from Northern Afghanistan say theres heavy heavy Fighting Fighting in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. New changes to the uks covid travel restrictions come into force. Double vaccinated people travelling from france to the uk will no longer have to isolate. Thousands flee their homes in greece as Forest Fires burn out of control the country faces its most intense heatwave in more than 30 years. The argentine football star, lionel messi, is emotional as he confirms that he is leaving barcelona after 20 years at The Club. The Closing Ceremony of the tokyo olympics is under way after a final day of competition. Team gb have matched their Medal Total from London 2012 with 22 golds, and 65 medals in total. Jason kenny won gold in the Mens Kieren Cycling event in the velodrome. That makes him britains most successful male athlete with a total of seven olympic Gold Medals under his belt, a total of nine olympic medals in all. In t
To come in and treat it like their own personal hedge fund is disgusting. It s disgraceful, it s disgusting, and i will say three strong words enough is enough. Chanting. It s not a sport if the success is already guaranteed. It s not a sport, and it doesn t matter if you lose. I can only give my personal opinion, and i don t like it one bit and i hope it doesn t happen. The ramifications of this, i think, we ll be talking about in years to come. And for inter milan, still the european champions. Since the middle of the last century, european football s been based on a principle that anyone can be king, the idea that the seats at the top table are for guests and can t be permanently reserved, that you can work your way up through the divisions and play in europe or fall back down the other way, no guarantees. But business likes guarantees. At some of the biggest clubs, the pandemic meant stadiums stood empty. As already hefty overd rafts grew still more enormous, they were looking
areas. the thunderstorms could be widespread, pushing their way northwards, and they could be torrential if you catch one, with the chance of lightning. temperatures are still 30, 31 in the south east but coming down in scotland and northern ireland and thatis scotland and northern ireland and that is the trend as we move into next week, cool air moving down from the north west ringing fresher days and nights and ten which is closer to what we expect for this time of year but there will be scattered showers around temperatures closer to what we expect. that is the bbc news tonight. more analysis of the stories on newsnight. and the news continues on bbc one because now it is time to join our colleagues for the news where you are. it is good night. the americans have outsourced their space programme. is this the price? how did tech bros become major players in global conflict? people like elon musk think it is better to switch off some of the services. this is something tha
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the figure which tells us the rate at which prices are rising hit the bank of england s target of 2% in may, coming down from 2.3% in april. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. gary in sussex used to have seven butchers shops. he now has four. forced to make cuts as he s been caught between soaring costs over the last few years and customers with lean budgets looking for value. but things are easing. the price is probably 10 15% more than they were at the beginning of covid, but the actual price of the product is pretty much stationary now. well, we hope it s stationary. it would be nice if it would come down, but i can t see that, not in the foreseeable future anyway. it s global food and energy costs, which triggered the rise in inflation to 11% in 2022, which have also helped it fall to the 2% target, along with the rate rises over the last couple of years. as you may have noticed, the prices of goods are rising more slowly as the impact of the w