west coast responded with the latest on the strike action. the last time both actors and writers were on strike at the same time in the 19605 when ronald reagan was president, not of america, but of the screen actors guild. they will go on strike tomorrow when the writers walked out nearly over two months ago now, they brought a halt too much of the production in hollywood. now the actors ijoined them, that will bring almost a complete halt to the whole industry. that will cost the californian economy ten5 that will cost the californian economy tens of millions of dollars every day. it will mean financial hardship for many people working at industry still recovering from the pandemic and it will mean a major delay to scooting settles student schedules. the student schedules. the im act student schedules. the impact will student schedules. the impact will be student schedules. the impact will be very - impact will be very significant. can you tell us some of the
and now the sport. we will start with some transfer news. arsenal have agreed a deal with chelsea for around £65 million for the forward kai havertz. chelsea bought him from bayer leverkeusen in 2020 for a deal worth around 71 million pounds. mikel arteta is looking to stregthen his squad arsenal had a second bid for west ham captain declan rice turned down this week. manchester city have agreed a deal with chelsea to buy mateo kovacic. the croatian midfielder willjoin the treble winners for an initialfee of £25 million with a further £5 million of potential add ons. kovacicjoined chelsea from real madrid in 2019. they re also getting rid of french midfielder n golo kante who has agreed to move to the saudi arabian champions al ittihad. his contract at stamford bridge expires at the end of the month. he helped leicester city win the premier league in 2016 before helping chelsea win the premier league, champions league, and the fa cup. jose mourinho has been banned forfou
off the greek coast. a bbc investigation has found evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of its response to the migrant ship, which sank last week with the loss of hundreds of lives. the ship sank about 50 miles off the southern coast of greece and survivors were taken to kalamata. an analysis of the movements of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel wasn t moving for seven hours before it capsized. the greek coastguard claims that during this time, the vessel was on its way to italy and didn t need to be rescued. the greek authorities have not yet responded to the bbc s findings. our europe correspondent nick beake is in kalamata in greece. the greek coastguard has faced heavy criticism for not doing more to help those people on board. its main justification has been that they did not want their help and that, crucially, the boat was moving in a steady direction towards italy. now, what we ve tried to do is piece together a pic
the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 80s, the government will give thousands of people an interim payment of £100,000 each. i think it s a vindication of the work of the inquiry and the fact that this is an interim compensation payment suggests to me that liability has been accepted by the government. there are pollution warnings for nearly 50 beaches around england and wales after untreated sewage is discharged with heavy rain. and britain s emma raducanu knocks serena williams out of the cincinnati masters in straight sets. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we will have the latest from lord s as england take on south africa in the first test of the series. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. an increase in food and drink prices has pushed inflation to double digits as the cost of living crisis intensifies. the office for national statistics says the rise in the price of goods is now at its highest rate for more than a0 years. inflation hit 1