Wigan and newport. Lets speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. How rapidly have rents been rising . The bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. Between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. For the areas which have seen the biggest increases. This graph tells a story. This is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31 . These are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. Manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. But six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. These are towns within touching distance of cities. They have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. Nearly 39 over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15 injust the last year. One of the Estate Agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasnt seen anything like it, he described a staggering. Baez hasnt seen anything like it, he described a
Secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on the International Pressure for an independent investigation. Israelis will say, look, we will investigate this. We will see if there are lessons to be learned. Theyve said theyre going to do that. Whether they will do a kind of open, internationally supervised investigation of the kind thats being alluded to by some outside israel, i slightly doubt that. But they clearly recognise that theyre under pressure to explain what happened in the early hours of thursday morning, because now it isntjust a question of what the israeli army is saying versus what palestinian doctors are saying. You now have, for the first time, International Observers in the form of representatives from the un who were in Shifa Hospital yesterday and who met people who they said had experienced gunshot wounds. Now the un team says they did not see dead bodies, so they were not able t
We have seen amputees and we have seen children as young as 12 that were injured yesterday. These events cannot be allowed to go on. We need to have safe, secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has been piecing together more details of what happened. And just a warning his report contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. Then shots ripped through the night. People start to move. Then ran to escape. In this section of the crowd, panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left from here under Israeli Tank Escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Fo
You need to be hungrier. You need to be bolder. You need to be more imaginative. We talk disinformation. Theres a lot of propaganda and disinformation coming i from non ij handles also. And we ask, what matters . The most raw, yet nuanced political conversations in india often happen at these kind of tea stalls. Welcome to this is india. Today were talking elections. India is the Worlds Largest democracy, an economic Powerhouse Set to become the worlds Third Largest economy. Internationally, india is having its moment courted by the United States as a counterweight to china. A voice for the global south. Any day now, india will call elections. Voting will take place over several weeks, and the results dontjust matter to the People Living in it. It matters to the world. Now, in india, there are dozens of Political Parties in this country, but two really dominate the bjp and the congress. Before we get there, though, lets take a look at the election in numbers. 968 million eligible voter