yesterday was the warmest day of the year, 28 celsius, a month. today feeling fresher with sunny spells and showers. the full forecast throughout the programme. it s friday, the 11th of august. our main story. the latest round of strikes byjunior doctors in england will start in just over an hour, as a long running dispute involving half of all doctors working in the uk continues. nhs leaders are warning it means more significant disruption to the health service, with thousands of appointments and procedures postponed. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. we re now into the fifth round of strikes byjunior doctors in england with little sign that their union, the british medical association, or ministers are prepared to yield. but the continuing industrial action is having an impact on patients. former teacher margaret is trying to plan a holiday, but she also needs to get a new pacemaker battery fitted. one nhs appointment was cancelled because of an earlier walko
things like volatile food and energy prices, so called core inflation was 4.7%, the lowest since october 2021. the good news is that inflation has drifted down from last summer s a0 year highs, but it is still well above what the federal reserve thinks of as normal prices and with the overall trend heading in the right direction, policy makers, well, they may feel that they don t need to raise interest rates further. the us central bank, you may recall, raised its benchmark interest rate to more than 5.25% percent, the highest level in 22 years, all in a bid to cool the economy and ease the pressures pushing up prices. so while it s too early to say mission accomplished from the white house to wall street, there is a sense that progress is being made in the world s largest economy. china s e commerce giant alibaba reported its strongest quarterly revenue growth in almost two years, pushing its us listed shares up more than 4%. earlier this week, the latest data showed consume
time for a look at the business news now with marc ashdown. hello, this is world business report, i m marc ashdown. we start in the us, where the all important inflation data is just out. prices inched up injuly, but less than expected. the consumer price index, a key inflation figure, rose 3.2% compared to a year ago. it was running at 3% injune, so on the face of it, the pace of price rises has ticked up again. but the markets had expected a bigger increase, so could today s figure be good news? and could it be enough to persuade the federal reserve to leave interest rates unchanged next month? let s bring in our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. firstly, talk us through the reasons behind this uptick. inflation had been easing gradually, why has it gone up? some of this has to do with comparisons of where we were last year and the way the data is compiled but some of it is things like rising housing costs and stuff like rising housing costs and stuff li
flames. this is one of the worst affected areas. 0fficials flames. this is one of the worst affected areas. officials say they are struggling to assess the full extent of the damage, and warn the death toll may rise further. is anybody still out here? it s time to go! these are the desperate calls for people still in the historic city of lahaina on the island of maui, as the flames on the marina gets closer and closer. many neighbourhoods were burned to the ground as the western side of the island was nearly cut off with only one highway open, and thousands trying to evacuate as officials told of widespread devastation in the town, its harbour and surrounding areas. some people fled into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. i was the last one off the dock, when the firestorm came through the banyan trees and took everything with it. and ijust ran out to the beach and i ran south, and ijust helped everybody i could along the way. you ve got to know when you can. the cause
high street chain wilko says it has appointed administrators after failing to secure a rescue deal. you will remember this chain has been in the news for the last couple of weeks with concerns over whether it will be rescued. it looks like the rescue deal has fallen through and they have appointed administrators. 12,000 people, it looks like, at risk potentially, following the news that wilko has appointed administrators. we will bring you any more detail when we get the story but the breaking news, wilko, the high street chain, has appointed administrators. here in the uk, police and the west midlands say they are treating a fire at a well known18th century pub near dudley as arson. the cricket house, described as britain s one ovest pub was largely destroyed by the blaze, it was then bulldozed with the local council said was unauthorised, unacceptable and possibly unlawful. here is louisa pilbeam. what s left of the 250 year old pub has now been searched by a specialist fir