to call for national lung cancer screening. england fight back to reach the semi finals of the euros. an extra time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. it s thought half of all kennels across the uk have closed during lockdown, but with many more of us now owning dogs, getting a space at a boarding house like this is now a very hard thing. good morning. today will be cooler than yesterday. for england, fairly cloudy with the odd shower. bright and sunnier in the west. i ll have all the details and more later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday zistjuly. our top story two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battleground is likely to be taxation, with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. he s the forme
harry smith on the end of an internet era announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening today some tough medicine for an american economy racked by high inflation. the federal reserve raising a key interest rate 0.75% it s the biggest bump-up since 1994 a hike sure to be felt in the wallets of american borrowers. think higher mortgages rates and bigger credit card payments which we ll get into in a moment. what s it all about? the fed hopes the increase will start putting the brakes on inflation which is running at 40-year highs. gas, food, prices, you name it. it s all soaring investors liked the news today the markets rallying on the fed announcement policymakers weighing future increases while trying to steer around the risk of a recession. let s tell you what you need to know about all this starting with tom costello reporter: for days, the fed has telegraphed that it would go big today after acknowledging it should have acted sooner to rein in
spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig