nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
matches taking place. the big match of the night didn t really live up to expectations. chelsea in their first match since sacking graham potter could only draw 0 0 with liverpool at stamford bridge. the home side did have two goals disallowed but that was the best of the action in what was a sobering night in west london. the draw leaves chelsea 11th, liverpool are eighth seven points off the champions league qualification places. it s football. there are the laws and the referees. they try to take the best decisions that they can. yes, it s frustrating for the players because we creating chances, we scoring high scoring offside. it will come it will come to the boys because they deserve it. they keep pushing. we ask them to play with their heart. they did it and just focus on the next day. he came here. now a team with six changes to play the best game of the season. what i wanted to see is a proper fight. and i thought the boys who came in used the opportunity. t
pandemic-era policy, set to expire in just under three weeks. new reporting on how the biden administration is getting ready at the border. meanwhile, charges dropped what we re hearing from alec baldwin since prosecutors announced the actor will not face criminal charges for his role in the fatal rust shooting we ll break down the latest push against transgender rights across several states and we ll bring you inside the billion dollar latin music industry breaking records around the world. and we begin this morning with the news that president biden appears to be on the verge of announcing his re-election campaign three sores familiar with the matter tell nbc news the president will make his intentions to seek a second term official next week the tuesday will be four years since he launched his last run to the white house. a new wall street journal poll out this morning gives the president a three-point advantage over donald trump among registered voters. that same
hello and welcome. the governor of mississippi has warned there are significant risks of more severe weather after a tornado left hundreds homeless. president biden has declared a major emergency in the state. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside the building. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 25 people were killed in mississippi and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. 0ur north america correspondent sophie long reports from mississippi. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes, everything. we get storms like bad rain or, you know, probably high winds or something. but we never experience nothing like this where it can wipe out a whole town. you know, schools, children, you know, parents, loved ones. it wiped out every