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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 youre watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything i...

sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres chetan. we start with the english premier league. four matches to come later. chelseas first game after sacking manager graham potter is against liverpool. both sides have struggled this season and are desperate for a win. interim chelsea boss bruno saltor says itll be the first time hes picking a team — but hes hopeful the players will respond. seeing it as an opportunity for the players. we are representing chelsea, a ...

into administration. hundreds of staff have been made redundant youre watching bbc news. now its time for the media show. hello. with the conservative chairman nadhim zahawis tax affairs dominating the headlines, we will be talking to two of the people behind the story. and later in the programme, netflix films have picked up programme, netflix films have picked up a load of oscar nominations. closer to home, the streamer has just bought its first welsh language tv drama. llinos—grif...

this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk and around the globe. president biden has ordered federal aid to be sent to mississippi, as emergency services work to help hundreds of people whove been left homeless by a tornado. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. 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 mis...

ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin annouced that he would station nuclear weapons in the country. the secretary of the national defence council, oleksiy danilov, said on twitter that the move is a step towards internal destabilisation. adding in a stark warning that the kremlin took belarus as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, which mr putin denies. we have a...

two people have died in new zealands largest city, auckland, after torrential rain caused severe flooding. a state of emergency has been declared. hello and welcome. seven people have been shot dead in a synagogue in eastjerusalem. a 14—year—old boy is among the dead, and a number of other people were wounded. police said the attacker was killed by the security forces as he fled the scene. tensions have been high since nine palestinians, both militants and civilians, were killed du...

events here in the uk and across the world mark holocaust memorial day on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz—birkenau nazi death camp. and the actress sylvia syms, best known for her roles in the films ice cold in alex and the queen, has died at the age of 89. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the governments record on economic growth. in a speech, he said theres too much gloom about the economy, and that the uk ca...

extremist videos that influenced two mass killings in the united states. daniel harris was convicted of encouraging terrorism. us presidentjoe biden urges protesters in tennessee to remain peaceful after five former memphis police officers are charged with the murder of a black man, tyre nichols. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the governments record on economic growth. in a speech, he said theres too much gloom about the economy,...

lets start in china, where the latest figures just released show the worlds second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year at 4.5%. this is the first set of quarterly gdp figures following the end of strict covid—19 restrictions in december. they also follow the easing of a three—year crackdown on tech firms and property. lets get reaction from julian evans—pritchard, head of china economics at capital economics. this is better than expecte...

hello there. we start here in the uk, where we are about to find out if the economy has fallen into recession — thats defined as two quarters in a row of negative economic growth. we already know the uks entire economic output, or gross domestic product, shrank in the three months to september by 0.3%. injust over an hour, we get gdp figures for october to december. anotherfall would mean the uk is officially in recession. lets talk to melanie baker, senior uk economist at royal lond...