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everyone. thank you for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. >> im about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think were in good shape. >> house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the d...

president vladimir putin, has accused nato of having imperial ambitions. and said its members had no interest in the well—being of ukrainians. farmers across the uk are cutting back on food production, as they struggle with soaring costs, according to a study by the national farmers union. it found that a third of farmers say theyre cutting back on crops, such as wheat, for food, because fertiliser has trebled in price. instead they are planning to grow wheat for animal feed because ...

at least 18 were killed and more than 30 are still missing. britains farmers cutting back on the amount of food they produce as costs soar. u nfortu nately we a re costs soar. unfortunately we are not put enough money at this moment in time to cover or cost of production and every single pig were selling we are losing in the region of around if not more. emma rather —— emma raducanu is outgunned by garcia. and coming—up on the bbc news channel... rain hampers play on the third da...

are also off the shelves. in new york, the singer r kelly is given a 30 year sentence for sexually abusing women and children. and on day three of the championship, britain�*s andy murray and emma raducanu are both out of wimbledon. and coming up on the bbc news channel: late wickets help england�*s women�*s cause in their one—off test with south africa, but they have just one day left to salvage a result. welcome to bbc news at ten. leaders of the nato defence alliance have de...

From ukraine and russia... andrew ward says a quadrupling of fertiliser prices mean his crop could be down this year. if the fertiliser is so expensive and it is not viable to apply the maximum amount, then the tonnes we get will be less, which means there will be less food. we are only about 65% self—sufficient in the uk at the minute, and that is dropping all the time. and so we need to get more food produced in the uk and not less. and we need to rely less on imports. i have never known it ...

And pressure from supermarkets is causing a crisis of confidence. weve got this massive shortage from ukraine and russia... andrew ward says a quadrupling of fertiliser prices mean his crop could be down this year. if the fertiliser is so expensive and it is not viable to apply the maximum amount, then the tonnes we get will be less, which means there will be less food. we are only about 65% self—sufficient in the uk at the minute, and that is dropping all the time. and so we need to get more ...

So volatile, so stressful. i get up in the morning and sometimes i wonder why am i doing that? as this graph shows, farmers�* costs have risen even faster than food or general prices, which mean something�*s got to give — prices must rise or some farmers will go bust. livestock farmers are under the same pressures, plus last year thousands of pigs were destroyed thanks to a post—brexit shortage of butchers and abattoir workers. many are now cutting herd sizes. we sell about 3,500 pigs a ...