joining us are their royal highnesses, the crown princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace? well, thank you. so nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, i d like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. this library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the kings and queens of the house of bernadotte. this is a very special library in that sense. but we re not here to read, we re here to listen, and we re here to listen to the nobel laureates, to their knowledge and wisdom and their contributions to science and economics, so thank you all forjoining today. thank you for hosting us. thank you, your royal highness. thank you. applause welcome to nobel minds and the first of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that you ve been brought together in discussion
moved to a hospice. china launches several ballistic missile tests into waters around taiwan following a senior us leader s divisive visit to the island. and how disposable facemasks are blighting birdlife in 23 countries around the world. good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news channel. good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news channel. the bank of england has predicted that the uk is set to enter a recession this autumn lasting more than a year. the bank says inflation is likely to peak at 13% by december and today it has announced the largest rise in interest rates for 27 years. the 0.5% hike means that interest rates now stand at 1.75%. the move is part of attempts to curb spiralling inflation, by making borrowing more expensive and discouraging spending. but it means mortgages and loans will be more expensive for millions of people as andy verity reports. rarely has the bank of england given out an economic warning this unsettling. it s not only forecasting the worst infla
Atalanta and marseille are level at 1 1. Their second match is in bergamo. The Europa Conference League already has one finalist after fiorentina got there for the second year in a row, Beating Club Bruges li 3 on aggregate. Aston villa face what their manager unai emery has called the biggest game of their season, as they attempt to join fiorentina by overturning game of their season, as they attempt to join fiorentina by Overturning A Li 2 first leg deficit against olympiakos in greece. Keeper emi martinez, whose Penalty Saves got them this far, could be back from injury for the match in piraeus. Of course it is going to be very difficult here away because always, with the, they have the most fans supporting the home team, it could be more difficult. Here their supporters push a lot, helping them. The biggest challenge we are going to face this year, playing in the semifinal. Now, a lot of mexican fans were excited when it was announced that the Azteca Stadium will host five matches
What is the latest on those talks . I would not necessarily use the word progress, they have ground to a halt. Both hammers and the israeli delegations of left cairo in the gap between them appears to be unbridgeable at the moment. That doesnt in the talks are dead and there is enormous pressure to make this work is also the domestic pressure here in israel. And there are protesters trying to put pressure on the Israeli Government to do a deal and they have an expression in hebrew meaning deal now and they think that this government, this relatively far right government of Benjamin Netanyahu is really more interested in Crushing Hamas and getting their hostages out because there was a time back in november when negotiations, mediation and arch of five hostages out alive in almost every week, theres more bad news of hostages who have died either in captivity or found to have not survived the atrocious raids on october seven and the Cease Fire Talks of the moment appeared to have hit a b
On the same day the uk and Republic Of Ireland will now bid unopposed for euro 2028, unopposed for euro 2028, after turkey withdrew to focus on a joint bid with italy for euro 32. Turkey agreed to merge their bid with italy injuly and that has now been approved by uefa. In april, 10 venues were selected for the uk and ireland bid, including glasgows hampden park, cardiffs principality stadium, dublins Aviva Stadium and wembley in london. Uefa will award the hosting of Two European Championships next tuesday. Liverpool Managerjurgen Klopp wants their Premier League game against tottenham to be replayed after luis diazs goal was wrongly disallowed by the video assistant referee. The var team failed to overrule the decision when diaz was flagged offside when the game was still goalless. The referees body, the pgmol, released the audio of discussions between the match officials as they made the decision and when they realised the mistake that had been made. Liverpool went on to lose 2 1. N