concerns over ukraine top the agenda. and a bbc investigation finds that hundreds of dogs are being smuggled out of illegal puppy mills in eastern europe. hello and welcome. the head of mi5 has said he is profoundly sorry that the security service did not prevent the manchester arena bombing in 2017. the chair of the inquiry, sirjohn saunders, found that intelligence could have led to the suicide bomber, salman abedi, being stopped in the days before the attack. 22 people were killed in the attack. danny savage reports. nearly six years on from the atrocity of the manchester arena, a thorough report has concluded the security services missed a significant chance to take action, which may have prevented it. i take action, which may have prevented it. prevented it. i have found a significant prevented it. i have found a significant missed - prevented it. i have found a i significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented the attack. there was a realist
coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output incomprehensible , and some of the terminology used mystifying . simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday: clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction. i m wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website, on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is rishi sunak s group of senior ministers and that inflation is the rate at which prices are rising . given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelli
of bakhmut, the east ukrainian city which has been the focus of extensive fighting in recent weeks. the former uk prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to a parliamentary committee later this month, who are looking into whether he lied to parliament. it relates to the parties which he participated in during the covid lockdown, and the statements which he subsequently made to parliament about them. it comes as conservative mps express anger that the partygate investigator, sue gray, has been offered a job with the opposition labour party, as sir keir starmer s chief of staff. a short while ago, we heard from mrjohnson. when i knew they could probably be contradicted by dozens and dozens of officials. but why on earth would i have done that? it simply doesn t make sense. i believed that what we were doing was within the rules. that s why i said what i said in the chamber. it was my honest belief at the time and that s why i thank the committee, but i don t think the
low pressure slowly starts moving eastwards into the north sea but there will be showers pretty widely overnight and it will remain breezy. a frost free nights with temperatures between 4 9 celsius. the weekend is going to be dominated by that low pressure. it might be moving out of the way but still close enough to bring in some showers. more rain on the way for the second half of the weekend. saturday s forecast, another showery day with a greater chance of seeing showers across northern ireland, parts of northern england, the midlands and east anglia. across wales and south west england the weather should become drier through the afternoon as pressure rises with a bit more sunshine to end the day. temperatures for most still on the mild side but the second half of the weekend sees some cooler air arriving across the north of the uk whereas in the south we have low pressure moving in, bringing a zone of rain across parts of england and wales. further north, we will see show
simulating attacks on the self ruled island of taiwan, this comes after a meeting between the tae hwi s just taiwanese president tsai ing wen and kevin mccarthy last week. the tensions, the international monetary fund warns of severe weakness in the global economy over the next half a decade. the fund says its outlook for global economic growth for the next five years is the weakest it s seen in a while. earlier on spoke to peter mwai, chief executive of xm australia and he told me situations like these are when investors may look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. they look at market portfolios. peter mwai. tie: look at market interpretation, rhetoric, they said there and they say ride, are there other opportunities, the certain sectors of the markets removed from or other markets to look stronger out, gold or retail versus institution or mining, so we have a degree of concern and we need to wear this one thro