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In cutting the cost of borrowing for the first time in overfour years. The Federal Reserve have dropped the main Interest Rate in the worlds biggest economy by half a percentage point, bringing it down to between 4. 75 and 5 . A drop larger than many expected, with some wondering now if this reflects the scale of the problems facing the american economy or the success in getting the pace of price rises, inflation, close to the banks targets. The governor of the fed, Jerome Powell says the us eco...

Under tight security this time he faces slander charges. In a major reset of us Foreign Policy, President Biden says america will end support for the war in yemen and rebuild its alliances. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the centre of our Foreign Policy. I take charge, id take charge read the Standing Orders and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council in the north of england has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Hello and welcome if youre ...

take a long hard look at ourselves. what we want, how we pay, what we smoke, what we drink, how we live, how we die. we are more likely to from comparable conditions than in other comparable countries and then there is the elephant in the ward, social care. the nhs is ours. lets hear from you. now for the news. health experts are warning that the nhs wont celebrate its 100th birthday without significant investment in beds, buildings and technology. three think tanks have made the claim...

as though in some southern areas, and weather warning by the weekend, temperatures could be approaching 30. but not for everybody. for many it would be in the low, mid 20s. this wonderful picture which i showed you earlier on, this cloud scope taken earlier today injersey. thank you very much. that is is the mortage misery time bomb about to explode? new inflation figures and an announcement on interest rates due in the next 48 hours. todayjeremy hunt said giving financial support to m...

a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron hazelhurst. lets go take a look at whats on the show. the big china challenge. a year since the covid—19lockdowns. as the biggest economy back to full health. ongoing trade tensions with the us are some of the problems government is trying to tackle. this leading china economist will explain how the government needs to balance ambitions of the changing demand of a radically different younger generation if it wants the coun...

after he first met the young man, who was 15 at the time. mr schofield strongly denies grooming him, but says he regrets the relationship and lying about it when itv tried to investigate. hes been talking to the bbc�*s amol rajan. last week, if my... ..daughters hadnt been there... ..then...i wouldnt be here. and theyve. .. ..guarded me. um... and wont let me out of their sight. its like a weird...numbness. i know thats a selfish point of view. but you come to a point where you just ...

used to. the fork to farm summit, the prime minister at meeting stakeholders, cheaper cuts, needs must and they will be discussing how we improve food security and production. weve also got new figues from which? that put food inflation for april at over i7% — the consumer group says prices ofjuice, chocolate, water, fish, chilled ready meals and cheese are continuing to rise. the british retail consortium saying it is confident that supermarkets are doing all they can to keep foo...

but will the rival militias respect the truce? and the kindness of strangers — an afghan musician who fled the taliban — gifted an antique violin by a stranger in the us. to afghanistan now, where the un says there are signs of recovery in the economy. but it adds — they are weak — and under threat of being undone by the talibans recent restrictions on women , working at ngos, which could lead to a significant drop in aid. the taliban have told the bbc that the rules imposed on...

jets to ukraine. we start with the devastating earthquakes which have rocked southern turkey and northern syria and are now known to have killed more than 11,700 people. turkeys president erdogan has been defending his governments response to the disaster on a visit to some of the worst—affected areas. well have more on that shortly. but first, with the search operations ongoing in the rubble of collapsed buildings, dramatic pictures continue to emerge of rescues in both countries. c...

and retaining their premier league title. liverpools trent alexander—arnold tells us why hes launching a scheme to help young players who are released by club academies. a lot of people still find it difficult to kind of open up and feel vulnerable, and are scared of that feeling of failure again. good morning. there is a lot of cloud out there for most of us and some outbreaks of rain. the weather is going to be warming up in the next few days. details here on bbc breakfast. good mo...