Time for a look at the Business News now with marc ashdown. Hello, this is World Business report, im marc ashdown. We start in the us, where the all important Inflation Data is just out. Prices inched up injuly, but less than expected. The Consumer Price index, a key inflation figure, rose 3. 2 compared to a year ago. It was running at 3 injune, so on the face of it, the pace of price rises has ticked up again. But the markets had expected a bigger increase, so could todays figure be good news . And could it be enough to persuade the Federal Reserve to leave Interest Rates unchanged next month . Lets bring in our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. Firstly, talk us through the reasons behind this uptick. Inflation had been easing gradually, why has it gone up . Some of this has to do with comparisons of where we were last year and the way the data is compiled but some of it is things like rising Housing Costs and stuff like rising Housing Costs and stuff like that. I
Welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start with apocalyptic scenes in hawaii. Us soldiers have joined search and recovery efforts. At least 36 people are known to have died in wildfires others are still unaccounted for. Large parts of the tourist town of la highna on The Island Of Maui have been burned to the ground. This is what it looke like overnight when flames spread rapidly forcing some people to jump into the sea to escape. Multiple areas have been burnt to the ground and the western side of the island is almost cut off. Officials say, the Hospital System is overwhelmed, with many people suffering burns and smoke inhalation. Our correspondent Richard Galpin has this report. Is anybody still out here . Its time to go these are the desperate calls for people still in the historic City Of Lahaina on The Island Of Maui, as the flames on the marina gets closer and closer. Many neighbourhoods were burned to the ground as
Many civilian employees. The many civilian employees. The major data breach reportedly involves names rank and other personal data, but does not involve private addresses. The error involved information being posted online for a period of time and then being taken down. The Information Commissioners Office has been notified. Meanwhile the elections watchdog has also been the subject of a cyber attack, resulting in what it called hostile actors gaining access to the publics information. The attackers were information. The attackers were able to access copies of the electoral register with the names and addresses of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. They first accessed the Commission Systems in august 2021. Chief executive sean mcnally has apologised to the pubuc mcnally has apologised to the public and said it systems have now been updated. Well, the now been updated. Well, the other main story on gb news today, the home secretary says lawyers who game the british asylum
Chief constable has apologised to officers, saying this is unacceptable. Chris page has the story. Police officers everywhere face risks when doing theirjobs. But, in this part of the uk, the dangers are particularly stark, given the Terrorism Threat is a daily reality. The Police Service of Northern Ireland is now dealing with whats thought to be the most serious data breach in its history. So what was within that data was the surname, the initial, the rank or grade, the location in the department for each of our current employees across the Police Service. We operate in an environment at the moment, where theres a Severe Threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening. The information was on a website for about two hours yesterday afternoon. It was released in response to a request made under freedom of information laws, which focused on how many officers work at different le
For each of our current employees across the police service. I understand that that will be of considerable concern to many of my colleagues, and their families at the moment. We operate in an environment at the moment where this is a Severe Threat to our colleagues in Northern Ireland related to terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening. So i owe it to my colleagues to investigate thoroughly and weve initiated that, well keep the police board informed and all the Staff Associations informed of that investigation. And weve been engaging with them throughout the afternoon. The information was taken down very quickly, but nevertheless i do appreciate the concern that it will cause. Well seek to find the extent to which that has been viewed, but what i would say is that of the error was our own, once that information was out there if anybody did have access to it i would ask them to delete it straightaway. We will have more reac