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we start with the soaring cost of living, because borrowers around the world already battling rising food and energy costs are now facing more expensive mortgages and loans. on wednesday, the us federal reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point, the most aggressive increase in more than two decades. it came as central banks in india and brazil unveiled their own rate rises. and in a few hours time the bank of england is widely expected to push up the cost of borrowing for the fourth time since december. more on that in a moment but first this from our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. the price of a big mac is up. consumer prices at their biggest levels forfour decades. president vibe touting his efforts to boost growth and reduce the deficit. reduce the deficit. bringing down the reduce the deficit. bringing down the deficit reduce the deficit. bringing down the deficit is - reduce the deficit. bringing down the deficit is one - r ....
the british economy is likely to shrink over the next year, and , by the end of this year, inflation will reach more than 10%. tonight with the context, director of uk in a changing europe anand menon and republican strategist rina shah. hello and welcome to the show, the world health organization describes the following figure as sobering. the covid 19 pandemic is estimated to have caused almost 15 million excess deaths worldwide nearly three times the number officially reported. it includes deaths directly from the virus as well as those caused indirectly because people were unable to access treatment for other illnesses, like cancer. take a look at this graph. the shaded area in grey is the declared deaths during 2020 and 2021. the pink line above it, the estimated deaths over the same period from the w.h.0. with that huge spike in the middle of last year. most of the excess deaths occurred in the americas, europe and south east asia. the wave that swept acro ....
this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. ukraine is reporting progress on the ground as its counter offensive in the kharkiv region takes back more territory and inches closer towards the border with russia. ukrainian forces have now retaken a village just 21 kilometers, or about 13 miles from the russian border, and shouldn t be confused with moldova, the country. it s the latest village to come back under ukrainian control. meanwhile, ukraine says russian forces have made few advances in luhansk and the donetsk region. russians have attempting to surround ukrainian forces and in the luhansk region, new drone footage shows stunning devastation of a town. the drone appears to have been used by the russian military as they track ukrainian troops amid intense street fighting. all right, for more on the situation in ukraine, let s bring in isa soares in lviv. isa? a very good morning ....
from both kavanaugh and gorsuch that they respected precedent and that roe v. wade and casey were here to stay. and susan collins and lisa murkowski both were committed because of those statements that were made, but you still have to, then, get them to agree to do away with the filibuster as it relates to this specific law. this specific bill. and i just don t think that they will do that. so the next step is raising everyone s awareness about how diabolical this draft statement really is. because justice alito has every intention if this goes forward as drafted to do away with the right to abortion completely. it would be totally left up to the states. and all you have to do is look across this country, the states are made a majority of them are by men who make these decisions. and we basically have a situation where we will have government mandated pregnancies that women will have to endure, and it is something that we ve got to get our brains around because, in fact ....
including the u.s. fed takes historic action to quash inflation, and so far the markets like what they re hearing. how the interest rate hike would impact you. welcome to the show, everyone. it s 9:00 a.m. here in ukraine, and we are awaiting word on whether russia has made good on its latest pledge to allow civilians to evacuate from the besieged azovstal steel plant in mariupol. humanitarian corridors announced by moscow are supposed to be open right now. but that promise d comes as russian forces have been doing the opposite. intensifying fighting on the complex, including 30 children according to mariupol s mayor are holed up along with the city s last remaining ukrainian fighters. here is how a ukrainian commander inside the plant describes the situation. have a listen. reporter: . translator: for two days now, the enemy has broken into the territory of the plant. these are heavy, bloody battles. i m proud of my soldiers who are making superhuman efforts to con ....