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helped to slow down the rate of price increases for non food products, which eased injanuary down from over 3% in december. i m joined now by shanti kelemen, chief investment officer at m&g wealth. good morning. this isjust what we want to hear before the bank of england has its first meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday. meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday- on thursday. yes, we will have a decision on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them - on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them on - a decision from them on interest rates, wiley expected to keep rates unchanged and thatis to keep rates unchanged and that is positive news for inflation and a prices, on the other side we do have the economy still not in a recession and wage growth has been pretty strong. there are some factors balancing inflation, thinking it might not be a sharp drop in the next few months. to not be a sharp drop ....
there is still a long way to go in the battle against inflation for families up and in the country who are seeing food price inflation of nearly 17% and that is causing a massive hike in the cost of the weekly shop. church of england bishops won t back a change allowing priests to marry same sex couples, sources tell the bbc. government plans to scrap thousands of eu era laws by the end of this year will be challenged in the commons today. britain s emma raducanu is in second round action at the australian open tennis. she s up against the american coco gauff. welcome. we begin this morning with breaking news coming to us in the last few minutes from ukraine. the country s interior minister denys monastyrskyy died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of kyiv. mr monastyrskyy was travelling with his deputy interior minister and a state secretary they have all been killed in a helicopter crash next to a kindergarten in brovary, east of kyiv. 16 people have been killed in t ....
translation: to be with its own | people to be with it s motherland. meanwhile an attack on a civilian convoy in one of the four annexed regions, zaporizhzhia, leaves at least 23 people dead. a bbc investigation has found big regional differences in the number of fines issued to parents whose children missed school in england without a valid reason. some local authorities handed out thousands of fines in the last academic year, in other areas there were none. when we sign up to train with the dogs we know one day this day is coming. saying good bye to sammy, the story of a retiring guide dog and how hard it is to get another one. and coming up later in the hour viola davis the are among an all star cast in the women king. find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of this week s big cinema releases in the film review at 5:45. a coroner has found that unsafe content on social media platforms her own life five years ago. the inquest into molly s death had hear ....
and there is no time to put that right because the next time england will play is against iran and qatar in the world cup in november. the time is 10:30pm. time for the weather. jupiter is at its closest point to earth in 59 years and there will be clear skies out there as we have a glorious and to do though. some of you though, chris bell is hit and miss. showers today will keep going tonight. particularly through the irish sea, north west england, wales and north west england. a chillier night tonight across some of eastern parts. forecast for tomorrow, it looks fairly similar but the winds are more westerly so that will change where the showers are and we have this feature pushing into the south west. northern parts of scotland, some showers with hail and thunder. this zone from north and east of northern ireland, isle of mann, north west england, north west wales frequent showers and whilst a bright start in the south west, this will stream its way down bringing grey skie ....
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from t ....