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donald trump dismisses the woman who won a sexual assault case against him as a whackjob as he again claims he s the victim of a political vendetta. and from defending human rights on television to rocking out at night at eurovision, the lawyer turned pop star representing australia. and coming up on bbc news, west ham look to reach their first european final in 47 years as they take on az alkmaar in the first leg of their european conference league semifinal. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. interest rates are at their highest in 15 years, after the bank of england raised them to 4.5%, making it more expensive to borrow but better for savers. the increase is an attempt by the bank of england to curb people s spending and bring down inflation that s the rate at which prices are rising which was just over 10% in march. but the bank also upgraded the prospects for the uk economy now no longer forecasting the economy will shrink but grow modestly ....
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off st ....
we have some slow moving thunderstorms to look out for but i thought i d show this picture, it came in land in manchester and today, we have lots of thunderclouds. the big problem with today s storm this there s not much wind to move them along so they are very slow moving storms and we could see 20 50 millimetres of rain in a few hours bringing the threat of flash flooding. a high chance of seeing thunderstorms across the heart of the pennines, pretty bad for some of the cities in west yorkshire and south yorkshire. could see some flooding here. lots of showers and thunderstorms around greater manchester, wales, the midlands and a few drapes around the coastline of east anglia and the south downs and london area, so loads of showers today, risk of some localised flash flooding from those big storms. overnight clouding coaches from the north sea and with that will see temperatures holding up that will see temperatures holding up at around 6 8 c. tomorrow, a completely d ....
the government confirms it is supplying ukraine with the long range missiles it requested for its fight against russian forces. and the australian immigration lawyer taking on eurovision tonight. at 6.30: concerns of how the cost of living crisis will make access to health care worse in london s poorest areas. and rail strikes make an unwelcome return tomorrow. we look ahead to semifinals. the bank of england has raised interest rates again, as it tries to stop prices rising so high. but the bank s governor has warned that prices will not fall nearly as fast they had predicted though he says the economy won t now go into recession. have a look at what has happened to interest rates over the past 15 years. these here were booming times before the financial crash. the economy was growing, there was a house price boom and the bank raised rates to try to damp it all down. and then this steep fall after the crash, with the bank of england trying to save the economy by sl ....
In the last few weeks and water levels have dropped alarmingly. Spain has also suffered from the drought. Now on bbc news, ukraine a year on the frontlines. Over the past 30 years or so, ive covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. This is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. There was a sense that the Security Architecture that we knew, the safety, the security that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. I was here injanuary and february of last year, counting down to the invasion. I was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. We were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. Its only 30 miles from the russian border. But inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. And i remember we went to film in a supermarket. There was no panic buying. The shel ....