about refugees being left homeless when relationships break down. the un warns of extreme weather which has created food and water shocks, displaced millions of people and caused billions of dollars of damage. tens of thousands of rangers fans are in spain, ahead of one of the biggest games in the club s history, the europa league final, tonight. and i will be live in seville, where glasgow rangers will be hoping to win theirfirst european glasgow rangers will be hoping to win their first european trophy in 50 years in the stadium behind me. hello, good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. prices are rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, as soaring energy bills hit millions of households. official figures show uk inflation, the rate at which prices are increasing, rose to 9% in april, up from 7% in march. higher food and fuel prices, driven by the war in ukraine, are also pushing the cost of living up. the prime minister today said he would look at all the measures needed to
everything i can to sort of keep my energy bills as low as possible. but it is a battle, and it seems that there s not really much more i can do at the minute. sky high petrol and diesel prices are causing problems for mike and ev, and they re making hard choices about how often they can afford to visit their children and grandchildren. the hotel prices have gone up, fuel prices have gone up, and from here, stoke on trent is 195 miles each way. that makes it very difficult for us to see our family on a regular basis, because you just can t afford it any more. it s not there, the money is not there. the figures don t add up. as pensioners, everything is negative. there is no. the only positive we ve got in life is we are happy! we are happy, yeah. those big drivers of inflation, fuel costs, food prices at every shop, and most of all energy bills, are all continuing to rise.
hello, good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. prices are rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, as soaring energy bills hit millions of households. official figures show uk inflation, the rate at which prices are increasing, rose to 9% in april, up from 7% in march. higher food and fuel prices, driven by the war in ukraine, are also pushing the cost of living up. the prime minister today said he would look at all the measures needed to get people through to the other side . labour have repeated their call for an emergency budget. our economics correspondent andy verity reports. 360, 65, 70. this is how inflation happens. 380. when there s not enough to go round, buyers bid up prices. that s what has happened to the global price of energy, and this is what those global energy prices have to do with the price of fish. well, the biggest price rises that we ve seen is the cost of actually importing the fish, because the cost of fuel
this is bbc news. lam i am victoria derbyshire. it is five p:m.. here are your headlines. prices are rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, as inflation hits 9%. higher bills for energy, food and fuel are pushing up the cost of living. i m sort of running out of ideas at the minute, because i am doing everything i can to sort of keep my energy bills as low as possible, but it is a battle. in the ukrainian capital, one man tells us how he lost his wife, mum, dad, brother, grandmother, his one year old daughter and his dog after a shell hit his home. here, some ukrainian refugees who were taken in by british families are being asked to leave their adoptive homes, with growing concern
the global cost of energy is hitting us hard. petrol and diesel rose by 31% to new record highs. electricity bills jumped by 54% and gas bills by 96%. as this chart shows you, you have to go all the way back to march 1982 to find the last time inflation was this high, and although you ve had flare ups in the early 1990s and after the global financial crisis, since then, it has never got into double figures. there is little central banks or governments can do to stop global inflation getting above 10% later this year. government said it is providing significant support where it can and is preparing to take further action. but economists visiting this grimsby fish market want much more to be done to cushion the blow. there is stuff that the government can do, it s not done enough. and actually for me, the top thing it should be doing is increasing benefits for those at the low end that