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i'm sally bundock and we start here in the uk where in the next few hours the latest inflation numbers will be released and its widely anticipated the news will be good with prices coming down. the bank of england says it expects inflation to "fall sharply in april". this follows an upgrade from the international monetary fund for the uk economy. it says we should avoid a recession this year but the imf is warning inflation "remains stubbornly high" and higher interest rates will need to remain in place if it is to be brought down. so where are we at? if we look at february inflation...

this latest ceasefire $245 million in aid to help support people fleeing the violence. i'm ben thompson. let's start in the uk where the cost of living crisis is showing some tentative signs that it is starting to ease — slightly. the latest rate of inflation for the month of april has fallen to 8.7% now that's still very high and above the 8.2% rate that many economists forecast, but still a significant drop compared to the over 10.1% rate we saw last month. double digit inflation that had been in place since august last year — all well above the bank of england 2% target — hi...

and coming up on the bbc news channel — wimbledon later we'll have sportsday on the bbc news channel, we will have the and key interviews on the day's talking points all from the bbc sport centre. good evening. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. the indictment, which is a formal criminal accusation, was the result of a secret vote by a grand jury in new york. that's a group of citizens who hear evidence and decide whether there's enough to charge someone ...

hello and welcome. finland will become the 31st member of nato later on tuesday. the application to join the western military alliance was prompted by the invasion of ukraine by russia, with which finland shares a long border. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has this story. finland only said it wanted to join nato last year. this afternoon, its flag will be raised at the headquarters in brussels, the quickest accession process in nato�*s recent history. president putin went to war against ukraine with a declared aim to get less nato. he wanted nato to remove our forces, o...

by russia's invasion of ukraine. in response, moscow says the finland nato alliance increases the risk of conflict and that it will strengthen its military presence in the region. the head of the military alliance, jens stoltenberg, is calling finland's accession a historic moment. here's what he said earlier. in a few hours we will welcome finland as the slst member of our alliance. this will make finland safer and nato stronger. on this very day in 1949 the washington treaty, nato's founding treaty, was signed in washington, and it's hard to imagine a better way of celebrating our ...