this is bbc news, the headlines: reports from gaza say the israeli military has ordered palestinians to evacuate a hospital in the southern city of khan younis. we'll bring you nato�*s message to donald trump — after the former president again suggested he might pull out of the military alliance if he's re—elected. protesting indian farmers clash with police after resuming their march towards the capital, delhi. and scientists say they've established the first detailed proof that apes like to tease each other, just like humans. we will hear from the lead researcher. all of that is coming at any moment or two. all of that is coming at any moment ortwo. now all of that is coming at any moment or two. now we will catch up with

all the day's business news with mark. thank you, matthew. we will start looking at indonesia's economy. indonesians have voted and the frontrunner for president is the defence minister prabowo subianto. the 72—year old says young voters helped him, and on the economy, subianto set an ambitious growth target of up to 7% annually for the world's 16th largest economy, in which youth unemployment is a challenge. i'm nowjoined by fithra hastiadi. he was the official spokesperson for the indonesian trade minister in 2020. what would a subianto victory mean for indonesia's economy? hello, this is actually very much what is being expected by the market. so the market is seeing a

continuation —— with prabowo, they will continue the indonesia structure project, bringing capital, so forth. the main challenge is how to push the economy further away from 5% because judging from ten years of the administration,, the average growth is around 5.07%, which is not enough. 50 is around 5.07%, which is not enou.h_ ., is around 5.07%, which is not enou:h. ., ., i. ~ enough. so how do you think he will have to boost _ enough. so how do you think he will have to boost the _ enough. so how do you think he will have to boost the economy, - enough. so how do you think he will have to boost the economy, then? i have to boost the economy, then? what areas would he specifically have to focus on? infrastructures, institutions _ have to focus on? infrastructures, institutions and _ have to focus on? infrastructures, institutions and the _ have to focus on? infrastructures, institutions and the human - have to focus on? infrastructures, | institutions and the human capital. in terms of infrastructure, of course, we are now seeing the administration is actually building everything anywhere, but the problem

is it is only creating the so—called economic inefficiency. it the capital output ratio is becoming worse than ever. why? because the infrastructure is notjust a means for another end. infrastructure is notjust a means foranother end. so infrastructure is notjust a means for another end. so that is the first, the second part of institutions. institutions in the lives of regulatory quality and the rule of law, which is also becoming a major substance for investors coming. the third one is human capital, and as you're a dc, indonesia is an emerging market, has a very good population —— as you see. and we have the so—called demographic bonus, but the problem is the demographic bonus consisting of the labour of reproductive age, most are not competitive with the

industrial needs, but we are seeing the elasticity, growth elasticity and apes preserving the labour is more and more the way —— growth elasticity in absorbing labour. thank you very much for all that. the governor of bank of england andrew bailey says he's encouraged by new inflation data as it showed more downward pressure than expected. the good news, as he called it, is that the uk inflation rate remains unchanged at 4% injanuary, the same rate as december. the bank of england's ultimate target, set by the government, remains at 2%. to reach it, the bank has been pushing interest rates up sharply over the past couple of years to 5.25% — to reach it, the bank has been pushing interest rates up sharply over the past couple of years to 5.25% — where it's remained for some time. earlier the uk finance minister, chancellorjeremy hunt, gave his reaction to the inflation data. inflation never falls in a straight line. although it is welcome that it

has not gone up today, it is still double the target level of 2% and we're not going to be able to relieve pressure on families until we hit that target and the bank of england feels able to reduce interest rates, so this is a time to stick to a plan that is clearly working. well, earlier i spoke to simon french. he's chief economist and head of research at panmure gordon. i began by asking him why expectations were off the mark. well, january is the hardest month to forecast. there's a big rotation in the weight of the items in the typical basket the office for national statistics use. that's the first challenge. the second challenge is january is always a tricky month because of discounting in new year sales, never entirely sure how much retailers will pass on. and the one that really perhaps wrong footed people was the fact although energy costs have come down

a long way for households and will come down further in april, they did actually pop up injanuary, and that was expected to push the headline rate up. actually, what we saw was was a flat reading. prices still going up, but only by 4% now. so can people read into that that interest rates are like more likely to be cut now sooner? i don't think so. i think the big news on inflation actually for uk households, uk businesses actually came out of the united states yesterday with quite an above expectation inflation rate. and i think global central banks, who tend to move in a herd, they tend to raise rates together and cut rates together, are going to take their cue from the world's biggest economy, the us, and that certainly markets have perceived in the last 2a hours is actually less likely to happen sooner and actually the uk is likely to follow in the slipstream. you mentioned the us economy. why is it outperforming the uk's? a basket of factors. first and foremost, the us economy has had extraordinary what is known as fiscal stimulus.

so this is reductions in tax, but a big increase in spending, the type of spending that i think would be very difficult to introduce into the uk economy. but the us has that exorbitant privilege, it's able to do that. but also there are structural overhangs from both brexit, well documented of course, but also from the pandemic where the restrictions were longer and the repair both to labour supply and to companies has taken longer. the us ride—share company lyft has beaten estimates for it's latest quarterly profit. it predicts positive free cash flow for the first time in 202a. it was a wild ride to get there as shares at first surged 67% because of an error in an early statement by the company. when that was later corrected, the share price fell back. earlier i spoke to our north america business correspondent erin delmore. she explained how that error was discovered. in a statement, lyft said that a key

metric was expected to rise by 500 basis points this year. and as you said, mark, sharesjumped in after—hours trading. that number was incorrect. the expected increase is 50 basis points and the cfo corrected that during a conference call after the statement came out. now, that process is a regular thing. you get the earnings report and then you have a conference call after, which reporters are invited to. but this was very unusual. so, as you said, the company's stock lost most of the gains it had seen in after—hours trading after the mistake was corrected. now, erin, as i'm sure all our viewers know, it's valentine's day today, and for some people meeting up, there might be romantic restaurants that they're heading to, but that could be disrupted if they're trying to order one of these lyfts through their ride—hailing app because there are many drivers planning to go on strike today, specifically on valentine's day. what are their concerns? well, they're striking for better working conditions and for what they call fair pay. let's talk a minute about what lyft has done in regards to driver pay.

and just to be clear here, we're talking about workers across the us and the uk, specifically in the us, we're looking at workers who are not going to offer rides to and from airports for a couple of hours today, and in the uk, food delivery workers who won't be working for a handful of hours. and as you said, it's valentine's day, so it's a bit of a high pressure day. lyft has recently announced a pay floor, something like a minimum wage. they said that they would pay the difference if drivers make less than 70% of what what their riders are paying every year, every week, that is. and this is their effort to lure drivers over from other competitive platforms. of course, uber is the big name in the ridesharing industry, and that's a tight market because drivers are contractors. have less protections than on—staff workers would have, and so that 70% take home is supposed to be shoring up some of the wage discrepancies for lyft workers. we are still seeing

the strike today. a high—pressure day for people going on dates in the states today. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. - with its origins in the street football of south america, futsal bounds into play at a salford sports centre. wearing kits to match theirsurroundings, pupils form the city have been giving it the thumbs up. it's a bit better than football in a way because in football, you mostlyjust blunder up the pitch but here you have to use the ball and your feet a bit more to get round players because it's so much smaller. the brand—new futsal court has been paid for by the fa, premier league, football foundation and salford city council, who are putting in £127,000. how much of something like this needed in a place like this? everybody knows that sport helps to increase physical and emotional well—being. and just to get people together in the community, doing things that will benefit them. for more stories from i

across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. protesting indian farmers have clashed with the police after resuming their march towards the capital, delhi. there were chaotic scenes at the shambhu border between the northern states of punjab and haryana, where the farmers were stopped on tuesday. the farmers are demanding minimum guaranteed prices for a range of crops and debt relief. farmers staged mass protests in 2020, after the indian government proposed loosening the rules on farm prices, but the laws were repealed. the farmers striking now say they want to remind the government of its promises. south asia correspondent, samira hussain, sent this report from the protest

on the punjab border. we arejust we are just that the border between punjab and the neighbouring state and we will see that these farmers have basically formed a barricade and around the other side of the barricade hundreds of police and paramilitary forces. they are using drones to drop a tear and around the other side of the barricade hundreds of police and paramilitary forces. they are using drones to drop tear gas into this area. you can smell that acrid scent of tear gas. this is in response to farmers protesting, who are trying to make their way to new delhi. they are demanding basic minimum pricing for their crops and better financial protections. the government is not taking any chances. they do not want to see protesters making their way into the capital. so they have erected barricades and heater to flash point, are seen quite a lot of really strong show of force by the government. samir hussein there with the latest on the indian protests. —— samira hussain.

the head of nato says he expects more than half its members — a record number — will meet their defence spending target this year. at the moment, 11 members spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence every year — that includes countries such as the us, uk and poland. the alliance says, it expects 18 countries will meet the target by the end of the year, but acknowledged that some countries still have, a way to go. still have a way to go. there's been massive focus on the issue after comments by donald trump over the weekend where he suggested he would withdraw support for nato allies if he was re—elected and they didn't meet their spending commitments. one of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, "well, sir, if we don't pay, and we are attacked by russia, will you protect us?" i said, "you didn't pay, you're delinquent?" he said, "yes, let's say that happened." no, i would not protect you. in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. you've got to pay, you've got to pay your bills.

nato's secretary general responded directly today to those comments. the purpose of nato is to prevent war, is to preserve peace, is to prevent an attack on nato allies and we have done so successfully for decades because our deterrence is credible. so any suggestion that we are not standing up for each other, that we are not going to protect each other, that is undermining the security of all of us, increases the risks and therefore it is important that we both in actions but also in words communicate clearly that we stand by nato's commitment to protect and defend all allies. our defence correspondentjonathan beale is at that nato summit with this update. i think evenjens stoltenberg would admit that donald trump has a point, even though he didn't mention donald trump by name when he was criticising what he said on the campaign trail that you heard earlier.

but essentially, there are, you know, a significant number of major countries that are still meeting the 2% goal. but the change has been significant too. so if you remember. so if you remember, this goal of spending 2% of your national income, gdp on defence was set out in 2014. you can't enforce it, but it was encouraged that countries, members of nato should do that. at the time, only three countries were spending 2% of their national income on defence. and jens stoltenberg saying by the end of this year, 18 countries will be doing that, which is significant. i don't think the reason why they're spending 2% and more on defence, and nato's also made clear that 2% should be a floor, not a ceiling, that it should be the minimum, i think the reason that they're spending that money is because of what president putin is doing in ukraine, that it's a direct response to that. and you can see countries nearer on the eastern flank of the alliance are the ones that are spending the most — countries like poland,

for example, which will overtake america in terms of the gdp it spends on defence for the first time, germany, too, another country that's significantly increased its defence spending. so this has been the reaction to what russia is doing, rather than necessarily the cajoling, the bullying that they heard from president trump when he was president, but also on the campaign trail more recently. north korea has hacked into the personal emails of a member of the south korean president's team. the hack happened in the run—up to president yoon�*s state visit to britain in november. north korea's hacking abilities have become increasingly sophisticated, and this is thought to be the first time it has successfully hacked an official working in the president's office. our correspondentjean mackenzie has more from seoul. president yeol received the royal treatment when he was in london last november for this state visit. as you say, he dined

with the king and queen, he was welcomed to downing street by rishi sunak. but it is being reported today that this north korean hacker who was able to get into the emails of one of the president's aides, was able to get hold of the closely guarded details of his schedule and was even able to access some of emails sent by the president himself. now, we have spoken to the presidential office here in seoul today, and they have confirmed to us that this hack did take place, but they wouldn't disclose to us exactly what information have stolen. they did say to us, though, and they were very keen to stress that this didn't mean that their security systems have been breached. they blamed this on what they called the careless actions of one of their employees who have been using his personal emails to do work business — planning parts of this trip, essentially — through his personal email account. north korea has been increasingly relying on cyber hacking, and its methods are becoming more

and more sophisticated. it tends to have two reasons to hack. the first is so that it can steal money to fund the regime and likely its nuclear weapons programme. the second is so that it can get its hands on sensitive state secrets, so like this case today, and hopefully access important advanced weapons technology. jean mackenzie. now to turn to a story that you might have missed any busy day yesterday. a fascinating interview with the british student who is taking 208a—levels. yes, 28. manoor cheema is taking four with her school — and studying for the rest at home. she's 17 and has an iq of 161, which is higher than, the late prof stephen hawking. manoor has been talking to bbc radio's today programme — and told them why 28. i just didn't want to narrow down my choices, and i think if i had done four a—levels, i would have been very dissatisfied with the academic challenge provided to me, so i decided to go that extra mile.

but you're doing that work at home, then, on your own. now, do you do all 28 in a week, or do you spend a week or two cracking sociology before moving on to classical civilisation? so my study co—partner is my mum and her policy has always been that we take one subject at a time and we tackle that and however long it takes, and then we move on to the next one. my mum invested in a lot of, like, reading and classical music and brain—building activities when i was young — arithmetic, chess, and she inculcated a really deep passion of learning and books in me that i carry with me. well, how glorious. good luck. you're not doing all 28 a—levels at once, though, quite, are you? no, i'm spreading them over the two year a—level period. so you've got a few, you've ticked a few off already. yeah, i've done four already. your mother sounds amazing. i'd like to meet her as well. yeah, she really is a role model and inspiration.

absolutely incredible. i can imagine parents up and down the country pulling their hair out at 208a—levels. let me point you to the bbc website, we have plenty more in all our main stories. you can see ukraine, the claim of the strike on that russian ship, but we have the latest on the indonesian elections, the farmers' protests we are showing you a little earlier with samira hussain and lots of information there on a la main stories on bbc news there. now to a fabulous story. there's new evidence suggesting more human—like antics among great apes. scientists say they've compiled the first detailed proof that they like to tease each other. video studies of bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans showed behaviours injuveniles including elements of surprise and play. evidence of mostly one—sided teasing included hair—pulling, poking, and offering an object before

whisking it away at the last moment. to hear more about these behaviours and what they mean, we spoke to one of the researchers involved in this study. dr isabelle laumer. this behavior is not rare. so you if you go to a zoo and spend a few hours there, you'll probably see an example of it. however, it's not something that people have studied before. so people have looked at aggressive teasing, some kind of bullying, or at play, but we were the first to systematically study playful teasing in all the four great ape species. well, on our screen at the moment, we've got some wonderful footage where you see a baby ape just prodding and then running away and watching. just talk me through that. what is actually happening there? yeah. so you see here a juvenile chimpanzee and you see two adults grooming each other. and what you can see

here is the hitting. it's also one of the teasing examples. and what you can also see is that the juvenile is hitting and then response waiting. so it's always looking back, looking at the target and watch for the response. so seemingly carefully evaluating how far i can go until it might lead to some aggression or something like that. but i have to say, we rarely observed aggression. and, yeah, also disrupting adults' interactions, that was also something that we found, which is also very human—like, children show that. now the footage that's currently on the screen shows that when they fail, and this baby ends up using theirfull body to interrupt an adult grooming. i mean, that is so reminiscent, isn't it, of toddlers when they can't get the attention, itjust ramps up and ramps up and ramps up? yes. and actually, the body slam, that was also something that all four species showed.

and i mean, this was usually shown after they have done other teasing behaviours like poking, hitting. and then finally, if they didn't get a reaction from the target, then they would also sometimes body slam. aand they also did that also by surprise. so i think the video you saw there, the juvenile was actually jumping on the back of the adult bonobo. yes. so it's a body slam. i was going to ask you, what is that all about? i mean, this is a behaviour that definitely provokes a reaction, right? so broadly, that's what it's about. now in terms of right across the range, it is, what, 75 hours worth of footage that was filmed and analysed? i mean, what does it actually tell you? you were saying that, you know, you've spotted some of these behaviours before, but what do we learn from this, do you think? i mean, overall, we found that it's a provocative, intentional behaviour that is also very much one—sided, has playful and aggressive features and is in many ways similar to human infant teasing.

so the apes show response looking, they show repetition and also different behaviours when the target is not orjust minimally responding. and it also mostly takes place in relaxed context, which is also happening in children. and you make that parallel and i made itjust briefly — is this, in a sense, a prerequisite to to humour in humans? i mean, the prerequisites forjoking, i mean, therefore, you need to understand social norms, some type of theory of mind, you have to anticipate others responses and also appreciate the violation of others' expectations and playful teasing, which is already present in pre—verbal infants, shows many of these cognitive features and playful teasing may therefore be seen as a cognitive precursor. and we found that great apes tease and structurally similar ways, so yeah. what a fascinating study and

fabulous pictures. there have been tributes from around the world for the broadcaster steve wright, who died on monday. fellow djs remembered him as a broadcasting "legend" and a "radio genius". meghan owen has more. tributes to steve wright have been pouring in on social media, in the papers, but also on the airwaves. this is how radio1 breakfast started this morning. there was only going to be one song to start. loved the show, steve. and this is how dj sara cox paid tribute on yesterday's program. steve was an extraordinary broadcaster, a really, really kind person. he was witty, he was warm, and he was a huge, huge part of the radio 2 family. well, broadcaster ken bruce had this to say on x. he said, "an outstanding

and innovative broadcaster whose listeners loved him. what a loss to the world of radio". whilst dj zoe ball said ,"our radio friend, our inspiration master of broadcasting. love you, my friend, my hero". there have also been some emotional tributes from his fellow broadcasters such asjeremy vine. when you felt you were friends with him, it was very, very real. this cacophony of sound that was his show was so, so full of life. i think that's why we're all finding it so hard, because we can't believe thatlife has gone. and tony blackburn. he is a one—ff, there'll never be anybody quite like steve wright, because what you heard and what you saw was what you got. it's clear that this news has blindsided both the media world, but also his army of listeners. we've got a lot of stuff for you. we have got a lot of stuff. megan own going through some of the tributes. stay with us, we have a busy 5pm hour and will get to later on ghazal, the orders to evacuate from a hospital. we will talk live

to unicef and get the latest reaction to uk finishing figures staying at 4% and will hear more from the british student taking 208a—levels. all of that after the weather with darren. —— 28 a—levels. hello there. there's been a lot of cloud around today and it's been quite misty and murky around some hills and coasts. few lucky places though did manage to see a peep of sunshine coming through that cloud. that was barnsley. and this weather watcher picture is in newquay and both locations reached 13 degrees this afternoon. we had temperatures reaching 15 degrees in herefordshire and norfolk with a bit of rain and drizzle around too. but it's getting wetter actually this evening and overnight. and that wet weather will drive its way northwards up into scotland. at the same time, southern areas may turn drier later on. temperatures are going to rise actually in scotland overnight with that wet weather coming in and elsewhere, temperatures really aren't going to drop very much at all. it'll be a very mild start to tomorrow.

our air originated actually from the azores and at the moment we're seeing a southerly breeze coming in, bringing that milder air our way ahead of this weather front, which will bring some rain back in from the west. but we've got a wet start in scotland. that rain moves up towards the north and rain clears northern ireland but heads back into scotland. and then we'll see some rain for wales and western england, maybe some heavier bursts later in southwest england and the midlands. but ahead of that, lincolnshire, east anglia, the south east should stay dry and bright, maybe a bit of sunshine coming through and these are the temperatures we'd normally get at this time of the year. but this is what we're seeing on thursday, even milder than today, 16, possibly 17, degrees is on the cards across east anglia in the southeast, if the cloud does break up sufficiently to give us some sunshine. but that's still quite a long way off that february temperature record set back in 2019. now, there will be some rain pushing eastwards on thursday night. there's more weather fronts queuing up in the atlantic. that one's just going to fade away. this one will bring some rain eastwards during the weekend. but with some rain overnight moving eastwards, we're going to see the last of that clear away from east anglia in the south east.

and then we're all in the same boat. there'll be some sunshine coming through now and again, a fair bit of cloud, the odd shower around, but not very many of those large parts of the country will be dry. so a drier day on friday, not quite as mild, but still those temperatures above average, 12 central scotland, 1a in the south east of england. and we've still got that same sort of mild air in place on saturday. it could be quite a bit of cloud, best of the sunshine in the east and out to the west where we see that weather front that's bringing rain, northern ireland, western scotland and the far live from london, this is bbc news. reports from gaza say the israeli military has ordered palestinians to evacuate a hospital in the southern city of khan younis. here in the uk, the latest inflation figures show the rate remains unchanged at 4%. we will have reaction. ukraine's military says it's destroyed a russian warship in its territorial waters off occupied crimea.

on verify today, we've been analysing the ukrainian military footage said to show the moment a russian ship was sunk and why it matters. scientists say they've established the first detailed proof that apes like to tease each other, just like humans. we talk to the lead researcher. we ta ke we take one subject at a time and tackle that, and however long it takes... she's 17 and has an iq of 161 — higher than the late stephen hawking. we'll meet a british student who's taking 28 a—levels. hello, i'm matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live — we start this hour with reports coming from gaza that the israeli military has ordered palestinians to evacuate the nasser hospital in the southern city of khan younis, where hundreds of people have taken refuge. in this video, an announcement is being made on a speaker

attached to a drone, telling people to leave.