at six — consumers are warned that food prices will remain high for some time as the prime minister holds a food summit in downing street. farmers, supermarket bosses, food suppliers have gathered today to discuss how to tackle supply shortages and stubbornly high prices. it felt like a very serious conversation with the prime minister, who is finally taking food seriously. that was widely appreciated by everybody here. also on the programme... record numbers of people in the uk — more than 2.5 million — are not working because of poor health. we'll be asking why. the biggest art heist in modern history — these thieves are jailed in germany after making off with more than £100 million of priceless jewels. and marking the 80th anniversary

of the dambusters raid — tonight there will be a special fly—past over the lancaster bomber�*s former bases. and coming up on bbc news. "my legacy is already exceptional!" pep guardiola's words on the eve of manchester city's champions league semi—final against real madrid as they try to win the trophy for the first time. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. as food prices rise at their fastest rate in 45 years, the prime minister today gathered farmers, supermarket bosses and food industry representatives in downing street with a pledge to help make it easier to source our own food in the uk. the cost of food has soared in the past year, with some items like meat and vegetables more than doubling in price. supermarkets have also had to contend with a shortage of supplies.

today, the government urged retailers to pass on any savings to customers who are struggling. our economics correspondent dharshini david looks at why prices are staying so high. brunch with the prime minister in the sun. all smiles, but farmers, manufacturers and retailers where there to discuss the challenges of supplying our food. there to discuss the challenges of supplying ourfood. soaring costs have been the key headache for production and prices. just ask the man in charge of our biggest dairy cooperative. man in charge of our biggest dairy c00perative-_ man in charge of our biggest dairy cooerative. , ,, . , cooperative. cost pressures on farms have come from — cooperative. cost pressures on farms have come from all— cooperative. cost pressures on farms have come from all the _ cooperative. cost pressures on farms have come from all the global - have come from all the global factors of conflict and the disruption coming out of covid and so on. actually, farmers have had to pay more than 80% more for their feed, fertiliser and fuel. similar to household bills, the food we are buying, the energy we are getting for our homes. that has put pressure on them. ~ , , ~ for our homes. that has put pressure

onthem.~ ,, ~ , on them. with the spike in costs im ”actin on them. with the spike in costs impacting many _ on them. with the spike in costs impacting many ingredients, - on them. with the spike in costs - impacting many ingredients, shoppers are sharing the pain. a basket of food that cost £50 one year ago will now set you back £60. half of households have had to buy less. with the cost of wheat, oil and dairy now dropping, there are a few price cuts, but why aren't there more? are retailers taking a larger slice? let's consider where your money goes. take a block of cheese costing £2 50 p. an academic study shows that the farmers cost account for nearly £1 50 shows that the farmers cost account for nearly £150 p. the retailers and processors overheads make up most of the rest. as for profit, there is just 3.5 p left to be split between them all. our supply chains are tight, they may struggle to absorb higher costs. profit margins on other items are bigger, but for every £1 you spend in tesco last year, it made about 4p on profit. in sainsbury�*s, it was more like three p. supermarkets have taken a hit,

and other costs are still rising. energy prices have doubled or tripled — energy prices have doubled or tripled in _ energy prices have doubled or tripled in some cases. the labour cost has — tripled in some cases. the labour cost has been substantial, mainly driven_ cost has been substantial, mainly driven both by the national minimum wa-e driven both by the national minimum wage rises, _ driven both by the national minimum wage rises, which came in in april, and also _ wage rises, which came in in april, and also because just a shortage of labour. _ and also because just a shortage of labour, particularly in some of the key stills— labour, particularly in some of the key stills like hgv drivers and religion — key stills like hgv drivers and religion logistic through supply chain — religion logistic through supply chain. ., religion logistic through supply chain. . . , , religion logistic through supply chain. . , ., religion logistic through supply chain. . , chain. overall, the costs are still risinu. chain. overall, the costs are still rising- but _ chain. overall, the costs are still rising- but at _ chain. overall, the costs are still rising. but at a _ chain. overall, the costs are still rising. but at a slower _ chain. overall, the costs are still rising. but at a slower rate. - chain. overall, the costs are still rising. but at a slower rate. thatj rising. but at a slower rate. that should mean price rises on shop shelves are slow. but with contracts fixed in advance, it takes months to happen. and with those costs still high, overall bills will not be following soon. however, we are still paying less for many items — meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese, than much of europe. that is an issue on the farm. there are already struggling to make ends meet. some are quitting the

business. the number of food manufacturers spalding has doubled. protecting our food supply comes at a price. the painful reality is the return of the cheaper food of a few years ago is not on the menu. more than 2.5 million people in the uk are not working because of poor health. that's a record number. and it looks like a lot of it can be traced back to the impact of the pandemic. 0ur economics editor faisal islam is here — is that right? sophie, we had thejob figures come out this morning showing unemployment up a touch. the bigger picture was things beginning to normalise. remember, one yearago picture was things beginning to normalise. remember, one year ago we had a work first of about 600,000 since the pandemic, that is down to about 350,000. that has mainly been caused by students, younger people going back to work. something different has happened with the long term sick. that is up since the pandemic and up since a year ago. as

you say, we are now up at a record 2.5 million long—term sick, a record since those figures were collected. the statisticians are not entirely sure what is driving this. they have some suspects in terms of back and neck pain, in terms of mental health, and in terms of long covid, which could be related to the pandemic. 0n the other hand, working from home, for example, has helped people go back to work as well. it is a balancing act. the government has argued, we are trying to help, we may put drops coaches into gp surgeries to try to help that process of getting back to work —— job coaches. thejob market process of getting back to work —— job coaches. the job market perhaps beginning to normalise. the bank of england will wait for the crucial inflation figure for april, which comes out next week, before deciding. comes out next week, before decidinu. ., ~ comes out next week, before decidinu. ., ,, , ., a bbc investigation has revealed that a top british businessman, whose foreign companies were part of a global international money laundering investigation, is a major donor to the

conservative party. javad marandi, who has an 0be for business and philanthropy, donated more than £630,000 to the party between 2014 and 2020, according to the latest electoral commission records. some of his companies were alleged to be involved in a scheme to move money from one of azerbaijan's richest oligarchs out of britain. mr marandi is not subject to any criminal action, and denies wrongdoing and says he should never have been publicly identified. our legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani has been working on this story for over a year, and has this report. wealthy and well—connected. this is javad marandi. awarded an 0be for services to business and philanthropy, he's been a major tory donor with access to senior party leaders. one of mr marandi's british companies is the famous design brand, the conran shop. it's not involved in this case, which raised questions about some of his overseas interests.

those questions began when the national crime agency investigated a family living in these opulent apartments in london's regent's park. the family head is javanshir feyziyev, an old associate of mr marandi. he's one of azerbaijan's super—rich. and last year, a court ruled the nca could seize more than £5 million from his family. it had been part of billions that disappeared from azerbaijan in a global scandal only uncovered by investigative journalists. i believe the azerbaijani laundromat brought a lot of damage on many levels to azerbaijan itself. to the european union, to the us and other parts of the world. a judge ruled that companies owned byjavad marandi played a key role in moving some of the cash to london. the case starts with $1.5 billion leaving azerbaijan for shell companies registered in glasgow.

tens of millions were moved again to the seychelles to the avromed company owned byjavad marandi. ajudge said how the cash moved back to the uk looked like money laundering and that mr marandi was a person of importance in the nca's case. mr marandi's lawyers argued all the money was lawfully earned and transferred, so he should remain anonymous to protect his reputation. the bbc said it was in the public interest to name him and judges agreed in an important ruling about freedom of the media versus privacy. the case also raises political questions. today, the conservative party's donations face scrutiny in parliament. the news this morning that javid marandi has lost an 18 month legal battle with the bbc to remain anonymous as a victory for transparency and freedom of the press and a battle often weighted in favour of wealthy oligarchs. it also goes to the heart of our democracy. and the minister defended the conservatives record on donations.

all political parties, in fact need to be very careful, need to be thoughtful, and need to be discerning about where donations come from, regardless of what the law may say. and that is a lesson i think political parties in this country need to reflect on very carefully and learn from. now we hear that he donated £750,000 to the tory party, | got an 0be and access. to government ministers. we should, mr speaker, take these allegations very seriously. - if true, dirty money has well. and truly crept into our politics. the nca won't say if mr marandi is under investigation. the court of appeal says he could have refuted allegations in his battle with the bbc. dominic casciani, bbc news. gillian knight is being investigated by essex police in relation to an

allegation of serious sexual assault. he was suspended as a conservative mp following a complaint to the metropolitan police, who dropped their investigation in march. now essex police are conducting their own inquiries after a referral from scotland yard. he denies the allegations against him. a gang that supplied false uk passports to serious criminals, including murderers and drug dealers, has beenjailed. anthony beard from london paid vulnerable people for their expired passports so he could apply for renewals using criminals' photos. the judge said the scheme enabled very wicked, sophisticated and violent criminals to escape justice. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the details. thank you. in snappy snaps in bromley... come back in 20 minutes. ..and unaware he was under surveillance, anthony beard, who procured passports for some of the uk's most wanted criminals, drug dealers and murderers on the run. beard would identify vulnerable people, and meeting them in anonymous cafes, he'd persuade them to let him renew their passports but with someone else's photo in it.

his customers included christopher hughes, a murderer captured in turin, and another killer, jordan 0wens, who was arrested in lisbon. both were suspected members of a glasgow drugs gang. liverpool drug trafficker michael moogan was arrested in dubai. another customer was christy kinahan, the alleged leader of a major irish drug cartel who has a reward of $5 million on his head. investigators say the criminals would pay up to £20,000 for a passport. these people were, i would say, at the top end of serious organised crime. they've made an awful lot of money out of organised criminality, both in the uk and internationally. the scam was actually quite simple. when you apply for an adult passport for the first time, you need to attend an in—person interview, which is quite difficult if you're a criminal on the run in spain. but if you're renewing a passport, it's largely a case ofjust updating the photograph. and that's where anthony beard came

in, arranging the renewal of innocent people's passports but with the photographs of criminals who needed a new identity. long time criminal chris mccormack was the link with the customers, but it was beard who would call the passport office posing as different passport holders. good afternoon. thank you for calling her majesty's passport 0ffice, you're speaking gillian, how can i help you? anthony beard, who's 61, pleaded guilty to making false documents. today he was jailed for six years and eight months. no comment. daniel sandford, bbc news at reading crown court.

anti—poverty campaigners are calling for housing associations to stop lifting carpets and flooring before new tenants move into a property. most social landlords rip up flooring when a tenant moves out for hygiene reasons, but it's not always replaced quickly, leaving the properties with bare floors. by law, landlords only have to put flooring in kitchens and bathrooms, but campaigners are calling for the law to extend to the rest of the house. here's our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith. in the bedroom, there was an underlay, but they have pulled it up — for what reason, i don't know. after years in temporary accommodation, lena and her son, who has autism, have finally got a permanent home. but there's no flooring. no carpet, no vinyl, just bare floors. i am glad to be here, but it would have helped if i had some carpets. unlike in privately rented homes, it is standard policy of almost all housing associations to rip out all carpets between tenants for hygiene reasons. they have been concerned they could be sued,

but it is causing huge problems for those on the lowest incomes. i did spend two nights here sleeping on a floor with no carpets. it is concrete, isn't it? and this is cold. yes. like, evenjust now, and this is a warm day... yes, yes. ..and it's cold. but in the winter, the cold weather comes in, it is going to get a lot worse. people have been telling me the same story right across the country. i need flooring for the children's rooms mainly because i don't want them to go onto the boards. i was expecting at least something to be down on the floors, - and there was nothing. those campaigning for change say the solution is simple. if it looks good quality, clean it and leave it in place for the next tenant. just as a landlord would make sure a property has a boiler, the need to make sure it has adequate flooring, and it needs to be part of the fixtures and fittings that come with every property. 0ne housing association in middlesbrough have decided to do just that. we looked at our process

and thought, "actually, there is a different way to manage this risk," so the use of disclaimers came in to enable us to leave existing carpets and flooring within properties. tenants here are staying longer and looking after the houses better, so it is not costing them any more. we are spending exactly the same amount of money, we are just spending it in a different way, more focused on our customers. the welsh government are due to introduce a new rule forcing housing associations to put flooring everywhere. that is not on the cards in any of the other nations. and for lena, affording a carpet is not an option. how can you save when you have constantly got bills coming through the door? do you know what i mean? so it would have helped if they had maybe left me something until such time i could get my own things. i need flooring to make it feel like a home, because who wants to come in and look at this? colletta smith, bbc news.

the time is 6:17pm. our top story this evening. consumers have been warned that food prices will remain high for some time as the prime minister holds a food summit in downing street. and this lancaster bomber has just taken off in lincolnshire on the 80th anniversary of the dambusters raid. coming up on bbc news... fast bowlerjofra archer is ruled out of this summers ashes with a recurrence of the stress fracture in his right elbow. it's a huge blow for england ahead of this summers ashes against australia in june. researchers from essex university say they've found evidence of people being denied care or even dying as a result of misunderstandings over the use of do not resuscitate orders. dnrs — as they're known — mean that patients should not be

resusciated if their heart stops or they stop breathing. doctors are able to apply a dnr order to a patient�*s 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. robert murray, a father of two developed parkinson's and dementia in later life. 0ne summer's day in 2021, while resident of this nursing home, he went to get breakfast. a piece of fruit got stuck in his throat. staff called an ambulance. he's not breathing right now the nurse tells the operator, however, that robert has a do not resuscitate recommendation in his medicalfile. moments later, robert died. theyjust didn't do the things that needed to be able to keep him alive.

his family learned that robert's death was an avoidable error, that do not resuscitate instruction only related to a cardiac the ambulance should have attended. as soon as you see dnr, it seems to change what they want to do. i mean. yes, fair enough. if his heart was failing and his heart was having a heart attack, yes, i could totally understand that. but when he died of a choking incident, which is not a natural way of dying, it didn't get picked up. the nursing home said they'd updated their guidance that around do not attempt cpr. but in a survey, researchers found that almost one in five care home residents with a do not resuscitate decision received poor treatment due to misunderstandings. do not attempt cpr decisions can be appropriate if a person is unlikely to withstand the procedure. they're not legally binding, and a doctor can insist on one, but crucially, only after consulting the patient or their family. let's get rid of dnr, cpr forms. they look like they're in order when they're not legally binding. we know they're being misused.

they're being used for medical decisions for which they were not designed. david garrett has been in poor health for a decade. on two occasions, doctors have asked to put a do not resuscitate form in his medical notes, something the 86—year—old is opposed to. as long as i've got strength, i want to continue, please. but when we checked his notes, a do not resuscitate form had been added during his last hospital stay. so it says here discussed with patient? yes. in agreement. oh dear i didn't know that. well, that's very naughty and very wrong. because i have never, ever agreed to it. david remains adamant that he opposes the dnr and has told his next of kin to advocate for him. forwendy, however, it's all too late.

it's not a good way to lose your parents. michael buchanan, bbc news. these dnr orders have been around for a long time and that can be valid reasons for their use. absolutely, they can be wholly appropriate in the right circumstances. research stating someone is a very physical intervention under some of frail, it can lead to significant injuries and there's also been to international studies that show the likelihood of someone in a nursing home surviving a resuscitation and living for another 30 days is tiny, somewhere in the region of two or 3% and in those circumstances, providing the personal family has been consulted, it can be entirely legitimate to put these do not resuscitate forms on somebody�*s file, so current confusion is over how the system is absolutely working. during the pandemic a lot of evidence emerged that these do not resuscitate decisions were being put in every resident's form in a care home

without consultation, without any looking at their individual circumstances. the researchers want a better system and more training and more standardised process of people knowing the merits and limits of do not resuscitate forms. the department of health say they want to ensure that these processes and guidance works everywhere across all settings and it is clear and properly understood. settings and it is clear and --roerl understood. a ., ., ~ properly understood. michael, thank ou. now a look at some other stories making the news today. the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool, chatgpt, has told us senators government intervention is needed to keep industry safe. sam altman said ai had the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives, but that licensing and testing requirements could be used to regulate the release of models above a certain threshold. the ukrainian capital kyiv has been targeted by further russian air attacks. ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying

targets over the city, but russia said its attack which used drones and missiles had hit all of its targets. vodafone is to cut 11,000 jobs over the next three years. the figure is equivalent to a tenth of its global workforce. the telecoms giant made a pre—tax profit of £12.8 billion in the last financial year, which fell short of expectations. it's unclear how many roles will be cut in the uk and other countries. the university of oxford says it will remove the sackler name from its buildings over the family's association with the opioid crisis in the us. a number of associations have ended their association due to the lawsuits in the us. the university said any previous donations from the sackler family and their trust will be retained by the university. it was dubbed the biggest art heist in modern history. today five members of a criminal gang have jailed for stealing priceless 18th century jewels from one of europe's oldest

museums in germany. the raid at one of the oldest and richest treasure collections in the world took place at the green vault in dresden in 2019. only some of the collection has been recovered. jenny hill reports in the dead of night, an audacious heist on dresden�*s treasure trove. masked robbers wielding axes struck at the heart of the city's royal jewel collection. it took time to smash the reinforced glass of the display cabinet, but eventually they got away with precious items worth millions and millions of pounds. a glittering haul, 18th century jewellery, polished gemstones, even a diamond—encrusted sword. this was a meticulously planned operation. the gang recced the site several times and even prepared their entry point well in advance, using hydraulic cutting machinery to

saw through the bars over a window. when they were ready, they then set fire to an electrical circuit breaker box not far away that plunged this whole area into darkness, allowing two of the men to slip inside. today, five men, all in their 20s, were convicted of robbery. they're related, members of a notorious criminal family network. one of them is already serving jail time for the theft of a giant golden coin from a berlin museum five years ago. you know, there are people who steal artworks out of passion for art. but this was really the opposite. they had no idea of what they have taken. despite an extensive search, some of the jewels are still missing. but the gangsters did lead police to part of the haul in return for a lighter sentence. curators hope to restore what they can and put it back on public display in the museum, which has now overhauled its security. jenny hill, bbc news, dresden.

if you are in lincolnshire this evening, look up, because this is happening. a special flypast is taking place tonight to mark the 80th anniversary of the famous dambusters raid during world war ii. in 1943, 19 lancaster bombers took off from raf scampton in lincolnshire, on a secret mission to strike at the heart of germany's world war two operations. danny savage reports. over the next couple of hours, this lancaster bomber will once again be in the sky above lincolnshire. 80 years to the night since 19 of these planes took off on the most famous raf mission of world war two. to be flying at night at 60 feet, in mountainous terrain,

to drop an ingenious weapon that had never been used before. it's genuinely the stuff of legends. i think the modern day air force can be as inspired now by what they did, albeit it was some 80 years ago. the story was made into a film. 19505 special effects recreating the drama of the mission. the man who created the bouncing bomb used these very marbles to test the theory of skimming them off water. he just thought to himself, what would be the engineer's way of stopping the war? they belong to barnes wallace's daughter, who was then about ten, and recalls the effect the mission had on herfather. he was appalled. 58 people, i think it was, were killed, english people. and then there were all the germans. and he just felt it was more than he could stand. over the past two decades, we've filmed with some of the veterans. les munro was one of the pilots.

and let's take a flight and let's have a look at your old training route. i feel a great deal of pride in the fact that i took part in the dam raid itself. and as a consultant trained on the devon water. johnnyjohnson here on the far left was a bomb aimer who made his pilot fly around their target ten times before being satisfied with the approach. it meant to me to do it, not do it properly was a waste of time. both have since died. they and their fellow crewmen will be remembered in a very special way tonight. danny savage, bbc news, lincolnshire. and we end tonight with a platypus. this is one of seven females that has just been reintroduced into the wild in a national park in australia — the first time they've lived in the wild there for 50 years.

—— one of five. the animal will be tracked by researchers over the next two years in attempt to better understand platypus behaviour. a moment of history. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos, good evening. another nice day to day across the board, pretty similar to yesterday and here is a weather watcher photo from cheshire, largely blue skies overhead and quite warm as well with many seeing temperatures reaching 18 degrees and the rest of the week stays mostly dry. there will be some rain across central and northern areas and temperatures will be creeping up as well. any showers we've had through the day in scotland and northern england will fade away and it will be a dry night with clear skies and another chilly night come, but not as cool as the last few nights and the lows are generally between three or 8 degrees and it could be colder in rural spots. or 8 degrees and it could be colder

in ruralspots. high or 8 degrees and it could be colder in rural spots. high pressured dominating the scene for wednesday but we have a weather front pushing in across the north of the uk and northern scotland are the northern isles could see rain at times and we are all into the slightly warmer air and have lost the blue tinge is. we start with plenty of sunshine unlike today the clouds build up and we could see showers and this time the southern half will see showers and for northern scotland and the northern isles it will turn breezy with outbreaks of persistent or heavy rain and quite chilly but further south it is the mid to high teens and we could see 19 degrees and the warmest spots. 0n teens and we could see 19 degrees and the warmest spots. on thursday the weather spots coming towards the west and for much of the country a fine start with sunshine and probably a bit more cloud developing through the afternoon and a few showers towards the east and south—east of the country, northern ireland and scotland seeing splashes of rain moving in with that weather front but not bad temperatures, particular where you get the sunshine, in the high teens again. and into friday the weather front will flirt with the north of the uk but it is high pressure which is in

charge, a lot of dry weather around and a