UK Inflation remained at 2.8% in the year to May as the pace of food price rises slowed to a 17-month low, official figures show, but is still above the Bank of England’s 2% target.

Transport costs rose by the fastest rate, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says, while the rate of price increases in meat, dairy and vegetables eased.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves welcomed the news, saying the government has “got the right economic plan”.

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Today, what difference will banning social media make to children’s lives?

Speaking the day after the announcement of a ban on social media for under-16s in the UK, the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to Adam in the Newscast studio.

They discuss: if children need to be bored more; whether it’s OK for parents to watch YouTube with their children; and whether the school day should be longer?

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Millions of children in the UK will be forced off social media after the government announced it would ban under-16s from accessing a range of platforms.

Apps including TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram will become inaccessible for children, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said.

“We hope to pass regulation before Christmas,” he said, with the ban coming into force in spring 2027.

Tech companies including Meta, Snapchat and YouTube warned a blanket ban would move children into more unsafe online environments.

The government is yet to release the full list of platforms affected, but said YouTube, Facebook and X would also be included.

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Close to 800 people have been confirmed to have contracted Ebola in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of those, about a quarter have died.

Health care workers are struggling to curb the spread of the deadly disease, but they have also witnessed patients recovering – giving hope to their fight against Ebola.

We spoke to the BBC’s Anne Soy who’s been to the epicentre of the outbreak in the DRC, in Ituri province.

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has announced plans to expand the country’s nuclear arsenal at ‘an exponential rate’, according to state media reports.

His announcement comes as China’s president, Xi Jinping, is making his first visit to Pyongyang this week since 2019 – the same year Donald Trump met Kim Jong Un several times for failed talks on denuclearisation.

We speak to the BBC’s Celia Hatton about why China might now be trying to keep North Korea in check.

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00:00 Introduction
01:13 The changing ways North Korea is portrayed
02:51 China’s ‘big brother’ relationship with North Korea
06:13 North Korea’s path to nuclear weapons and why they wanted one
09:27 Donald Trump’s attempts to engage North Korea
14:05 Kim Jong Un’s relationship with Vladimir Putin
17:07 China’s anxieties around North Korea and the wider region
20:03 How Russia have impacted China’s relationship with North Korea
21:25 Why Donald Trump has changed track on North Korea’s nuclear programme

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