Prices rise across the world: BBC News Review

Food and energy prices are rising around the world meaning millions now face tough choices in their daily lives. Economists blame a combination of Covid, poor harvests and the war in Ukraine. Now central banks are putting up interest rates to try to control the crisis. Learn the English language the world's media is using to talk about this story.

Video chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - Story
1:07 - Headline 1: The Guardian - Fight against inflation raises spectre of global inflation
2:33 – Headline 2: CITY A.M. - Inflation and recession concoction sends global markets into the mire
3:45 - Headline 3: The Indian Express - Partha Sen writes: The inflation tightrope
5:03 - Language summary

Key words and phrases
the spectre of (something)
the possibility of something bad happening

* The spectre of another pandemic is very worrying.
* The spectre of nuclear war is back.

into the mire
into a difficult situation

* The scandal dragged the minister into the mire.
* The company was mired in controversy.

tightrope
situation in which a small mistake can have a dangerous result

* It’s a tightrope. If we get this wrong, the company will collapse.
* You have to walk a tightrope when you plan a wedding.

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[sueliishiyama]

The pandemic dragged many contries' economy into the mire and the spectre of new large outbreak makes them in a tightrope.

[prawashasingh]

Thanks for wonderful lessons . Its great to learn new words lessons expression and add new words in my vocabulary neil beth., rob you people are doing spectacular job.. !

[eason_cai]

Love the big upgrade of the my all time favourite News Review from BBC Learning English. And I think it's great to be able to see how presenter pronounce words and sentences with this brand-new series
Great work BBC learning English, Neil and Beth. Ta :)

[chansun]

Hi BBC my name is Trang.I’m from Vietnam. Today, this is video, i feel that it is so useful with me. I learnt three vocabulary that you introduced such as: the spectre of, into the mire, tightrop. These are the words i never see before. My example of the words:
The spectre of nuclear war is becoming
danger
It’s tightcope. You should pay attention traffic light, if not you can be accident

[MollyTheSheep]

what a tightrope! if we disclose his misdeeds to the CEO, it'll drag all of us along with him into the mire. But if we don't, the spectre of him taking another attempt to frame us is haunting us all day and night.

[mariajuliabriante]

I miss the previous format. Watching the presenters standing up makes me feel a bit uncomfortable . And I do miss the previous presenters: they were more fun.

[nhatminhdao]

Sorry, but "Swampy ground" or "Swanpy ground" for the definition of mire. I think "Swampy ground" but the subtitle is "Swanpy ground".

[yousefthbean]

Spending some time without fun moments the mire