Hello, I'm Rosiah Kins.

Each week on the BBC World Service, I look at one of the biggest issues in the news.

This time, it's the rising cost of living.

We have gone without food to keep the house one.

Every either after 8 and be called, I'll be warm and stuff.

That's the way it is.

This is Sharon, who lives in Durham in the north of England.

She's been affected by the rise in the cost of living.

Millions of people are.

An available evidence suggests this is just the start.

As Torsten Bell from the Think Tank Resolution Foundation points out.

The squeeze on household income is going to be the big story of 2022, particularly the first half.

For lots of households, it's going to feel much worse this year in terms of the squeeze on their incomes than it did during the heat of the pandemic.

That's looking ahead.

But already, this is what's happening.

Good morning. The cost of goods and services we buy is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years.

The December figure for inflation showed that prices have gone up by 5.4% compared to the year before.

This shift in the cost of living is acknowledged by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

I understand how difficult it is for people.

I understand the pressures that people are facing on household finances.

And to explain that pressure, the UK government also says this.

Here's the Chancellor, Rishi Sunek.

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