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british gas suspends its force—fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0shea has apologised. there chris 0shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest—ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the u...

we start here in the uk, where the bank of england has raised interest rates to their highest level for m years. the increase will leave millions of households facing higher mortgage payments at a time when many people are already struggling with crippling energy and food bills. the bank has raised rates by half a percentage point, to 4%. the aim — to make it more expensive to borrow and spend so businesses and households rein in, meaning less upward pressure on prices. uk inflation ...

welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% — the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fal...

hello there. we start here in the uk, where we are about to find out if the economy has fallen into recession — thats defined as two quarters in a row of negative economic growth. we already know the uks entire economic output, or gross domestic product, shrank in the three months to september by 0.3%. injust over an hour, we get gdp figures for october to december. anotherfall would mean the uk is officially in recession. lets talk to melanie baker, senior uk economist at royal lond...

i have been a fan of brand for decades ever since his talk show big brothers big mouth it is show that was so outrageous legal wouldnt even let us show it. which sucks but even at the start of his career he was aw brilliant brain in search ofucks food at a time when the shelves were bare but now most abrupt change in any career since o.j. simpson. [laughter] brand was a great comedian, successful actor, bigger than most rock stars it helped that he looked like rases putin had sex with ...

but the santa fe county district attorney says he did. and it actor does not get a quote free pass just because they are an actor. rex mr. baldwin had a duty at the base level to never hold a gun and pointed at a person while pulling the trigger. but he also had a duty as an actor and producer on that set to have the bullets a check or check them himself to make sure they were not live. as for the interview come abolition the special prosecutor in the case says baldwin had glaring inco...

hysteria, which makes sure that every living american is terrified of somethinsg ortob other from breakfast till bed. >> but there is no good news office thats something the biden people never considered. >> so yesterday, the administration seemee admind a little awkward, maybe even sheepish, when it announced the best news of alld , which is that the covid era has. finally passed. r >> for three years, the u.s. has lived under a permanent government designated covidmergn emergency.cy ...

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will they re—elect the hard right current presidentjair bolsonaro, or his left—wing predecessor luiz inacio lula da silva? thousands of families in south korea are trying to trace relatives they fear might have died in a crush in the capital seoul. at least 153 people are known to have died, most of them teenagers and young adults celebrating halloween in an area full of nightclubs and restaurants. its thought the crush began in a narrow alley when people in the crowd fell over. fr...

as the controversy grows over the home secretary suella braverman and allegations of security breaches, her cabinet colleagure michael gove says she "deserves a second chance". voting is under way in brazil, will they elect luiz inacio lula da silva, seen here voting, or stick with jair bolsonaro, the incumbent? and englands women crush australia in a rainy encounter in the rugby union world cup quarterfinals. if you have joined if you havejoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. it is g...