hello from the bbc sport centre, i m delyth lloyd. let s start at the australian open, where there s been plenty of drama on day nine in melbourne. not so much though for the number two seed carlos alcaraz, who eased through to the quarter finals with a commanding display on the rod laver arena. the wimbledon champion lostjust eight games on his way to beating miomir kecmanovic of serbia in straight sets. it is great to find this level, to play this level in the matches, on the court, i am feeling better and better every day, i m feeling better every match that i am playing, coming into the quarterfinal with a lot of confidence. and in that quarter final, alcaraz will face the sixth seed alexander zverev, who was taken to a fifth set tie break by the 19th seed cameron norrie. the british number one twice came from behind to force a decider but it was zverev who booked his place in the last eight, sealing the tie break10 3. despite the loss, though, norrie remains optimistic.
from £1,900 a year or so tojust £1,620 from april. that s a fall of more than £300 a year, or 16%. just a reminder, 0fgem sets this cap every three months, it s the maximum suppliers can charge per unit and these figures represent a typical bill if you use more, you pay more. we spoke to dr craig lowrey from cornwall insight and asked him why the situation in the middle east isn t pushing up energy prices. the situation we have is that the uk market and indeed the european market is being relatively well supplied by liquefied natural gas cargoes from america, so that is just coming straight across the atlantic and, as a consequence, what is occurring in the red sea isn t currently affecting uk or european suppliers. energy, of course, plays a big role in that basket of goods that adds up to inflation. this good news obviously, does this look like the cost of living is starting to ease now? can i tell my wife she can put the heating back on? well, certainly what we saw wh
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Prime minister Narendra Modis dominance of indian politics is unquestioned. His ability to deliver competent government in a crisis. Well, thats less certain. India now has the second highest official number of covid infections in the world. The realfigure is thought to be up to ten times higher. The economys in big trouble, too. My guest is a National Spokesman for the ruling bjp, narendra taneja. Maybe mr modis populist strongman act is about to come unstuck. Narendra taneja in delhi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Its a pleasure. Mr taneja, would you accept that over the past seven months, the Modi Governments attempts to control the coronavirus pandemic in your country have not succeeded . Not succeeded . Oh, well, i think if you look at our record in terms of, you know, coronavirus patients per million, and at the same time, overall numbers right now as we speak, the
That is it for me. The Vice President will debate comes up and just president will debate comes up andjustan president will debate comes up and just an hour. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Prime minister Narendra Modis dominance of indian politics is unquestioned. His ability to deliver competent government in a crisis. Well, thats less certain. India now has the second highest official number of covid infections in the world. The realfigure is thought to be up to ten times higher. The economys in big trouble, too. My guest is a National Spokesman for the ruling bjp, narendra taneja. Maybe mr modis populist strongman act is about to come unstuck. Narendra taneja in delhi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Its a pleasure. Mr taneja, would you accept that over the past seven months, the Modi Governments attempts to control the coronavirus pandemic in your country have not succeeded . Not
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In every crisis, there is opportunity. Now, that is a mantra beloved by Business Schools and political strategists. But should it offer us comfort as covid 19 continues to ravage the Global Economy . Is this really the time to be reforming the worlds biggest economies . My guest isjim oneill, lord oneill, former chief economist at goldman sachs, erstwhile adviser to the British Government and champion of big measures to revive growth. Is now the time to be bold . Jim oneill, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen, nice to be with you. Its good to have you. Is the World Economy weathering this covid 19 pandemic as well as you expected . It was through september. Even though there were many significant issues about the medium to long term state of the world, some of which have been exacerbated by the crisis. On classic indicators that ive been trained to follow, the World Economy did appear to be experiencing a pretty classic v shaped recovery thr