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lets start with the war in ukraine. russia has launched a fresh wave of missile strikes against ukraine — speaking to the bbc, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has ruled out conceding any territory to russia in a potential peace deal. our world affairs editor, john simpson, reports from kyiv. with the anniversary of the russian invasion coming close, president zelensky is showing signs of increasing confidence. hes been visiting several of his main backers in britain and ot...

And the new man at vogue, Edward Enninful takes over at the premierfashion magazine. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Five. British gas has defended its decision to raise Electricity Prices by 12. 5 for more than Three Million customers next month. Centrica, which owns british gas, said it was facing increased costs from government policies, such as installing smart meters, and for transmission and distribution. It said that as a result, its selling electricity at a loss. But the gove...

Theyve since had to leave the site until its decontaminated. but the ntsb says "surveillance video showed what appears to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment." lets hear from the white house press secretary who spoke about the incident a short time ago. were going to get to the bottom of this. were going to try and figure out an answer to what occurred. so, were going to get through this together. we are going to hold norfolk southern accountab...

To an election and what happens after that theres no time for consumers for that. this brings us back to the two different parts of the centrica business. government regulation means the parent company cant sell energy more cheaply to its own energy supplying operation than it does to other suppliers, so it cant lower prices for british gas customers, for example. that would be an unfair competitive advantage. the bbc�*s vishala sri pathma explains. it is actually not from the money that they ...

Oil and gas pricesjumped last year after russias invasion of ukraine. and centricas profits have more than tripled. profits hit 3.3 billion pounds for 2022 — about 4 billion us dollars. thats compared with the £948 million pounds it made in 2021, more than 1.1 billion dollars. now to understand those numbers its easiest to think of centrica as two different businesses. the part of the business that extracts oil and gas is the part that made these huge profits. the other bit, which makes much ...

It is not working, it is hurting the vulnerable the worst and we need to see a whole review of britains broken energy system. the boss of centrica has a different view. chris oshea said the company invested £75 million last year in supporting customers of british gas, an that theyve "been able to provide much needed stability and support". lets hear now from an independent energy consultant on whether centrica is making unfair profits. no, i dont think centrica is profiteering. these record pro...