a year, with businesses also in line for help. it s expected to be funded by £100 billion of government borrowing. in germany, the government has already brought in subsidies for low income households along with other measures, costing about about 60 billion euros which is £51 billion. injanuary, the french government forced the state owned energy provider to cap wholesale price rises to 4% for a year and they also brought it other measures. that s all expected to cost 45 billion euros which is £38 billion. but of course today we ll find out more about the support there you go, darling. this lunch club in peterborough provides much needed help for people struggling with cost. it s not uncommon that i get to the last two weeks when i waiting for the 15th when i m going to get paid and i ve got barely anything. the basic necessities. i don t get paid until next week and i ve literally got £4 of electric left, so i ve got to scrabble around because i m on a prepaid metre. i
for the firm. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the latest. what began as the firing of openai as ceo and co founder sam altman on friday is now a stand off between hundreds of openai employees and the company s board. nearly all of openai s workers are threatening to quit if the ball doesn t resign and reinstate the former leadership. board members fired altman on friday, saying in a statement that he was not consistently candid in his communications with them. the company also announced that greg brockman the president and co founder of openai would be stepping down as chairman of the board, but he quit. the company has named emmett cher, the co founder of the live streaming platform twitch as openai s interim ceo. two broken prominent openai heads have signed onto the letter. on monday morning, the chief scientist tweeted he deeply regrets his participation in the board because my actions. openai has been the dominant force in al development with
live now to professor tim benton, research director, environment and society centre. thank you very much forjoining us today, tim. lots of things of course influence the price we end up paying for ourfood, things like transport, wages and supermarkets. are the increases that we are seeing in the costs of food commodities being passed on to consumers in foal, orare being passed on to consumers in foal, or are they being absorbed, at least in some parts, in the supply chain? to a parts, in the supply chain? trr a certain extent, both. if you think back to our current period of inflation, where we ve had, post ukraine, post pandemic, a global cost of living crisis. sorry, i m getting a lot of feedback, i m getting a lot of feedback, i can t hear myself. thank you. global cost of living crisis, some of that is being driven by environmental effects, some of it being driven by politics, but as climate change increasingly bites, we are going to get a lot more pressure on everyday co
You are this morning. This is the current beach outside the studio in sa lfo rd. Current beach outside the studio in salford. A lovely picture. Good morning. After a chilly start, it will be dry with a fair bit of sunshine around. For the rest of england and wales, a bit more clouds, a few showers, a breeze picking up, and chilly on the east coast. I will have all the details inis coast. I will have all the details in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will visit Buckingham Palace today, for an audience with the queen, to mark the Dissolution Of Parliament. It signals the official start of the general Election Campaign and just after midnight all seats in the House Of Commons became vacant. Attention turns to the local elections tomorrow, with crucial votes for 3h english councils, all scottish and Welsh Councils, as well as a number of local authority mayors. The deadline to register to vote in the General Election is may 22nd and polls open onjune
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