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hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. after chaotic scenes in a house of commons vote on gaza, serious questions are being asked about lawmakers safety. welcome back. cpac the conservative political action conference has this week looked like a coronation for the former president trump, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the republican party. he will address the conference saturday, just hours after winning the presidential primary in south carolina, where the former governor nikki haley in trailing a distant second. no room for her in maryland. and today was the dress rehearsal for trump s potential running mate. south dakota governor kristi noem and the congresswoman elise stefanik both on stage. the roster of speakers includes maga influencers, right wing conservative media types, and this man the conservative activist jack posobiec who spoke at the opening session on wednesday on a panel moderated by former wh ....
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 met ....
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 developmen ....
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 every ....
years of independence from britain. good morning, and welcome to bbc news. european union leaders are meeting in brussels to formally agree their negotiating stance for brexit. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has said the eu won t discuss its trading relationship with the uk until it s happy that enough progress has been made on settling the costs of britain s departure. we already know the areas the eu wants to negotiate first. the remaining members are keen to ensure the rights of the three million eu citizens living in britain. they will also be looking to get a guarantee of britain s financial contributions. the so called divorce bill is the amount the eu says the uk must pay as part of existing financial commitments. northern ireland is also on their agenda. eu leaders say they want to ensure there is no hard border with the irish republic. this is not the choreography that the government had hoped for. ministers wanted to discuss the divorce ....