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contributor to contributor to our and a regular contributor to our good morning programme. he had a terrible few years after a serious stroke. we knew his end was not far away, as withjohn. for them both to go within hours on sunday morning, a very sad weekend for me and many people because they were both such incredibly popular figures. thank ou so incredibly popular figures. thank you so much this is bbc news with the latest headlines. crisis talks on soaring gas prices the government considers propping up struggling energy firms. we ve got to try and fix it as fast as we can, make sure we have the supplies that we want, make sure that we don t allow the companies we rely on to go under. we ll have to do everything we can. but this will get better as the market starts to sort itself out as the world economy gets back on its feet. are you worried about your energy company going bust, the price of your bills, or your gas supply? ....
Some, particularly the smaller firms, are now in trouble, because the high cost of gas means they can t afford to sell it to customers at the prices they promised them. ministers are due to hold more talks today with industry leaders to try to solve the crisis. speaking as he arrived in new york ahead of the the un general assembly, the prime minister said it was a temporary global problem that would be resolved as economies got back up and running after the pandemic. this is really a function of the world economy waking up after covid. so gas in particular is very much in demand in asia, in china, malaysia, other parts of asia, lng in particular. we ve got to try and fix it as fast as we can, make sure we have the supplies that we want, make sure that we don t allow the companies we rely on to go under. we ll have to do everything we can. but this will get better as the market starts to sort itself out as the world economy gets back ....
Planned maintenance to all sorts of energy production facilities postponed from last year because of the pandemic and has taken place this year. you could put all of those in one basket. some people would say we have an energy industry where you can have companies that can take quite big gambles on the future cost of energy and that is fine in the good times but it means they are incredibly vulnerable when it is more volatile and then who has to come and pick up the pieces? it looks like it might be the taxpayer. and then other people say it shows you the energy business is too cut throat and maybe you need intervention to smooth out all of things. we have an intriguing government combination of letting the market forces play out but as you had from the prime minister they are prepared to step in and potentially a big way to protect consumers if the market fails. it will be an interesting test case of ....
Getting them going again. food businesses say the carbon dioxide disruption couldn t have come at a worse time, with the supply chain already under pressure as they struggle to get enough workers and lorry drivers. wholesale gas prices are unlikely to come down just yet, and eventually they could feed through into higher energy bills for households. katy austin, bbc news. 0ur political correspondent adam fleming is in westminster. talk us through what the government will be trying to do today, to try to solve this crisis. the government s - to solve this crisis. the | government s preferred to solve this crisis. lie: government s preferred outcome to solve this crisis. “115 government s preferred outcome is that the market takes care of it and if a supplier is in distress then it either gets brought up by someone else and they solve the problem or the next stage as if that energy company goes bust, the companies are given to another supplier that is ....
A through the night time period, that weather front slowly eases away as the ridge of high pressure builds more strongly across the uk. so, for the day on tuesday, after the morning fog clears away, and there could be some dense patches around in southern and eastern areas, there will be plenty of sunshine to follow. but again, just late in the day this time, some patchy rain towards the north and west. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: crisis talks on soaring gas prices the government considers propping up struggling energy firms. we ve got to try and fix it as fast as we can, make sure we have the supplies that we want, make sure that we don t allow the companies we rely on to go under. we ll have to do everything we can. but this will get better as the market starts to sort itself out. ....