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let's 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. he's been visiting several of his main backers in britain and other nato countries, and the promises of weapons and support that he's received have clearly buoyed...

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 government has expressed concern, insisting that its policies dont explain the increase. Our Business Co...

They've since had to leave the site until it's 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." let's hear from the white house press secretary who spoke about the incident a short time ago. we're going to get to the bottom of this. we're going to try and figure out an answer to what occurred. so, we're going to get through this together. we are going to hold norfolk southern accountable. and, right now, our message to the folks in ohio in that area is to listen to your state a...

To an election and what happens after that there's 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 can't sell energy more cheaply to its own energy supplying operation than it does to other suppliers, so it can't 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 are charging customers in their homes or businesses, the bulk of the profit at this time around i...

Oil and gas pricesjumped last year after russia's invasion of ukraine. and centrica's profits have more than tripled. profits hit 3.3 billion pounds for 2022 — about 4 billion us dollars. that's compared with the £948 million pounds it made in 2021, more than 1.1 billion dollars. now to understand those numbers it's 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 less money, is the bit that supplies energy to people's homes, british gas. despite that — let...