pressure as well. the main problem is that the company has nearly £14 billion of debt, so it has a substantial interest bill to pay every year. that interest bill is currently going up because interest rates are going up. some interest rate payments are related to inflation, which is very high. at the same time, it s having to spend over £1 billion a year in infrastructure, water mains, stopping leakage and there s a regulatory review coming up in a few years which may mean it will have to invest even more. thames water needs to raise money from somewhere but if it can t get it, the government is looking at options. we need to make sure thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work the government is doing on resolving sewage. up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down but there is a lot of infrastructure work that needs to take place and we need that entity to survive. in a statement, thames water says it s working constructively
including nadine dorries and a leading peer are expected to be censured by the committee they called a kangaroo court . the privileges committee is about to point the finger at serving mps and a peer, alljohnson allies, for contempt of parliament. nick has the story. yes, strong criticism of those parliamentarians and a process that could lead to punishment. we re joined by an ally of the former prime minister. also tonight, in the thames water bucket, they ve got a massive financial hole, as the company which supplies a quarter of the uk population is in danger of collapse. how did it happen? we are going to break the door down, it is up we are going to break the door down, it is up to we are going to break the door down, it is up to you. we we are going to break the door down, it is up to vom it is up to you. we will explain what is happening it is up to you. we will explain what is happening as - it is up to you. we will explain what is happening as soon - it is u
the end of the fighting in gaza but israel has already made it clear it won t tolerate a palestinian state once the guns go silent. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that if it s a question of israeli security or palestinian sovereignty, he will opt for the former. but that s at odds with the two state solution which washington favours and unlikely to go down well in the rest of the middle east. also ahead tata steel has confirmed that 2,800 jobs will go when it turns off its blast furnaces at port talbot. the company says it will greatly reduce carbon emissions other voices are worried the uk will be dependent on imports for a vital resource. and a newborn baby has been found abandoned in a park in east london. we ll look at how the uk and the us are tackling issues like this we will get reaction to all of that. our panel this evening, joining us from miami, the democratic strategist hilary rosen, and in london, the chief political commentator from i newspap
have reached the area. the governor of the area said emergency services are trying to put out a burning fuel tank at an oil depot. 30 units of equipment working on the site. we don t know the cause of that fire but we do know that it is significant. let s take a look at what we know so far following this dramatic escalation of infighting in russia. prigozhin says his forces have entered russia from ukraine into rostov and now control the military hq in the city. the governor of rostov has told the public to avoid the area. there s increased security in moscow with what s being called anti terror measures. the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov, is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv here s mr putin s television address to the russian nat
of their stance on the israel palestine conflict. this includes mcdonald s. the burger chain became a target after photos and videos on social media showing franchise stores in israel giving away thousands of free meals to the members of the israeli military. this resulted in calls to boycott the brand, from those angered by israe ls military response in gaza. owners in muslim majority countries such as kuwait, malaysia and pakistan put out statements distancing themselves. in a message on linkedin, mcdonald s ceo chris kempczinski wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impacted due to the war and associated misinformation. all of this in the middle east and beyond because of the war in gaza. he added, this is disheartening and ill founded, pointing that many of the restaurants are operated by local owners. he didn t elaborate on the scale of the impact, but mcdonald s has around 2,000 restaurants in the region. it isn t the only global bra