lucy is outside buckingham palace now. we re getting some sense for the people you talked to up just the links they are prepared to go to to make sure they are part of this and they get to see the cottage and hopefully the coffin lying state. that s right. the crowds are lighter today than they have been at the weekend, so people did get the chance here to go around green park and to look at the flowers and go round buckingham palace outside, but i think on wednesday, that the mood will change again, the crowds. to certainly around westminster, around the banks of the thames with hundreds of thousands of people expected. while here we have had people with their phones filming as the ceremony has gone past and when the ceremony has gone past and when the king came out, the chairs, we will return to a much more sombre mood. the lying in state will start at 5pm on wednesday and it will last until 6am in the morning of the queen s funeral. the rules are strict, people have been t
if you are on a prepayment metre. this figure isn t the maximum you can be charged. and it s predicted that prices will rise even further next year. annual bills could exceed £5,000 from january 2023 and then more than £6,000 from april. worrying figures for many people but some felt the bbc was adding to that worry with the tone and extent of its reporting on what might happen but hasn t happened yet. stuart luck was one of them, writing: while i understand the need to cover rising energy bills, i am becoming very tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis. we all know we are in. tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis we all know we are in. it is frightening, very frightening and, at the moment, i feel that is all the bbc is achieving, frightening people. the coverage in my perception has reached an unhealthy balance. as we saw in that clip we played, the bbc has been reporting the future average cap on bills but some viewers think that s not th
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. at least 50 more people have died in pakistan as torrential downpours and flash floods continue to wreak havoc in several parts of the country. most of the victims were from the north western khyber pakhtunkhwa province where the authorities have issued fresh warnings. the kabul river has broken its banks, sweeping away houses and hotels and residents in some districts have been asked to move to safer places. nearly a thousand people have been killed in rains and floods sincejune and the government is deploying the army to help rescue operations. the worst affected areas are in the provinces of balochistan and sindh in the south, from where our correspondent pumza fihlani sent this report. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are sti
bill to more than £3,500. here s marc ashdown. help is coming. that is the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bills, but when, how and who will receive it remains difficult to tell. in an interview with the daily telegraph, nadhim zahawi warns high bills could be here to stay for the next two years, and says while he is concerned about helping people on benefits and pensioners, those on middle incomes will need help too. if you re a senior nurse or a senior teacher on £45,000 a year, he says, you re having your energy bills go up by 80%. it s really hard. we are looking at all the options. the energy price cap is set by the regulator 0fgem. it s rising by 80% in october. currently a typical annual energy bill paid by direct debit is £1,971. in october, that will rise to £3,519. prepayment meter customers pay a little extra a typical usage bill from october then will be £3,608. becky has a full time job. for the first time she is having to think about wheth