british gas suspends its force fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0 shea has apologised. there chris 0 shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe s biggest energy firm, shell, has reported record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it made in the previous year. the profits are the biggest in the firm s history boosted by higher energy prices since the start of the ukraine war. shell has already said it will pay tax in the uk for the first time since 2017 as a result of the government s windfall tax. let s take a closer look at t
tonight with the context, political analyst dahlia schneidlin, and the former federal prosecutor joe moreno. hello, welcome to the programme. under the united states constitution, everyone has the right to the fifth amendment. but for many years, donald trump held a particular view of those who invoked it. so, they have five people taking the fifth amendment, like you see on the mob, right? you see mob take the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? fifth amendment, fifth - amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! but today in new york, he refused to answer any questions under oath, pleading the fifth. the former president had been deposed in a civil case brought by new york attorney general, letitia james, who is investigating whether the trump organisation inflated then deflated the value of its prized assets, its golf courses, its skyscrapers, to deceive the lenders and the tax authorities. in a statement soon after, mrtrump said. joe,
a breach of the minesterial code. tonight with the context, the spectator s deputy political editor katy balls and the republican strategist doug heye. hello, welcome to the programme. we have lived through an era of record low interest rates. for years, it was cheap to borrow, while the money put away in savings accounts earned us very little in return. but things are changing. today, the us federal reserve set out an increasingly aggressive approach to monetary policy as it confronts the highest inflation in the united states forfour decades. in the last hour, it raised interest rates by 0.75% which is the biggest jump in rates since 1994. and that has implications for all of us. here s the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell. the current picture it s plain to see. the labour market is extremely tight, and inflation is much too high. against this backdrop, today the federal open market committee raised its interest rate by 0.75% in anticipation of ongoing increases
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%