it s expected to reach the capital manila later today. coming up at 2.30 in we are england, we follow the night road teams working against the clock to maintain the a1. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s 1.5 million customers. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today, octopus were confiden
with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. and at li.30pm here on the news channel, bbc wales investigates and today the team is asking, what s killing our rivers? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administr
england put out west the cloud will thicken quickly. a few patches of rain across england and wales but not amounting to too much, whereas for northern ireland and scotland it turns wet and windy through the afternoon. all the while the south westerly winds bring mild air, south westerly winds bring mild air, so temperature is about 11 14. it gets very windy tomorrow night with gales and maybe even severe gales across the far north west of the country as a band of rain sweeps through followed by the showers. friday, blustery day in scotland with the showers rattling through on the strong winds. further southwards, a brighter, sunnier kind of day for most of you. and in the sunshine with the wind is coming up from the south west is, mild with temperatures widely into double figures across england and wales, eight and nine in scotland and northern ireland. this band of rain from that area of low pressure that i showed you a moment ago that is currently no canada brings a band o
for their own lives. guess you heard this morning i tested positive for covid. but i ve been double vaccinated, double boosted, symptoms are mild. it is friday, july 22, 9:00 a.m. in the morning here in london, 4:00 a.m. this washington where the january 6 committee has just provided its most revealing look yet into the trump white house as the capitol riot took place. former aides testified that trump watched the riot on tv but ignored all pleas from his family and top advisers to intervene. and while vice president mike pence was whisked to a secure location inside the capitol, the committee presented chilling testimony that pence s security detail feared they might not make it out alive. members were starting to fear for their own lives. there were a lot of there was a lot of yelling, a lot of a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like talking about it. but there were calls to say good-bye to family members. for whatever the reas
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