And charities are meeting with ministers to discuss the difficult winter ahead. Energy bills will rise again in october, when the Price Cap increases by 10 . Rachel reeves said she had to take difficult decisions in very challenging circumstances. The conservatives are calling for her to scrap the changes. Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. Energy prices are increasing and so is the pressure on the government to help those who are struggling to pay their bills. We are bracing ourselves for a really difficult winter. We are already seeing Record Numbers of people coming to us with Energy Debt in the height of summer. That is only going to get worse when the energy Price Cap rises. From october, the Energy Regulator Ofgem is allowing prices to rise by 10 , and that represents bills of more than £1700 a year for a typical household. This morning, the government brought together big Energy Companies, the regulator, and Citizens Advice Bureau to discuss what more could be don
For the weekend, temperatures for Northern Ireland and scotland reaching into the low 20s in the warmest spot and perhaps the Mid 20s in the warmest areas of eastern england. So fine weather for the weekend. Thats it. Now, lets join our colleagues for the news where you are. Have a very good evening. Hello and welcome to sportsday im Olly Foster Paris prepares for part two, after the success of the olympics, the paralympics starts tonight and british atheltes are ready i will be ready to fight, and there will be a battle. The Transfer Window closes on friday, italian forward Federico Chiesa has agreed to join liverpool and leading from the front, Ollie Pope says he cant let the England Captaincy affect his batting also coming up on sportsday. Is this the end of The American Dream . Louis Ree Zammit is left out of the chiefs Playing Squad ahead of the Nfl Season two and half weeks after the olympics came to a close, we are just half an hour away from the paralympics Opening Ceremony. 11
Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Im brian thomas good to have you with us today im here in the studio with our Political Correspondent hans brant as german chancellor Angela Merkel is set to address parliament to lay out the governments new efforts to contain the coronavirus now this comes one day after she announced a limited National Lockdown for most of november these are live pictures were getting right now from the bundestag in berlin where merkel will be speaking shortly german is experiencing an alarming rise in new infections beginning monday restaurants gyms bars and theaters will be among the businesses that will have to shut down schools shops and places of worship will however be remaining open. Well heres on sprott now hans the chancellor is about to lay out some very strict guidelines for the Country National guidelines whats the government saying about the threat level thats made this necessary well its i who has been the warning voice in germany for quite a long time if we look back just one month at t
From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off with whats on everyones mind right now the u. S. President ial election is just one week away, one week, people and passions are running high. In florida martian went on a backhoe blitz stealing a bull dozer and adding his own curb appeal to homes of biden supporters. James blight drove around haines city digging out biden harris signs from front yards. According to authorities hed been drinking whiskey all day and stole the bull dozer from a nearby arbys construction site. Trevor this is truly such an amazing florida story. The only question now is whether this guy is going to end up in jail or the Governors Mansion but it also goes to show how everybody is too obsessed with politics right now. I mean, this dude stole a bull dozer, and his first astronaut was to drive over Campaign Signs . He could have done so much more he co