his comments come ahead of tonight s penultimate conservative hustings with rishi sunak and liz truss facing tory votes in norwich. gcse results are out today for pupils in england, wales and northern ireland the pass rate is down on last year but higher than it was before the pandemic. good afternoon. pressure is growing on the government to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs. a think tank has called for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses want covid style emergency grants to help companies that are struggling. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200, it s now about £2,000 and it s forecast tomorrow to reach £3,500 per year, payable from this october. there are further increases expected in january. back in may, the government promised a £15 billion support
president of the phillipine s state of the nation address, where large protests are expected. as hollywood takes up the story of the young thai footballers and their coach, who were rescued from a cave a few years ago, we go back to talk to the people involved in saving them. when i first walked up here, four years ago, and saw the row of bicycles up against these railings, belonging to boys the same age as my own sons, i remember the happy feeling i had then, how unlikely it was they would ever come out alive. #in # in this great future, you can t # in this great future, you can t forget your past. and marvels s much anticipated black panther sequel, wakanda forever, is unveiled at comic con in san diego. low from our studio in singapore. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. firefighers in california have warned that hot weather is hampering their efforts to contain a huge wildfire, before it reaches yos
it is not to borisjohnson or to any tory prime minister. and in the us, 100 million people facing heat warnings with extreme fires in arizona, and torrential flooding at yellowstone national park tonight with the context, former senior adviser to george w bush ron christie and the former labour minister and member of parliament caroline flint. the uk government has confirmed that six asylum seekers will be leaving in just over an hour s time to rwanda originally over 100 had been due to fly but legal appeals have steadily brought that number down. the six men will be flown the 4000 miles or 6500 km to rwanda where they will have to make their asylum claims. they may be granted permanent refugee status to stay in rwanda. the government says it brought in the rwanda policy to tackle the trafficking gangs that are bringing ever larger numbers of people across the english channel. so far this year more than 10,000 people have made the dangerous crossing. last november 27 peo
Killed. Take a look at these pictures from kharkiv, a small town. Reportedly a cafe was hit with people gathering therefore awake after a funeral. This town is within reach of the front line but ukraine says there are no military sites at that location. Our correspondent James Waterhouse has latest now from kyiv. James waterhouse has latest now from k iv. ,. James waterhouse has latest now from kiv. ,. ,. , kyiv. This is that a doubt the deadliest kyiv. This is that a doubt the deadliest missile kyiv. This is that a doubt the deadliest Missile Strike kyiv. This is that a doubt the deadliest Missile Strike that| deadliest Missile Strike that ukraine has seen for more than a year. Now the images being put out by officials are fairly grim, even with the standards of the almost elite Missile Strike that ukraine enters. Its around the small village of hroza in the northeastern kharkiv region. Footage appear to show several bodies close together, next rubber which we are told it used to be a