but they are no ordinary band. they re from ukraine, a country in the midst of a bloody war. in the lead up to the contest, all the band members faced a difficult decision. now their winning song has become a powerful statement of defiance. and they hope their global stardom will help ukraine s plight. i m viktoria zhuhan, i work as a journalist for bbc in ukraine. i don t normally cover eurovision, especially when there is a war raging in my country. but kalush orchestra isn t an ordinary, typical eurovision contestant. but after following the kalush orchestra for ten days, i ve learned that, for them, this is much more than a singing competition. it s a way to tell the world about the war that s destroying ukraine. we are on our way to a rehearsal in the north of the country. oleh, in the pink hat, the group s front man finds it hard to take in what he sees. it s tima, the band s vocalist and flute player who realises he s been here before. only weeks earlier, russian troop
scotrail services by a third, because of a driver shortage and pay dispute and i will be live at the etihad with and i will be live at the etihad with the and i will be live at the etihad with the latest on an unforgettable final day with the latest on an unforgettable final day of the premier league season good evening. the full report into parties in and around downing street while covid restrictions were in place is set to be released within days after a deadline for objections from those involved passed earlier this evening. sue gray the civil servant tasked with investigating the events has gathered photographs as well as accounts of what happened. some of those are likely to be published. the report will come out as the government faces further calls to do more on the cost of living with another energy company boss speaking out today. more on that in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson. could borisjohnson s political fate lie in the
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the excess energy, the excess heat. so, my question is this, leo can watching cat videos help heat a city? laughs. to a certain extent, yes, but obviously, in the end, you know, it s still energy consumption because it reduces, really, the total energy demand. yes, it can help to heat a city but it still means you need to produce energy first somewhere. leo, the war on ukraine has resulted in an unprecedented increase in our energy prices something many of our viewers are really struggling with. just tell us what that s meant for e.0n and how did you adapt as a company to the massive supply and demand changes? yeah, first, it s horrific. what has it meant to us? first, we have been personally affected. e.0n is also supplying the border areas of slovakia, hungary, romania to ukraine and so, we had direct interactions there and also,
and if we look at the growth rates, we assume that in 2030, this might rise actually to something like half of the electricity consumption of the us something like 2,000 terawatt hours. and it s not only the population and the population growth and globalisation which is driving it, it s also new technology like chatgtp uses three times the energy consumption of a google search. now, how do we do what do we do about it? number one, we need to make all data centres always more energy efficient, and the data centre operators are doing that. and number two, we need to make sure that we use the waste energy out of such data centres for example, for heating in the neighbourhood. and this is what we as e.0n are doing on a large scale. for example, as we just inaugurated a data centre in stockholm where we are doing that and it serves one third of the total energy consumption, so this is the type of innovation we need for this challenge. so, you basically sell