My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to premature retirement for most of our reliable and most dispatched resources. As of the increased connected grid, they have a much wider im
around 700,000 children are being taught in buildings that need repairs. the government said it has been investing in transforming schools. nine people are known to have died after a russian missile attack in ukraine. rescuers have spent the night looking for survivors in kramatorsk. the chancellor will meet with water and energy regulators to find out what they will do to lower prices. there are concerns that firms are exploiting inflation. and kevin spacey has arrived at his trial in london where he is accused of sexual assaulting men. he denies the charges against him. the the national audit office found a third of school buildings has develop beyond their initial design life. a lot were put up quickly after the war. so we are talking of 24,000 after the war. so we are talking of 2a,000 buildings. the risk of injury or death from a school building or collapse has been assessed as very likely or critical. what the hell s going on. jessica hill is with us and racheljones, a
we start here in the uk with a very rare piece of good news about the cost of living because for people in england, scotland and wales, average energy bills are set to fall by hundreds of pounds this summer. the uk energy regulator ofgem is about to release its latest price cap the maximum amount suppliers can charge the average household. because the cost of energy has fallen sharply on global markets, that cap is expected to come down from july, saving the typical household annually around £450. hannah miller has been talking to energy users in the east of england who have been struggling to pay their energy bills. since we last came to suffolk, 18 month old robyn has taken her first steps. and her mum, claire, has been trying to keep the family bills under control. we first met in august, when claire was already cutting back on her electricity use. i am terrified that, when the winter comes, we re not going to have enough for the bills. since then, energy prices hav
and coming up on the bbc news channel wimbledon later we ll have sportsday on the bbc news channel, we will have the and key interviews on the day s talking points all from the bbc sport centre. good evening. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. the indictment, which is a formal criminal accusation, was the result of a secret vote by a grand jury in new york. that s a group of citizens who hear evidence and decide whether there s enough to charge someone with a crime. so what s this charge about? we don t know the specifics yet, but it centres on a payment made to stormy daniels after an alleged affair between her and mr trump in 2006. in 2016, just days before mr trump was elected president, his lawyer, michael cohen, paid £130,000 to stormy daniels to stop her from selling her story. two years later, michael cohen testified that mr trump directed
as the energy price cap for businesses ends tomorrow we talk to companies feeling the heat of rocketing energy bills. sewage was discharged into england s waterways at the equivalent of 800 times a day last year according to the environment agency. and gwyneth paltrow wins her court case against the man who tried to sue her over a skiing accident. and coming up in the sport later in the hour the bbc news channel. we will discuss today s biggest talking points from here at the bbc sport centre. good evening. donald trump has become the first former us president to face criminal charges over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. the accusation or indictment was the result of a secret vote by a new york grand jury. that s a group of citizens who hear evidence and decide whether there s enough to charge someone with a crime. we don t know the specifics of the charge yet, but it centres on a payment made to stormy daniels after an alleged affair between her