pressure as well. the main problem is that the company has nearly £14 billion of debt, so it has a substantial interest bill to pay every year. that interest bill is currently going up because interest rates are going up. some interest rate payments are related to inflation, which is very high. at the same time, it s having to spend over £1 billion a year in infrastructure, water mains, stopping leakage and there s a regulatory review coming up in a few years which may mean it will have to invest even more. thames water needs to raise money from somewhere but if it can t get it, the government is looking at options. we need to make sure thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work the government is doing on resolving sewage. up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down but there is a lot of infrastructure work that needs to take place and we need that entity to survive. in a statement, thames water says it s working constructively
the missile also damage nearby apartment buildings and shops. among the dead were two 14 year old twins yulia and anna aksenchenko. president zelensky said the attack showed russia deserved defeat. arnaud de decker is a journalist who was at the restaurant just before it was hit. he described what he saw. i was in the lounge eating a pizza and drinking a nonalcoholic beer. i paid and left and ten minutes later, i heard a very loud explosion, first one and then moments later a second one, and i immediately understood it was the lounge that was hit. i went to the place and it was an absolute disaster. the restaurant was totally gone, people wounded in the street and rescue workers were trying to help the people from underneath the rubble. it was absolutely a disaster. that was a journalist describing what he saw at the restaurant. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk where the missiles hit and the bl
made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
stall a strike against hezbollah forces days after the hamas terror attack. good evening i am jon talk to chuck this is the fox report. jon: two leaders held a phone call today in which netanyahu said he was grateful for america preventing the united nations call for a cease-fire. there are no signs of peace in gaza has a prime minister once again promised the fighting will not end all of the hostages are home. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg belk as the latest in israel as the war rages on. there is tough weather up here in tel aviv. it is a very tough battle down south. slamming hamas targets on the length of the gaza strip. the israeli defense minister with troops in the north today which he says is now under his country s control pray that is that is after weeks of fighting. also it says they re taking up hamas compounds and tunnels in the southern gazan city thought to be headquarters for the group. combat comes at a price though, five israeli soldiers killed