scheduled to open in 2025 so next year forjust over half the current expected cost. that was delayed to 2027, and the french utility operator edf now says it will be another two years before the project is complete. it s the latest setback in energy capacity and security for the uk and may put pressure on the british government to intervene. our business editor simon jack explains the wider implications for the british government. edf will shoulder the cost of this because they agreed back in 2016 or a higher price at which they would supply electricity, they would take the risk, but it is notjust their problem because the government wants to build an identical plant at sizewell in suffolk, and for that plant, customers will be on the hook a little bit, it will be added to their bills to pay for the construction over a decade or so. the government has put into 5p of its own money and trying to raise private capital to try and fund this. they say they are still supporters
to shut down the blast furnaces at port talbot. frustration, disappointment is probably the biggest word. disbelief. it sjust been. handled absolutely appallingly in my opinion. also coming up: are pre election handouts ahead? taxes in his march budget. when i look around the world to america and asia, when i look around the world to america iwith sia, when i look around the world to america iwith lower when i look around the world to america i with lower taxes countries with lower taxes have more dynamic, faster growing economies. that s and a sweet business that ran out ofjuice. we look at the rise and fall of the original indian steel giant tata is expected to confirm up to 3,000 jobs will be cut from its british operations. the bbc understands tata is to go ahead with plans to shut down both blast furnaces at its port talbot site in south wales which is the uk s biggest steel plant. the company is intending to replace the furnaces with an electric version which is more
there other top russians who may have helped yevgeny prigozhin? plus, live in moscow where russians are speaking out to cnn. and a u.s. marine vet here tells me why he s risking everything to fight for ukraine, and then preparing for battle. i m going to take you to a ukrainian training ground where troops are about to return to the fight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live tonight in eastern ukraine in the city of dnipro. we are just west of the front lines deep in the country where the brutal war is being raged. now, this is a city of nearly a million people, and, as you can see in the darkness and rain right now, all city lights at night are turned off because of security concerns. and, again, tonight, we heard the sound of air raid sirens. and, with that came this warning from the air force, quote, threat of using ballistic missiles, weapons, do not ignore the alarm signals, go to shelter.
every body. ha ha ha ha ha. okay.. right. they use their might to spyne on the right. a new report from the houseciar you did theory committee reveals that under the guise of investigating six, the feds duked banks to do a search of transactions for indicatorsja of homegrown violent extremists. problenuary h thm is, according to congressman jim jordan, the treasury department asked the banktremistsed thes to condh using terms like trump and maga in an effort to track gun purchases. they also asked the bank tos to query terms like query terms. query like. yeah, i don t knowd the bank lis pro shops and sporting goods. so in other words, if you so much as bought a jockstrap, then you could have ended up on a federal list of domestic violent extremists. luckily, i did my own takes two of yarn. but domestic violent extremists, that s quite a mouthful right. why don t we just shorten it to what the feds really mean? republicans now, of course, they re using january 6 to justify a
we start with a troubling landmark for the climate as 2023 smashes the record, for the world s hottest year ever recorded. european scientists say, that 2023 left the records tumbling like dominoes . the average global temperature in the past 12 months was 14.98 degrees. that beats the previous hottest year set in 2016 by 0.17 degrees. the announcement was made by the eu s climate change service. and the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived, as their forecasts suggest 2024 could be even hotter. earlier, i spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt, who told me that record was broken by some margin. yeah, it is interesting, isn t it? the margin, as you say, was 0.17 celsius. you might say, well, that doesn t sound very much to me, but remember, this is a global average, an average across the entire globe day and night across the entire year, and normally scientists say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.02, not