nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. good morning and welcome to bbc news. a manhunt is underway in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the knotty ash area of the city at around ten o clock last night. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to breakfast earlier this morning. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have heard overnight. it is absolutely devastating that a wholly innocent nine year old young girl has been sadly murdered and i think we are all struggling to process it is a community, in west derby in liverpool and across the country. i think as a moves forward i have heard as much as everybody else, really, we need to hearfrom heard as much as everybody else, really, we
uk intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off indian authorities about the british national jagtar sinthohal before his abduction and alleged torture by punjab police. we ll be speaking to his brother later this hour. and ready for blast off to the moon nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a man hunt is under way in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the dovecot area of the city at around ten o clock last night. the young girl is the third person to be shot dead in liverpool in less than a week. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to the bbc a little earlier. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have hea
this comes ahead of friday s energy price cap announcement, which will set the maximum amount suppliers can charge hoseholds in england, scotland and wales for their average energy use. can charge households. latest estimates suggest typical household energy bills will now reach £3554 a year from october. ahead of that announcement, philippe commaret from edf energy, one of the uk s major energy suppliers, issued this warning about fuel bills. in fact, when you look at the figures, without further support from the government, more than half of the uk households will be likely to be in fuel poverty injanuary, meaning they will have to spend more than 10% of their disposable income to pay for their energy. staying with energy, a regular emergency planning exercise to help the uk prepare for the possibility of a shortage of gas supplies has been doubled in size. potential scenarios including rationing electricity will be wargamed over four days,
at the figures, without further support from the government, more than half of the uk households will be likely to be in fuel poverty injanuary, meaning they will have to spend more than 10% of their disposable income to pay for their energy bill. staying with energy, a regular emergency planning exercise to help the uk prepare for the possibility of a shortage of gas supplies has been doubled in size. potential scenarios, including rationing electricity, will be wargamed over four days rather than the usual two as energy concerns gi’ow. a former executive at shell, now chief executive of portugese energy giant galp, told bbc radio 4 s today programme the government needs to priortise the uk s energy security. i think government needs to move fast now. they really needs to move fast. the european union s talking about reducing demand by 15%, driving the various countries across europe to do that. the uk needs to do similarly.