and the music industry pays tribute tojerry lee lewis one of rock and roll s all time greats, who s died aged 87. welcome to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world. there s been a new wave of deadly clashes in iran. activists say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city of zahedan. it follows a similar crackdown in the same city nearly a month ago, during protests over the death of mahsa amini. robin brant reports. six weeks in and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite, in fact. this is zahedan, the scene of violent confrontation again. independent observers claiming the crackdown by security forces across iran has killed at least 160 people and the tactics continue to be unbearably indiscriminate. i saw footage of a teenager, a child, shot in the head who apparently has been killed and we haven t gotten exact figures for how many people have died, how many people have been injured today,
it s expected to reach the capital manila later today. coming up at 2.30 in we are england, we follow the night road teams working against the clock to maintain the a1. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s 1.5 million customers. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today, octopus were confiden
with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. and at li.30pm here on the news channel, bbc wales investigates and today the team is asking, what s killing our rivers? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administr
Is business today. It is packed. Were starting in the us where President Joe Biden has said that china is cheating, not competing on trade as introduced tariffs on 18 billion worth of imports and Electric Vehicles to steal. He has accused the country of unfairly subsidising its Clean Energy Sector and flooding International Markets with cheap exports which is says hertz American Businesses and workers. Our north American Business correspondent has more from new york. Its not often we find former president and agreement but we have seen President Biden keeping tariff enacted by his predecessor and increasing them. They focus on key Technologies Powering Green Transition and approve a 100 tariff on Electric Vehicles imported into the us, up from 25 . A doubling of the levy on solar cells to 50 and on semiconductors, to 50 . President biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by china in the industries of the future, from Electric Vehicles to solar cells