if you are on a prepayment metre. this figure isn t the maximum you can be charged. and it s predicted that prices will rise even further next year. annual bills could exceed £5,000 from january 2023 and then more than £6,000 from april. worrying figures for many people but some felt the bbc was adding to that worry with the tone and extent of its reporting on what might happen but hasn t happened yet. stuart luck was one of them, writing: while i understand the need to cover rising energy bills, i am becoming very tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis. we all know we are in. tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis we all know we are in. it is frightening, very frightening and, at the moment, i feel that is all the bbc is achieving, frightening people. the coverage in my perception has reached an unhealthy balance. as we saw in that clip we played, the bbc has been reporting the future average cap on bills but some viewers think that s not th
we start with news that will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has found a new problem in its key gas pipeline to europe, which had been due to reopen on saturday. gazprom says it s detected an oil leak in a turbine on the nord stream one pipeline, meaning it will remain closed for an indefinite period. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days for what gazprom described as maintenance work. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation for western sanctions. russia s move to keep the nordstream pipeline closed may or may not be linked to a decision by the g7 group of the world s leading democracies to put a cap on how much they pay for russian oil, in a bid to hit moscow s ability to finance the war in ukraine. the price of oil has risen sharply since the invasion, meaning its revenues have gone up even as some countries cut back on the amount of russian oil they import. the ca
Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
gun policy in the news with tragedy in texas, split. half the people saying guns were issue, voting for gillespie, half voting for northam. different motivations. taxes, bread and butter issue. and immigration, what gillespie was playing up. republican voters here, gillespie voters. and interesting result. gillespie ran on the issue of heritage, he called it, confederate monuments, shouldn t be torn down, asked this question, confederate monuments on government property, what should be done? 38% remove, almost 60% with gillespie on that. leave them in place. gillespie was trying to build a winning coalition out of that percent but didn t materialize, biggest issue wasn t in the exit poll, might just have been donald trump himself.