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
of a rice. why is the uk economy not snowing like other economies? hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we ll go to paris with the explosion and fire that we heard about earlier, it s a gas explosion but more details coming on all the time. initially city officials were talking about the fires, and we were seeing the pictures and apologies that the pictures are just flying around but these are life pictures coming from central pollys and that whole area is cordoned off. i am watching these pictures and they are still dealing with buildings that are on fire right there in the centre of the city. and let me tell you the latest that we are hearing from the mayor of that fifth district in central paris because he adjustments she has just been speaking and said that for people are in critical condition after this explosion occurred in their fifth district here in paris and you can see from the
duke and duchess of sussex and doria ragland were involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi. this relentless pursuit, the statement says, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers. let s go back to the newsroom, back to our royal correspondent sarah campbell who is still there with the early part of this breaking story. just the bare bones of the statement. but in the last little while you have learnt a little more detail, apart from those basics about the paparazzi involved and that description of a near catastrophic car accident. yes, and potentially the most important point being that they are all 0k. important point being that they are all ok. but clearly from their perspective they found this a very troublesome, worrying car chase last night. is it worth reiterating the statement? this is what is on the record from their spokespe
and syria are dwindling. tonight with the context, tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent and amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director. we begin tonight in the skies over north america, where no less than three unidentified flying objects have been shot down in the last three days. the us says it has not yet been able to identify the objects but wreckage recovery operations are continuing. but after a military commander said he could not rule out that the objects were extra terrestrials over the weekend today the white house sort today the white house sought to address the question on everyone s minds. there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extra terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. again, there is no indication of aliens or aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. we wanted to make sure that the american people knew that, all of you knew that, and it was important for us to say that from
regarding the escape terror suspect daniel khalife. a couple of new bits of information. first let me show you these pictures we have just received. this is an outfit similar to what it believed daniel khalife would have been wearing, chefs clothes, remember he was working in the kitchen in wandsworth prison when he escaped. it s believed these will be the kind of clothes that he would have been wearing. we arejust seeing these images for the first time. and the other bit of breaking news is that police had been talking about a member of the public and a sighting of daniel khalife about a mile from the prison coming out from under the lorry, the delivery lorry, that was in the prison, left the prison and it s believed he was strapped to the underside of it. the first sighting that we are aware of, that was on wednesday morning. the other piece of information we have, £20,000 is the reward currently for information leading to his arrest. a couple of crucial updates for you, p