will take immediate action to help people with the cost of their energy bills and i will be making an announcement on that tomorrow. and we ll report from pakistan and the deadly flooding there. officials the threat of the country s largest lake bursting its banks is receding. we start with the war in ukraine. the russian president vladimir putin says the sanctions imposed on russia following the invasion of ukraine represent the biggest current threat to the world economy. have a listen. translation: after the pandemic, different challenges arrived that have also been global in nature and pose a danger to the whole world. i m talking about the west s sanctions fever. its brazen and aggressive attempts to force others how to behave, deprive them of their sovereignty and force them into submission. there is nothing unusual about that. this policy has been used by the west for decades. the kremlin has repeatedly tried to downplay the effect of sanctions on its economy. with s
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
was energy minister. producing more fuel doesn t guarantee energy security either. storage can protect you from sudden low supply or high demand but the uk still has some of the smallest in europe. only enough gas stored for around 12 days demand france has more than 100 days. the last decade has also seen a fall in the uk s oil refining capacity. both mean we rely on some imports neither are tackled in today s announcements. then ministers say the climate is part of the reason for further fossil fuels. grant shapps claims uk gas production has four times fewer emissions associated with it than imported gas. which might be true for liquefied natural gas from the us or qatar. but more than half of the uk s imported gas comes via pipeline, mainly from norway. that has over 2.5 times fewer associated emissions than uk gas. partly because they have much stricter regulations on flaring burning gas during extraction. there are also, of course, legally binding uk carbon budgets which