a long term strategy to bring down energy costs but it could take 15 years to build and a final go ahead will have to wait for mrjohnson s successor. here s our political correspondent, iain watson. the outgoing prime minister wants to go nuclear. you would like to give the green light to renew power station in sizewell in suffolk. he is pledging £700 million, which he hopes will set up a financial chain reaction as private companies and france s state owned edf alleging more cash for the project. the deal is not done yet, but he said nuclear power is part of a strategy to improve the uk s energy security. 0ut improve the uk s energy security. out of this catastrophe of president putin s of all, i think good will come in that europe will wean itself of russian hydrocarbons. we will no longer be subject vulnerable to his blackmail and in this country, we will have greatly accelerated long
who has died at the age of 66. he was funny when we sat you on the sofa, he was a brilliantjournalist and you love this programme is your what serving you, the audience, so i m sure you will miss him but we will, too. and we look at the stunning pictures on the running for wildlife photographer of the year. hello, good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in his last major speech as prime minister, borisjohnson has promised £700 million pounds for the sizewell c nuclear power station project in suffolk. he criticised former governments for failing to invest in nuclear power calling it paralysis.
and the irish sea to the other. but opponents say the entire strategy is flawed. we have to look after this stuff into the foreseeable future. and that knowledge has to be passed on to future generations. they have to look after the stuff as well. and by putting it out of sight, out of mind, you are absolutely denying future generations the ability to save themselves from leaking nuclear waste. amid a growing energy crisis and with pressure to cut carbon emissions mounting as well, the government is committed to a new generation of nuclear power stations like this one at hinkley point in somerset and another due to be built in sizewell in suffolk. but that will mean creating even more dangerous waste, only adding to the pressure to find a permanent solution. as the energy crisis in europe intensifies, leaders from several countries around the baltic sea, together
across parts of eastern england, it was dry, sunny, and in the case of santon downham in suffolk, it was pretty warm, with temperatures hitting 28 celsius across this part of east anglia. overnight, brisk south westerly winds will continue bringing pulses of rain. it is going to be quite a humid night, there is going to be some low cloud, some mist and fog patches around the coast and hills, and temperatures falling no lower than 16 18, so we will already be off to a warm start first thing sunday morning. more rain to come, particularly across north western areas of the uk. a little pulse of rain likely to develop across wales, the north midlands, the peaks and the pennines, but south and east of that it is dry, it is sunny, and it is warm. actually, temperatures will be higher across the board. quite a big jump in aberdeen, but it is going to be east anglia that is the hot spot with temperatures hitting 30. the weekend dry in england and wales for the most part with increasingly war
that s all for now, stay with bbc world news. hello there. monday s heat was extraordinary, not least because it covered a really wide area. 38.2 celsius the highest temperature recorded at santon downham in suffolk, very close to the all time uk record. jersey had its hottest day on record. wales had its hottest day on record as well, and with this met office red warning for extreme heat still in force through tuesday, some places could see temperatures get even higher than that. because we start tuesday morning in a wedge of exceptionally hot air. this is actually the air overhead. the hottest it will have been throughout the whole of this heatwave period. so as the sun gets to work on that, after starting temperatures like these, well, those values will really start to rise very quickly as we go through the morning where we hold onto sunshine.