and we ll be talking to andrew harding our africa correspondent about the conditions that have led to the crisis. also tonight. in birmingham, prime minister and chancellor are dealing with more division this time over increasing benefits in line with inflation. in ukraine, an extended report on the areas being abandoned by russian forces and the high price being paid. what happened here wasn tjust a defeat for president putin, it was a complete humiliation. two and a half years after covid 19 struck, a public inquiry opens into the uk s handling of the pandemic. and in tonight s champions league football liverpool take on rangers the first ever competitive match between the two sides. and on the bbc news channel, england captain leah williamson won t play against the usa as a training injury rules her out of friday s big friendly at wembley. good evening. we start with one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world right now. we have an exten
by street, home insulation programme that gets people s homes insulated so that our bills would not be so high in the first place. that is the cheapest, most effective, fastest way to get people s fuel bills down. time and again the government has refused to put that in place. as well as giving people more help where necessary in terms of those energy bills, what i would love to see is for the government to close the so called investment allowance, which is basically a huge subsidy to the fossilfuel which is basically a huge subsidy to the fossil fuel companies to get yet more oil and gas out of the north sea which is a pretty perverse response to a crisis caused by high gas prices, and instead put that money into protecting people through insulating their homes and making sure that their fuel bills can come down as well as climate emissions and create jobs down as well as climate emissions and createjobs in the process down as well as climate emissions and create jobs in the process a