it s expected to reach the capital manila later today. coming up at 2.30 in we are england, we follow the night road teams working against the clock to maintain the a1. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s 1.5 million customers. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today, octopus were confiden
more money for social care in england to help free up nhs beds, but critics say it s just tinkering around the edges. iranian police and anti government protesters clash in tehran for a seventh day in the worst unrest for years after the death of a young woman in police custody. and launching the see monster, the latest project in a festival of creativity in the uk, costing the taxpayer £120 million. is it worth it? and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel england s cricketers convincingly crushed in karachi as pakistan level the t20 series with a ten wicket win. good evening. interest rates have risen to their highest level for 14 years, heaping extra costs on mortgage holders, credit card users and businesses. the governor of the bank of england warned that the uk economy may already be in recession. rates have risen by 0.5% today the seventh hike in a row as the bank tries to curb inflation. interest rates now stand at 2.25%. our economics editor faisal isla
crossed over recently. some breaking news. a hearing that thousands of supporters of the former president of brazil have stormed the country s national congress in brasilia. they have clashed with police used tear gas and an attempt propel them. the right wing former leader lost the last presidential election to a socialist opponent who was sworn in last week. the supporters are calling for military intervention and the owners resignation of the reader. footage circulating online shows angry protesters wrapped in the national flag with police erecting barriers around the building. we ll bring you more on that when we have it. china has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since the start of the pandemic. people entering the country will no longer need to quarantine but will need to provide proof of a negative covid test, and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. there have been emotional reunions at airports and the mainland s bo
for the country. hundreds of protesters have beeen gathering in central london to show their solidarity with anti government demonstrations in iran. president biden will visit the us border with mexico for the first time since taking office today. record numbers of migrants have crossed over recently. in his latest television interview, prince harry talks of the death of his mother princess diana, and the strain as a child of showing no emotion in public. china has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since the start of the pandemic. people entering the country will no longer need to quarantine but will need to provide proof of a negative covid test, and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. there have been emotional reunions at airports and the mainland s border with hong kong. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country s busiest travel season marking the lunar new year. our correspondent martin
a 16-year-old girl. roslyn joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes, that s what russia seems to still be carrying out in its war against ukraine. early today, russian forces bombarded the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding thousands of others. the shelling was concentrated on a number of apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. another he instance of vladimir putin s invading army violating the laws of war. ostensibly, it served as a particularly on the battlefield against russia and we recent weeks. perhaps, the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula, a critical supply route for the kremlin s forces, as you might imagine, a thin skinned putin has not taken these defeats well. on the contrary, he has renewed his nuclear saber rattling, unnerving weste