uses you can listen to those persistently loud voices if you like the thousands of guests, presenters and contributors over the years know it is a family of. this is how the top of the show started this morning. we all know we happen to be in the news at the moment and of course we appreciate that, butjust from both of us and the whole team here, the crew, the guys downstairs, we love making this show for all of you. yeah, we really do, and that s exactly what what we re going to do, we re going to continue to do that. so let s go on with our first news story. giles? we are very happy to be here, can i say that as well? - of course you can. this is a happy place to work. i enjoy coming in here and have done since i began coming here all those years ago. thank you, giles. this is good to be here. you re happy too? i m very happy to be here. we re happy people in a happy place with some interesting stories. - live now to sanchia berg who s outside this morning s studios at te
Themselves at home on the course with the traditional photocall. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay customers a total of £114 million, after failing to meet key targets. The industrys regulator, ofwat, said that firms arent performing well enough on issues including leaks and reducing pollution. The money will be returned by reducing household bills. Our environment correspondent jonah fisher has the details. This is the Water Companies end of year report, written by regulator ofwat. It assesses their performance against a number of indicators such as plugging leaks, the quality of the water supply and whether they have managed to reduce the number of Pollution Incidents. For most of the 17 companies, it s not pleasant reading. There is no top of the class this year, with none getting the highest score. Ten were rated as average, and seven told they are lagging behind. Poor performance comes with financial conseque
this is bbc news. the headlines: the ceasefire is over and fighting resumes, the gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have been killed in the hours since the temporary truce ended. each side blames the otherfor temporary truce ended. each side blames the other for breaching the ceasefire terms, aid and fuel trucks are now being stopped from entering gaza. world leaders officially recognise the role of food and farming in globalwarming. king charles pleads with cop28 to be a turning point for the planet. and former uk health secretary matt hancock tells the covid inquiry schools could have stayed open if the government had acted more swiftly. let s return to the israel gaza war, where the temporary ceasefire ended at around 7am local time. since then, the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than a hundred people have been killed in fighting. israel says it has had more than 200 targets today. the sides have blamed each other for the violence restarting after
stamford bridge. the former presenter of the popular uk tv programme this morning has been speaking out against people who called the culture at the programme toxic . philip schofield quit on friday after admitting he lied to his employers, friends and family. let s take a look at the statement that philip schofield made on his instagram earlier today. this is how the top of the show started this morning. we all know we happen to be in the news at the moment, and of course we appreciate that, butjust from both of us and the whole team here, the crew, the guys downstairs, we love making this show for all of you. yeah, we really do, and that s