the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
to justify the search of donald trump s home in florida. coming up in this week s film review, idris elba fights a lion in beast. what does anna smith think of this adventure thriller? she ll tell us and review the rest of the week s film releases. millions of households in england, scotland and wales are likely to see their energy bills soar by more than 80% after the regulator ofgem raised its price cap. that s the maximum amount consumers on a standard variable tariff can be charged per unit. at the moment, the average household is paying an annual bill of £1971. in october, that willjump to £3549 a year, and almost £60 more if you re on a prepayment meter. and the price cap could go higher still. some analysts predict it will be more than £5300 a year injanuary, and then more than £6600 in april. today s price cap announcement adds to the burden of the current cost of living crisis, with prices for food and petrol already rising rapidly, and taxes and interest rates
in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story for you today: scientists say there s compelling evidence that a market selling live animals in the chinese city of wuhan was the early epicentre of the covid 19 pandemic. it s a significant contribution to what s always been the dominant theory that the outbreak began with the coronavirus spreading from animals to humans at the so called wet market . this is the seafood wholesale market in wuhan. one of the studies just published in the journal science, says genetic information suggests there were two crossover events where animals infected humans in late 2019. a second study also in science shows the earliest known cases in the city were clustered, around that market. i spoke to dr michael worobey, one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. he took us thr
first, though, the latest on the unsealing of that fbi warrant. bret will join us in a moment. broeske we go to correspondent david. hi, david. reporter: this is the search and seizure warrant to gain access by fbi official. it gives us an idea of what fbi agents were looking for and what they took from the president. down in florida. we also got an early look at the property list. a property we see which shows specifically what was taken from mar-a-lago back i want to read that to our viewers and let them know it includes 11 sets of classified materials that may have been improperly, outside of the secured government because depict some of that material labeled at as top-secret, following the unsealed request with president trump, former president trump s formal blessing, and registered has instilled the warrant and the property receipt of the items. we know the include four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, three sets of confidential documents
president biden s disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan which many say open the door for the resurgence of al qaeda in the region. lie with the very latest book good money, president biden announcing he authorized the cia precision strike that killed al qaeda ayman al zawahiri in afghanistan. watch. president biden: justice has been delivered. this terrorist leaders know more. make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you are right, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. 71 year old al zawahiri was known as the right-hand man to usama bin laden who was responsible for the september 11 terrorist attacks. $25 million reward for any information or intelligence leading to the capture. he became the nominal leader of al qaeda after bin laden was killed in 2011. he also helped plot the bombing of the uss cole during 17 american sailors in 2,000. families of 9/11 victims calling the strike a