7,000 extra hospital beds this winter including in pop up sites the nhs in england unveils its plans to cope with expected pressures. and the shortlist is announced for hosting next year s eurovision song contest seven uk cities are in the running. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. a drought has been declared across more than half of england, after the driestjuly on record in some areas of the country. it means water companies can impose stricter measures over how we use water at home and at work. a drought is defined by a lack of water due to extreme weather that has been built up over time. the four stages are normal, prolonged dry weather, drought and severe drought. eight areas have been moved to the third stage, including devon and cornwall, solent and south downs, kent and south london, herts and north london. as well as east anglia, thames, lincolnshire and northamptonshire, east midlands. in the wake of low rainfall and high temperatures, water c
Hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. And we begin with a National Crisis averted. At least for the next 45 days. Just a few hours before midnight, the deadline to shut down the government, the u. S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill to keep the nations government open until midnovember. The breakthrough came after House Speaker mccarthy surprised everyone by pushing a shortterm Spending Bill through the house with democratic help. It is a deal that may cost mccarthy his speakership. Republican hardliners are vowing to bring a motion to the floor to oust the leader for ignoring the Spending Cuts they were demanding in a package. I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker Mccarthy this week. I think we need to rip off the band aid and move on with new leadership that could be trustworthy. Look, the one thing that everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin Mccarthy. He lied to biden and house conservatives. The on
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hitting home there was a stark warning today that a conflict 1500 miles away could have devastating economic consequences here in the uk. energy bills, already set to rise 50% in april could rise a further 30% or more this autumn. what we are looking at is the price cut for winter moving from the summer level of around £2,000 per year to potentially 2,700 for winter even potentially as high as £3,000 a year. it is a message that startled shoppers in sutton coldfield today. it s terrifying that we have had this much at this stage and we don t know what s to come. we don t know the half of it. it s really scary, it s really hard for some people to l cope isn t it? it sjust, where do we go, i what we do, we ve all got to keep warm. hopefully it will be mainly l in the summer, so we won t need as much per household, but it s still going to be - awful for lots of people. the reason for these grim forecasts
that the cost of the average household dual fuel bill could rise by at least £700 by the time the new energy cap comes into force in the autumn. further price rises at petrol stations are also expected, as our business editor, simonjack, reports. hitting home there was a stark warning today that a conflict 1,500 miles away could have devastating economic consequences here in the uk. energy bills, already set to rise 50% in april, could rise a further 30% or more this autumn. what we re looking at is the price cap for winter moving from the summer level of around £2,000 per year to potentially 2,700 for winter, even potentially as high as £3,000 a year. it s a message that startled shoppers in sutton coldfield today. it s terrifying that we have had this much at this stage, and we don t know what s to come, we don t know the half of it. i it s really scary, it s really hard. for some people to cope, isn t it? it sjust.where do we go, what we do?