his comments come ahead of tonight s penultimate conservative hustings with rishi sunak and liz truss facing tory votes in norwich. gcse results are out today for pupils in england, wales and northern ireland the pass rate is down on last year but higher than it was before the pandemic. good afternoon. pressure is growing on the government to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs. a think tank has called for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses want covid style emergency grants to help companies that are struggling. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200, it s now about £2,000 and it s forecast tomorrow to reach £3,500 per year, payable from this october. there are further increases expected in january. back in may, the government promised a £15 billion support
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can take that kind of hit and still go ahead and land safely. so what could this mean for the fleet of boeing 737 max aircraft worldwide of which the company has delivered around 1,300? i put that question to aviation analyst, alex macheras. we re talking about an aircraft that was only delivered to alaska airlines less than three months ago. and some of your viewers might recognise the name, the boeing 737 max, because that airline jet became a household name when it suffered two fatal incidents, first in indonesia with lion air and then a few months later with ethiopian airlines. and that triggered the worldwide grounding and ban of this aircraft, which lasted almost two years, because investigations concluded that there was something fundamentally wrong with one of these systems on board the aircraft known as mcas. and so boeing were forced to reassess how they were going to recertify that aircraft and get it back into the skies.
on the wreck and cannot get off, a malfunction or ghost net, some rovs have cutting capabilities, manipulator arms to free things or cut things. so best case scenario, one of the rovs can free them if they are entangled in something. sandra: there were multiple questions put to the coast guard in the briefing, so what if, i don t know if you call it a best case scenario, floating on the surface, but if it is tangled at those depths, we have never seen a search rescue at those depths, would they are they would they be able to rescue them at those depths? the answer there, the plain answer is yes. the rov itself, remote operated vessel and it s not manned by anyone, can actually get in there and hopefully free them and in that case, the systems on board that float that vessel
it s snagged on something down there or is on the bottom of the ocean. that s only the first part of the equation. once they found it, they have to figure out a way to get it out and do it in the time frame with regard to the oxygen on board. it s becoming more and more desperate with each passing minute. guys. john: it is, but if you ve got anybody looking for it, you want it to be the u.s. coast guard. ashley webster for us. sandra: don walsh, an oc oceanographer and former pilot. how sophisticated is this, especially at these depths in the ocean? well, it is sophisticated in one respect, and that is the way that it was built.