the problem with facing here. carbon dioxide, although it is used in the frozen food industries in the meat industry, for packaging, is also used by the nhs and the civil nuclear industry, it is in essence a by product of fertiliser production. cf industries is a private company, it wants to make money. when the price of power went up, the price of gas went up to par it decided otherwise it would be losing money. at that cut off the supplied carbon dioxide. it accounts for about 60% of uk supply. yes, there was a very real risk that in the coming days there would have been shortages appearing. this at a time that as we know supply chains are already under a lot of pressure because of factors like the shortage of drivers. the government is pretty open about this. it needed to get co2 supplies up this. it needed to get co2 supplies up and running again. so it has done a deal with cf industries to get those plants operating. we don t
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thing we can do is help people into high wage, high skilljobs. that is what is happening. unemployment is falling very rapidly, jobs are being created and wages are rising. rather than raising people s taxes to put more money into benefits, we want to see companies paying their workers more. that is what they are doing. let s speak to our business correspondent theo leggett. let s talk a bit more about this deal that has been done with the fertiliser firm cf industries to restart production, get co2 supplies back up and running. because it will real worries about shortages, empty shelves in the shots within days. absolutely. i think this is a deal that the government felt it had no choice but to do. not to keep fertiliser production going but perhaps to keep costs not covered dioxide production going. this is
the north and i will tell you more later. hello, this is bbc news with me, ben brown. the headlines action on the energy crisis the government strikes a deal with a fertiliser firm to restart production in an effort to maintain supply of carbon dioxide and ease fears of food shortages. the deal comes as the prime minister insisted the gas supply crisis is a short term problem which is being tackled. obviously we re talking to the energy companies, doing what we can to keep prices low, keep the. and to make sure that supermarket shelves aren t empty. president biden promises relentless diplomacy will be the byword for his administration and commits the us to double its contribution to climate finance. a third man faces charges over the salisbury poisonings the home secretary pledges robust action against the russian intelligence hit squad that tried to kill sergei skripal