Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
Good evening, i am norah odonnell. And thank you for being with us. We want to begin with the news and analysis of that historic decision from the Supreme Court. The justices ruling that states cannot bar donald trump from running for another term. Even though he is accused by some of insurrection. Colorado and several other states were seeking to disqualified trauma because of his action surrounding the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. Now todays decision was unanimous. All nine justices agreed that trump cannot be barred from the ballot. And perhaps the most important ruling about a presdential election of more than two decades since the decision of Bush Versus Gore in 2000. This is the key paragraph of the ruling. States may disqualified persons attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency. Now the courts three liberal members say the courts majority went too far. Justices sonya so
The laws were introduced after the siege of the capital, onjanuary 6, which led to donald trump being removed from several social media networks. Supporters of the law that it was necessary to prevent censorship of conservative users a long running concern among republicans. They argued they were simply trying to regulate business behaviour, not the speech of these firms. But opponents, including the Industry Group challenging both laws, net choice, said they infringed on the platforms First Amendment rights, by limiting the content they can publish and warning that a ruling for the states would deal a blow to the online platforms biggest models, which rely on curation to attract users and advertisers. The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling injune in the crucial months ahead of the upcoming us president ial elections. In aviation news, a panel by the Us Government after questions democrat is in 2018 and 2019. Boeing is reviewing the findings. In Indias Adani Group is looking
the us national transportation safety board has revealed new details about the door plug that blew off an alaska air jet last month. the 737 max jet left a boeing factory missing four bolts designed to secure the door panel. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has more. this investigation focuses on the bolts used to keep the door in place on the plane. that door is not supposed to open. but it did open onjanuary five and flew off the alaska airjet just after takeoff in portland. now, investigations from the national transportation safety board said the bolts were missing before january five and it appears the alaska airport plane left boeing s factory without the bolts. they were removed to make a repair but it appears not all the bolts were replaced. this is a most diesel we have about what went wrong and it puts the blame on boeing. both details. a supplierfound new boeing. both details. a supplier found new problems with holes drilled on 737 max pl
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