members are on strike. and at 3.30pm on the bbc news channel, talking business with aaron heslehurst. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers, but also hundreds of staff. today, 0ctopus were confident
Serious consequence in terms of the pricing of Country Garden debt but notjust for the company butjust for the sector in general and could create another round of market turbulence. Which we have seen already. I would say that the key thing here is chinas real estate problem is in the crux of other problems currently facing. We have seen rivals defaulting. How significant if Country Garden was to default . Country carden garden was to default . Country garden involves garden was to default . Country garden involves at garden was to default . Country garden involves at least garden was to default . Country garden involves at least 3000 l garden involves at least 3000 existing Housing Projects and a lot of them are in inaudible whereas for Country Garden, they have a lot more. On a brighter note, i would say that perhaps Country Garden seems to be less complicated in terms of structure than ever grand so there is a key risk to worry about but maybe there are also things like the structur
Of alert and ordered all schools to be closed on sunday. The military has also announced new restrictions on civilian gatherings the move comes hours after Iranian Special forces seized a Container Ship linked to israel in the straits of hormuz. The white house has demanded the Immediate Release of the ship and its crew, accusing irans revolutionary guards of an act of piracy. Our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has the latest from jerusalem. An Iranian Special forces helicopter has been seen in footage that has been verified by the bbc, hovering over the deck of the ship. You can see one person on the deck, two people climbing down the rope, and Iranian State media have been very clear and vocal about attributing that to Iranian Revolutionary guard Naval Special forces. In response, israels Foreign Minister has accused iran of an act of piracy, and the Military Spokesman Daniel Hagar here in israel has said iran will bear the consequences for this escalation. What i think is
Where at least six people have been killed after a ao year old man armed with a knife went on the rampage. Several people, including a nine month old baby, are critically injured and in hospital. It happened just a few minutes drive from bondi beach. Panicked shoppers inside the Westfield Centre fled the attacker s path, before he was shot dead by police. Officers said he was known to the authorities and the attack was likely not a terrorism incident. Katy watson reports now from the scene. Shouting fear and panic in bondi. Chaos in one of sydneys busiest Shopping Centres. Police were called after reports of multiple stabbings, and this is the scene they were met with. The attacker entered the Shopping Centre just after three in the afternoon, maiming people in his path. Outside, shoppers ran for their lives out of the mall. There was relief and terror. Everyone move back i was hiding in the back room just hearing gunshots. It wasjust like the worst thing ever. We saw these people runn
the armed forces on remembrance sunday in a service at the cenotaph in london. hello, i m rich preston. welcome to the programme, good to have you with us. hamas says 13 people were killed when a house was hit near khan younis in the south of gaza. the incident was witnessed by our correspondent rushdi abualouf. he was buying supplies for his children in the village of bani suhaila when four bombs fell around him in quick succession. he sent these pictures, and says a block of around 10 houses had been destroyed. rushdi also told us he saw four dead bodies and more than 100 injured people. the world health organization says it has lost contact with gaza s main hospital, the al shifa. israel s military says it s agreed agreed to evacuate babies in need of oxygen from that hospital and two others. officials at al shifa say two newborns died as a result of the hospital running out of power, with heavy fighting on the streets outside. this photo was sent to the bbc last night s