for the return of local rule in stormont. this is bbc news. now on bbc news, newscast. hello. i m tina from radio 2 let loose on newscast. i m james let loose from scotland on newscast. they ve left us in charge against all the odds. they have. who decided to do that? this is my first time. possibly my last time. who knows? i very much doubt it. and because adam s away. yes. and chris is away. but chris is somewhere really quite interesting. he is with the prime minister, rishi sunak at the g7 summit injapan. we can have a look at him because he s on the aeroplane or he s not any more. but he was on the aeroplane with the prime minister. look at all the reporters huddled around, and chris, i must say, tina. crouching down there. is he crouching? is he kneeling? i don t know. i think he s got strong thighs, whatever he s doing. you know what i was also thinking? annoying. if you suddenly get turbulence at that point. if you get hurled into the prime minister s lap, nobody want
but also the implications for our energy markets. that s so hitting millions of people in this country and elsewhere for the cost of energy. so i m assuming that s going to be top of the agenda. well, as tina says, we ll be speaking later to dr tamsin edwards about that. so more on climate change to come. but today s big thing, the thing you ve been dealing with today, there s an impolite way to put this in a polite way. the polite word is sewage. there was an apology this morning, wasn t there, from england s water suppliers for pumping sewage into waterways. how do we solve that problem? and indeed, perhaps more importantly, who should pay for it? well, we ve got to have a massive investment programme focused on the worst polluting elements of the system, first to really make some action quickly. but the bill payers shouldn t be paying for it and that s what the water companies are saying. they should be paying for it.