And charities are meeting with ministers to discuss the difficult winter ahead. Energy bills will rise again in october, when the price cap increases by 10%. Rachel reeves said she had to take difficult decisions in very challenging circumstances. The conservatives are calling for her to scrap the changes. Our political correspondent iain watson reports. Energy prices are increasing and so is the pressure on the government to help those who are struggling to pay their bills. We are bracing ourselves for a really difficult winter. We are already seeing record numbers of people coming to us with energy debt in the height of summer. That is only going to get worse when the energy price cap rises. From october, the energy regulator ofgem is allowing prices to rise by 10%, and that represents bills of more than £1700 a year for a typical household. This morning, the government brought together big energy companies, the regulator, and citizens advice bureau to discuss what more could be don
For the games. It s always important. We are here an elite sport, winning medals is what we are about, but we are part of an incredible no one movement, the paralympic movement, which on and off the field of play once disabled people to be recognised wholly in society, and those performances on the field of play can only help us in that cause. To the us open where britain harriet dart will begin her second round match against marta kostyuk in the next hour or so, novak djokovic and coco gauff will also be on court later but no such luck for former champion emma raducanu who lost her first round to sofia kenin despite winning the second set. Raducanu was knocked out by the 2020 australian open champion. Kenin plays fellow american and sixth seed jessica pegula tomorrow. England and sri lanka are making their final preparations ahead of the second test at lord s tomorrow. England beat the visitors by five wickets in the opener at old trafford last week, chasing down a fourth innings targ
They would be a ban on smoking in pub gardens. Is this true? pub gardens. Is this true? it looks like it and it pub gardens. Is this true? it looks like it and it is pub gardens. Is this true? it looks like it and it is essentially pub gardens. Is this true? it looks like it and it is essentially saying l like it and it is essentially saying you couldn t light up outside football stadiums or nightclubs or restaurant terraces and even in small parks. We have a statement from the department of health and social care showing that this is under very serious consideration. They say that they don t comment on leaks but smoking claims 80,000 lives a year and costs taxpayers billions. It says that they are determined to protect children and nonsmokers from the harms of second hand smoking. They are considering a range of measures to finally make britain smoke free. We knew that we will get legislation because they inherited the rishi sunak legislation on smoking so it looks like at the lea
Because i was terrified that i would lose my job and my reputation, because it would have been turned on a, she slept with a player. Because i know that thats what he told his teammates. Obviously didnt say, i raped her. Im sure, i cant imagine that they would have been thought that was okay. So he told some others. I was terrified to tell anyone that some wrong version would come out and i would have my reputation it has come out now. I cant prove, and so i would just be the subject of a lot of negative vitriol and ultimately he would not face any consequence. Kat, i know this was difficult. Its so important that you spoke out about this, that you tell your story and we really appreciate you joining us this morning to tell it again. Thank you. One more thing. Two things. One, i really have been just heartbroken by the volume of women who have reached out to me from friends to strangers to other reporters to say this has happened to them. Its an astonishing number and it breaks my hear
We see how the pandemic has changed things onset. Oh, my lord. Everythings changed. First of all we have to be tested every single day. Warm welcome to our viewers on pbs america and around the globe. New scientific analysis seen by the bbc suggests the goals from the Paris Climate Agreement are coming within reach. The Tracker Study looks at the latest promises from countries including china as well as the plans of the us president Electjoe Biden. From the uks wettest february on record to raging wildfires in california. The fingerprints of Climate Change link to Human Activities have become increasingly clear this year. But efforts to curb Greenhouse Gasesis but efforts to curb Greenhouse Gases is the root cause of Global Warming has so far had limited impact. When countries are signed the agreement in 2015, they undertook to limit the rise of damages to well below two celsius this century. But when scientists added up all the pledges made to cut carbon, they mounted to around three