middle income earners as well as low earners will need government help to pay energy bills this winter. it comes as another minister defended the decision to wait until a new prime minister is in place before any announcement on further support is made. yesterday, the regulator ofgem confirmed a dramatic 80% rise in the energy price cap from october, taking the average annual household bill to more than £3,500. earlier, i spoke to lisa rodgers who s a teacher she told me about how she ll be impacted by the energy price rise. i have two children, i am a single parent and, yeah, this is really scary. the moneyjust isn t there, and i am classed as one of these middle earners. just tell me about what your energy bills are at the moment. how much are they now? how much will they go up by? do you have any idea? well, i was paying £88 a month but that was on a fixed rate. that is now coming to an end and there are no deals i can get so i have to go onto the price cap. it was est
audiences in the uk and around the world. thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly 1,000 people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pak tunkwa province. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. for some, that mea
families left with what they could manage. this man tells us he has lost everything. translation: we ve been sitting here for one week. | there are 20 of us in my family, and we don t know where to go. these tents that you are seeing on either side of this main road where people have come to seek temporary shelter. they tell me that something was different about this year s rains. the water hasn tjust come from flooded rivers, but it was torrential rains from the sky, and unlike in the past where over time the water would recede, the water is still here, and it s been weeks, so they don t know when they will be able to go back to their homes. they tell me this is the worst kind of limbo. balochistan and sindh provinces have seen the worst destruction. aid into communities has been slow. authorities say they have limited resources. it s become clear to everyone that the impact of these floods
between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. families left with what they could manage. this man tells us he has lost everything. translation: we ve been sitting here for one week. | there are 20 of us in my family, and we don t know where to go. these tents that you are seeing on either side of this main road where people have come to seek temporary shelter. they tell me that something was different about this year s rains. the water hasn tjust come from flooded rivers, but it was torrential rains from the sky, and unlike in the past where over time the water would recede, the water is still here, and it s been weeks, so they don t know when they will be able to go back to their homes. they tell me this is the worst kind of limbo. balochistan and sindh provinces have seen the worst destruction. aid into communities has been slow. author
for some, that meant beside a road. families left with what they could manage. this man tells us he has lost everything. translation: we ve been sitting here for one week. | there are 20 of us in my family, and we don t know where to go. these tents that you are seeing on either side of this main road where people have come to seek temporary shelter. they tell me that something was different about this year s rains. the water hasn tjust come from flooded rivers, but it was torrential rains from the sky, and unlike in the past where over time the water would recede, the water is still here, and it s been weeks, so they don t know when they will be able to go back to their homes. they tell me this is the worst kind of limbo. balochistan and sindh provinces have seen the worst destruction. aid into communities has been slow.