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it s wednesday 21st september. our main story. businesses will learn today how the government will help ease the pain of soaring energy bills this winter. the business secretary, jacob rees mogg, is due to announce more details later this morning, but it s understood businesses could have their bills cut by up to a third. nina is in huddersfield this morning. good morning, nina. what details do you have to tell us about so far? good morning. it has been a long and very painful two weeks for businesses. it has almost been a fortnight since that announcement by the prime minister of household bills capped at £2500, but saying businesses would have to wait. we now understand some of the details. there won t be an average cap on use, but there will be a cap on the price per unit of gas and electricity. it s quite complicated, but we understand how that will translate a savings of around a quarter to a third for businesses like this one in huddersfield. so here they use £40,000 ....
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore, and 6 pm in the us, where the state of florida has been hit by one of the most powerful hurricanes in the history of the united states, with winds of up to 150 miles an hour. hurricane ian has torn a path of destruction through towns and cities, leaving more than 2 million homes and businesses without power, and experts warning of life threatening flooding. it could cause more damage as it heads north into the carolinas, the storm system has regained hurricane strength. our north america correspondent, john sudworth, reports from fort myers. florida had been told to brace for a life threatening event and the city of fort myers was the first to feel the hurricane s power. boats were piled on top of each other, parts of the harbour pushed up onto the shore. at their peak, wind speeds reached over 150 mph. residents who had ignored warnings to evacuate were told to sh ....
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secretaryjustine greening, sir malcom rifkind, who served as foreign and defence secretary in the thatcher and major governments, and catherine haddon from the institute for government. hello, welcome to the programme. after one of the driest summers on record, the notoriously fickle british weather turned of course it did just at the very moment liz truss arrived in downing street this afternoon. and as the heavens opened, drenching the loyal conservative members who had gathered to greet her, the sketch writers might have been tempted to draw analogies with the deluge of issues, that are now piling up on the new prime ministers desk. not that she seemed fazed by the challenge ahead. this is a storm we can ride out, she said, to become the modern brilliant britain i know we can be. i m honoured to take on this responsibility at a vital time in our country. what makes the united kingdom great is our fundamental belief in freedom in enterprise and in fair play. our p ....