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good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the business secretary s been holding crisis talks with energy firms this morning, amid worries of big rises to energy bills in the coming weeks. five smaller energy suppliers have already gone bust, unable to cope with a 70% hike in the cost of wholesale gas since august. it s understood the government is considering offering emergency state backed loans to companies. 0fgem has confirmed british gas has agreed to take on an extra 350,000 customers from the collapsed firm people s energy. and the uk s sixth largest energy company, bulb, is seeking new funds to try to stay afloat. downing street says it wants to fix the issues as fast as it can. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. gas, the cornerstone of our energy supply and the cost of it is rocketing. there has been a surge in global demand and not enough supply. energy firms here are now battling to stay afloat. in the current market as it is we are not going to s ....
desantis that wants a ban on masks. the mystery deepens over the shooting of a once w once promi attorney whose wife and son were murdered three mormt evnths ear outfront tonight, president biden facing republican outrage over his covid-19 vaccine policies that will impact up to 100 million americans. what is your message to republicans who are calling your vaccine requirements an over reach who are threatening to challenge it in court? have at it. look, i am so disappointed that particularly some of the republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities. this is this is we re playing for real here. this isn t a game. he s referring to republican governors because some of them are piling on the outrage. the governor of south carolina henry mcmaster tweeting rest assured we ll fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolinaen and then ther ....
we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing, president biden is taking the fight against covid to the workplace. the spread of the delta variant has hit the economic recovery, stalling job creation and battering consumer confidence. now, the president is ordering all federal government employees to get vaccinated and businesses with more than 100 staff will have to ensure they are either vaccinated or tested weekly. my message to unvaccinated americans is this what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? we have made the vaccine free, safe and convenient. the vaccine has fda approval. over 200 million americans hav gotten at least one shot. over 200 million americans have gotten at least one shot. we have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us so, please, do the right thing. butjust don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their fina ....
sweeping moves to break through to the tens of millions of americans who refuse to get vaccinated. nearly 100 million. telling them, their time is up. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we made vaccinations free, safe and convenient. the vaccine is fda approved. over 200 million americans have gotten at least one shot. we have been patient. but our patient is wearing thin. your refusal cost all of us. the cost is staggering. as of tonight, about 1,500 people are dying right now with a free vaccine that would prevent those deaths, 1,500 people are dying and 151,000 americans are becoming infected a day. biden s ire, not just directed at the unvaccinated but those in positions of power who continue to lie and spread conspiracy theories. elected officials, actively working to undermine the fight against covid-19. instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated and mask up, they are ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from covid in their xhupties. ....
all happening at the same time, the fallout from afghanistan which gets rougher by the day it seems and the fallout from all the flooding and damage that now has claimed close to 60 lives. questions about how it happened and how we could have known better. first to the fallout half a world away because it continues and growing continues and so what if anything can the united states do about it? let s go to david spunt with the president in wilmington, delaware, david. david, hi, neil it s been almost a week that people want today get out as safely as they can. it s been almost a week since u.s. forces completely withdraw. there are still many people including americans that are in afghanistan that want to get out. the united states said to be in contact with members of the taliban to exit at some point. secretary of state antony blinken says that not getting into specifics about some of those discussions with taliban leaders. we do know that president biden is getting u ....