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credit built up by people paying for the energy using monthly direct debits can be a good thing. it helps customers budget and smooth out higher winter bills with lower someone is to keep costs the same all year round. but too much or excessive credit and, crucially, customers not getting it back when they ask for it is a problem. just over a month they ask for it is a problem. just over a month ago they ask for it is a problem. just over a month ago i they ask for it is a problem. jut over a month ago i asked for £500 of my £1400 credit back, because the system shown on the supply s website seemed so simple and so straightforward and so customer friendly that i thought it was the right thing to do. unfortunately, after numerous e mails i haven t even had an acknowledgement, let alone any response to whether they agree to let me have my own money back. jn agree to let me have my own money back. , ., , ., back. in the first three months of this ear back. in the first t ....
and late yesterday, the chancellor announced the minimum wage is to go up by more than a pound, to £11.44 per hour, from april next year. and jeremy hunt decided the rate would also apply to 21 and 22 year olds for the first time. here s our econmics corrrespondent, andy verity. ona cold, on a cold, damp day at the south london market, ask what they want the government to do something about and you will hear two big concerns that haven t gone away. energy and food. , ., , ., , food. used to get six or seven oran . es food. used to get six or seven oranges for food. used to get six or seven oranges for a food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now it i food. used to get six or seven i oranges for a pound, now it has five. lemons, ten for a pound, now 87 for a pound. it is hard for the customer, it is hard for the customer, it is hard for us as ....
sam altman was back as the ceo of openai a dizzying, whirlwind few days in tech, which surely cements altman s position as one of the foremost figures in artificial intelligence if he wasn t already. the turning point was an open letter signed by almost all the employees, some 700 of them, demanding his return. hard to imagine how the existing board would prevail if the entire workforce including some of al s brightest coders were proposing to walk out the door. the company which created the popular app chatgpt says it is also shaking up the board. greg brockman, the co founder and president, is back. out go two of the board members who called for altman s ouster, and in comes a new chair, the former sales force ceo bret taylor, and someone bryan will know well, the former treasury secretary, larry summers. joining me now is melissa heikkila, who is a senior reporter for al at mit techonolgy review. thank you for coming on the programme thank you for comin ....
the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all, according to the world health organization. al shifa s head of surgery has told the bbc that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power. there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the situation at the al shifa hospital is intensifying as suppliers are not getting through. gaza s hamas run health ministry says at least 2,300 people are still inside al shifa, in an update shared by the who. officials say premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators. it s now five weeks since hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government, and killed more than 1,200 people in israel, and took more than 200 hostage. since then, hamas officials say well over 11,000 people have been killed in israeli attacks on gaza. in this special report, our international editor jeremy bowen assesses what could happen next, in gaza and in israel. the beds were f ....
there is growing concern about the dire state of hospitals in gaza. the biggest, al shifa hospital, is not functioning at all according to the world health organization. this map shows all of the gaza hospitals. you this map shows all of gaza s hospitals marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital in gaza. here s some of what marwan abu saada had to say about conditions there. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with our babies, who we can t move from our neonatal icu. we are talking now about the 36 it was 39 three of them who lost their lives. two of them lost their lives due to a lack of oxyge ....