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coming up in sportsday on bbc news. england women s goalkeeper karen bardsley has been ruled out of the rest of euro 2017 after breaking her leg in the quarterfinal win over france. good evening. more than 3 million british gas customers are facing a big rise in their electricity bills. from september, the company will charge 12.5% more for electricity. it means a typical household on a dualfuel tariff will see its annual bill go up by £76. british gas says it s putting up prices for the first time in nearly four years because its own costs have risen. but the government and consumer groups have condemned the move. here s our business editor, simonjack. electricity, a basic need, a simple product. it s the same wherever, or whomever, you buy from. if you buy it from british gas, it will be 12.5% more expensive from september, as the uk s largest supplier hiked prices for the first time in four years. given wholesale costs have come down over that period, why raise pric ....
good evening and welcome to bbc news. more than three million british gas customers are facing a big rise in their electricity bills. from september the company will charge 12.5% more for electricity. it means a typical household on a dualfuel tariff will see its annual bill go up by £67. british gas says it s putting up prices for the first time in nearly four years because its own costs have risen. but the government and consumer groups have condemned the move. here s our business editor, simonjack. electricity, a basic need, a simple product. it s the same wherever, or whomever, you buy from. if you buy it from british gas, it will be 12.5% more expensive from september as the uk s largest supplier hiked prices for the first time in four years. given wholesale costs have come down over that period, why raise prices now? we do agree that, over the last few years, since we dropped electricity prices the last time, wholesale costs have indeed fallen by about £36 on a ....
british gas is to increase electricity prices by 12.5% from september. the move which will affect more than three customers has led to calls for a cap on energy costs. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. apple reports sweet earnings due to better than expect that sales of iphones and ipods. and it splits in two to form a new currency bitcoin. we start with apple, which has reported a juicy set of earnings. its shares are rising to record highs. it is best known for its iphones and computers, and they have reported a 7% rise in revenue to just over m5 have reported a 7% rise in revenue tojust over m5 billion. have reported a 7% rise in revenue to just over m5 billion. profits from apple watch, apple tv and other productsjumped from apple watch, apple tv and other products jumped more than 20% compared to last year. but revenue from china fell for the fifth straight quarter. we go to our north america technology reporter. he talked u ....
where two opposition leaders have been taken to a military prison by the security services, a move that s been widely condemned. the un secretary general has expressed concern that the escalation of political tensions will make it harder to find a peaceful solution to the current political crisis. venezuela has some of the world s largest proven oil deposits but 82% of venezuelans live in poverty. former president hugo chavez, who died in 2013, styled himself a champion of the poor during his 1a years in office, pouring billions of dollars of venezuela s oil wealth into social programmes. the left wing government of his successor, nicolas maduro, has struggled to cope with with inflation running at more than 50% a year, plummeting oil prices and accusations of corruption. our correspondent katy watson has sent this report from caracas. antonio ledezma screams for help as he is taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. there s panic, while someone ....
we begin in venezuela, where the security services have taken two opposition leaders off to a military prison, a move that s been widely condemned. after months of violent protests and deaths, the un secretary general has said rising political tensions are making it harder to find any peaceful solution to the current crisis. venezuela has some of the world s largest proven oil deposits but 82% of venezuelans live in poverty. former president hugo chavez, who died in 2013 after 1a years in office, styled himself a champion of the poor and poured billions of dollars of venezuela s oil wealth into social programmes. his successor, nicolas maduro, has struggled to cope with inflation running at more than 50% a year, plummeting oil prices and accusations of corruption. the bbc‘s katy watson sent this report from caracas. antonio ledezma screams for help as he s taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. there s panic, while someone else yells that ve ....