british gas suspends its force fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0 shea has apologised. there chris 0 shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe s biggest energy firm, shell, has reported record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it made in the previous year. the profits are the biggest in the firm s history boosted by higher energy prices since the start of the ukraine war. shell has already said it will pay tax in the uk for the first time since 2017 as a result of the government s windfall tax. let s take a closer look at t
welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fallen rapidly. but i m afraid there are big risks out there which mean that it may not happen in that way. yet we re still seeing stronger pressure from price and wage setting in the economy in the question is, will that start to ease off? coinciding with the bank s decision came a profit announcement from shell and a rather blunt illustration of why we re all getting poorer. the oil and gas giant has reaped profits of £40 billion last year. the taxman has reaped far less. shell said it paid $1
Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Get ready everyone its the new normal. Right smack dab in the middle of an election season, the leading president ial candidate is off the trail and on trial. Donald trump was back at the Defence Table has new york prosecutors layout their case against him and grow their first witness who was the asked publisher of the national enquirer. They trial a 12 person jury that trump tried to illegally influence that when he 16 president ial election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public. Covering up alleged hush money payments. It was Election Fraud pure and simple. Trumps lawyers countering that none of this was a crime and the case should have never been brought. President trump defending himself after court was to miss after court was dismissed for the day. This is a biting witchhunt to keep me off the Campaign Trail. Chi should in georgia now, i should be in florida now for a lot of different places righ