for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the
president biden has arrived in the republic of ireland. we are going to show you some pictures of his visit now. this was him visiting dundalk, in county louth, the home county of his ancestors. thousands of people came out to greet him, and he paid tribute to his irish heritage and met distant relatives. he s back in dulblin now, and tomorrow he ll go to county mayo. earlier, he was in northern ireland, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, the deal that brought an end to decades of violence in the region. this trip though, comes at a time of political deadlock in northern ireland, after its power sharing government here at stormont, collapsed over a year ago. our correspondent chris page has more. president biden has begun what, for him, is a very personal tour of places in ireland where he has ancestral ties. he began by visiting the village of conferred income to allow the, that s the place where his great, great grandfather left to emigrate to t
heavy rain in northern scotland, a little bit of brightness sticking out across parts of eastern england. the weather is cloudy, wet or bright where you are, we are all in this wedge of mild air so it does feel unseasonably mild. but as i say sunshine quite limited. the best of it across eastern and southern parts of england, some other eastern parts of england, some other eastern parts of wales, but northern ireland seeing thick cloud, the odd spot of drizzle and that heavy rain continuing to affect northern parts of scotland. 11 13 the top temperatures. turning increasingly windy across scotland as we head into the evening, and this band of increasingly light and patchy rain sinking a little further southwards before beginning to drift northwards again by the end of the night. these are the overnight lows, very mild indeed, 6 10 so a very mild start friday morning. this band of cloud and patchy rain drifting its way through northern england and then up across scotland as we
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