pressure as well. the main problem is that the company has nearly £14 billion of debt, so it has a substantial interest bill to pay every year. that interest bill is currently going up because interest rates are going up. some interest rate payments are related to inflation, which is very high. at the same time, it s having to spend over £1 billion a year in infrastructure, water mains, stopping leakage and there s a regulatory review coming up in a few years which may mean it will have to invest even more. thames water needs to raise money from somewhere but if it can t get it, the government is looking at options. we need to make sure thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work the government is doing on resolving sewage. up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down but there is a lot of infrastructure work that needs to take place and we need that entity to survive. in a statement, thames water says it s working constructively
the missile also damage nearby apartment buildings and shops. among the dead were two 14 year old twins yulia and anna aksenchenko. president zelensky said the attack showed russia deserved defeat. arnaud de decker is a journalist who was at the restaurant just before it was hit. he described what he saw. i was in the lounge eating a pizza and drinking a nonalcoholic beer. i paid and left and ten minutes later, i heard a very loud explosion, first one and then moments later a second one, and i immediately understood it was the lounge that was hit. i went to the place and it was an absolute disaster. the restaurant was totally gone, people wounded in the street and rescue workers were trying to help the people from underneath the rubble. it was absolutely a disaster. that was a journalist describing what he saw at the restaurant. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk where the missiles hit and the bl
in a major victory for the justice department, a jury just found four members of the proud boys guilty of seditious conspiracy, including the group s leader, enrique tarrio. we re going to be live outside the courthouse. ludicrous, that s what the u.s. is calling russian accusation it was involved in a drone attack on the kremlin. meantime, retaliation strikes inte intensify. we re live from the battlefield next. the suspect in the atlanta mass shooting waived his right to his first court appearance today. his mother is now speaking out. what we are learning about him and one of the victims, all of these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. an historic verdict today on some of the most serious charges related to the january 6th insurrection. four members of the far-right group known as the proud boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy. enrique tarrio, zachary rehl, joseph biggs, and ethan nordean were on trial for their
it was a weekend of instability in russia, where the wagner mercenary group staged a rebellion against the country s military leadership. in the end, that mutiny proved short lived, coming to a halt when wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin told his troops to stand down, just hundreds of kilometres away from russia s capital, moscow. on tuesday, belarus s leader, aleksandr lukashenko, revealed that the wagner chief flew to the belarus capital, minsk but there s uncertainty now over the wagner leader s exact current location. on that, here s our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford. now days later, there are indications that the man who was behind that mutiny is not only still free, there are no criminal charges against him, but it is possible he might actually be back in russia. yesterday, president lukashenko of belarus said he was in that country certainly we had seen flight tracker data which had shown his flight, his own private jet, had landed in minsk yesterday morning. b
aleksandr lukashenko says the wagner chief flew to the belarus capital minsk, but there s uncertainty now over the wagner leader s exact current location. on that, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. now days later there are indications that the man who was behind that mutiny is not only still free, there are no criminal charges against him but it is possible he might actually be back in russia. yesterday president lukashenko of belarus said he was in that country, certainly we had seen flight tracker data which had shown his flight, his own privatejet, had landed in minsk yesterday morning. but yesterday evening that same plane left belarus and flew towards russia, first moscow and then to mr prigozhin s hometown of saint petersburg. and a second plane which had mirrored the movements of the first for several days was also seen flying to saint petersburg. we haven t heard from mr prigozhin himself for some time now, since monday when he put out a audio recording a