Sir Ed Davey says only the Liberal Democrats can deprive borisjohnson of a majority, at the next Election, and urges activisits to reach out to voters in traditional tory heartlands. They just dont feel that borisjohnson represents them or shares their values. Theyre not convinced the Prime Minister is competent or worse still, decent. The British Government says its confident theres no risk to Energy Supplies for customers, amid soaring Gas Prices and warnings more companies could go bust. We are not being complacent about this at all, but i think the clear message that i want to give to people is that we do not see risks of supplies right now and prices are being protected. Welcome to bbc news. One of englands greatest and best known footballers, Jimmy Greaves, has died at the age of 81. He was Tottenham Hotspur s Record Goal Scorer with 266 goals. His former club said today they were extremely saddened to learn of his passing. Greaves began his career with chelsea, before spells at
She has shaped european and global politics. What of her own country . What is Angela Merkel s germany . Summer in berlin, and the end of an era. For the class of 2021, School Days are done, new lives lie ahead. For germany, too, change is coming. Angela merkel, the only leader these youngsters have ever known, will no longer be running the country in which theyve come of age. We dont have a perfect democracy but i think we have a good democracy. Every german citizen knows the common problems and i think in other countries, that is not the case. I love germany. It is, like, in my heart and i never want to leave it. This country has changed significantly since these youngsters were born. Come with me on a journey through merkel s germany. Well explore the country shes shaped and the country she leaves behind. Germany today, one of the worlds economic giants. This is the land that makes cars, chemicals even a covid vaccine. Angela merkel S Predecessors must take credit for some of this w
Votes are counted in russia, after elections that President Putin was always set to win. And. He laughs John Challis best known as boycie in Only Fools And Horses has died. Good evening. A Uk Shortage of Carbon Dioxide could lead to less choice of products in supermarkets within days, consumers were told today, in the latest warning on disruption to Food Supply chains. The gas is used in Food Production and packaging and animal slaughter, and its availability has been severely affected by the knock on impact of wholesale Gas Prices going up. Ministers have been working to get C02 Supplies back up and say Uk Gas supplies are not threatened. Heres our Business Correspondent Katy austin. The Food Supply chain has already been under pressure as firms struggle to find enough workers, including lorry drivers. Now, manufacturers and supermarkets say a shortage of Carbon Dioxide threatens the supply of some products. The gas is crucial for a variety of uses, including the Production And Packag
millions about to endure another night of near freezing temperatures, many with no power, no heat and no water. again, a picture speaks a thousand words. this family burning a child s building blocks to stay warm. houston s mayor warning power outages remain a, quote, major, major concern, as 13 million texans are now being told to boil water for fear of mass contamination, or have no water at all. this is the scene at a park in houston. let me remind you again that this is houston, texas. people are getting in line, a long line just to fill up buckets of water from a spigot. in the united states, houston, the fourth biggest city in this nation. this is what we are seeing. this is a failure at every level. across texas there is now a dangerous shortage of food. people freezing as they wait hours just to get into a store and once inside, this is what it s like. wherever you are, austin, mckinney, fort worth, houston. look at this. shelves bare and amidst all of it, a marie ant
the dark for the fourth straight day, as record cold temperatures stretch across the state. governor abbott is now pledging to reform the state s energy agency, and he s saying, and i m quoting now, texans deserve answers about why the shortfalls occurred. and more severe weather is on the way. 100 million people are in the path of a major storm and winter weather alerts extend from the u.s. southwest all the way up to the northeast. let s get straight to texas, though, right now. our national correspondent ed lavendera is in dallas for us. ed, governor abbott has just signed a major disaster declaration. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, it s going to be another long night here. but after four days of taking a political beating over this disaster in texas, the governor says he accepts responsibility for the situation at ercot, the state power grid system, but not before once again laying into the executives at that agency, saying that what has happened is unacce unacce