Strike during their final days in afghanistan. Strictly S Back but theres controversy as reports suggests that two of the show s professional dancers are refusing to get covid jabs. And coming up. Well find out about the biggest exhibition of iranian arts and culture in the uk. Thats at 2 30pm here on bbc news. Good afternoon. The government is holding urgent talks with the Energy Industry about a sharp increase in wholesale Gas Prices, which have risen to record levels. There are warnings that the increase will raise Consumer Energy costs and other prices its already affecting Food Production and agriculture. The rising cost of wholesale Gas Prices is being driven by several factors including strong global demand. Our Business Correspondent Katy austin has more. Gas is a key source of the energy that helps to heat our homes and power our industries. But reasons including high demand and lower solar and Wind Output have seen wholesale prices soar, almost doubling since the start of thi
With australia in the united kingdom is a signal that were committed to working with our allies in partners, including in europe, to ensure a free and open in the pacific. We welcome European Countries playing an important role in the, in the, you know, specific. We look forward to continue close cooperation with nato, with the European Union and others in this endeavor venue ally, and this is meant, paris is lost, a multi 1000000000. 00 deal to build submarine, forestry alia. The french government is angry, accusing the strains, stopping them in the bank. The taliban insistence more united than ever rest of reports that its leaders of a major power struggle. The group says the claims are inter destabilizing the country, just weeks to control. Leaders from the west african economic Blog Echo was imposed sanctions on guineas military rulers. And there is a monitoring elections be held within 6 months. Guinea was suspended from echo on last week after a military coup removed president s
Technology. The united arab emirates, the men have agreed to pay annually 1700000. 00 in fines to for the prosecution. Theyre accused of conducting hacking operations for the hughie, or working as managers at a firm in the gulf states. When i from Mike Hannah in washington, dc. They had computers around the world, but importantly, also computers within the united states, including those of american citizens. But, and this is the interesting point, it appears that the prosecutors have accepted the p bargain. They say that the charges against the 3 will be dropped if they continue to cooperate fully. If they pay a penalty of some 1700000. 00, which would appear to be the amount of salary they received over a period of time, us secretary of State And City of lincoln as testified for a 2nd day about the withdraw from afghan. This done and the collapse of the Washington Bank governments. The Bite Administration has been criticized for fooling us troops of the country as taliban functions. G
African army was unexpected. And theyre looking into why intelligence agencies fail to see it coming. We need to look back at all of this because to your point, we collectively over 20 years invested discretionary amounts in those security forces in, in that government, hundreds of billions of dollars, equipment, training advice support. And based on that, as well as based on what we were looking at real time again, we did not see this collapse in a matter of 11 days. The taliban has thanked international donors for the a Money Pledge to the un conference on monday. At a news conference, the acting foreign minister emphasized the Groups Intention to distribute the aid to every african who needs it. And he asked more countries and donors to consider sending help. President prisoners hosted his syrian allied bash last out in moscow as the 1st time theyve met since early last year, they discussed how that forces will gain control of serious last rebel held areas. Guineas military chiefs,