including in other countries. uk ministers are due to unveil further measures to help thousands of people living in buildings deemed unsafe since the grenfell tower disaster. six republican senators join democrats in voting to push ahead with donald trump s impeachment trial. and coming up this hour the perils of the zoom call a forlorn texas lawyer tells thejudge i am not a cat , as he s defeated by a kitten filter. good morning and welcome to bbc news. england s deputy chief medical officer says it s really worrying that there s lower take up of the coronavirus vaccine among ethnic minorities in the uk. in the past hour, professorjonathan van tam, has been answering audience questions about about vaccines and covid misinformation here on bbc news, and the asian network. it comes amid hesitancy in black and asian communities about vaccine uptake. i have concerns that uptake in the minority ethnic groups is not going to be as rapid or as high as in the indigenous white
related. with more heavy snow forecast across northern scotland this weekend we ll talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. don t, don t! she s kicked him out! and coming up this hour. certainly not on mute how one parish council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. good morning. welcome to bbc news. energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default domestic energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. ofgem defended the decision, saying that it s in the interest of customers to start allowing energy companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. the price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. but this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers? the price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose dis
hello and welcome to bbc news. us presidentjoe biden has again told russia s president vladimir putin that the us and its allies will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. this during the second call between the two leaders in less than a month, amid concerns over russian troops massing at the ukrainian border. a kremlin spokesperson said that putin had made it clear that any new large scale sanctions would be a colossal mistake. our washington correspondent gary o donoghue has the details. president biden and vladimir putin spoke for 50 minutes. and if you need any kind of indication of how serious the situation is, this is the second time in three weeks that had a call between one another to discuss the situation on the ground. we understand that the discussion was robust and serious, substantive according to the americans. joe biden lead out two paths, according to his officials, one of diplomacy and discussion, where russia could de escalate and get back t