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as veteran broadcaster ken bruce prepares for his last show on radio 2. it s entirely within the bbc s right to ask me to step away a little early and gardening leave is a known concept in broadcasting and in many other areas. good morning. the bbc understands that some energy firms are expecting the government to keep support at, or near, current levels and they are amending their bills with that expectation in mind. the typical energy bill for a household in the uk is set to rise to £3,000 a year from april, but there are calls for the government to keep its current level of support. that support currently means the government is limiting the typical bill to £2,500 a year, plus a £400 winter discount. that support is due to end in april and fuel poverty campaigners say that means the number of households struggling to afford bills could rise from 6.7 million to 8.4 million. a treasury source said it wouldn t comment on speculation, but the chancellorjeremy hunt tol ....
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, c ....
i m stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight of a legal battle brewing for the special counsel subpoena to former vp mike pence. cbs news reporting that trump s legal team is gearing up to track on the grounds of executive privilege. we learned yesterday that the jack smith subpoenaed the former vp that wants him to testify under oath that his investigation into trump s role in january 6th. jack smith is also overseeing the investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents. tonight, abc news reports his legal team [inaudible] a folder with classification markings found last month at mar-a-lago. they also turned over a laptop belonging to one of trump s current aides. abc says trump s lawyers told agents, the folder had been copied onto the laptop. so far, neither trump s legal team nor the justice department is commenting. nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. meanwhile, fbi found another classified document today at mike pence s house in indiana. disc ....
across the united states. good morning. the premier league returns today with a huge game at lunchtime as manchester city host liverpool, knowing their title chase can t afford an april fool s day slip up. good morning. it s been the wettest march in over a0 years for parts of the uk, but thankfully the weekend is bringing us something drier and eventually something brighter as well. i ll have all the details here on bbc breakfast. it s saturday 1 april. our top story: households already struggling with the rising cost of living will see many of their bills increase from today. council tax, water charges and some mobile phone costs are going up, but there will also be a big increase in the national minimum wage. as part of the bbc news tackling it together series, 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith has been looking at what is going up and what you can do about it. good morning, vincent. catherine has not five good morning, vincent. catherine has got five children ....
The National Health service this winter. A number of hospitals have declared critical incidents. Three people have died after fire broke out at a hotel in perth in scotland. Emergency services, including 21 Ambulance Crews and nine fire trucks, were called to the incident. Thousands have waited in line to pay their respects to Brazilian Football legend pele, whos lying in state at the ground of his former club, santos. The three time world cup winner died at the age of 82 on 29 december. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Kevin Schofield, whos Political Editor of huffpost uk and eleanor langford, political reporter at politicshome. Tomor ....