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good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the business secretary s been holding crisis talks with energy firms this morning, amid worries of big rises to energy bills in the coming weeks. five smaller energy suppliers have already gone bust, unable to cope with a 70% hike in the cost of wholesale gas since august. it s understood the government is considering offering emergency state backed loans to companies. 0fgem has confirmed british gas has agreed to take on an extra 350,000 customers from the collapsed firm people s energy. and the uk s sixth largest energy company, bulb, is seeking new funds to try to stay afloat. downing street says it wants to fix the issues as fast as it can. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. gas, the cornerstone of our energy supply and the cost of it is rocketing. there has been a surge in global demand and not enough supply. energy firms here are now battling to stay afloat. in the current market as it is we are not going to s ....
borisjohnson co hosts a meeting in new york with the un secretary general to try and persuade rich nations to spend more on helping poorer countries cope with climate change. lava from an erupting volcano in the canary islands has destroyed more than 100 homes, as it flows towards the sea. cheering and british talent wins multiple honours at the emmy tv awards. good afternoon. the united states says it will relax travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers flying from the uk and the eu from november. prime minister borisjohnson said he was delighted that president biden is reinstating transatlantic travel . travellers will still have to show proof of a negative test as well as provide contact information so they can be traced if required. the 18 month ban on foreign travellers entering the us was introduced by former president donald trump at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in march last year. the move has been welcomed by the airline industry. airlines uk sa ....
altman, pediatrician and spokesperson for the american academy of pediatrician and dr. lena nguyen also with us. dr. altman, i want to start with you, the impact of this announcement. sure. you know, i think this is really exciting, as a pediatrician and parent of a 6-year-old who is the only child in my household not yet vaccinated, this will make a huge difference in the fight against covid-19 and parents, pediatricians and teachers are waiting for this. it is very needed and i think the data looks good and i m waiting for the fda and i hope they will thoroughly and aggressively review this data, so when it is time and appropriate, we can get shots in arms into our younger kids. dr. nguyen, this is a robust antibody response pfizer said and shows safety among the 2,000-plus kids in the trial. it doesn t get into efficacy, 90% effective against prep venting infection. what do you want to see when you pore through this data? i agree this is exciting news. so many ....
family of gabby and word came this afternoon the county coroner had been called over to the exact area the fbi national park service had been searching for the missing 22 -year-old this weekend. while the coroner could not 100 percent identify and confirm the identity the fbi said the remains were consistent with the description which were discovered in the area of the spread creek dispersed camping area police have been combing this very specific area near the grand teton national park looking for any signs after her boyfriend brian returned home from the cross-country trip to florida without her in her van on september 1st. it appears fellow travel blogger may have provided a critical clue overnight to her last known whereabouts after discovering she had captured the couples white for the in the teton national park on the . this discovery was made today and the investigation is far from over. the fbi says they still need anyone who may have seen anything in this area ....
kabul airport. afghan families desperate to escape the taliban s fanatical rule. they ll run behind you with the ak 47. and boom, boom, boom. our country is right now is finished. no more afghanistan. after 20 years of fighting. the united states military has begun strikes. the taliban will pay a price. and tens of thousands of of a began and american lives lost. we try not to think about it, because when you think about it, then i get like this. the united states became the latest super power to suffer defeat in afghanistan. we have defeated britishers, and now americans. and a generation of afghans who grew up knowing freedom saw their dreams denied. the taliban reimposed strict islamic law. i came here on this last trip less than two weeks ago, and afghanistan was a republic, backed by the united states. now it s an islamic emirate, run by the taliban. it did not have to be this way. the united states war in afghanistan started a lot earl ....