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good morning. it is a fairly cloudy start for money. some drizzle in the west, some heavier rain in scotland. that will push north eastwards through the day, with brighter skies in central and eastern areas. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 2nd february. british gas is facing an investigation after using debt collectors to break into the homes of vulnerable people and forcibly fit pre payment energy meters. the tactic which results in someone s heating being cut off if they don t have the cash to top up their meter is only supposed to be used in homes where there are no young children, pensioners or other vulnerable people. but an undercover reporter from the times newspaper found the meters were being fitted in homes which should be protected. aru na iyengar reports. hello? british gas, your gas supplier. we re here with a court warrant. can you please open the door? otherwise we will have to open it for you. this is the exciting bit. i ....
velocity wind, it just explodes and it blew the roof off. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states catastrophic damage, and our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of females arrival in the state. ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about where a potential trial could be held. an outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting laid to rest yesterday . we have a look at the tributes pouring in power play how disney invoked the royal family took quietly take back power from florida governor ron desantis handpicked board. we start with the threat of severe weather. it s not over yet for the people hit hard by friday s devastating storm is part of the central us embracing for more extreme weather early into this week, and the death toll is rising overnight. it s now stands at 22 , dozens more injured and the destruction ....
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with dramatic video. we re going to show it to you right here showing the moment a bomb explodes in a cafe in st petersburg, russia, killing a well known russian pro war blogger. may have been presented to the blogger hidden inside a figurine. the dead blogger had more than a half million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. cnn s matthew chance is in moscow for us. well jim. this explosion killed one of russia s most prominent pro war military bloggers, posting under the name of vlad lent tartasky. he accumulated more than half a million followers on his pro war telegram channel in which he was notoriously hard line enthusiastically, for instance, declaring on ukraine we will kill everyone. we will rob everyone we will have our way. and, of course, like other prominent russian military bloggers criticizing asp ....
in the last few weeks and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, ukraine: a year on the frontlines. over the past 30 years or so, i ve covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. this is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. there was a sense that the security architecture that we knew, the safety, the security that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. i was here injanuary and february of last year, counting down to the invasion. i was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. we were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. it s only 30 miles from the russian border. but inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to film in a supermarket. there was no panic buying. the shelves were full. we met a lady called tatiana, ....
thank you. the first minister will now take thank you. the first minister will now take questions on the issues raised now take questions on the issues raised in now take questions on the issues raised in his statement. i intend to allow raised in his statement. i intend to allow around 40 minutes for questions, after which time we will move questions, after which time we will move onto questions, after which time we will move onto the next item of business, and it move onto the next item of business, and it would move onto the next item of business, and it would be helpful if those numbers and it would be helpful if those numbers who wish to ask a question would numbers who wish to ask a question would press numbers who wish to ask a question would press the request to speak button, would press the request to speak button, and i: meghan gallacher. presiding button, and i: meghan gallacher. presiding officer, the first minisler presiding officer ....