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few strides of the 400 metres at the world athletics championships. good morning. today is another day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest will be across the north and west, and it s going to feel cooler everywhere but especially in the south east because we are losing that humidity. it s friday 25th august. our top story. a reduction in the amount we pay for gas and electricity is expected to be announced later, as the energy regulator, 0fgem sets the next price cap for households in england, wales and scotland. analysts predict a typical household s annual bill will decrease by around £149 per yearfrom 0ctober. the announcement is expected in about an hour. with more details, here s our reporter peter ruddick. for sophie, simple things like popping on the lights or watching tv have become a source of anxiety. i ve had many sleepless nights surrounding whether or not i ve used too much energy in one day. it s been a massive concern for me for a very long time. you know, i ....
explored for the first time. on bbc london. the football on newsnight at 10:30pm. does a fatal plane crash north of moscow mean that to vladimir putin has killed the wagner leader, yevgeny prigozhin, once his closest acolyte, in revenge for his insurrection government department sent him letters he could not read. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. first tonight the news that has been developing from russia all evening, the plane crash that appears to have killed a man whose mercenary fighters have attacked ukraine and who just two months ago led a mutiny against vladimir putin. in the last hour, it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin head of the wagner group was on board a private jet that crashed near moscow. this is still very much an evolving situation, one that the uk government says it is monitoring. in the us president biden has said there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind. our first report is from our russia editor steve ....
three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start with the major story in russia, where the founder of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeni prigozhin, is presumed dead, after his plane crashed in the north west of the country. look at this. this is footage which has been cleared by the bbc verify team and appears to show the burning remains of the plane in a field in russia s tver region. mr prigozhin gained notable notoriety injune as you may remember after leading a failed mutiny. that insurrection was ultimately called off, of course, but mr prigozhin had directly challenged president putin s authority. two months later and he is now supposedly dead. russian aviation officials say mr prigozhin was on board with his man, dmitry utkin, and it is believed all passengers, all ten passengers and crew died immediately. us president joe biden said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin is not behind. but what about mr putin s he sp ....
little bit. and we didn t quite get the press right in the first half. so we addressed it at half time. made a couple of changes and i thought that that made us better in the second half and then getting the early goal to start the second half, definitely helped by giving us that cushion as well. and on another night, it might have been five or six. and we have already looked at poland. we know that they pose a different threat to tonight. it will be a tough test for us, but you know, what more motivation do you need than one win away from the fourth major tournament. the boys have been incredible all week knew the importance of that going into the game. and they ll be ready on tuesday and up for it. so let s take a look at the rest of the playoff semi final results. confirmation wales will play poland, after they thrashed estonia 5 1. ukraine meet iceland in their playoff final. and greece put 5 past kazakhstan, to secure their final against georgia. staying with inter ....
forjoining us on sportsday. we start at the world athletics championship in budapest, and what a day for great britain sjosh kerr, he s taken gold in the men s 1500 metres after a thrilling race in hungary. he was neck and neck with norway s jakob ingebrigtsen going into the final 200m, before breaking his rival in the final50. the 25 year old clocked a season s best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a world championships. but it was history repeating itself for ingebrigtsen, the reigning 0lympic champion, beaten into silver as he was in similar circumstances at the last world championships in eugene. the day and the gold though belonging tojosh kerr. you know, a long time coming, so, it s quite an overwhelming experience, but i am so proud of myself. i m so proud of my team and my family that got me here. i didn t feel like i ran the best race either, so ijust threw my whole 16 years of the sport in that last 200 and didn t give up until the end. ....