Now on bbc news, Our World Boris Johnson the coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades. If too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the nhs will be unable to handle it. From this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home. 0h, hello. Hello hi. Hello hi hi. Hiya. Hello, hi. Sound, um. Brains not working. Couldnt work for two weeks. Welcome to oxford gardens. I wake up in the morning, see the blue sky, sun out, and i think wow, what a beautiful day. And it doesnt take me long. I look out the window, open up my blinds and i see people walking with their masks, then it hits me. It doesnt feel real. But you know its real because youve got the letters in your hand telling you you must stay at home. Well, ive been here 25 years. Weve got a range of people. People who are obviously quite wealthy. There are quite a lot of people renting, privately, and also social housing. And its a wonderful mix, you cannot tel
The decision is being examined by the independent police watchdog. Its the uks worst Mass Shooting since 2010. More now on our top story the devastation in haiti following a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake. Leila bourahla is the haiti Country Director of save the children. I asked her what she was hearing from her colleagues on the ground. The situation is horrific, a lot of devastation, dozens of collapsed houses. People are panicked, they are looking of course for people who have stayed under the collapsed house. In some of the towns there have been flooding, people have been trying to escape the flooding. I mean, the trauma of the earthquake in 2010 is very present and the natural hurricane in 2016. So people have been trying to escape a potential tsunami. So at the moment its very difficult because it seems a lot of areas have been severely affected, we are particularly concerned about the state of children and the most vulnerable, we need to respond quickly. The problem is of Course Acc
the household energy supplier octopus is to buy its competitor, bulb, the largest energy company to collapse last year, amid soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. since then, the government has spent billions of pounds keeping bulb afloat but now, octopus has agreed a deal to take on the company s one and a half million customers. our business reporter, ramzan kamali, has the details. the energy market was in disarray this time last year. dozens of firms went bust as energy prices soared. the regulator, ofgem, increased what was then known as the energy price cap. the biggest victim was bulb, put in a special administration, kept going by a huge government bailout. today octopus are confident the takeover of bulb s customers would be a smooth one. octopus has a great track record of bringing large numbers of customers across, for example, when avro fell, it was the largest company to date, we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly. with bu
and the wildlife around us. it s scary. it s climate change on fast forward. we know that the clock is ticking, but i choose to stay hopeful, actually. yeah. i can t do anything else. we want to know what s being done to save svalbard as we know it. we are testing new technology, new systems. but even here, are they really ready to give up fossil fuels in the middle of an energy crisis in europe? they haven t found the perfect substitute yet, so coal - are still here to stay. and now the war in ukraine is undermining the international fight against climate change. one of the consequences is that the official exchange with russian institutions is not possible at this time. it s a dangerous moment for all we meet, those trying to survive at the ground zero of climate change. we re on the top of the world. we have the whole world around us. my name is olaf store. i m an artist living in longyearbyen. i have been living here for 23 years. we ve come to meet olaf and his dog boss
in egypt later this year. the palace was responding to a story in the sunday times which said that the pm had ordered the king not to go to cop 27. now on bbc news our world: expelled by uganda. can you see yourself leaving that house, and do you remember what you did as you left? we were scared. 50 years ago, my family fled their home in uganda. all asian british citizens must leave uganda. - president idi amin gave ugandan asians 90 days to leave. the army people said, just get quickly inside the car. most people took the bare minimum a suitcase and a tiny amount of cash. my mum wasjust saying, take the money out, throw it away. mum, mum, it s money! no, just throw it now! she must have left a lot behind. she did. we literally took nothing at all. i grew up hearing stories of a tropical paradise. but towards the end of their time there, my family s reality was very different. i must reorganise this country properly. - now, i m going there with my mum and my aunt