offences. police in england and wales are failing victims of bulgaries, robberies and theft, the official inspectorate has warned. donald trump declines to answer questions as part of a new york state investigation into his family s business practices. and the bbc finds that more than 16 local swimming. closed across the uk in the past three years. 16 local swimming pools have closed. good morning and welcome to bbc news. ministers are holding talks with energy bosses this morning, amid fears over soaring bills. there are concerns households will fall further behind in paying for their gas and electricity but ministers have said that no extra support will be announced until a new prime minister takes office next month. at the moment, annual energy bills for the average household arejust under £2,000. but bills are predicted to soar to about £3,500 in october. it and forecasters say they could rise to more than £4,000 injanuary. our business correspondent, caroline dav
they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air conditioning system. now on bbc news, return of the tigers. in 2010, the himalayan nation of nepal was one of 13 countries to commit to doubling its wild tiger populations by 2022. nepal is now the only country to have achieved that goal. tigers are making a remarkable comeback here in nepal. their numbers more than doubling in the last ten years. tigers are the majestic creatures. being assigned in the protection duties, it s an honour, you know, it s a privilege. it s a small victory in a battle to bring them back from the brink of extinction. it is definitely something to be celebrated. it does not come without the cost. the common area that the tiger and prey species and humanity shares is so tight, the community lives in terror. there has been an increase in tiger attacks on humans. more number of tigers and more number of people, definitely there is going to be conflict. so, it is going to be a challenging job for
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Travelled by armoured train, he is paranoid about security and so trips are fraught with dangers and it is possible that that is the reason that the us decided to release this, that the us decided to release this, that they hope to spook kim jong un by making this meeting so public and putting the eyes of the world on him and on this travel, that he will decide it is just too dangerous to go and by thwarting the meeting they probably hope they can thwart the arms deal. The us priority in all this right now seems to be to stop these weapons getting to the front line, but here in south korea, the concern runs deeper, it is want what does this mean for future north korea russia cooperation . Russia is desperate and it is expected that mr kim would put a high price on any weapons he would sell the russian leader, the things that people here worry about could this mean increased military cooperation between north korea and russia, would desee Military Drills like the us, south korea and jap