Unbeaten this season. A new documentary about the duke of edinburgh reveals his favourite celebrity chefs. We ll get their reaction. We have got some rain in the forecast today, moving east through the course of the day. They could be localised flooding across parts of eastern england in particular, but things will brighten up from the west later on. I ll bring you all the details throughout this morning s legrand. It s sunday the 19th of september. Our top story: the impact of soaring wholesale gas prices will be discussed at a series of meetings between the government and industry leaders over the coming days. The increase in the cost of gas has led to warnings of a knock on effect on food supplies. The business secretary kawsi kwarteng says he will meet with industry figures to plan a way forward. Our business correspondent katy austin reports. The reasons wholesale gas prices have soared include high demand and lower wind and solar generation. The business secretary held urgent mee
As well. They are likely to continue as well. They are likely to continue as we progress through this afternoon, generating a lot of rainfall within a short space of time and frequent lightning and hail in the mix as well, whereas further north, drier, brighterwith some centre and feeling one. Top temperatures, 2a, 20 five celsius. Debit call across parts of scotland. Misty and murky across some eastern coast of the fringes and turning cool it was the south. Further heavy, thundery downpours as we head through this evening. So no moving, again a lot of rainfall in a short space of time. Another muggy one with the lows of 15 celsius. Hello this is bbc news with me, ben boulos. The headlines: ecuador s richard carapaz wins the gold in the men s olympic cycling road race, making it the country s second ever gold at a summer olympics. A golden start for china its team picks up two gold medals in shooting and weightlifting. Tackling britain s pingdemic hundreds more covid testing sites
Sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s austin. Good afternoon. Well, team gb are on the board. They have their first medal of the tokyo games and it came in thejudo 24 year old chelsie giles winning a bronze in the women s under 52kg event. She beat switzerland s fabienne kocher in the bronze medal final. She scored an early waza ari to take the lead and then won the bout with this ippon to make her team gb s first medallist in tokyo. But the brits are guaranteed another medal within the hour because bradly sinden is into the men s under 68kg final in taekwondo. So that means he s guaranteed at least a silver. But if he wins, he d be the first british man to win a taekwondo title at the games. And sinden got there after a dramatic semifinal win over china s zhao shuai. Sinden was well behind going into the last minute of the third and final round, but a brilliant late onslaught from the brit sent him into the final. That gets underway shortly at around 1:45
Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines: further sanctions on belarus as the us calls the diverting of a passenger plane an affront to international norms. Thousands of manchester city and chelsea fans are in portugal, where the teams meet for the champions league final. The $6 trillion plan president biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war ii to try and reboot america s economy. The bottom line is this. The biden economic plan is working. We ve had record job creation. We re seeing record economic growth. We re creating a new paradigm. An 18 year old man has been charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of black lives matter activist sasha johnson. Making a splash a rise in lockdown river swimming promts public concern around the state of the uk s waterways. Now on bbc news, on this week s travel show, lucy hedges looks back at some of the unique places the team have spent the night over the years, from camping out inside a 13th century church in the