fights to prevent its collapse. ministers are drawing up contingency plans while the supplier looks to secure extra funding amid debts running into billions of pounds. celia hatton has more. the future of the uk s biggest water company is far from watertight. but the government is reassuring thames water s 15 million customers they won t lose access to water as work continues behind the scenes to try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. ministers are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewage. certainly, up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, but there s a lot of infrastru
but controversial rwanda policy had a new roadblock today, with the appeal court including the east african country is not safe enough for the uk to send asylum seekers there. but the lord chiefjustice, lord burnett, announced it had been a split decision. he thinks rwanda is safe, but his two colleagues did not. deficiencies in the asylum system in rwanda are such that there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk that persons sent to remand it will be returned to their home countries, where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment, when in fact, they have a good claim for asylum. in that sense, rwanda is not a safe third country. the government will be disappointed by today s majorityjudgment a blow for the home secretary, who s expressed her personal enthusiasm for getting flights to rwanda started as soon as possible. but that s not the end of the legaljourney the matter will almost certainly now move to the supreme court for a final h
this unrest prosecutors say the policeman who shot the boy has been placed in formal investigation, suspected of murder. let s take a look at the scene in paris last night. writers clashed with police as cars were overturned and set alight. much unrest and many french cities. this is what prompted all the violence. this video captures the violence. this video captures the police officer pointing the gun at the driver before pulling trigger at the driver before pulling trigger at point lagrange was not he died shortly afterwards. the president convened a meeting with senior ministers, describing the violence as unjustifiable. translation: ., , ., translation: the last few hours have been marked translation: the last few hours have been marked by translation: the last few hours have been marked by scenes translation: the last few hours have been marked by scenes of translation: the last few hours have been marked by scenes of violence - been marked by scenes of violence
white house documents. in court today, ryan giggs is accused of throwing his then girlfriend out of a hotel room while she was naked. he denies controlling and abusive behaviour. in scotland, the pass rate for pupils sitting exams has dropped, from the levels seen in the years of the pandemic. and, serena williams, the 23 time grand slam champion, signals that she s about to move on from competitive tennis. and coming up on the bbc news channel: can rangers come from two goals down at ibrox tonight, to keep their hopes of playing champions league football this season alive? welcome to bbc news at six. the sharp rise in energy bills, for millions of households across britain, is likely to be even worse than feared, according to industry experts. the typical household could be paying over £4,000 next year, according to analysts at cornwall insight, at a time when people are facing a soaring cost of living, with the rate of inflation at its highest level in 40 years. there have