good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the business secretary s been holding crisis talks with energy firms this morning, amid worries of big rises to energy bills in the coming weeks. five smaller energy suppliers have already gone bust, unable to cope with a 70% hike in the cost of wholesale gas since august. it s understood the government is considering offering emergency state backed loans to companies. 0fgem has confirmed british gas has agreed to take on an extra 350,000 customers from the collapsed firm people s energy. and the uk s sixth largest energy company, bulb, is seeking new funds to try to stay afloat. downing street says it wants to fix the issues as fast as it can. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. gas, the cornerstone of our energy supply and the cost of it is rocketing. there has been a surge in global demand and not enough supply. energy firms here are now battling to stay afloat. in the current market as it is we are not going to see it
higher. and liz cheney likely to be ousted next week. and help wanted. restaurants. reporter: opening but the problem, though, finding enough workers to keep the doors open. good morning, and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, may 8th. we are thrilled that you are with us. always. so, happening right now, there is a part of a chinese rocket about 100 feet long waiting more than 20 tons, barreling towards earth at 18 m,000 miles an hour. no one knows exactly where it s going to land. yeah, this is kind of nuts. we do know it s part of the long march 5b rocket from last week. the pentagon is tracking it but not planning on shooting it down. one expert says there s no reason to worry there s a very small risk it s going to wind up causing damage. though there is a risk. yeah, there is. cnn s david culver is following this. i know this is the largest piece of space junk to ever fall to earth. but when we talk about how fast it s going and what the real pla
what health experts could push that number even higher. major letdown as u.s. economy adds just 266,000 jobs, that is far short of the estimate. what happened? plus, where is it going to land? that is the million dollar question as the world watches and waits to see what will happen when a 22-ton used chinese rocket re-enters earth s atmosphere. a house divided. republican congresswoman liz cheney likely to be ousted from her position next week, all with not going with the big lie. we are so grateful to see you on this saturday, may 8th. thank you for waking up with us. our pleasure to be you as always. we are grateful that you re with us. coronavirus infection rates in the united states at their lowest in seven months. it s really good news and to sign the country s aggressive vaccination strategy is working. but vaccine hesitancy and more contagious variants worry experts. from the beginning of october the u.s. has a seven-day average of 45,000 new cases a d
my kids have seen mary poppins once, they ve seenjungle cruise once, and that s a one and done thing for them. it s the way it should be. thing for them. your kid just wants you in your sweat pants at home, held together with duct tape. good morning. we are looking at some low cloud, mist and fog in eastern areas this morning with some showers which will burn back towards the east coast then it is a day with variable cloud, some sunshine, a few showers but still warm. it s wednesday 1st may. the emergency services have been praised for their incredible courage in the way they responded to a man armed with a sword, who attacked people in north east london. a 14 year old boy has died, and four other people, including two police officers, were injured before the suspect, who had been leaping over people s garden fences, who had been leaping over garden fences, was cornered and tasered. the metropolitan police federation said the attack yesterday morning was a sad reminder of
columbia university said the students had escalated the protest to an untenable situation and it had no choice but to call the police. pro palestinian protesters have been occupying a tent camp at the ivy league school for nearly two weeks. let s speak to omar wasow, a political science professor at the university of berkeley, california, who studies protest movements. columbia university says it was left with no choice. what are your thoughts? research that i do look for protesters in the 1960s and what i find is that when protesters are non violent and there are heavy handed tactics by authorities, that builds sympathy for the protesters. that is what we saw two weeks ago at columbia when students took over the building. what i find also is that when protesters engage in protest initiative violence, that tends to build sympathy for more law and order and i think that is what we saw today. them taking over the building today creates legitimacy for this massive police respons