Summary
Energy companies have posted huge profits, but energy bills are still going up. The BBC’s Carrie Davies talks through the figures and what’s happening to consumer costs.
The 22nd Commonwealth Games are getting underway in Birmingham. Adam is joined by athletes Jonnie Peacock and Ama Agbeze (who’s also a Brummie) to discuss what makes these Games so special.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Chris Flynn, Alix Pickles and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producers were Emma Crowe and Dave O’Neill. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, as discussed on a previous episode, we're not going on holiday. |
| 0:10.3 | Newscast is staying on all the way through August, but we are going to travel virtually |
| 0:15.1 | to different places around the world to find out about the news elsewhere, so a sort of |
| 0:19.2 | virtual working holiday. |
| 0:21.7 | And I asked you to send in your sit-wraps from around the world and things that we could |
| 0:25.6 | feature in what in the world is going on, our new feature. |
| 0:30.1 | Well, you have delivered in spades. |
| 0:33.1 | First of all, we heard from Peter Rice, who said, here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the |
| 0:37.4 | Rio Grande is drying up, that's the river, on account of a mega drought, it's pretty |
| 0:42.4 | eerie. |
| 0:43.4 | If you want, I can call you from the mostly dry riverbed and give a live report. |
| 0:47.8 | And here is Peter's almost live report. |
| 0:52.8 | I am, in fact, standing in the middle of the Rio Grande's largely dry riverbed at this |
| 0:59.5 | point. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm in kind of an island surrounded by a lot of mud and puddles. |
| 1:07.6 | And there still is some flow in the river. |
| 1:10.1 | Normally it's about 2,300, 400 cubic feet per second this time of year, but at this point |
| 1:16.4 | it's down to about 20 the last time I checked the gauge. |
| 1:21.2 | So it's really a gorgeous scene. |
| 1:24.4 | On the other hand, it's pretty eerie looking at this river. |
| 1:26.8 | This has not happened in about 40 years since it's been this dry. |
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