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the government the government has the government has confirmed the government has confirmed a the government has confirmed a sharp reduction in the support gives to and public bodies including schools, with energy bills. the current scheme with £18 billion will be reduced to 6 billion, the scheme will take effect from march, this chemicals business in west bromwich signed a four—year energy contract it has been shielded from prices that spike tenfold at times last year and didn't need a government scheme subsidised and fixed energy costs from september to march, the new scheme today will give a discount to wholesale prices which is much less generous. all help is very welcome however we are a small company, our energy is tripling this year, which means being a small company we have one pot of money, ifearthat

company we have one pot of money, i fear that redirecting our money away from innovation into basically survival is not a good thing for the business and not a good thing for uk plc either. . , , , , either. heavy energy users will aet a either. heavy energy users will get a bigger— either. heavy energy users will get a bigger discount _ either. heavy energy users will get a bigger discount and - get a bigger discount and smaller businesses spike and will qualify albeit fully support, the chancellor says help will be cut by two—thirds to protect taxpayers. 140 to protect taxpayers. no government _ to protect taxpayers. no government can - to protect taxpayers. fir? government can continue to subsidise and if the higher energy prices, but what we can do is bring down inflation and that means we have to be responsible with public finances.— responsible with public finances. , ., ., finances. hugely volatile wholesale _ finances. hugely volatile wholesale prices - finances. hugely volatile wholesale prices have i finances. hugely volatile - wholesale prices have fallen over recent weeks as temperatures in northern europe have been higher than usual, but still three times the long—term average winning most businesses will see bills rise this year. this mild weather has been a blessing for the government who will end up spending less than the £18.5 billion estimated current scheme will cost, that could change at any time, you can see a cold snap escalating global

tensions or a resurgent chinese economy bidding up the demand for global energy, what this new scheme does means all the risk of future high prices lies with businesses and not the government. businesses like this pipe that have seen energy driven inflation push up the cost of food, drink and wages and say volatile energy prices have pitched their confidence and that of their customers. we are bein: and that of their customers. - are being very very cautious, the threat of high energy costs which we experienced last year is very much in our mindset. it's notjust the energy increases for ourselves, it is the energy cost increases to our consumers. if we don't have a confident consumer, and that obviously weighs on our confidence.— obviously weighs on our confidence. ., , confidence. the government is concerned _ confidence. the government is concerned some _ confidence. the government is concerned some businesses i confidence. the government is| concerned some businesses are being overcharged by supplies and what the regulator to investigate but most business leaders will see costs rise

just as customers and comes full, challenging the 42023. now on bbc news, the travel show. no turning back now. ijust need to get there. even if it isjust the debris field, i will be very happy, paying my respects in the debris field. radio: talk about comms. .. copy. so it was just weird, almost like he... radio: diver's comms, titan i

was surprised when they made a turn as they departed the platform, i let them know he snagged a buoy... yeah, roger that, comms. this is diver one. just a heads up, it looked like he was heavy and possibly dropped a thruster because he started spinning really weird when he came off. he bounced a bunch of times when he was trying to leave the platform... radio: copy. which direction did he spin? starboard. so it would have been his starboard thruster? yeah. checked it and said it was good. we will find out, we'll see! good? hungry!

laughs need some breakfast. i'm all ready for when they come. must be a busyjob for you? very busy, it is indeed. it is steady. one mealjust rolls into the other, into the other. and especially on dive days, it gets very busy. but i wouldn't have it any other way. really? you like it better doing this than on land? 0h, absolutely, 100%. every day is the excitement, is there a dive today, are they going to make it, what did they see, who is going down, when are they coming back? so some days, like i said, are more challenging than others but for the most part, every day is great.

every day is great. for sure. bottom out around 800 metres... so this is like the very first measurement an oceanographer would make from the site, you record the saltiness of the water throughout the whole depth profile and you record the temperature change. the ocean is getting warmer, it is acidifying, we are seeing much faster glacial melting, the ice sheets are melting, there's huge injections of fresh water that are going on. having this kind of information from remote parts of the world like this is really important to understand those changes. and we're going to be able to link this data to all of the species that we document through the video and through the edna, so we can link these species observations to the environmental conditions

that they are found in. edna stands for environmental dna, and it is dna that is left in the environment by all the organisms living there. so you can imagine a fish swimming through the environment is shedding skin cells and bodily fluids as it moves around, and all of that leaves a bit of dna behind in the environment. this expedition, we are collecting samples with niskin bottles, which are hollow tubes with caps on them that can be closed at particular depths to detect a sample, and those bottles are attached onto the titan submersible. we do have communication with the sub while they are down there, but for me, i don't believe that there is a sample there until i see the bottle at the surface that is closed with the samples. the first time i dove the sub, i said, "this is amazing," it isjust such a different experience, it is a totally different emotion. when you are in the sub,

if you didn't bring it with you, nobody is bringing it to you. the sounds are different, what you see is different, and i thought, more people have to go in subs. it looks like silk! oh, my god, it is getting bigger too! on the way down, we saw a layer of animals we called mesopelagic animals. a lot of those animals are bioluminescent, so you get flashes of light here and there all through the water column. we were going very fast down, so it was very difficult to see with the naked eye, but once in a while, a critter went by. ooh! wow, that was beautiful. we are at 1,200 metres. as we went down through the water column, it became darker and darker until past 1,000 metres there are no photons that get past that layer and it is pitch black. so it is very, veryjarring . because for about 2.5 hours we see nothing but darkness,

and then all of a sudden - you see the floor come up to you, the ground come. up to you. all of a sudden, you see l the earth come up to you, and it does feel like i it is coming up to you because you are - descending so quickly. and so even before seeing - any part of man—made material of the ship, seeing the natural bottom of the ocean come upl at you was sort of spectacular. i mean, it was very exciting just to see dirt and mud. i wow, it was amazing, so suddenly you saw the sand come up and we were just in the debris field there and then. seeing the pieces of debris was sobering. _ all five of us - in the submersible kind of unofficially had| this moment of silence when we hit the bottom. the first pieces i see - looking out of the porthole are pieces of coal.

and it didn't even connect that they were coal - at first actually. i thought they were just rocks. and then someone in the subl said, "oh, look, there's coal." and that — that's the moment that connected me _ to the humanness of the titanic, i that people had shovelled this, people had brought it onto the boat, - and that during the sinking, itjust all spilled out. - and then we began to see other things — we saw a plate, a big dinner platejust sitting there on its own, then we saw a washhand basin with a tap still attached. we were only about 300 metres apparently from the wreck at that stage. i don't know what is going on, i feel like... like what, like it's thrusters? yeah, i don't know what is going on. we have a grid map that corresponds. with the grid map that topside has. | 91:6... it is like battleship —

they tell us which square we are in _ we had kind of a good idea which square we were in, l but we had topside l confirm that with us and then give us a heading. is something wrong with my thrusters? i am thrusting and nothing is happening. range...and bearing...two... are we closer to the bank? i guess. we will find out. i don't recognise that mud out there, do you? no, no. here is the map! i haven't been here before. am i spinning? yes. iam? yes. looks like it. now you are going north.

oh, my god. and scott is like, _ "oh, no, we have a problem." when we are thrusting forward, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. the only thing i can do right now is a 360. i was thinking, "we're not going to make it!" we are literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. when i am initiating thrust, i am turning. that is why i spun on the platform. yeah. oh, god, no, don't tell me we have to go to surface at 300 metres away from the titanic. well, i had covid a few years ago —

the first covid, the nasty one, as they say. and i found, i had lost 80kg in the last two years, i had been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. one of the things i do is i box every day. so usually i spend about two, three hours in the gym, but one of them is boxing for an hour, and i found i was running out of breath a lot. i went to see a heart specialist in london. they did a myriad of tests and they found the covid had given me sarcoidosis in one of the ventricles in my heart. so they decided i needed a pacemaker and a defibrillator immediately, literally within 48 hours. i went in on a saturday, he allowed me back in the gym three days later, and gave me the all—clear literally that week to come here and do the dive. people used to say to me, "oh, you are doing your bucket list?" well, it feels like i am now. no, it makes it more exciting, and the fact that i am able to do it is fantastic. if i had ignored my symptoms,

i might not be here. on the sticks now, the actual| sticks, what is left and right? the right stick, that's forward, back, turn left, turn right. and when he goes forward, he is getting a turn. what's the left stick? down and up. - yeah. — what would cause that? they swapped out one of the thrusters. they put it on the wrong way? i mean, it is unidirectional. yeah, it should be, but something happened. yeah, what he can do, so on the controller you have the up, down, left, right arrows, and you can set them so that one was going and every time you hit the button, it would go forward. um... inaudible i hope he knows how to do this.

hi, jerome. stockton on wendy's phone. just call me back if you got a chance, we've got a question. we're on the dive right now, just looking for a way to remap the ps3 controller. thanks. it's not going to be easy. if we bring up a picture of that controller, we can tell him to press x, press y, press a, press b. yeah, except i don't remember which one is up and down. it might be that he could go forward with left and right. he'd only be able to turn one way, maybe. yeah, it would be interesting. so close! so if that is the case, when he goes left, it should go forward. when he goes to take a turn to the left, he is going to go forward starboard, which would be reverse starboard. it might work, yeah.

yeah, left and right might be forward and back. huh, i don't know. alter track by 90 degrees. try turning right. then we go forward, do we? go forward, 77. so forward... forward. right is forward. i'm gonna have to write this down. right is forward. great, live with it. perfect. 0k. 0k, just say rotate the controller. it's a lot easier if you just rotate the controller and then you've got it, because if right is forward, then left is back. 0k.

rotate controller. and we were so happy that we figured it out that we could just move forward, that we started clapping in the submersible, going, "yes, we can go!" piece of metal on the right. can you bring up more light, scott, or is this it? - one of the early pieces we ran across were some tiles. not sure what part of the wreck they were from, but you could see the really pretty colours in the painted tiles. the pieces that were intact were pretty phenomenal because we see colour at the bottom of this ocean. this is definitely the most challenging piloting i've ever done! so, bearwith me, guys, i'm trying my best!

good job, scott. laughs. i'm trying my best! yeah, you're doing great! it's immensely exciting. you never know what's going to swim by. i don't see any wreckage. i lost my dvl, my altitude. i see the wreck on sonar though. 0k. how close are we to the titanic? very close. two metres, no? the bow should be visible. if you guys see anything, you've got to let me know, 0k? yeah, nothing yet. we're ten metres away from the bow.

i don't see it yet. it might be on your right. it's gonna be on the right. 0k~ — you've gotta rotate around to it. yes, yes, yes, rotate, rotate! bow, bow, bow, bow, bow! we are at the bow. please send that message. oh, my god, you did it! confirm they are at the bow of the titanic.

doing everything in reverse to make us get here, - it looks fantastic. can't believe it. in real life, it's ginormous! it's really incredible. i'm lost for words, i actually, to be honest. it's that good, yes. i'm just crying. we've made it! finally, made it. how does it feel to get a lifelong dream? hard to explain. hard to put in words.

she is big. i mean, to imagine how big she must have been, there must be 20 feet of wreck inside the sand. and even like that, what you're seeing is 20 feet high. amazing to realise that you are at titanic. it's no longer a myth for me. it's reality, it's right there, in front of you. you are so close to it that you can actually touch it. when you go to the bottom and you start slowly going up and you can see every portal — some of them are open, which is one of the things that people are amazed, that the people left portals open when all this was going on, and you're going up and up and up, and it seems endless because the ship is huge. this was a floating palace. you can imagine the people walking up and down,

taking in the sun, whatever, etc. we went down the side and captured the whole anchor. there is the name of the titanic on the anchor, we were able to see that. so this, sort of, nostalgic view, in a way, and also a tragic view. imagine seeing nothing and then, lights turn. on and you see an entire i skyscraper in front of you — that's what it was like. there is no words to - encapsulate the feeling of it. seeing the scale of the titanic is what anchored me - into the realness of that - night, of the numbers of lives that were lost. 0k! bottom time expired, return. then we finally started leaving the site. it was a sad moment for me at the time to leave it.

it was so short, that the time went by so quick. i'm gonna tell them, "no hablo ingles". inaudible there he is. it's an incredible experience. you are in this capsule, just like a spacecraft, with your other four travellers, and you go through it and when you come to the surface and they open the dome, it isjust like somebody snapped theirfingers and all of a sudden, you are back on planet earth. how was it? it was fantastic! how are you doing, jaden? hey! good. oh, my gosh. what a trip. it feels like i've left earth and now i'm just returning. it feels incredible, thank you.

both models are closed in the debris field. so, we've got two samples from the site. which makes me happy. 3,800 metres. there is enough pressure to break the cups. that's pretty good. that's cool. everybody kind of started to go out, and i was trying to gather myself. cheering ship horn toots the ship even blew the horn, which was fantastic. and once i saw stockton, i started crying. happy tears! happy tears. one less dream.

are you crying? it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. i needed to do that to feel complete, and ifeel now complete. we got it done. hello. more wind and rain coming to just about all on tuesday. the dry days have been very hard to find for some of late. take odiham in hampshire.

this is where we saw the driest conditions during the summer. 46 days without rain in the last 2a — only two have been completely dry and only two in the last 38 — culdrose in cornwall. wet is relative to average so far this month though has been bala in gwyneth, and i reckon by the end of tuesday we'll have seen an entire month's worth of rainfall in the first 10 days. and that's because here and across north west england is where we see the wettest weather on tuesday, the greatest impacts, risk of flooding up to 100 millimetres on the hills. all responsible is this weather system which has been working its way in from the west overnight. northern eastern areas are dry enough starts, even a bit of a chill about with a touch of frost for one or two and some morning sunshine in northern scotland. but the morning rush hour in western england, wales and northern ireland will be thoroughly wet and increasingly windy. by the end of the rush hour that rain into eastern england, central and southern scotland snow in the hills, rain continues to push its way northwards. the rain does ease off, though. it does turn dry for a time across england and wales, a little bit brighter in one or two spots,

some drizzle on the hills. there's another batch of rain coming in from the west later. as i said, it turns windy, 40, maybe 50—mile gusts possible. but coming in from a south south—westerly direction, a very mild day for this stage injanuary, 10—14 celsius for many especially, we get some brighter breaks briefly across the south. so here's that slice of milder weather. it's contained between the heavy rain in the morning and a batch of not quite as heavy rain spreading eastwards during the first part of tuesday night. into wednesday, that allows westerly winds back, strengthening but bringing in the blue colours here, an indication of cooler air. now, it will be a sunny start to wednesday across some central and eastern parts. one or two staying dry, but plenty of showers already in the west, strengthening winds, touching gale force at times. and that will drive those showers, heavy with hail and thunder, eastwards as we go into the afternoon. temperatures down on tuesdays, still a degree or so higher than we normally expect for this stage injanuary. cool night will follow across the north where with lighter winds, a touch of frost. but in the south, the next weather system will bring outbreaks of rain. most persistent southern counties of england and wales,

gale force winds here, a bright enough start further northwards and eastwards, but showers get going and spread to many areas before the day is out and it will feel chilly in the north, especially in those strengthening winds once again. take care. this is bbc news. following the violence this is bbc news. our top stories: our top stories: pro democracy rallies pro democracy rallies take place across brazil take place across brazil in response to sunday's violent in response to sunday's violent attack on government buildings attack on government buildings by a far right mob. by a far right mob.

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