this is bbc news, the headlines... shamima begum — who went to syria to join the islamic state group — loses her latest appeal over the removal of her british citizenship. the uk's energy regulator ofgem announces it's lowering the cap on household gas and electicity prices. and the v&a museum has a �*blank space�* in its workforce — and it's looking to fill it with a swiftie. (pres) in the last half an hour, shamima begum has lost her latest appeal over the removal of her british citizenship. ms begum travelled to syria to join the islamic state group in 2015 when she was 15. her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a syrian refugee camp in february 2019. she had argued the decision was unlawful because she was a victim of trafficking. it means she remains

in syria, with no chance of returning to the uk. here's dame sue carr, the lady chiefjustice of england and wales, delivering the ruling in the court of appeal. in conclusion, for these reasons, we unanimously dismissed the appeal. it could be argued that the decision on ms begum because my case was harsh. it could also be argued that ms begum is the author of her own misfortune. but it is not for this court to agree or disagree with either a point of view. our only task is to assess whether the deprivation decision was unlawful. we have concluded it was not, and the appeal is dismissed.

let's speak to maya foa, an executive director of reprieve — a legal action non—governmental organisation representing ms begum. what is your reaction to this? well, it is obviously _ what is your reaction to this? well, it is obviously a _ what is your reaction to this? -ii it is obviously a disappointing decision but in some ways not surprising. what we have heard here is the court again showing absolute deference to the government and essentially saying this is a political decision, we can't trudge over that line and say they did something wrong procedurally, but they have also acknowledged that ms begum, there were credible suspicion she was a victim of trafficking and many people might find this decision disturbing, the decision to deprive her in the first place. what we are left with here is a political problem that the government could have solved, they made it, they can't solve it, the court has said it is not for us right now. it will be appealed, that is the current status. in

be appealed, that is the current status. , ., be appealed, that is the current status. ., ., ., status. in terms of national security and _ status. in terms of national security and the _ status. in terms of national security and the public- status. in terms of national. security and the public good, status. in terms of national- security and the public good, they have ruled that as a priority when it comes to their decisions rather than any of the five grounds to appeal that was brought. tiny;i than any of the five grounds to appeal that was brought. they said procedurally _ appeal that was brought. they said procedurally the _ appeal that was brought. they said procedurally the government - appeal that was brought. they said procedurally the government had l appeal that was brought. they said l procedurally the government had not made mistakes to the point of unlawfulness in the way they made the decision, but they also acknowledge there are many important factors in this case that might result in many of us thinking that the decision to deprive in the first place was unjust. our position as if we think shamima begum has committed serious crimes act as a threat to national security, the proper way to prosecute serious crimes is through british courts, and many security experts have said we are perfectly capable of managing threats in britain. i capable of managing threats in britain. ~' ., capable of managing threats in britain. ~ ., ., , , britain. i know it has only 'ust happened �* britain. i know it has only 'ust happened but i britain. i know it has only 'ust happened but have i britain. i know it has only 'ust happened but have you i britain. i know it has onlyjustl happened but have you spoken britain. i know it has onlyjust - happened but have you spoken to her, told her about what has happened? no, we have worked on the case but

we are not her lawyers, we have not told her as yet, i am sure she will be informed and i'm sure she will be disappointed but no it is not the end of the line because i'm assuming there will be an appeal. you end of the line because i'm assuming there will be an appeal.— there will be an appeal. you assume this will no there will be an appeal. you assume this will go to _ there will be an appeal. you assume this will go to the _ there will be an appeal. you assume this will go to the supreme - there will be an appeal. you assume this will go to the supreme court, i this will go to the supreme court, and on what grounds would you be interested in taking it to the supreme court? her interested in taking it to the supreme court?— interested in taking it to the supreme court? interested in taking it to the sureme court? . ., supreme court? her legal team will determine the _ supreme court? her legal team will determine the grants _ supreme court? her legal team will determine the grants but _ supreme court? her legal team will determine the grants but i - supreme court? her legal team will determine the grants but i would i determine the grants but i would expect they would appeal it because this is a matter of really huge significance and both in this present case and more broadly. citizenship stripping fell into disuse after the nazis used it, britain is the only country in the 620 to britain is the only country in the g20 to give citizenship stripping, it is a totally unaccountable power and the court decision which upholds the lawfulness of the process the government has gone through just exemplifies the problem we have. a home secretary can make a decision based on what they think is conducive to the public good. we don't actually know what went into

that decision, we haven't heard why they say she is a threat, we haven't had... it they say she is a threat, we haven't had... , , p , had... it is secret, it is understandable - had... it is secret, it is understandable some l had... it is secret, it is - understandable some evidence had... it is secret, it is _ understandable some evidence has to be kept secret, this was from mi5 and mi6 at the previous hearing, it is understandable some evidence must be kept secret?— be kept secret? some, but with a matter of serious _ be kept secret? some, but with a matter of serious citizenship - matter of serious citizenship stripping were two out of five british nationals from an ethnic minority backgrounds could be stripped of citizenship without notice, without the proper process will be unable to have their case heard openly, without seeing the evidence against them, i think that is terrifying. britain is the only country in the g20 that does this, and the secretive nature of its components this.— and the secretive nature of its components this. and the secretive nature of its comonents this. . ~ , ., , . components this. thank you very much for talkin: components this. thank you very much for talking to — components this. thank you very much for talking to us, _ components this. thank you very much for talking to us, maya _ components this. thank you very much for talking to us, maya foa, _ for talking to us, maya foa, director of reprieve. you are

watching bbc news. here in the uk, the number of mps calling for commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, to resign has risen to 67. that is more than 10% of mps. dozens of scottish national party and conservative mps have called for a vote on his future — after sir lindsay allowed a labour amendment to a vote on gaza, going against parliamentary convention. he said he did it partly to protect mps' safety. i spoke to our political correspondent leila nathoo, who said this story isn't going away. he is clinging on to hisjob for now, but there is certainly still considerable pressure on him and no doubt that his authority has been weakened as a result of this. dozens of mps signing this no—confidence motion in him. there is no formal mechanism to get rid of him. he would have to resign off his own back, after pressure. but there is no sign of that yet. he repeated his apology to mps yesterday, saying he had made the wrong decision in allowing that labour motion to go ahead. but then his justification for allowing the motions from the snp, labour and the government to go ahead was he wanted mps to vote on the widest possible range

of options to express their views on the war on gaza, saying that he was mindful of the pressure that mps had been under from constituents over their stance on gaza, he wanted them to be able to say that "i voted for this position, this is my party's position." this has become a wider debate about the safety of mps and lindsay hyle described some of the things he had heard from mps as frightening, when you talk to mps privately, certainly there are many quite serious examples of things that have happened to them or threats that they have faced, either in person or online. so it is a serious and real issue. there have been a number of high—profile incidents, one tory mp had protesters turning up outside of his house, that has been a focus of discussions, whether that should be allowed or not. another tory mp is standing down at the next election because of threats against him, and his office was subject to an arson attack at the end of last year. it is a serious situation.

0ne proposal being put forward today by the government adviser on political violence saying that police should be able to disperse protests outside mps' houses, outside parliament, outside council buildings, all these sites critical to the democratic process, but clearly there is some concern about going too far, so the balance between protecting mps' safety whilst protecting the democratic right of voters and constituents to engage with mps, to connect, express views and scrutinise their mps as well as being able to demonstrate in public places. leila nathoo in westminster. here in the uk, the energy regulator 0fgem has announced it's lowering the cap on household gas and electicity prices by 12.3%. the new pricing level means the average household bill will be about £1,690 a year from april. this is the lowest level for two years . some analysts had predicted energy prices would drop more — by about 15%.

0fgem's chief executive told bbc breakfast why this hasn't been the case. but it looks like some of the input assumptions that came in late to 0fgem simply weren't reflected in that analysis. and there is one area where we have had to increase the allowance, and that's to cover some of the bad debt that's emerging in the industry. i think that needs a little explanation, if i may. bad debt within the industry, instinctively, i think people might be thinking about the profits that energy companies have made. they might be thinking, for example, about the salaries of the bosses of those energy companies. and you may well be aware we had chris 0'shea, who very kindly came, sat with us on the sofa here, the boss of centrica, british gas, who said he cannot justify his £45 million salary. and then if i hear what you're saying correctly, you're saying that customers are paying more to cover bad debt within... within the industry.

so, first of all, just focusing on the profits the industry is making. now, it is true this year we allowed companies to recover some of the losses, not all of them, but some of the losses they made last year. but when i look across the two years as a whole, energy retailers, and these are the people that buy and sell our energy, are making about a penny in the pound. when i look at other sectors like banking, like wider retail sectors and other utilities, that is a fair balance between what customers pay and indeed the returns companies need if they're going to do the things we want them to do. energy secretary claire coutinho has said this announcement come as a relief for families struggling with cost of living pressures. this is good news forfamilies. it means they will be paying the lowest amount for their energy bills in two years, almost £250 off their energy bill, so this is welcome news, and i know it's been a difficult time for the country. we still have things like the cost of living payments in place, £900 for people who are really struggling, because we know there are some people

who are still having a difficult time, but overall this is good news for people in the country today. 0ur cost of living correspondent, kevin peachey, gave us his analysis. a little bit of relief for people. of course, energy prices, the cost of heating and lighting homes, has been one of the chief reasons for the cost of living difficulties people have been facing, that and food prices as well, of course, along with many other essential bills. but there has been some good news today, as you say. the regulator for the energy sector in the uk, 0fgem, said that in england, wales and scotland the cost of energy will come down in april. it sets a cap every three months. this one will be for a further three months from april. it sets a cap on the unit price of gas and electricity. that means the cost of each unit of energy, not the total bill that it puts a limit on, so if you use more energy,

you pay more, but the good news for people is that for somebody who uses a typical amount of gas and electric, the annual bill should be down about £230, £238, for the year, and that will take the bill to £1690 a year, and that is the lowest it has been forjust over two years, as i say, giving some relief to people. but campaigners say that this has come after two years of great difficulties, with more than £3 billion of debt that has been built up from people unable to pay their suppliers, so there is a bit of that going on to bills as well. while a fall in the price cap — and potentially in bills — is welcome news, many are still feeling the squeeze when it comes to our energy bills. the bbc�*s cost of living correspondent colletta smith has been meet one family who have been

making changes in their home. hello! hi, you must bejensen and ruben. lovely to meet you both! keeping the heat in, the cold out, and the bills down, is top of the agenda in so many houses right now. so while mum sam heats up the tea, jensen and ruben give me the tour to explain all the ways they're trying to save energy and save money as a family. in here, we always turn lamps on instead of the main light, because they don't cost more than a main light. is this for heating? yeah, heating, so, if we're all in one room, instead of heating up the entire house. and you stay nice and cosy in this room. we sometimes use body heat and snuggle up. with blankets. yeah. you got a whole drawer full of blankets. yeah. we've moved this couch from here, because it was right

against the radiator, so not a lot of heat could get through. it all got trapped inside of here. well, let's have a look upstairs, shall we? what about your rooms? yeah, we also have this curtain. so whenever you pull it across, the draught doesn't get in. this is our room in here. yeah. so we have two blinds, actually. we close this and we close this. and we have an iron man light. wow! oh, my goodness! that's an amazing light! and then, also, sometimes when we are downstairs and we're having a movie, and when the heating's not on, we have a onesie on, and then we also put a blanket over us with the onesie on. you're keeping toasty and warm then in the evening. jensen, ruben? as a working single mum on a low income, sam got £150 extra through the winter fuel discount,

which has made a big difference. that helps me, so i am in credit then in it. - but it's always a conscious thing where i'm always thinking of, i you know, the bills— coming out every, every month. it's just in the back of your mind? always, the whole time, yeah, absolutelx _ i and the boys are really aware of it| because we do talk openly about it. so when your energy bill starts to fall, will that make a difference to how you feel as a family? yeah, absolutely. just takes the pressure off. i mean, with food prices. and inflation anyway, itjust allows us — and me — a little bit room in i the budget, really. do you think you're going to stick to all of these new habits, no matter what the price? yeah, absolutely. yeah, it's the normal now. so we're all used to it, aren't we? and yeah, we'll continue to try- and save as much energy as we can. the last and final room in here, is the bathroom. in the night when you're asleep, but you need

the toilet, you can see where you're aiming. while energy costs are still high, the fall in prices from april will make it a little easier for every household aiming to lower their bills. colletta smith, bbc news in manchester. thanks to colletta smith. coming up at 12:30, we'll bejoined by a number of experts to discuss how 0fgem has announced it's lowering the cap on household gas and electicity prices and to answer your questions live. so get in touch using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions — or email yourquestions@bbc.co.uk that is coming up at 12:30pm. tomorrow marks two years since the start of the war in ukraine. the conflict has seen more than 200,000 ukrainians taking sanctuary in towns and cities across the uk. 0ne centre in norfolk has become a vital community hub for localfamilies, asjohn maguire reports. usually you open every day

and you see what happened yesterday. so, yesterday it was maybe for 15 minutes, sometimes it's four hours, it depends. just imagine if the very first thing you did every morning was to check to see if your home — 1500 miles away — was being targeted by an air raid. i have this app in the telephone, and we know which air alert we have. so usually it's every day, sometimes twice a day. 0ksana fled kyiv with her children and mother when the war started. she's extremely grateful for the welcome she's had here, but wants to return home. the hardest thing, she says, is not knowing when it will be safe, or even possible. when we arrived, we didn't expect that we spend christmas here, even christmas. now we spend two christmases here. and if you ask me what i expect, i want to spend my next christmas at home. but now we realise more and more that we have no plans. we don't know. twice a week, volunteers open

this store in dereham town centre to ukrainian refugees, and latterly, also people from other countries. there are english lessons, a clothing bank, information on housing and jobs, even furniture for those setting up a new home. it's also a place for people to meet. mila, natalia and tatiana can catch up in their own language. through missile strikes, power cuts and a constant state of fear, mila say she stayed in ukraine until very recently, until her life became unbearable. there are so many reasons to leave, and yet so many to stay. some feel they have little choice but to remain, like natalia's parents. we are not safe. there is no safe place in ukraine. you cannot get used to that. cannot get used to be scared

all the time that maybe next alarm will make your house ruined, because of rocket fuel or bombing. so — but yeah, they are stressed. they are not happy. but they can sleep. theyjust cannot imagine themselves somewhere else. tatiana also still has family in kyiv, including her husband and their 21—year—old daughter, a family torn in half. she left for the sake of her youngest, nine—year—old katya. during lulls in the fighting, tatiana and katya have been home, precious moments. i was really excited to go to home and see everyone. yeah, i was really happy, to see my cats, everyone, family. and i can see my house and my toys. yeah, i have a lot of toys.

11—year—old timor is young enough to have learned excellent english over the past two years, but old enough to remember the only country he'd ever known. it was like everyone was crying and sad about it because they're not going to see us in, like, more than a year and, yeah, they were all sad and stuff. all my friends were sad and i was sad. tomorrow, the volunteers and the ukrainian guests, as they're known, will mark the second anniversary of the russian invasion with a peace day. all will hope, perhaps against hope, that there will be no third anniversary of war in their homeland. the use of prosthetic limbs dates back thousands of years — but now new technology is transforming the lives of people who rely on them. bbc click reporter paul carter,

who was born without any lower arms or legs, has been to see how one firm is combining existing technology with artificial intelligence to create the next generation of devices. prosthetics have come a long way from the early days of wood, tin or leather to modern bionic limbs made from carbon fibre and silicone. i've come to atom limbs in california to see a next generation prosthetic they're developing that's using signals from the brain to control movements. the most advanced state—of—the—art prosthetics we control today is what you call myoelectric control. so that's putting electrodes on your stump or residual limb. and the difference between what you would do today with a state—of—the—art arm versus with an atom limbs arm and is we basically cover your stump in electrodes and you, when you first put the arm on, you take about five minutes and you train it up. and what that looks like, is we say, "all right!" with your phantom limb, that we can't see but you can, flex your finger, extend your finger, rotate your wrist, rotate it the other way. and our machine—learning and a! system takes a huge amount

of training, spits out a result so that now you, whenever you think, canjust move. so there's nothing in your head, nothing on your head, nothing in yourarms. it's all this surface electrode and a! that basically powers it. jason lost his left arm in an industrial accident in 2012. he's been working with atom limbs to test and develop their new prosthetic. tell me a little bit what this is like to operate. i mean, obviously, you're controlling this right now. you're moving this essentially by thinking about it. how are you thinking of that? what's the process that you're going through? well, just like with anything with, like, using your regular hand, i'm still thinking about the motions. and i have a phantom limb. it still feels like i'm just moving my regular hand. yeah. it's a little bit more difficult, obviously, because my muscles are tiny. there's a lot of concentration that has to go into making those movements. it's not as natural, obviously, as moving your regular hand. although not an amputee myself, i was able to put on some sensors and try a digital twin of the arm via the control software. and it's safe to say it was a hit.

no way! within just a few minutes of training, i was able to perform several different motions and movements of the arm. what the... this is phenomenal. this is one of the most incredible things i've ever done. the only way i can describe it is it's like on a games controller. i've mapped different buttons to different muscles that i've got here. so when you said, like, for the grip, well, i don't know what a grip feels like, so ijust chose something that sort of feels vaguely similar. and that's the one that i'm using to open and close the hand and the same for the elbow. it probablyjust looks really mundane to most people. but, to me, this is incredible. the arm being developed here is still at an early stage. the company are gathering data ahead of regulatory filings in the us.

of course, the biggest stumbling block for disabled people accessing new technology is cost. although unconfirmed, atom limbs claim their arm could be available for around $20,000. as technology advances, the hope is that prosthetics in the future will become more affordable, more versatile and ultimately more intelligent. that was absolutely amazing. that's the best workout i've ever had. paul carter, bbc news. the victoria and albert museum in london is looking to recruit a taylor swift fan to advise it on the culture and craftsmanship behind memorabilia associated with the world's biggest—selling pop star. the initiative is part of the v&a's attempts to enhance its curatorial knowledge by engaging grassroots experts. it already has special advisers on tobyjugs and lego.

we will get the weather in a moment but we will first show you pictures of valencia where there has been a huge fire at an apartment block over there in the east of spain. you can see the firefighters are still trying to get into the building, they have been trying to cool it down because it was too hot for them to enter. we know four people have died in this fire and 1a are still unaccounted for. the blaze engulfed a 1k story block and it is close to an adjoining building too, people have been rescued from balconies and there have been some really shocking pictures coming from their overnight. the firefighters are still working on the building, trying to get in. they also need to know what caused the fire so the forensic teams are also waiting to get in. those were live pictures. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good morning. it was a chilly start first thing

frost across parts of scotland, and that's because we've changed our air mass here in the uk. the atlantic air has departed now, it's across scandinavia, that deep area of low pressure, and instead we've got this chillier air with us over the next couple of days, really. to put that in context, for the best part of a week and a half now we've had temperatures into the teens. yesterday saw them dip back down closer to the february average. and that's what is with us for the next couple of days. feeling chilly because of the brisk wind today, which is bringing a lot of showers to northern and western scotland, northern ireland, western parts of england along with wales, wintry over the hills, the best of the sunshine, the drier weather further east, but nowhere exempt from the showers because of that brisk wind. and, as you can see, we're back down to the seasonal average today. itjust feels colder because it has been so mild recently. now, the showers continue this evening but tend to fade away in central and eastern parts overnight. so i think as the windfall�*s light as well, we're going to have a problem with fog tomorrow morning, but also frost more widely. we had it in scotland this morning. it'll be across many parts, rural parts, as we get

towards tomorrow morning. so scraping the ice off the windscreens, if you're heading out early and the visibility, really, will be a problem, particularly i think for midlands, central and eastern parts of england where the grounds so saturated we've had so much rain. in fact, we've still got numerous flood warnings out at the moment following yesterday's rain. but, as you can see, more showers on saturday. lots of dry weather, though, stilljust nines and tens and temperatures limited where we have that fog lingering. but it does look predominantly dry for the rugby matches, the six nations, as you can see, under way tomorrow in ireland and scotland. but come sunday, we're watching this next area of low pressure developing and it's giving us a little bit of a headache as to exactly where it's going to track. looks set to give some more wet and windy weather across france. but, increasingly, the computer models seem to be taking some of that wetter, windier weather across the southern half of the uk, which means that it should stay mostly dry in that cooler air further north. so another coldish feeling day, another issue with frost and fog first thing sunday. but then it's how much of that

windy, wet weather we see crossing england and wales. we don't need any more rain, still numerous flood warnings in force after recent rain. you can find out the details on the website.

live from london. this is bbc news. shamima begum — who went to syria tojoin islamic state — loses her latest appeal against the removal of her british citizenship. a massive fire in a high—rise apartment building in valencia kills at least four people. 1a more are still missing. a private spacecraft called 0dysseus makes the first us moon landing in more than 50 years. hello, i'm lucy grey. in the last hour shamima begum has lost her latest appeal over the removal of her british citizenship. ms begum travelled to syria to join the islamic state group in 2015 when she was 15. her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a syrian refugee camp in february 2019. she had argued the decision

was unlawful because she was a victim of trafficking.