it's very well known, citizens advice, and yet what it actually does is not very well known, is it? 000—odd volunteers doing what? giving advice to people on a huge range of issues. so we're a federated charity. we have 257 local citizens advice, each of which is their own charity. huge range of different shapes and sizes. the kind of core of citizens advice is that generalist advice. you know, anybody can come along and ask for advice. in reality, a lot of what we deal with is benefits, debt, energy at the moment, in particular housing, relationships. we also deliver some services at a national scale. so we deliver the consumer service, we deliver help to claim, which is the service for people who are making an initial claim for universal credit. so it is quite a patchwork, it's difficult to sort of sum it up in a few words. and a few weeks ago, citizens advice said the red warning lights were flashing. you were putting pressure on ministers to make sure they did upgrade benefits in line with inflation, for example. have the red lights stop flashing now? have ministers listened 7 we

at citizens advice, we're hearing from many people who are struggling to top up their prepayment metersear, we've helped more people with that issue than we have in the previous past five years alone. we really hope today's report is a wake—up call because we need to know that energy companies will step in and support people who are really struggling with their costs. 0fgem has called for urgent action from suppliers but the most heavily criticised suppliers have called for clarity from 0fgem. they say they were condemned on incomplete evidence and that any improvements they made haven't been reflected and that, they say, is causing extra unnecessary concern for vulnerable customers. help is available but with some of those most in need already choosing not to top up their metres because of their debts and in one case an elderly man left without power for a fortnight, it won't take much to send stress levels, as well as bills, soaring. kevin peachey, bbc news. about 1,000 nhs patients will have their energy bills paid on prescription this winter — in an expansion of a trial scheme. a pi

we are going to be speaking with a representative from citizens advice later and finding out if you are have sort of got used to money _ be careful around that. we have sort of got used to money being - be careful around that. we have sort of got used to money being quite i of got used to money being quite cheap because interest rates have been so low for so long. so now suddenly people having a bit of a shock, not only are prices going up, but the cost of borrowing that money going up at the same time. i but the cost of borrowing that money going up at the same time.— going up at the same time. i think that is right- _ going up at the same time. i think that is right. until— going up at the same time. i think that is right. until this _ going up at the same time. i think that is right. until this period i going up at the same time. i think that is right. until this period you | that is right. until this period you have been able to do by now, pay later without any interest at all. what we are seeing incrementally as interest being added onto new schemes and perhaps people not checking

at citizens advice, we're hearing from many people who are struggling to top up their prepayment metersear, we've helped more people with that issue than we have in the previous past five years alone. we really hope today's report is a wake—up call because we need to know that energy companies will step in and support people who are really struggling with their costs. 0fgem has called for urgent action from suppliers but the most heavily criticised suppliers have called for clarity from 0fgem. they say they were condemned on incomplete evidence and that any improvements they made haven't been reflected and that, they say, is causing extra unnecessary concern for vulnerable customers. help is available, but with some of those most in need already choosing not to top up their metres because of their debts, and in one case an elderly man left without power for a fortnight, it won't take much to send stress levels, as well as bills, soaring. kevin peachey, bbc news. inafew in a few moments we will be speaking to dale vince, the owner of ecotricity. about 1,000 nhs patients will have their e

so it's a shame to take away an element of happiness from our fellow citizens. our advicethe solution — christmas on a slightly smaller scale. let there be light, just not all the time. tim allman, bbc news. americans on monday were lining up yet again to buy powerball tickets, dreaming of winning a $1.9 billion lottery jackpot, that had jumped to a record high after repeated draws failed to produce a winner. saturday's draw was the 40th in a row without a winner. for many, picking the magic six numbers was a chance well worth taking. i'm going to do charity works, i'm going to travel, give to families, to all the people who need. uh. ..share the wealth. i'm going to reassess- all the things i want to do, whether it is travel, - buy a house, buy a new car. certainly give to charities. invest in the community. keep a little for myself of course. spend it! well, i'm gonna send that money to a hospital. some money in the hospital in this area here. they need help up here. give most of it away and enjoy the rest of my life and help people enjoy theirs too. where are you going

year is difficult, l so it's a shame to take away an element of happiness from our fellow citizens. our advicemaybe that is the solution — christmas on a slightly smaller scale. let there be light, just not all the time. tim allman, bbc news. thanks for watching. hello there. tricky weather conditions out there at the moment, but tuesday generally is an improving story. it's going to be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers for many, accompanied by some squally winds, though, still from time to time. so we've seen this massive cloud spilling in off the atlantic, and the weather front is producing some rain, some of it really quite heavy. through at quite a pace because it's driven along by gusts of winds in excess of 60—70mph. so by around 5—6am, the front will be sitting out in the north sea and leaves a trail of squally showers to follow behind. so there will also be a little more sunshine around for tuesday. some of those showers really quite heavy with hail, with some thunder mixed in there, as well. the west further inland. now, as we go through the afternoon, we're but we could st

so it's a shame to take away an element of happiness from our fellow citizens. our advicelots. maybe that is the solution — christmas on a slightly smaller scale. let there be light, just not all the time. tim allman, bbc news. now here's all the latest sports news. hello, there, i'm tulsen tollett, and this is your sports news, where we start with football — and the last 16 draw of the champions league has seen liverpool draw holders real madrid in a repeat of last season's final. the i4—time winners from spain beat liverpool 1—0 in last year's final in paris, and this is the fourth time in six years the reds have been drawn against real. all comes down to confidence. so hoping — from a liverpool point of view, i'm hoping now to... you know, we've won a few games leading into this draw, and hopefully getting the confidence to go out there. and, again, ithink, with the first leg being at liverpool, i think it gives real madrid a little bit of an advantage. i would like to have seen liverpool play the second leg at home, but unfortunately because we came runners up, our fir

citizens advice say they think about half of those forced onto prepayment meters this year will be via prepayment meter. this is disconnection via the back door. since we began asking questions on this issue, the regulator has now written to all suppliers telling them to stick to the rules. so we're aware that the numbers of prepayment mode switches have increased, up to 60,000 in the last quarter. it's important these are done right. now we do know it is a tough time for consumers. i speak to consumers all the time. but people have to recognise that some consumers do choose that prepayment product, because it can help budgeting and managing the finances. what we are saying is suppliers should carry out robust checks. it is about the process, not the product. being cut off from your gas and electricity in winter has more serious consequences. colletta smith, bbc news, manchester. we arejoined by we are joined by the director of adequate —— advocacy at energy uk, the industry body representing energy suppliers. good morning. pretty clear that suppliers are not being as being as transpar

the coming winter, i would like to concentrate a bit on such practical things, maybe even advice for our citizensving electricity during the war, what to do in the event of a heating failure. and accordingly, everyone related stories that we have related to the energy crisis, so ms. yulia, the first question will be to you , er, during the war, in general, the saving of electricity seems quite appropriate for you to advise now in on the eve of winter to our tv viewers , i am asking everyone who will hear us, and first of all, i want to call on consumers to understand the appeals of our energy engineers to really follow the regime, let's say savings during peak hours of consumption, more this applies to the morning. usually it is from six o'clock. well, preferably until 12- nevertheless, limit the maximum use of devices that consume electricity, and it is also advisable not to turn on several devices at the same time during the day, because you are helping unload the systems and the more people we have, in principle, will adhere to such a mode of optimization of savings, the less there will be, uh

claire, you work at citizens advice | claire, you work at citizens advice and you must be seeing a lotfference to --eole? . ., ,, ., to people? that will make a difference — to people? that will make a difference and _ to people? that will make a difference and it's _ to people? that will make a difference and it's what i to people? that will make a i difference and it's what we've to people? that will make a - difference and it's what we've been asking _ difference and it's what we've been asking for— difference and it's what we've been asking for and we hope to see that today _ asking for and we hope to see that today and — asking for and we hope to see that today. and we are also hoping for the energy— today. and we are also hoping for the energy support provided to be extended — the energy support provided to be extended beyond april, and that is critical _ extended beyond april, and that is critical in— extended beyond april, and that is critical. in gloucester, we have seen _ critical. in gloucester, we have seen 39%— critical. in gloucester, we have seen 39% increase in crisis s

i have not been able to wash myself for half a year, distributing advice to my own citizens earlier.o not wash to save on everything with the advent, winters and german politicians themselves faced earthly so the deputy of the bundestag of the greens complained about the too low temperature in the office , in response, the inhabitants of germany advised her squat, but in austria's neighbors the cost of electricity has soared by 400% payments with new figures, austrian pensioners call shockant, but in france there are still children. now in paris schools are freezing because the heating is turned off, officials are talking about energy sobriety , the money was wasted. paris is ablaze with christmas lights day and night , the french, of course, understand that they will have to tighten their belts due to the mood of the holidays, as well as the british, something like this, the local press sees the action of the british government to combat the crisis in the country is not comforting and the forecasts of experts, the united kingdom is waiting for problems. in the state rector and the r

i haven’t been able to wash for half a year already, giving earlier advice to my own citizens not to save on everything with the advent of winter and german politics, and the earthly ones themselves collided, so the green bundestag deputy complained about the too low temperature in the office , in response, the germans advised her to squat, but in the neighbors of austria, the cost of electricity soared by 400% payments with new figures, austrian pensioners call it shock content, but in france there are still children. now in parisian schools they are freezing because the heating is turned off, officials are talking about energy sobriety, the money was wasted. paris is lit with christmas lights and day and evening, the mood of the holidays is still in the mood of the holidays, the french, of course, understand that they will have to tighten their belts, as well as the british, something like this, the local press sees the action of the british government to combat the crisis in the country is not comforting and forecasts experts of the united kingdom are waiting for problems with sal

it is our responsibility to do so, because if you are a citizen of ukraine, during the war, you must listen to all the advice of the government, which it asks you to follow. of citizens, this is also our front, m.m. energy the authorities of odessa appealed to entrepreneurs to turn off the lights on shop windows and advertising signs, and all odessans are asked to save as much as possible, especially in the morning and evening in addition, the city hall has reduced the number of electric vehicles in relation to public transport, we are reducing the number of cars on the line, but we are not closing the line itself. i am appealing to the owners of commercial establishments, please exclude signs and advertising media that waste electricity. to make the necessary stocks, in particular candles . and some people prepared for a possible blackout even in the first days of a full-scale invasion. odesa has already introduced stabilization shutdowns of lights alternately during the day in different areas of the city, the power is turned off for four hours but sometimes for longer yevhen saltan odesa for espresso tv ch

social services, it's done by citizens advice. it's by the charities. and people have .eally close connection with the kind of people who are really exposed to vulnerability on these topics. so the people should so those the people who should be red flag and be raising the red flag and helping energy to helping the energy companies to do we just on do jobs properly, if we just on the energy companies through mandates and regulatory action to and deliver better to try and deliver better services, going to services, it's always going to fail because that's not what they they sell energy, they do. they sell us energy, that's job. so it's partly that's theirjob. so it's partly a naivete on the government, partly failure, but it's partly policy failure, but it's a little bit of extra action , a little bit of extra action, the companies themselves, to ensure that they the duties they have to do under the better. i'm just finally the and quite just very finally the and quite briefly before throw for briefly before i throw for people get the latest people to get the latest headu

schultz decided to avail himself of this prime opportunity to address german citizens before a german audience to offer unsolicited advice to russian president vladimir putin. thus round the clock, a butch of an unwholesome, we're sending a clear message to the russian president and this war. withdraw your troops and make a free part of peace negotiations. there must not be any dictated pace for ukraine from russia. kind lancaster until find this law. how can the russian president possibly pass up an ultimatum like that? coming from one of the west's brightest leaders. for example, as schultz was telling putin how to handle rushes, strategic interests, he gave the audience a glimpse of how he's handling germany's gus were longer wondrous london so, so we didn't expect russia would cease. gas applies to oscillate, were standing on the doorstep of winter. so i can say our country is facing a great challenges, but it's right to support ukraine, sovereignty and integrity. it's right that we supply weapons and lunch. yeah. major economic challenges like your countries on the verge of di industrialization because you fell stra

few weeks, the chancellor with my checker and my, my benefit checker and my, my background is citizens advicedo benefit checks. and, you know , we've got checks. and, you know, we've got people country this people in this country this getting people in this country this gettin year net to getting £30,000 a year net to universal credit and which is a topic on the 16 hour a week jobs then they get through they're not paying a tax the and that's a lot money to do to take out the treasury this is up in all of the uk and these people trapped in this in this benefit tropical and then trapped in 60 hours a week jobs they're not progressing career it's damaged the businesses they work for and this is a fallout of you know blair and brown and in eight when we introduced a tax credit system it's actually made it more attractive to stay at home orders do a few hours a week than go out more than 40 hours. do that little bit time and do that little bit over time and go to the. career progression and this is this is the problem. angela we and a quick fix an easy solution we tried to treat the economy like

individual citizen feels that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them and someone to house them someone to give them education, someone to give him legal adviceeone to perfect them. the more that they want protection the more that this deep state says we are here to help you. soon the state is the master and what wasve the citizen is. there'ss another postmodern effort to destroy citizenship in the constitution to give seen i. very frequently in the news. i call it the evolutionary. these are people that think human nature is malleable and exchanged and the constitution is fixed in our cake the amendment process doesn't keep up with changing brain chemistry perhaps and therefore they have to change the constitution to the custom and tradition that surrounded to better reflect this idea that we are really not the constitution republic that a radical french revolutionary democracy. in other words what 51% on any given day one should be amassed into law. so they go after institutions and the one most recently is the 150-year-old nine person supreme court. not a word ofrs this 30 years ao when we still have the dynamism of the warren court. every

citizen fields. that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them someone to house them someone to give them education someone to give them legal advice for someone to protect them the more that they want protection the more that this deep state says we're here to help you. and pretty soon the state is the master and the citizen or what was the citizen as the slave there's another postmodern and it's postmodern effort to destroy citizenship and the constitution. you've seen it very frequently in the news lady. i called these the evolutionaries. these are people that think that human nature is malleable and has changed and the constitution is fixed and archaic and the amendment process doesn't keep up with changing brain chemistry, perhaps and therefore they have to change the constitution or the custom and traditions that surround it to better reflect this idea that we're really not a constitutional republic but we're radical athenian or french revolutionary democracy. in other words what 51% on any given day want should be enacted immediately as law. and so they go after institutions the one that's been most recently in the news is i

his letter to friends and citizens offer some of the much thorough, thoughtful and inspiring advice has ever been given to the american people. in more than a few genuine warnings were included there as well. the hopes and fears remained with us as a nation are now discussing this now 225 year old document. much of what we debate and discuss in 21st century america politics is addressed here in one form or another. in recognition of this document we brought together an incredible lineup of talented scholars to reflect on the relevance of the farewell address today. we were joined by jon avalon author, columnist, senior political analyst, is the author of books including the one we will discuss tonight washington's farewell a new book on abraham lincoln coming out next february. his work is going to be important to our conversation here tonight as were the work of lindsey stravinsky. she is presidential cabinet, history senior fellow at southern methodist university. in the lecture of media and public affairs at george washington university she's also a fellow at the international. she's

his letter to friends and citizens offered some of the most thorough, thoughtful, even inspiring advice which had everyone given to the american people. more than a few genuine warnings were concluded there as well. a good number of the hopes and fears that remain with us as the nation are discussed in this now 225-year-old document. much of what we debate and discuss in 24 century american politics is addressed here in one form or another. in recognition of the 225th anniversary of this document, we brought together a an incredible lineup of talented scholars to reflect on the relevance of the farewell dress today. we are joined by john avlon, the commentator senior political analyst, anchor on cnn, appearing on new day every morning. he is the author of books including the one we are discussing today, washington's farewell. a book on abraham lincoln coming out next february. his work is going to be important to our conversation here tonight. as will the work of one lindsay chervinsky an expert on the cabinet, presidential history, presidential institutions, a senior fellow for the pre

what advice what encouragement can you give for people who are just locals, citizens trying to make our communities? and people are telling don't want to talk about it and just bring up a lot of issues that don't help us move the conversation forward. it's such an important question. monique and i addressed, that exact issue at the end of the book because, i think first of all, first of all, what you're doing, monique and other teachers is so important and let me even before i get into that, let me just make a shout out for teachers. they do so much in our society, get so paid and -- on in our society. and that's just obviously i'm educator, so i'm biased but i think i'm right i think i'm right. so i end the book by making the point monique that you only improve society by studying where you have fallen short as well as where you've done well. and i think about this in the same way i think about parenting and. nathalie can correct me if i'm wrong, but you know, the way alison and i have approached parenting, we love our children dearly. i'll do anything for my children. but our conversa

should look at the constitution for advice and help to correct the defects so they look abroad and feel the united states is parochial and calcified and they are citizens of the world and then they confused cause and effect and will get people in the interior that produce energy and to manufacture and assemble and think they were not cattle around with this behavior or this phd that they are losers. they can go to the fields so it's always culpable. joe biden and hillary clinton and barack obama gave the vocabulary of irredeemable's all for supposedly the idea that they didn't make any money and now they are taking drugs and kind of losers and places now from a silicon valley field these are not places you would want to go. in the process then covid came and the funny thing happened. you can't drive twitter and live under. all of a sudden people were out there braving covid and the people when you were broke down they came in and replaced when the circuit breaker went out they would fix it and all of a sudden they said we are in demand now and suddenly use all the renegotiation and i've heard some very professional people i don't really care if my kid

advice in the event of a new mass attack by the russians. this is strategic communications and information security, immediately go to the shelter. well, she also fellow citizensy disciplined and they react to it, well, accordingly , you should turn off the light, gas, water and put out the fire in the stove, visit the gas cylinder, take a reserve of food for at least two days, a supply of water for 3 l per person per day, means of communication, flashlights, a whistle, at least a children's one or a loud one to signal dmytro was released, taking into account the fact that there are still several important questions in kyiv, in particular one of them is the expediency or impracticality of installing christmas trees as a culmination. as i understand it, because if there is no christmas tree, then what is the point of installing such a main christmas tree in kyiv despite petition about the inexpediency of festive events in the conditions of war, the mayor of kyiv , vitaliy klitschko, stated this in an interview with rbc , no one is going to cancel the new year and christmas, and the atmosphere of the new year should be, we cannot allow putin to steal our christm

citizens and statesmen and stateswoman. we need academic study and we need policy advice that speaks not to extremes of realism or liberal international idealism, but rather that speak to a principled for actual liberal democracies and their allies. real polities have both ideals and interests. what is his philosophy? moderation encompasses from the very book of the spirit of laws. three fundamental spheres of and rare philosophers up to his time modernity, he treated law as integral with or equally important to the domestic and political law of a given polity. in book one international right or law, as he calls it, joins political law. we would call it constitution or public law and civil law. civil or criminal law. all three as integral to his comprehensive philosophy. he writes so much about civil and criminal law because he was a lawyer, judge, then turned philosopher. so this complex approach to incorporate international right developed a legacy that might skew could trace to aristotle, to plutarch, to cicero in classical philosophy, greek and roman hellenic philosophy, a legacy that was further developed by christian medieval th