adrienne murray, bbc news, copenhagen. uk business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, and the energy industry to try to resolve the ongoing crisis caused by rising wholesale gas prices. energy companies have warned that bills could go up by 50% next year without government action. theo leggett reports. a midwinter meeting at a time when the energy industry is facing an unprecedented crisis. the cost of gas on european wholesale markets has been hitting record levels and suppliers say consumers here will end up paying a heavy price. energy companies themselves have already been badly hit. more than two dozen have gone out of business since the summer and more casualties are expected. that's because so far they have had to absorb most of the extra costs themselves. it's a situation that won't last. if we don't find a solution in the coming weeks, we are certainly going to be locking uk consumers into more and more expensive energy for years to come. people within the industry say ministers could consider cutting the environmental an

adrienne murray went to take a look.this is the start of its recycling journey. it's then brought to this facility, ready to be sent for sorting. in europe, each person generates 35 kilos of waste plastic packaging a year. only 40% gets recycled. globally, it's much less. while plastics are useful, a lot of packaging is difficult to reuse, and most of it ends up in landfill or incinerated. a big problem is plastic pollution. and yet more resources get used making new plastic products. here in copenhagen, new technology is being trialled that could help boost recycling rates. it's part of an industry—led project called holygrail 2.0. what we're trying to do is really use intelligence that is embedded in the packaging, using the digital watermarks to revolutionise the way we sort or recycle plastics. more than 100,000 packaging samples are being sent along this line to a smart sorting machine. each piece of packaging is printed or embossed with a digital watermark that's about the size of a postage stamp. it can barely be

adrienne murray, bbc news, copenhagen.lifornian police officer closely escaping a charging bull. this is officer pratt facing one of the dangers of working in rural northeastern california. and here he is a moment later, breathing heavily — it looks like a huge sigh of relief. he lived to fight good afternoon, the latest sports news. we start with cricket, england on the brink of defeat after a roller—coaster day, needing a wind to keep their hopes of regaining the ashes. james anderson led an england fighback in the first two sessions as the aussies were limited to a lead ofjust 82 after their first innings. butjust as hopes were raised, it all went wrong with the bat again, as england stumbled to 31—4 at stumps after a nightmare final hour. our sports correspondent joe wilson reports: england's players were unsure for a while if they'd even be allowed in the ground. four covid cases amongst the support staff and their family. but after the tests, the test continued. and yes, england prospered. marnus labuschagne batting,

our correspondent adrienne murray is in copenahgen.t's an historic amusement park here in central copenhagen. just yesterday it was teeming with families here to see the christmas lights. as you can see, today the gates are firmly shut because denmark has put in a slew of coronavirus restrictions. theatres, cinemas and concert halls are going to be closed for the next month. that's because denmark is seeing a very steep spike in coronavirus cases. this past week there's been a new record, on an almost daily basis. the main variant here is still delta but authorities are particularly concerned and the rapid spread of omicron. that was first detected here in denmark in late november and by friday it already made up one fifth of all new cases. by next week authorities think it maybe the dominant variant. there's still a lot of uncertainty about how omicron will play out. forecasts for the impact on hospitalisation really vary quite widely, but 80% of the population over the age of five here in denmark are double vaccinated, so there's a r

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adrienne murray, bbc news, copenhagen. time for a look at the weather now.it quite dark at times the pulse of the rain across england and wales, further north—west, something writer for scotland and northern ireland but here there will be a scattering of showers so temperatures across northern areas fairly close to the seasonal norm but it's milder in the south with temperatures reaching between 11-13 c temperatures reaching between 11—13 c for some. overnight, temperatures reaching between 11—13 cfor some. overnight, mist 11—13 cforsome. overnight, mist and 11—13 cfor some. overnight, mist and fog patches reforms are becoming quite murky again and outbreaks of rain developing later in the night as well with the rain and cloud keeping temperatures well up, 7—9 c but called in northern scotland, called for a few patch as a frost in the countryside and tomorrow is a wet day coming up with the rain very slow to ease eastward so still some rain around eastern england into the afternoon with the brightest weather again for scotland and northern ireland as well. t

adrienne murray is in copenhagen. a special courts of 26 judges presided over three months of hearings, and over 100 hours of testimony. that all culminated today with a guilty verdict being handed down 21 together with a two month per distance and —— handed to inger stojberg. they found she had violated the accountability act, meaning she was responsible for the fact that the law was broken. this all centres on an order that she gave in 2016 that married asylum seeking couples were one of the pair was under 18, must not be accommodated together. that policy saw a 23 couples forcibly separated before is dropped several months later. two inquiries found it had breached danish law and also european human rights. throughout the trial, stojberg insisted this was about preventing child marriage. now, she's facing a jail term. the sentence was unconditional, meaning it must be served. there's also chance of appeal, and her political career now hangs in the balance. on sunday, max verstappen won the abu dhabi grand prix and