rob watson, thank ou reawakened, christian? rob watson, thank you very _ reawakened, christian?ned, christian? rob watson, thank you very much for the - reawakened, christian? rob watson, thank you very much for the analysis| thank you very much for the analysis and we are watching events at downing street will bring you more if and when we get it. things are about to get an awful lot harder for millions of people across the uk after the energy regulator 0fgem raised the price cap on what companies can charge their customers. the change will apply for april. the average annual bill for gas and eletricity for those not on fixed deals will rise by almost £700 a year to almost £2000. it will affect around 22 million households in england, wales and scotland. on top of that the base rate went up today, for the second time in three months, to 0.5% as the bank of england tries to curb the rise in the cost of living. and that's because inflation, the rate at which prices are rising, is expected to peak at 7.25% in april, well above the bank's target of 2%. to try and soften the blow, t

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this is to be a business i rob watson berlin, welcome to the program. contentions between russia and ukraine, force europe into an energy rethink. much of the continent is heavily reliant on natural gas imported from russia, but weakened relations between moscow and is european neighbors mean that supply is looking less secure. the latest figures show that the e u. imported 168000000000 cubic meters of gas from russia last year. that's an awful lot to lose. should russia for whatever reason, choose to turn off the taps? remember europe is already in the middle, middle of an energy crunch. so how could your make up for the loss? well, liquefied natural gas could be a solution. currently, the e, you imports a 100 tankers worth of allen g a month, but to replace russian gas, that number would have to triple from the united states. so is europe in any position to live without russian gas? well, let's discuss that very question. with david butter. he's an associate fellow at the international affairs think tank chatham house and join me shortly here on the program. so can you just tell us

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, to address the nation in about ten minutes' time, and letsjoin our uk political correspondent rob watson hear them from borisjohnson as well, because it is quite clear that the west's strategy number one is that russia should be punished for what has happened, that is the reference to sanctions, but secondly this mustn't go any further, so there was the repeated reference to article five, that idea that if one nato countries attacked, that is to say, those countries that are bordering where this crisis is unfolding, all of nato would come, and a third point, which i think it's something we are going to talk about a lot, which is that recognition from jens stoltenberg that we are in a new era of geopolitics, that the cold war may have ended in 1989 with a sense of complacency on the european continent about its security, but that those days are over. and i suspect we are going to have some sort of echo of that in what prime minister borisjohnson will say. he has already said after chairing an emergency meeting of senior government ministers that this is a catastrophe for europe and that m