hello and welcome to the programme. a group of big american banks has injected 30 billion dollars into a smaller regional bank, first republic, which had been seen as at risk of failure. it comes as fears grow of a crisis in the global financial sector. shares in european banks hit a two month low after the eurozone s central bank hiked interest rates by a half of one percent. the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, has insisted the us financial system remains sound despite a series of bank collapses. you i can reassure the members that the banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that the deposits will be there when they need them. these actions demonstrate a resolute commission data may commitment that our financial system remains strong that our depositors remain safe. our north america correspondent, peter bowes joins us now. questions: so peter, what s prompted janet yellen to strike such a reassuring tone there? it has, for about a week now since
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over reaction. the diplomatic fall out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated serenely through us airspace, putting a diplomatic crisis onto television screens in real time. was it a harmless weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is fr
and sheffield becomes the latest city in the uk to introduce a clean air zone. from monday, drivers of the most polluting vehicles will be charged to enter a designated area. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and ii at night in uk where the prime minister, rishi sunak, will meet the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, in berkshire on monday. the meeting is expected to revolve around the post brexit trading arrangements for northern ireland; in a joint statement said they would work towards finding a solution to the dispute. chris mason has more. here stands the ultimate prize in all of these negotiations. this is stormont in belfast, the home of the northern ireland assembly. getting it and an executive here up and running again would be quite a moment. doing a deal with brussels does not guarantee that, but there are other potential prizes, improving internal uk trade and resetting relations with the european union. if we can get it over the lin
thank you from the very bottom of my heart. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welch has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in buffalo in new york state where the self declared white supremacist, payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially motivated mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom he d earlier admitted murdering 10 people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron have a look. you don t know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our kids to go to good schools. we love our kids. we never go in no neighbourhoods to take people out. don t do it! overlappi
thank you from the very bottom of my heart. a 19 month old girl becomes the first british child to receive a new life saving gene therapy we have an exclusive report. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welch has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in buffalo in new york state, where the self declared white supremacist payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially motivated mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom. he d earlier admitted murdering ten people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron. have a look. you don t know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our kids to