Personal charge of dealing with britains housing crisis. Russian athletes could face a second olympic ban for not doing enough to address doping allegations. 400 Million Dollars is the bid and the piece is sold. And the lost leonardo goes for a record breaking price. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. Are young people being priced out of football . A bbc sport Study Suggests the next generation of season Ticket Holders are yet to emerge. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The future of zimbabwes long time leader, Robert Mugabe, remains unclear after he was placed under house arrest by the countrys military. Two envoys from south africa have arrived in the capital, harare, to try to hold talks with the 93 year old and with zimbabwes generals, who deny theres been a coup. The armys intervention is being seen by many as an attempt to prevent mr mugabes wife, grace, from succeeding him. Richard lister reports. They are headlines most in zimbabwe thought they would neve
Worldwide exchange on cnbc im wilfred frost. We will get to the markets they are pointing higher yesterday we had a triple digit decline for the dow, down more than 130 points. We are bouncing back this morning. Not quite triple digits. Up 92 points for the dow 10 points for the s p. The nasdaq up 30 points. Energy the worst sector yesterday. Oil prices continued their recent two or threeday slide. Energy sector down 1. 2 . The best sector was financials up 0. 2 . In part getting a boost when richard cadre, the cfpb chief announced he would go eight months before the end of his term he was one of the last few remaining obama pro regulation i appointments in powerful positions. His departure helped some of the consuming lending banks in particular lets look at why were higher in part because of the rest of the world was higher yesterday the rests of the world was lower and that fed into a generally riskoff tone by the time we opened bouncing back. The nikkei up 1. 5 down 1 yesterday. Eu
Lets see how things did overnight in asia. Asia was leading the declines yesterday. This time a little different story. Nikkei closed up by 1. 5 hang seng was up by 0. 6 shanghai was flat. In europe, at least at this early trading hour, there are green arrows across the board. Barely hanging on for the ftse the dax and cac each up by better than 0. 6 looking at crude oil prices, at least right now, crude oil looks like its down 7 cents 55. 26. Couple big stories were watching, mattel has rejected a takeover approach from rival hasbro reuters reporting that mattel believes the offer undervalues the company and doesnt take into account the potential for regulators to rejected the deal on antitrust grounds reports saying mattels new ceo who took over in february may be trying to drive a harder bargain in talks with hasbro the company cut its fullyear revenue outlook. You are looking at both of those stocks now time inc is reportedly restarting talks to sell itself to publisher and broadca
Here in doha with me piece of dog also ahead. Of the. Protests and clashes in palestine and the Donald Trumps decision declaring jerusalem as the capital of israel with demonstrations abroad as well. North korea tells russia it now wants direct talks with washington seeking guarantees on its security. Thousands of firefighters battle wildfires spreading across Southern California. Our top story within the past few minutes were being told a deal has been agree between the u. K. And the European Union allowing bricks at negotiations to move on to the next stage pending a vote in the European Parliament to go see a chanst that stalled over Citizens Rights off the brics its the u. K. Socalled divorce payment and in particular the border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland the e. U. Had insisted discussions. Until plans for the border were finalised. Kevin riley is a political journalist who joins us on the line now from dublin gavin good to talk to you what is this all mea
Again youre watching else as the euro live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. For our protesting clashes in palestine and with Donald Trumps decision declaring jerusalem the capital of israel with demonstrations abroad as well. North korea tells russia it now wants direct talks with washington seeking guarantees on its security. Also this off thousands of firefighters battling wildfires spreading across southern california. Breaking story for you today a deal has been reached between the u. K. And the e. U. Allowing brechts that negotiations to move on to the next stage the talks had stoled of a Citizens Rights off the brics that the u. K. Socalled divorce payments and on the future of the border between Northern Islands and the republic of ireland the e. U. Had insisted discussions could not move ahead until plans for the border were finalised. We had to make the deed today. On the basis of the mandate which was given to me by the European Council to commission has jus