Hello and welcome to world news today. We begin in syria where, according to the United Nations, air strikes by the governments armed forces and its allies have killed at least a hundred people in the last ten days. 26 of them were children. The uns human rights chief, michelle bachelet, has accused the International Community of treating the violence with, as she puts it, apparent indifference. The fighting has been taking place in idlib provice, in the north west of syria, which is one of the last strongholds of the rebel groups which rose up against president bashir. Imogen foulkes reports. Five year old, trying to desperately save her baby sister from an air strike. Hours later, maria jett died from injuries. This is the last area of the serious deliverable hands, also tell him to millions of civilians. United nations has warned for months that a battle here would come at a huge cost to civilian life. The area is supposed to be a de escalation zone. But in recent weeks, Syrian Forc
For it to be banned for being too addictive. But for these players, its already changed their lives and with the prizes on offer here, some are dreaming of even bigger things. Joe tidy, bbc news, new york. 0k ok now on bbc news it is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, jason solomons. So, jason, what do we have this week . This week, were going back in time, the Horrible Histories Team and their take on rotten romans, roman britain in the rule of emperor nero. Boudica, the celts, lee mack and nick frost those well known ancients. Someone also had the bright idea of making the current war, starring Michael Shannon as george westinghouse, in a battle for the best light bulbs in america. Illuminating. And we escape to the greek island of hydra for a love story that lasted 60 years and inspired some of the most heartbreaking and famous songs 1960s, marianne and leonard words of love. 56 56 years. Horribl
Minute look at quick u. S. Equity futures at this hour show you how things look to be opening up in about 3 1 2 hours from now dow would be off about 20 points nasdaq looking to open up 15 points s p 500 looking to open off a little off well call it 3 1 2 points right now and also show you whats happening overnight in asia right now as we speak. Youre looking at red arrows across the board but well call it marginal except for the hang sang take a quick look at european equities as well as we flip that board around youre looking at mostly red picture, except the ftse 100 looking up 1 right now and finally treasury yields, tenyear notes unless youre looking for a 30year fixed right now the tenyear note is at 2. 060 joe . Big deal of the morning. Big. Big. Mylan, potential pharma deal to tell you about. Unit of pfizer with mylan. Thats right. Were expecting this news to be announced sometime this morning. What were hearing is that pfizer plans to spin off a unit called up john, off patent
Beyond meat down big lets get more on beyonds quarter. Beyond meat shares taking a dive as you mentioned after the Company Announced a secondary Share Offering shares slip more than 11 after the company made that announcement a secondary offering of 3. 25 million shares which increases its float. That could boost short seller interest in the stock which prior to earnings was a 16 of the float. Keep in mind that number itself was a bit inflated because the company is still in its lockup period the company mentioned on the call it cant comment on the secondary offering due to regulatory requirements. Beyonds worst to date was on june 11th when it lost more than 25 . The stock is still up a little less than 700 since its i. P. O many analysts were focussed on the companys top line growth. Beyond attributes its top line beat to a number of factors, including new partners and increased demand from existing partners we are using our advantage to drive, continued expansion in retail and Food
During his visit the Prime Minister and mr roosevelt consulted with the members of the pacific war council. Six decades of the special relationship. But how will it develop, under mrjohnson and mr trump . And, after those first dayjitters, englands cricketers beat ireland in their one off test at lords. Coming up on sportsday, hail, snow and landslides and then you leader, and landslides and then you leader, a dramatic stage 19 at the tour de france. Good evening. Its Boris Johnsons flagship policing policy, to recruit within three years, an extra 20,000 new officers across england and wales. The plans would reverse a sustained period of cuts in Police Numbers over the the last decade. On a visit to the West Midlands today, the Prime Minister said it was the most fundamental investment that can be made in society. But some question whether the cost, around £1. 1 billion pounds, is the most effective way of spending money to tackle crime. The college of policing, which trains officers,