To back her remaining in office. The sunday times continues the theme. One of its headlines claims borisjohnson believes mrs may will be gone in a year. A rather kinder front page from the sunday telegraph which says the pm is set to announce a tuition fees revolution to help students. Thats more like it, mrs may is the verdict in the sunday express. It reports the pm will launch the change as part of a policy blitz to woo younger voters. The mail on sunday says shes gambling that the tuition fees changes will head off a tory coup but the paper calls it another huge u turn. And more on the conservatives in the sunday mirror which claims the prominent pro life tory mp Jacob Rees Mogg has admitted to benefiting financially from a firm which produces drugs to end pregnancies. Now on bbc news, click. This week. Explosions. Big taps. And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the
And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the dinorwig pumped storage power station and it is basically a monster battery. It Stores Energy by pumping water from this lake to a lake at the top of the mountain and then letting it flow back downhill, releasing that energy at times of peak demand. See, when you pop the kettle on during breaks in championship matches of that sport they call football, this bad boy springs into action to supplement our National Grid, delivering power to our homes in under 12 seconds. Its an incredible view. Its one of the fastest responding power stations on the planet and well have a nosy inside the thing later in the programme. Dinorwig offers a semi Renewable Energy solution at a time when our National Resources are being used up. As solar, wind and tidal power alternatives advance, were craving a method of using their generated energy 24 7 des
Ipo for billion snapchat gives investors a new look. Ins the first day of trading the Lunar New Year in shanghai. The special Prosecutors Office wants to search the president s office, but according to text messages, the office says it will not allow prosecutors in for that search. That is what we have at the moment. Investigators have begun a search according to another headline. Not quite sure where we are. We will keep you up to speed. In kuala lumpur and taipei. David. Busy, busy, busy morning. When you look at what going to be happening in the next 1520 minutes or so, that could actually determine where we go. Lets quickly get through the open here in singapore. Up half of 1 . 142. 02 was the close last friday. Essentially, if we rise a little further or stay at these levels, we are poised for a week gain. Se sterling is what i am pound sterling is what i am watching right now. Session lows. There were some projections of inflation and markets started to digest those numbers and s
Sows. The dow is indicated to open lower by 187 points. S p futures down by 24 and nasdaq down by 61. Chinese president has arrived in the United States. Hes going to begin in seattle to meet Business Leaders including tim cook, bill gates and bob iger. And then to washington with an official state visit. He is defending the leadership of the chinese economy. He promises that slowing growth and market swings wont stop needed reforms. Meanwhile, he is calling on china to keep its economic commitments. He says beijing should set its sights on policies that will further its reform agenda such as targeted agenda and they should be subject to upward pressure that would drive the currency up and not just down. Well see what he says out in seattle to the ceos and what theyre looking for and then of course what the president says to him when he arrives in washington. Theyre not, the pope and the chinese guy everybody hanging since theyre in the same place. A little cocktail party. Pope does lo
Im sarah ivan. And im wilfred frost, business looks to return after an historic winter storm. U. S. Futures pointing lower down about 65 points on the dow. Hanging ton that friday ral list, heres some big stories were watching at this hour, Johnson Controls reportedly in advanced talks to buy Fire Protection and Security Company tykeco international. Johnson controls manufactures car batteries and heating equipment. But the goal is focusing on unbilleding its efficiency and Automotive Battery operations. Importantly, this could be an inversion deal, as tyco is headquartered in ireland. So purchase could cut its taxes by moving its domicile from the u. S. To ireland. No word if Johnson Controls does plan to pursue that inversion action. What we think is more notable we could see potentially multibillion dollar deals for what has been a tumultuous start in january. Right. Lets focus on twitter. Shaking out the management ranks, the biggest upheaval since jack dorsey returned as ceo last