hello and welcome to the programme. the financial times is reporting that ubs has offered to buy credit suisse for up to $1 billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion dollars by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me now. where are we up to with these negotiations? fist where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these ne . otiations? ., ., negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new for negotiations?
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and want a consultation period and a vote, but there could be an announcement within the next hour, which sums up the urgency we are facing him. credit suisse s troubles have become the banking world s troubles, really. money has started to disappear out of stocks across the board. they were sliding all week and friday was another bad day, said the aim here is to give reassurance to the wider banking world to get this deal done. i was world to get this deal done. i was tellin: world to get this deal done. i was telling our world to get this deal done. i was telling our viewers world to get this deal done. i was telling our viewers an world to get this deal done. i was telling our viewers an hour - world to get this deal done. i was telling our viewers an hour ago that the swiss government will hold an important press conference but we have been given no timing and no location, but there is an urgency around this, isn t there? certainly. the finer points around this, isn t ther
borisjohnson know when he stood up in the house of commons and made those comments, made those assertions. and, is it possible that he was in contempt of parliament if he knew, and that is a big if, the interim chief executive of the scottish national party, michael russell, says the party is in as a tremendous mess . he replaces peter murrell, who s married to scotland s first minister, the outgoing party leader, nicola sturgeon. he resigned, taking responsibility for misleading journalists who asked about the snp s membership numbers. it lost 30,000 members injust over a year. mr russell, said trust in the party needed to be rebuilt. it is a tremendous mess and we have to clear it up. that is the task that i am trying to take on in the short term, and the most important thing in that short term, this is about scotland, notjust the snp and that is that we have a fair electoral process.