Since he government scrapped Winter Fuel payments for millions of pensioners. And the conservatives will start voting on chosing their next party leader. Lets speak to our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman. I dont know whether the Prime Minister himself got a Summer Holiday, he had to scrap its plans. But he is facing a big political autumn with a lot of legislation to push through and a Budget which he has signalled very firmly is going to be tough. He has signalled very firmly is going to be tough to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at all to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at all having l Summer Holiday at all having postponed his Summer Holiday to deal with the riots taking place across england, he cancelled it in The End altogether. He certainly might be hoping he managed to rest at some point when he starts to think about the things he will confront as Pa
Its affecting some flights at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of 7th october. Alastair burt is a former conservative mp who served as Minister Of State for the middle east. He gave me his reaction to developments. The scale of protests is certainly unprecedented. There has been thousands of people demonstrating regularly against prime Minister Netanyahu firstly for internal political reasons, then post October The 7th lately in terms of his handling of the crisis, but the scale of the protest and the sense that the prime Ministers Strategy after October The 7th of seeking total victory of the elimination of hamas and the recovery of the hostages has proved to be a failure because it was impossible. He was advised that you couldnt do both and that advice has been borne out by experience and
Opportunities. The yuan went through seven offshore for the first time in a long time overnight. This, of course, a concerted effort to put pressure on the u. S. Rollback of tariffs, in which case president xi would travel to the u. S. To sign phase one of a deal, or so we are led to believe. Down. The lockup is expiring tomorrow. Some are seeing a net negative, and could be a little but of profittaking. Guy european stocks fading as well, now only up a little bit. It was a decent rally earlier on, but certainly fading, noun by 0. 1 . The euro continues to languish, 1. 1075. Why hasnt it rallied more over the last month . The rand continues to make gains as well. Didnt get a downgrade friday. We will go live to janice berg later in the program to johannesburg later in the program. Reaffirmsxi jinping that his country would open itself up to trade even further. Here to discuss all of this, jane foley, rabobank head of fx strategy. The trade rally has had a big impact on assets. Do you t
Jeremy corbyn says. But i think they will get picked pretty short shrift from the leadership. Theyre watching people like a hawk on this. Can we come back to you in just a moment, but it is just after 9 00. You are watching Sunday Morning with trevor phillips. In the last hour, israels ambassador to United Kingdom has told this program that israel is at war. She says that one of britain is in gaza as attacks continue. Here in liverpool at the Labor Conference, the partys Health Secretary west reading said he unequivocally condemned the action by hamas. He and as we are on top of the hour, lets get the very latest on the situation in the middle east now. And were going live to our own International Affairs editor, dominic waghorn. Hes in the southern israeli city of dominic, what is the latest where you are . Well the, latest here travelers were just north of gaza. What were hearing here is quite a lot of big israeli gardens, Firing Shells and gaza in response to attacks that hamas laun
Im nejra cehic. Still seeing a little reaction from the fomc meeting. Ive got the stoxx 600. We were seeing stronger gains. It softened a little bit. We are still up 0. 2 . Stronger dollar against most major peers. Bloomberg dollar index up 0. 1 . It did gain more than that in yesterdays session. The 10year yield rising two basis points. We are at 2. 27 . Pretty steady right now. Also keeping an eye on crude oil. We are a little lower in todays session. 50. 52 dollars a barrel. Weve also got breaking news for you. Leaving its key rate unchanged at 0. 5 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian the bank of japan kept its monetary stimulus unchanged, but a dovish board member opposes the decision. He argued there was little chance of reaching the banks inflation target and the effects of the current yield curve program werent strong enough. That was an unexpected dissension on a board chosen by Prime Minister shinzo abe. The u. S. Secretary of state has told european allies the