germany say police spoke to the suspect in thursday s hamburg shooting a month before the attack. one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere hits mauritius and madagascar twice and is now heading for mozambique for the second time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting cyclone in history on record, it s been a named tropical cyclone now also 33 days. we start in the us, and regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies after it ran into financial trouble. concerns triggered a sell off on global financial markets. it is the largest banking failure in the us since 2008. james clayton has been explaining how it happened. this will go down in silicon valley history, certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we have spoken to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank, and some who haven t. one person i spoke to said they put
millions of dollars to deal with illegal channel crossings. hello and welcome to bbc news. start in the us where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, one of the major lenders to tech companies and start ups. in one of the largest banking failures in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. tech correspondent jane clinton has explained how it happened. but forjames. this is one of the days that will go down in silicon valley history and it certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we spoke to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank and some haven t. one person put in a wire request yesterday and waited nearly 2a hours and eventually found out they got the money out but another person says they have tried and tried and tried and have not been able to withdraw any funds and say they physically came down to one of these branches to try and get these branches to try and get the money out.
The headlines zimbabwes Ruling Zanu Pf Party is expected to remove president Robert Mugabe as its leader today, as well as expel his wife, grace, from the party. Police say theyre confident that the remains of a body found near swanage is that of the missing teenager, gaia pope. Tests of Driverless Cars on uk roads are set to be given the go ahead in this weeks budget. Gerry adams, sinn feins leader for the past 3a years, will step down from the role next year. Coming up in a few minutes, our sunday morning edition of the papers this mornings reviewers are katy balls, Political Correspondent of the the spectator, and the journalist and broadcaster, James Rampton. Before the papers, sport. And for a full round up, lets go to the bbc sport centre. Good morning. England have made it through to the semifinals of the Rugby League World cup. They beat Papua New Guinea by 36 76 in melbourne. Tim hague has the details. England have strolled their way through the world cup so far, but with sam
Blown through nasdaq 7,000, were talking about s p 3,000 by the end of the year. Look how much we already moved we got a lot of milestones falling by the wayside lets get to bob pisani with some of the latest on todays action bob . This is quite an unusual week not just in the intensity and how much the s p is up, but the fact that everything seems to be working. Let me show you the winners this week and just the dow so, whatwere the two biggest losers of 2017 it was ge and ibm. Whats the two biggest movers up this week . Ge and ibm okay often get a little reversion to the mean, but two of the biggest movers in the dow last year was boeing and ibm so they had absolutely outstanding years and they, too, are up big. You get my point everything seems to be working this week. Its a little eery. Look at the major sectors today. S p up over 2 for the week. Small caps are pretty well, too. Growth is up, and value is up at the same time. Doing well thats kind of odd and even all the cyclical n
Palestinians say there is as danger to long term peace. Outrage in hong kong, lawmakers shout shame as a Community Leader after china rejects open nominations for the election. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im libby casey. A town in iraq is waking up free from the Islamic State group. Amerly had been under siege. Major allies overseas, including Prime Minister David Cameron are debating the next steps in going after the i. S. Group. Phil ittner is live in london. The u. S. Is claiming victory in the battle for amerly, but the president facing criticism from senators for his strategy in iraq and syria. What are they saying . Well, del, theres been heavy criticism of president obama in the pace and decisiveness of actions in regard to the this had become a siege. They were surrounded by Islamic State fighters. U. S. Planes along with the british, french and australians had been dropping humanitarian aid to the community. In washington, president obama still coming under