a major security operation is underway in paris, where a gunman opened fire on a police bus in the heart of the french capital, killing one officer, wounding two others and a passer by. the gunman drove up to the bus, got out and began firing an automatic weapon, thought to be an assault rifle. officers then shot him dead. it happened on one of the city s best known streets, the avenue des champs elysees, which runs between the place charles de gaulle and the place de la concorde. towards the western end, it is thought, about 300 metres, barely 1,000 feet, from the arc de triomphe itself. reports suggest the gunman was known to the intelligence services, and police have been searching his home in the eastern suburbs of paris. the extremist group the so called islamic state is saying it was behind the shooting, and has named the attacker as a belgian, abu yousif. it is just days before the french vote in the first round of the presidential election. francois hollande, the curr
presenting on radioi promoted their mental health campaign. mike s taken to the slopes this week, trying to keep up with 18 year old millie knight, britain s first world champion para skier. in sport chelsea chase the double the premier league leaders take on their closes rivals tottenham, in the first of this weekend s fa cup semi finals at wembley. and we take a look at the weather with them. plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, but a plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, buta big plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, but a big change on the way for the start of next week. something much colder on the way. i will have all of the details later. thank you very much. good morning. first, our main story. the conservatives are attempting to play down speculation that they will raise taxes if they win the general election. yesterday, the chancellor, phillip hammond, hinted that the government might abandon the pledge made at the last election not to raise income
0h, tell me what happened? nothing. 0h, your phone didn t go off? no. what do you think about that? not a lot. many who didn t get the alert were on the three mobile network. in a statement, the company said it was working with the government to understand why, and to ensure it doesn t happen when the system is actually used for real. the government says the vast majority of 4g and 5g phones received the alert, but said it was working with mobile operators to review the outcome and look at any lessons learned. one might be to check the spelling after people in wales complained, the uk government confirmed the welsh language emergency alert had been misspelt. the message from ministers beforehand had been keep calm and carry on. and, after a few seconds of excitement, that, it seems, is what everyone did. jon donnison, bbc news.
Markets. because inflation has come back we have seen a major sea change in the interest rate backdrop, the federal reserve and others all raising rates and that has created a huge change in a backdrop in terms of the lending environment and that is part of the reason why we saw the collapse of silicon valley bank, that has caused quite a bit of nervousness, and some panic. there was a run on that bank and now the woes facing credit suisse have intensified in the last few days, saying it faced material weakness in its financial statements, its biggest backer saying it was not ready to provide financial support, rather unfortunate timing that we have had these two events around the same time and of course that can lead to emotions amongst investors, like you say, can be an element of panic selling by the blessing to do is keep calm and carry on. finally, what does is keep calm and carry on. finally, what does this is keep calm and carry on. finally, what does this mean is keep cal
I think it s brave. i went back to the trustees and said what the queen said. we all thought, well, right. we ll keep going. we ll make this work. the queen thinks this is not mad. and i wonder whether the little things she said across the board, all the events sbhent to just gave people heart. made them feel they could keep calm and carry on. i think that s how she would want us to feel now. the after all, you know, she is by making a public statement saying she wanted the duchess of cornwall to be the queen con sort. she is the transition. i think she wanted us to keep calm and carry on. i think we owe it to her memory to do that. you also have meet the met the queen courtsort recently.