if you have joined if you havejoined us, you are welcome and we are looking at the top business stories. we start here in the uk, where there is some relief for millions of people facing soaring housing costs. lenders have started the new year by slashing the cost of mortgages as financial markets bet the bank of england will soon begin to cut interest rates from their 15 year high. from today banking giant hsbc becomes the first major lender to bring back mortgages below 4% since last march. it comes as rival halifax slashed almost a percentage point off some of its mortgage rates this week. and it s raised hopes of a price war between banks. hsbc is offering a five year fixed rate mortgage at 3.94%. it s only available to people remortgaging their home not to first time buyers. but it s far below rates of almost 6.5% that borrowers were facing just a few months ago. and it will be a welcome development for many uk households as our cost of living correspondent kevin peach
manhattan. you may remember her from this video harassing a group of pro-life students. this is propaganda. you don t even know what that is. you don t know what this is. bill: that prompted the new york post to send the reporter and photographer to her home this week and here is how that went down yesterday. get away from my home. let s get out of here. you can t do that. she did not stop there. video shows her chasing those journalists through the street. the reporter who was threatened with a machete we just wanted to speak to this woman. we thought we might have a chance given that she is passionate about her beliefs and if she showed up at her door she would be willing to grant us an interview. hoping for interviews. this was a first for me. she verbally threatened to chop us up with the machete and pressed it against the side of my neck for about a second. bill: who knew she had that? nate foye is live outside hunter college for the latest on this toda
he answered the questions you all asked and i think that s an opportunity for the american people to hear directly from him. a week ago today he sat down and had a one-on-1, 1-on-one interview with one of your one of your colleagues here, not here, but clearly in one of the networks here, and talked was asked about title 42. so the american people have heard from the president when we when we, again, when we were in new york and again right when, after the meeting you heard directly from the president after the meeting he had with the big four, if you will. and he gave remarks and then took questions. so the american people have heard directly from him, especially when he laid out how that conversation went with the big four. you described the discussions this week between white house officials and congressional staff as productive. what from those talks do you believe is pointing to the signs of progress? i m not going to get into details of private conversations.
thursday, a little bit like spot the difference. they hide to the north again. the isobars open up a little bit. what does that mean? lighter winds and that means it may not feel quite as chilly. some signs we could pull in some slightly clearer heir to the south of the uk from the continent. there might be more in the way of sunshine. just a chance thursday will feel more springlike but by the time we get to the end of the week, that area high pressure wriggles around to the west of us again, swings and winds around to northerly direction and if anything it looks like we will be set in some arctic air by the time we get to the weekend, with the prospect of something a bit more wintry on sunday. thanks, susan. and that s bbc news at ten on february 28th there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with faisal islam which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regi
john kerry speaks exclusively to the bbc to outline what the us is doing to help save brazil s amazon rain forest. it will cost all of us much more money not to respond and make this transition now. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 6pm in washington where a powerful house committee is debating wether to allow president biden to completely ban the chinese owned app, tiktok, which is used by more than 100 million americans. the white house has already ordered government agencies to wipe tiktok off federal devices within 30 days. and it s notjust the us. the european parliament has also banned the video sharing app from staff phones citing security reasons, following canada which imposed a similar ban. but china has hit out at the us and this is what a government spokesperson had to say. |translation: the united states, | the world number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application that young people like so much that they completely lack any self conf