Aid agencies say the situation is desperate. Good evening. Senior ministers have rejected claims by their former cabinet colleague, amber rudd that securing a new brexit deal is no longer the governments main objective. Amber rudd, who resigned last night as work and pensions secretary, said up to 90 of the governments time is now spent preparing for a no dael departure at the end of october. She described the expulsion of 21 conservative mps who oppose no deal as an assault on decency and democracy. Our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. Reporter morning amber. Amber rudd says that when she accepted a post in Boris Johnsons cabinet, she did so in good faith, believing he wanted a brexit deal. But since then, shed seen little evidence that the government was putting in enough preparation to get one. There is this huge machine preparing for no deal, which is fine. You might expect in the balance between getting a deal and no deal 50 50 in terms of work, but its not that, its
It will feel quite a lot warmer as well, but there is some wet and windy weather there in the north west later on. Hello, this is bbc news. Iam martine i am martine croxall. The headlines amber rudd quits borisjohnsons cabinet, attacking his handling of brexit the government insists it is doing all it can to get a new deal. You might expect in the balance between getting a deal and no deal, 50 50 in terms of work, but its not that. Its, like, 80, 90 of government time going into preparing for no deal. We are working wholeheartedly, straining every sinew to get a deal, and the Prime Minister is personally putting in all the significant effort you would expect. Peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off President Trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. Hours to go before British Airways pilots go on strike, affecting up to 300,000 passengers. Joy for australia theyve retained the ashes, after bowling out england on the final day of the fourth test at old
Warnings in place through the Severn Estuary and the south coast but also lots of Surface Water around. Looking at the Rainfall Accumulation Charge for the rest of the week, for most areas we expect 20 to 30 millimetres of rain, across North West England the west and wales we could see 70 to 80 millimetres to the rest of the week. Parts of the South East Of England had seen their average march rainfall by the 12th of the month. It has been a wet week, it will stay wetter, we have seen rain today pushing further east, it is clearing away from east anglia and kent through the rest of the afternoon. Lots of low cloud and mist, some showery outbreaks too. Further north dry but lots of low cloud, the best of any brightness across Northern Areas of scotland. A brisk South Westerly Winds and temperatures now or 13 degrees the south. This evening and overnight, a couple of Weather Fronts bring more heavy rain, further south and east it is drier, lots of low cloud and very mild temperatures exp
alphabet and meta. and microsoft samsung and intel. the technology sector has been enjoyed rapid growth during the pandemic but now they are operating in a high interest rate environment. they have also been cost cutting measures. meta, for example, has had to announce that this month it will cut 10,000 more jobs and that is on top of the 11,000 that the company let go last november. danzig is a deputy chief investment officer at richard burnside advisors and he now says that he is not optimistic about technology stocks in the united states. i don t really see any reason to expect anything different from what we have seen both from these companies over the past couple of quarters but also from the companies we have only heard from his earnings season. i think what is clear is growth is slowing and this is hurting these companies notjust on the front of the profitability front of the profitability front which i think is front and centre for markets. we were talkin: and cent
and intel. they face now inflation fears as well as operating in a higher interest rate environment. they have also been cost cutting, putting cost cutting measures in. dancers are key is a debited dancers vicki says he is not optimistic about technology stocks in the united states. dan suzuki. i don t really see any reason to expect anything different from what we have seen both from these companies over the past couple of quarters but also from the companies we have only heard from his earnings season. i think what is clear is growth is slowing and this is hurting these companies notjust on the revenue front but the profitability front which i think is front and centre for markets. we were talking about meta layoffs and other big companies, also the collapse of the silicon valley bank. do you think that maybe this is finally, the pay might be over in the next quarter? the pain might be over. nothing i m seeing in the data is really suggesting that. again, wejust he