More precious than faang, the one surprising investment thats making some more money than all the top tech names that you know its thursday, august 29th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. If the black keys cant get you going, i cant help you friends. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where where ever in the world youre watching look at this, dow futures are soaring up 209 points right now. They were not like this a couple of hours ago futures made a dramatic move around 3 00 a. M. New york time this morning, look at that boom, were muddling along down a couple of points this is at the same time that the Chinese Commerce minister, china opposes any more escalation of a trade war. They hope the United States will show sincerity and concrete action adding both trade teams have been in touch and are working to create conditions for what they call successful negotiation. Futures were up 209 right now. The bond market is not moving as much on the headlines. Yield still low, a
Universities should be legally bound to provide Mental Health universities have been criticised support to students, by a former Health Minister according to a former for being in the dark over student Health Minister. Mental health needs. Lets get more now, on the news that oil prices have risen sharply the uk should advance its climate targets by 10 years, as a result of saturdays attack according to a leading scientist. On two Saudi Arabian facilities, discount Supermarket Chain aldi which caused a big slow down in production. Yesterday, President Trump stopped short of directly accusing announces a 26 fall in profit. Iran, but suggested possible military action once the perpetrator was known saying the us was locked and loaded. iran denies any involvement in the attacks. Our security correspondent frank good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Gardner is with me now. Im joanna gosling. Borisjohnson is about to hold obviously a very powerful target because of the impact globally
If we ended up down that track and as i said, we dont want an election, we want to get delivering on the governments positive agenda and delivering brexit but if we ended up down that track, it would be the mother of all u turns byJeremy Corbyn. Because hes been saying for months, if not years, that he wants an election. But labour now say they wont be bounced into an election on borisjohnsons terms. Of course we always want a general election, you do not end austerity and Food Bank Britain without a general election. But the primary priority across parties is to legislate against a disastrous no deal. Well be talking to mps from all sides today, talking to voters worried about the impact of no deal, and we want to hear from you do you want a general election . Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Let us know if you want a general election . That could be where the countrys heading. It would be the third general election in this country in five years. And i
We start in the south of france where the seaside city of biarritz is hosting leaders of the g7 group this weekend. The united states, canada, france, germany, italy, japan and the uk. Theyll all be there. On the agenda, inequality, climate change, trade. This is borisjohnsons first g7 as british Prime Minister. He comes fresh from the elysee palace under discussion there was the uks exit deal with the eu. The Sticking Point is the backstop a condition to keep britain in a Customs Union with the eu if a trade deal cant be struck. This week the german chancellor Angela Merkel raised hopes of a compromise inviting the uk to come up with an alternative solution for the irish border. But frances president macron warned any agreement will not be far from the existing deal. Dont forget, trump is in town. The president has held out the the prospect of a very substantial trade deal for the uk with the us post brexit. As our correspondent damien grammaticas explains, the pressure is now very mu
The governments decision. What he is doing is he is suspending parliament when it should be sitting because he is determined to do something for which he has no mandate at all. Sterling has fallen in response to the announcement. It lost around a cent against both the us dollar and the euro, due to increased fears of a no deal brexit. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The queen is to be asked by the government to suspend Parliament Days after mps return to work, and a matter of weeks before the brexit deadline. Parliament will return from recess on the 3rd of september, and could be prorogued or suspended only a week later, on the 10th. Thats expected to make way for Boris Johnsons new administration to hold a queens speech laying out the governments future plans on m october. But it means mps are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the Prime Minister taking the uk out of the eu without a deal on 31 october. John bercow give his reaction in the last few min