Or two if they do hold rates and that decision is expected any second now. Liam, if they do hold them, could we start seeing rates starting to come down maybe towards the 4 area in the near future. 7 future . Im literally checking my phone here, pip, as we speak. You keep your eyes if you. Liam we are being told now it has been held. Its been held. At 5. 25. Your its been held. At 5. 25. Your reaction . Thats thats very, reaction . Thats thats very, very interesting. Whats going to happen now is that the pound will likely fall because traders were expecting an Interest Rate rise. On balance, what will happen now is so called two year swap rates will change. So Mortgage Companies quite quickly will start competing and offering cheaper loans. Weve already had Mortgage Rates coming down over recent weeks because of an expectation that this would be the peak in Interest Rates if indeed there was a rate rise. If we look at my graphic now, i hope its on the screen. You can hope its on the sc
And we had standards of what he would accept and not. And that process intensified. We had very intense negotiations in doha. And were grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. And when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. One of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes Hostage Taking by governments such as irans. There is no question that President Biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. And at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anticensorship stools stools United States. And we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. Sharghi the same amount of time. And iran really gain no benefit. There are no funds. Iranian h
Collided with a helicopter in bucks. One of those killed has been named as mike green, a helicopter instructor. And tributes for the co founder of the Australian Rock Group ac dc, malcolm young. He died at the age of 64. Time to cross to the bbc sport centre for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and hugh woozencroft. The headlines this evening england make it five wins in a row over australia with a comfortable victory in rugby unions autumn internationals. North london bragging rights go to arsenal as Arsene Wengers side get their first win over tottenham since 2014. Ruling the race to dubai justin rose is ahead in the desert but Tommy Fleetwood is still in the chase. Also coming up in the programme. It wasnt perfect. Head coach Trevor Bayliss on a difficult day for englands bowlers in theirfinal warm up match. And david beats goliath. Goffin sends the great Roger Federer packing at the world tour finals. So, plenty to come in this evenings spo
With me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and hugh woozencroft. The headlines this evening england make it five wins in a row over australia with a comfortable victory in rugby unions autumn internationals. North london bragging rights go to arsenal as Arsene Wengers side get their first win over tottenham since 2014. Ruling the race to dubai justin rose is ahead in the desert but Tommy Fleetwood is still in the chase. Also coming up in the programme. It wasnt perfect. Head coach Trevor Bayliss on a difficult day for englands bowlers in theirfinal warm up match. And david beats goliath. Goffin sends the great Roger Federer packing at the world tour finals. So, plenty to come in this evenings sportsday, but we start with rugby unions autumn internationals and an impressive win for eddiejones england at twickenham. They scored four tries as they ran out 30 6 winners over jones native australia. But as joe wilson reports, it was a closer encounter than the scoreline suggested. The bricks and mortar
Available to redmond and that rents are sky high. The answer is we have to build more homes. Tests of Driverless Cars on uk roads are set to be given the green light in this weeks budget. And in half an hour here on bbc news, Steve Rosenberg travels across russia to find out how its citizens view the 1917 revolution. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The pressure on the zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe to stand down is intensifying with both the military and his own party set to take further steps to remove him. The Ruling Zanu Pf Party is expected to remove the 93 year old as its leader at a meeting today. The zanu pf youth league, which until now has strongly supported president Robert Mugabe, has called for him to step down. Tens of thousands of protestors lined the streets of harare yesterday calling for his resignation. The leader of zimbabwes powerful Liberation War veterans has threatened to unleash the mob against mr mugabe if he continues to refuse to step down. You. You