meet with the taoiseach in the course of the coming week also. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. a warm awarm and a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. we are going to see the weather changing, and towards the south west of england by this evening we have got more cloud andmay be some showers which will push northwards, but mainly affecting the more southern parts of england, and we could get heavy and thundery downpours into the night. further north it will be chillier in scotland where we have got clearer skies, but there could be a few showers by the morning as far north as scotland and ireland. the heavy ones will move away. generally, showers are developing further north and moving further north, allowing more in the way of warm sunshine to come across southern parts of england and wales, and northern parts of scotland mainly missing the showers entirely. cooler than today, the breeze beg
gets better. the country has been rocked by demonstrations of our soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicine. he was appointed in an attempt to diffuse the protests. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and we re here because the government has confirmed it s pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so we re going to look through all of the issues that this raises with our guest today, the ceo of channel 4, alex mahon. alex, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. this wasn t the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? w
Many of those Making Assertions On The remain side were relying on people meekly submitting to authority as though we were still operating in the pre Reformation Catholic Church rather than making proper arguments. Well speak to those who think mr gove was putting his finger on something. And, of course, the oscars. Im sorry. No. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you won best picture. No, not that, this. The oscar winner for best documentary is about the civilian Rescue Workers in syria. Well speak to one of the White Helmets. Hello. Good evening. For the First Time Since the uk voted to leave the European Union, former Prime Minister, john major, has spoken out of his fears for this countrys future. He warned of a real risk that government would not achieve all that it had promised from brexit. He said a comprehensive deal was unlikely by 2019 and that a failure to deliver would result in further distrust between politicians and the public. He launched an Excoriating Attack on the cheerlea
On cnbc. Im sara eisen. Do i not get a welcome back . Welcome back from washington, a whole 24 hours. I know. How was it . It was good fun, thank you. Well discuss that story coming up. Wells fargo, and another hearing to come today. Busy time down in washington and the fed meeting. Lets get to equity features at this hour. Yesterday we did have a positive close for all three indices, but fractional. Just higher about 0. 1 . We lost steam during the day. Its been treading water this week ahead of the crucial fed meeting, the bank of japan meeting well get to in a moment. Here are the u. S. Futures, higher by 70 points for the dow. A half percent positive open for u. S. Markets. After we lost the gains again yesterday, the dow closing up ten points. Some trepidation ahead of the big Federal Reserve meeting, but there is buying this morning. The top market story of the morning is the bank of japan rebooting its monetary policy. The boj did not cut rates further into negative territory or
Hague, a few moments ago, told you that it is in the attitude and behavior that you make this judgment about what is being done. I am not going to start laying out the whole series of definitions, except to say to you that it is clear what proxies mean. If russia or its proxies disrupt the elections, stand in the way of the ukrainian people being able to have a decisive vote, that is when or if there will be additional sanctions. Our hope is that russia will join into encouraging the vote. That russia will encourage prorussian separatist to say that they should work through the process that has now been opened up. That russia has helped insist on, and that that process be given a chance to work through the osce and otherwise. That is our preference. That is what we want to have happen here. Between is, eight days now and election, there can be a concerted effort to try to put the confrontation behind us and put the effort to build ukraine in front of us and to try to do it together. Th