In the third test in perth. Massive win. Good morning. Its monday 18th december. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A review into building regulations following the Grenfell Tower fire says there should be a culture change to ensure that safety is prioritised over cost. Dame Judith Hackitt, who is carrying the review for the government, makes a series of recommendations to simplify the rules and change the way they are overseen. In her first report out this morning, she also says regulations are confusing and open to interpretation. The interim report tells us that what we have in place today is a system which has evolved over a number of years. It is overly complex and that complexity does not lead to it being as effective as it needs to be. What sort of things specifically are we talking about . Were talking about a system where there is too much prescription, where there is a very heavily layered system of guidance currently, which is not helpful in terms of leading pe
China out prices in in half an hour. 4898, it tells you what has been going on since 2006. The white line indicates firsttier city performance. We have had this massive runup in june 2015. Ever since, we have seen this fall back. It has been muted for secondtier and third tear cities. We have early data from china real estate showing a sharp rebound in tier one cities and tier three cities. Is the result of strict controls during the october Party Congress unwinding, so the possibility of a turnaround. All will be revealed after xi jinping said houses are for living in, not for speculation. The lastding day of week in this part of the world, singapore, taiwan, and malaysia kicking things off. Sophie the countdown to christmas, risk on for markets with the u. S. Tax bill passage looking likely. We have the Malaysian Ringgit and the won leading declines against the dollar, and the yen looking to test 113. We have u. S. Key Economic Data deck this week. Shares mostly climbing. The kospi l
Is declared the new leader of south africas governing party, the anc. Following the killing of British Embassy worker rebecca dykes in lebanon local Police Arrest a man, believed to be a taxi driver. And from nurse to bishop, Sarah Mullally becomes the most senior woman in the church of england, appointed bishop of london. Its 5 oclock. Breaking news from johannesburg, lets see the images in south africa. A very significant election has taken place. We have the congratulations, because Cyril Ramaphosa has been duly elected as the leader of the anc, the ruling party in south africa. He beat the former foreign minister, Nkosazana Dlamini zuma, by 2240 votes, to 2461. He is the Deputy President currently, in line for greater things, because he hasjust been elected leader of the anc in johannesburg. The electoral commission, doing lots of its work this afternoon, looking and monitoring at the validity of the vote. There were talks about a conference of recount at one point, as it is, we be
Hes dropped a bit of a grenade on an important day for theresa may. Theresa may has hosted the first brexit war committee, ten key cabinet ministers have spoke about their vision for the trade deal and they hope the uk can get with the eu. Michel barnier have come out and said that under no circumstances is the uk going to get Financial Services as a bolt on to a trade deal, services make up 80 of the uks economy. Just having free trade and goods is no good for us. I think we need to take his point of view with a pinch of salt. The eu 27 Member States at the beginning of this process are speaking about what they want, he is going and hard which is to be expected. The mood music i am hearing coming out of brussels is that there is a lot of concern among the eu 27 that the uk if it was cast adrift and have the ability to use state aid, that could be pretty disastrous for some of the sectors like the rest of the eu. There will be more compromised than is being suggested here. Absolutely.
Killed in the us state of washington after a high speed passenger train derailed. Carriages fell from the tracks onto a busy highway below. Some 80 people were on board. Our correspondent james cook reports from los angeles. Disaster struck on the very first run ofa disaster struck on the very first run of a new express service from seattle to portland. Some were asleep, others Drinking Coffee when the train careered off the track onto the busy motorway below. Survivors spoke of a rocking noise as the engine took the curve at speed followed by crashing and screaming. I grabbed onto the chair, my laptop when flying went flying. People were screaming, it was crazy. Trained 501 was operated by amtrak, which said there were some 78 passengers and five crew members on board. Police say the crash happened at 7 55 a. M. , the height of the rush hour on the is. Multiple cars were struck by the train tracks that went down onto the road. The people in all the vehicles, even though when you see t