Probably not today ahead of another call between Commission President ursula and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson. U. K. Banks and Home Builders suffered the brunt of the selling as the ftse 100 outperforms the spot 600 and the pound stays under pressure well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs, everybody. Our top story of the day, no surprise, brexit as talks enter the 11th hour. And we have plenty of coverage this morning were going to get into all the detail, all the latest in just a moment but i want to kickoff by showing you the Market Reaction because its been pretty interesting the moves weve seen so far. Starting with sterling, which is trading up 1. 5 versus the dollar, so currently around the 1. 3240 level this as volatility in sterling has reached an eightmonth high. So a substantial sell off in the currency this morning on the back of this weekends developments as we head into the final talks. The ftse, meanwhile, the main benchmark in the equity market for
Being out of school is having on children and parents. Three Premier League defeats in a row forjose mourinho and spurs. They lose at home to chelsea, who continue their good start under new boss thomas tuchel. Today, snow only really Northern Scotland but over the next few days we are going to see is no more widely and all of us will feel the bitter chill of an easterly wind seeing snow more widely. Its friday, february 5th. Our top story. From the 15th Of February uk residents returning from Coronavirus Hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels for ten nights. Theres been mounting pressure for ministers to set out details of the scheme, which was first announced last week. The government has been accused of being too slow to act. Simonjones reports. A new destination for new arrivals from the most high risk countries. British nationals returning home from more than 30 covid hot spots will have to check into designated hotels at their own expense for ten days. It is to try to
Declares is further illegal an extension of Palestinian Land in the occupied west bank israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is long been threatening further annexation greenlit by the trumpet ministrations deal of the century but there have been growing calls from the International Community including the u. K. That an accession would destroy any notion of peace in the middle east and even threaten israels own security joining me from jerusalem is the director of the project account to b. D. S. And Political Warfare at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in the former general secretary of the World Jewish Congress and i thank you so much dan for coming on well britains foreign minister James Cleverly he briefed the u. N. Security council telling israel it must end Settlement Expansion the demolishing of palestinian homes and saying that netanyahu is an accession of the west bank is an acceptable. Well with the greatest respect to the foreign minister and clearly britain and is
About the u. S. President from his former National Security adviser in a tell all book. Iraq demands that turkey withdraw its troops from the north of the country onto a week of military operations targeting kurdish forces. France is accused of consistently discriminating against black people as calls for reforms grow. And it will begin in the United States where President Donald Trump has attacked the highest court in the country accusing it of releasing horrible and politically charged decisions outburst came on twitter after the u. S. Supreme court blocks trumps efforts to end deferred action for childhood arrivals daca is an Obama Era Program that allows hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to live and work legally trump derided the ruling as shotgun blasts in the face of people who are proud to call themselves republicans or conservatives trump is also under pressure over revelations in a memoir from his former National Security advis
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