Tom i would really suggest oil is important, but complete we secondary to the implosion that we saw yesterday and american jobs data. And the french data not much better. Right now, for global wall street, it is about calibrating the slow down and the nonrecovery out in the third quarter. And also, its the follow on from the rents that werent paid. There were massive upsets this morning. Francine i dont disagree. But oil can make things worse. Lets get straight to uber first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we do begin with oil. Opec putting together a Virtual Meeting of its members as President Donald Trump calls for a court need cut to end the historic crash in crude prices. Two delegates telling bloomberg the meeting will be held on monday. Saudi arabia insists it will only cut if others do. This includes the u. S. Of thetoric streak economy adding jobs for one under 13 months is probably ending as tom was mentioning. The march jobs report coming out at 8 30
A criminal organisation that filtered hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from the state owned oil firm petrobras. Brazils top prosecutor said Luis Inacio Lula da silva and Dilma Rousseff along with fellow Workers Party members had committed a series of crimes the latest accusations in brazils sprawling Corruption Scandal. The ex president s deny the accusations. The charges against them point to almost half a billion dollars in bribery from public bodies via the criminal front allegedly set up by the ex president s. The lead prosecutor earlier this year told cbs that the overall Corruption Scandal was bigger than watergate. He said that so far more than 200 people had already been charged with hundreds of crimes and the total amount of money paid in bribes, as far as they can tell so far, is up to two billion dollars. Camilla costa is in sao paulo. Tell us what dilma and lula barbecue stuff, exactly. The former president s have been accused with racketeering, plotting to scheme
You can see what a dangerous voyage it has been for them. The boat is listing dangerously on its side. The worlds highest paid actress, jennifer lawrence, talks to us about the gender gap in pay that must be tackled. But i think Trevor Brookings next, well, he is next to me. Laughter and the unmistakeable voice of football for half a century, john motson, decides to call it a day. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. All the latest from flushing meadows where karolina pliskovas reign as world no 1 has come to an end. Good evening. Business leaders have expressed their deep concern about plans to restrict the number of low skilled workers who come to the uk after brexit. The plans are included in a leaked Home Office Document, which also urges employers to give preference to british people looking for work. The Hospitality Industry said today it relied on eu workers and warned the plans would be catastrophic if implemented. But the Prime Minister told mps the government was committed
Atlantic storms on record. Hurricane irma, a category five storm, is bringing with it gusts up to 320 kilometres an hour 200 miles an hour. The hurricane has already battered several of the leeward islands. The Prime Minister of antigua and barbuda has told the bbc 90 of buildings on barbuda have been demolished he said the island, home to about 1800 people, is now just rubble. A two year old child is believed to have died. And six people are reported dead on saint martin and the neighbouring french territory of st barts. The eye of the hurricane has passed over the British Virgin islands President Trump has declared a state of emergency on the us Virgin Islands and puerto rico as the storm approaches. Our correspondent laura bicker reports from the capital, san juan. This is what it sounds like to be at the heart of one of the strongest storms recorded in the atlantic. The winds, like a jet engine, roared through the eastern caribbean. The category 5 hurricane ripped roofs off homes a
To the film review on bbc news. Taking us through this weeks cinema releases is mark kermode. What do we have this week . We have victoria and abdul in whichjudi dench returns to the role of queen victoria. We have the villainess, an insanely kinetic action movie. And mother, Darren Aronofskys crowd dividing epic. Victoria and abdul, yet another film about victoria, and of coursejudi dench. Yes. Because she was in mrs brown, about victorias friendship with john brown, her ghillie. This is about a later life friendship with abdul karim, which i have to say i didnt know about. The story is that he is brought over from india, first to perform an official ceremony. She is lonely at the beginning of the film. We see her being isolated, cut off from her surroundings. And she immediately forms a bond, a friendship, with him. Much to the outrage of firstly her son, bertie, played by eddie izzard, and all the attendant officials. Heres a clip. But the piece de resistance is the peacock throne.