And any barriers to goods and workers should now be removed. U. S. Business is pleading for help as demand and production fall. The president calls says that china will pay. Shery we are looking at how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are under pressure after we saw the nervous rebound in the trading session. The s p 500 slipped between small gains and losses. We have energy in a discretionary stocks leading the gains. We actually saw the nasdaq composite really rising more than 2 because of bargainhunting going on. Twitter andtesla, netflix as well. So we have seen a little bit of upside, especially the energy sector. Take a look at what oil. Is doing it just hot its best day on record. In fact, climb back most of the clawing back from most of the losses we saw earlier in the session. We are coming back from the lowest level in 18 years. This has the president said he would get involved at the appropriate time in the state of between russia and saudi arabia. We have seen the u. S. G
By the recovery of a british woman who was in cardiac arrest for six hours, after collapsing in freezing weather hiking in the spanish pyrenees. Audrey schoeman developed severe hypothermia, when she was caught in a snowstorm last month. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh has her amazing story of survival. The woman who cheated death, flanked by her husband and the medical team that rescued her. Audrey schoeman can now reflect on her heart stopping experience. It feels really incredible that i survived it and just really lucky to be here and to be able to get on with my life. I am just happy. She set out with her husband from this mountain refuge in the catalan pyrenees last month when they were caught in a snowstorm. She collapsed and fell unconscious. I thought she was dead because i was trying to feel for a pulse, trying to feel. My fingers were also numb, so i wasnt sure if it was my fingers, but i couldnt feel her breath, i couldnt feel her heartbeat or anything. In the freezi
More on the general election. They have seen some of the most exchanges between the most part is. What are the Critical Issues the nhs is grappling with . There is a health editor. 70th at their celebrations for the nhs last year reflecting its status asa nhs last year reflecting its status as a much loved institution. No wonder it is always at the heart of an election campaign. This time even more so an election campaign. This time even more so at the frontline of the nhs is under immense stress for longer waits for patients in a fierce debate of what is now needed. What is the background to all this . First of all lets look at Health Spending after inflation in england going back to 1979. The conservatives under Margaret Thatcher and john major raise it on average more than 396 major raise it on average more than 3 per year. Under new labour, average increase were around 6 . For 2010, first under the Coalition Government and then under the conservatives, it was below 2 . The conserva
Presumably it is a good time to lunge this today because people are looking for christmas presents but presumably it is year round challenge. Yes, it is a Great Campaign raising the awareness of small independent retailers. It is the busiest shopping day of the year, the first saturday in december, but it is notjust about today, it is about the rest of the year. Any measures that lead people to concentrate on buying small and local is a good thing. And why should people do that, and how are you encouraging people to shop small . Retail is often excluded from traditional forms of business support put in place by the government so actually we need to help Small Businesses and shop local, and retail should be about a perfect mix, we recognise we have a 24 hour shopping mentality and lots of stores in out of town retail developments, but we have so many small local firms that need our help. The high streets are struggling and anything we can do to help is a good measure. Is there anything
Denied any wrongdoing. Thanks to a major gas network failure, heaters and portable cookers have events distributed to Vulnerable People in scotland and schools in the area have been closed. Weve been talking to some of those affected. At the start of winter, thousands with no gas, no heating, no hot water. Have you got anything to cook on . The temperature has risen slightly here, but it is still very cold, and all day, there has been a constant flow of people here picking up heaters for their homes. Has it been a cold night . Yeah, just a tad. Weve all been cooped up in the one bed, trying to stay warm. We had candles lighting up the house, and trying to heat the place withjust the candle flames. There you go yeah. Angeline perry has four children. The youngest is nine months old. Their gas supply was turned off yesterday, and they are using portable heaters to warm one room. So were just using the kettle just now, to boil all our water, and we dont have any gas on the hob either. How