Swings in the markets. Stocks briefly went negative this morning. They are up again. Quieter in the sense we are seeing a continuation of the much not the intraday swings that we are seeing for the major averages. The nasdaq is leading gains, up the best of the three major averages. All of the majors are up for defense straight session. The s p 500 has its best fiveday performance going back to october of 2016. This bloomberg shows the change on the daily basis, the spread between the highs and lows of the session. Almed down in terms of where we were what that swing, but we are still at elevated levels. This kind ofeing range on a typical day for the major averages. We are at the movers watching, on the earnings front, this company is an owner and operator of data centers. The company will accelerate its plans to a dress and price discount. That is after it came out with earnings that beat estimates. It is rising for that reason. Rise. E centurylink on the those numbers were not great
Of bullets in rapid succession. He said he would also support a modest tightening of background checks for gun purchasers. Survivors of last weeks School Shooting in florida have marched on washington to call for tougher laws. And at the Winter Olympics, team gbs Womens Curling Team have beaten the reigning champions canada to reach the semi finals. It means the Canadian Women have failed to win a medal for the first time in olympic history. Good morning. Its wednesday 21st february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The met police has lost an appeal at the Supreme Court against two victims of black cab rapist john worboys who won compensation for its failings. The women were raped by worboys in 2003 and 2007 and said their treatment by police, who failed to believe their reports, caused them mental harm. The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the polices appeal. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly is at the Supreme Court. What did the lawyers for the two women ar
Parents at st. Marys Catholic Primary School told me ofce the concerns about air pollution affecting Childrens Health. This morning High Court Ruled that the Government Air quality plan is. What does it Prime Minister feel is worse, losing for the third time in the high court, or 40,000 unnecessary deaths and impact on Childrens Health of the uks unsustainable airquality . The issue the honorable lady has raised about air quality is important and thats why weve been taking action to improve air quality. But can i just say to the honorable lady the way she has described the courts decision this morning i dont think properly reflects the decision that the court has given. If i could just perhaps, mr. Speaker, explained to thein houe because we do welcome the fact that the court has dismissed the complaint relating to five cities with major airquality problems, has now that we are taking appropriate action. They have agreed the modeling we used to support the 2017 airquality plan is sound
Youre watching us in the u. K. Stay with us for sputnik talking about the conflicting attitudes of british politicians towards israel sometimes. After an intense year were going underground one hundred fifty years to the day of the first impeachment of a sitting president of United States and coming up in the show as the syrian army go for the kill against militants the form of bread basket the country investigate bread itself with all the cheap Technology Officer computing giant microsoft Nathan Myhrvold about his latest boss to work and his polls suggest. Hes on course for its biggest victory in britains capital since the one nine hundred sixty s. Will he be able to stop blairite and tory social cleansing we speak to the organizer of todays. London demonstration against gentrification buses British Charity stands accused of everything from sex crimes to lavish lifestyles why did government not listen to one tory lord it was a long war about in geo accountability and in a week of cons
Reasonable there were tens of palestinians who live in the life for this for the first declaration fortunately there will be more tense of palestinians who will. Pay their lives but by the end of the day they will look to be in the uprising in the intifada not a single state will stand up against the American Administration and nobody will take any measures and it will remain holo lip service like many other lip service is for the palestinians. And olympic update for you russian athletes have clinched another two medals at the winter games in south korea on the penultimate day of competition crosscountry skiers alexander both an off and. Took silver bronze respectively in the mens fifty kilometer race finland got the gold rushes athletes have been competing under a neutral banner because of doping violations and have won sixteen medals at games so far putting them fifteenth in the standings the International Olympic committee made allow them to march under the National Flag on sunday n