Match last night, rafa nadal knocked out after five hours and five sets. How coffee could be more than just a pick me up. Now two major studies say it may help us live longer. Cla p clap your hands together. One, two, three. Closing the age gap. Well find out about the new Nursery Opening on the same site as a care home. Theres a call for british businesses to do more to boost the productivity of their workers. Ill be finding out why its so important, and why the uk lags so far behind. And carol has the weather. Carol has the weather, good morning. Good morning from wimbledon, much cooler today than of late, the risk of interruption today. Early afternoon, a dry slot, heavy and persistent rain. Were likely to see significant rain for the first time ina significant rain for the first time in a while in Southern Parts of england and wales. For the rest of the country, sunshine and showers. We will be back with more details later in the programme. Thank you so much, see you later. Good mo
Overnight will be higher than the Daytime Average for this time of year. They will get higher still tomorrow. They are tempered somewhat by these gusty winds. Trans pennine route, across the east of the grampians, you will get buffeted during the rush hour. Chilly air following to the north, but further south, we could have 15 or 16 celsius tomorrow. We will start to see something potentially more stormy in the middle part of the week. More on that later. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines thousands of Prison Officers in london and the South East Of England are to get an instant pay increase of between £3000 and £5000. Ministers said they wanted to attract the best talent after concerns the Prison Service was understaffed. Iraqi forces say theyve taken several villages to the south of mosul, hours after launching a major offensive to retake the western half of the city from Islamic State militants. Save the children warn theres around 350,000 children trapped in the city. The Chi
Sport on bbc news how a run in with eddiejones dog has apparently put owen farrell at risk of missing the six nations clash with scotland on saturday good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at 6. The chancellor has been forced to defend his budget and the controversial changes to increase National Insurance for Self Employed workers. Thats despite a tory Manifesto Pledge not to raise National Insurance. Its angered a number of conservative backbenchers and been roundly criticised by labour. There has been partial backing for the increase from the influential think tank the institute for fiscal studies, but overall it described the chancellors plans as a sticking plaster rather than a fundamental review. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young has been following the days events. He says hes backing business, but visiting the West Midlands today the chancellor had to fend off accusations that hes bashing the workers who keep the wheels of the economy turning. Putting up taxes is
Trade in baby chimps. One of the great artists of his Generation Tributes are paid to the british painter sir Howard Hodgkin, whos died at the age of 8a. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news theres an away goal for Manchester United in their Europa League last 16 tie. But theyre held to a draw by russians fc rostov. Good evening. The Prime Minister has insisted that the controversial change announced in the budget to increase National Insurance for Self Employed workers is simpler, fairer and more progressive. Theresa may refused to accept that the government had broken a Manifesto Pledge, saying the promise had only extended to one kind of National Insurance. But the move has angered a number of conservative backbenchers and been roundly criticised by labour. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Brussels is rarely a place where british Prime Ministers can find a retreat, but theresa may entered discreetly into the summit, in a hurry for the talks. Not for her the grand arr
Im francine lacqua. We have been looking at the eurodollar all week. For the first time in 14 years it briefly touched below 1. 05. It has retraced some of its movements. 1. 0597. Bank of America Merrill lynch expect parity by the end of the year. That is the latest on eurodollar. We will keep a close eye on the Foreign Exchange markets. In an exclusive interview with bloomberg, the Ecb Governing Council member said that negative bond yields are not here to stay. He spoke with Jonathan Ferro in frankfurt yesterday. They spoke about the Bond Buying Program. One has to be aware that on the other hand, for the central bank there is an inherent risk of future losses if we buy at negative yields. So, basically, because one would like to avoid this kind of future losses by buying into long opportunities. Francine jonathan joins us now with the latest. It is a great interview. He was trying to warn the markets. Jonathan in a way. You are guaranteeing a loss for the ecb if you are going to hol