good evening. tonight, the latest on banking system troubles that appeared to be easing yesterday but came rumbling back this morning. deeper trouble than previously thought. then, kim news that two tragic credit rating firms had downgraded. markets plunging this morning, and that they gained back some ground by the close, the still ended the day down significantly. shares of regional banks, including first republic, were down sharply, and first republics case by more than 21%. big banks that are tightly regulated also took a hit, with citigroup shares more than 5%. good morning the moment on what this means to market economy, your money christine romans will be with me for that. first, we re joined by vermont senator bernie sanders, who chairs the senate labor and pension committee. so sanders, how much confidence you have in the banking system right now? should people what should be worried about their bank in their savings? i think we re all concerned about w
his trip to ireland. welcome to bbc news. our top story. our top story. france s top court has approved plans by the government of president emmanuel macron to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. let s just show you some live pictures. already, the changes have brought hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on to the streets again, in cities across france. president macron says retiring at 62 is not affordable, and has warned that people must be ready to work longer. enter treat, the constitutional court judge enter treat, the constitutional courtjudge that both in its form and its content, the reformist constitutional. the text is therefore at the end of its democratic process. tonight, there is no winner or loser. well, the winner of the main trade union has expressed her discontent and has expressed her discontent and has expressed a message for the french president. translation:. we have one message for the president. we call emmanuel macron to listen to the peo
have the latest. also tonight. the man accused of the worst leak of us intelligence documents in years appears in court. the brief life of finlay boden, dead at ten months old. his parents, guilty of his murder. the european space mission to the icy moons ofjupiter. could there be life out there? and take that are among a line up fit for a king at the coronation concert. and coming up on bbc news, england s man of the moment harry brook hits the first century of this year s ipl, including 12 fours and three sixes. good evening. members of the royal college of nursing in england have voted to reject the government s latest pay offer and will continue their strike action. the government describes the move as hugely concerning for patients. nursing leaders say what has been offered is simply not enough. a 5% pay rise from april was offered as well as a one off payment of at least £1,655 to top up the past year s pay award. but 54% of rcn members who voted rejected the deal. a
our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, the new information we learned from the first court appearance of the suspected leaker of a trove of classified documents, and the reaction from capitol hill former president trump trying once again to get courts to block key testimony from his vice president, mike pence what that means for the federal january 6th probe. a downpour of historic proportions, south florida flooded after being slammed with a crippling amount of rain we ll take you to fort lauderdale where the community is bracing, if you can believe it, for yet another downpour, and cracking down, the justice department taking aim at drug cartels for the flood of deadly fentanyl across the border the stunning acts of accused violence involving tigers, the country halfway around the world named in the investigation our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments today we heard the words probably we never thought
president biden has arrived in the republic of ireland. we are going to show you some pictures of his visit now. this was him visiting dundalk, in county louth, the home county of his ancestors. thousands of people came out to greet him, and he paid tribute to his irish heritage and met distant relatives. he s back in dulblin now, and tomorrow he ll go to county mayo. earlier, he was in northern ireland, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, the deal that brought an end to decades of violence in the region. this trip though, comes at a time of political deadlock in northern ireland, after its power sharing government here at stormont, collapsed over a year ago. our correspondent chris page has more. president biden has begun what, for him, is a very personal tour of places in ireland where he has ancestral ties. he began by visiting the village of conferred income to allow the, that s the place where his great, great grandfather left to emigrate to t