Time for a look at the weather. Heres chris fawkes. Ican i can promise you all some afternoon sunshine, no strings attached. We have a lot of cloud out in the English Channel, that cloud is moving further south. But it will start to move back north as we go through the next few hours. So through the next few hours. So through the next few hours. So through the rest of the afternoon we all get decent spells and sunshine. Some blustery showers continue in the far north west of scotland. And the far north west of scotland. And the cloud working in again across parts of south west england. It could be thick enough in the south west to give us some rain or drizzle. But then overnight tonight we could get a view of the Aurora Borealis across parts of Northern England, scotland and Northern Ireland. That is where we keep some relatively clear skies. Further south than returning weather front bringing thickening cloud, some rain across parts of wales, the midlands, Northern England and far sou
Matt has a chart for you. Who is next, president xi advancing no clear successor. We will take you live to tiananmen square. The bank of england hiking rates , that is one of the big questions. We have an Interest Rate outlook from metro banks ceo. Than half anless hour away from the start of european trading after new records in the u. S. Line lets take a look at what u. S. Futures are doing. They are down across the board and we have the ibex in here. We expect to hear from the whetherseparatists on they will fully declare independence and on friday you get that vote in the senate to will take over. You can see we have come above this 2. 4 level which is not really magical for any other reason than no gross pointing that out as his indication that the bull market in u. S. Treasuries is over. We have been above 2. 4 at other points in the beginning of the year. Jeff good luck saying it is you are die time for treasury bulls incomemart fixed analyst says if powell becomes the fed chair
Trumps tax cuts and those french elections. Riding the wave of the Foodie Revolution. Celebrity chef mark hix will be with us to talk, food, fads and investment. Today, we want to know is cash your king . A survey says a third of us would rather pay digitally, do you still carry cash or is contactless the future . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Cash, rachel. Always carry that with you. I shouldnt say that. I dont have any cash on me shaking up the tax system has been a major theme of the trump administration. Today hes promising what he describes as A Big Announcement on his planned reforms. In fact, mr trump has already said hes planning what hes called maybe the biggest tax cut weve ever had. During the campaign he talked about cutting the top individual tax rate from 36. 9 to 25 . In terms of business, he wants to cut the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 15 . Mr trump has also proposed charging american firms a one off tax ofjust 10 on money they bring back to the us fro
Also this hour, how Climate Change is transforming the british garden. They will be looking at new techniques because of rising temperatures. And looking for love online one rhinos search for a partner on the dating app tinder. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The labour party has switched its Election Campaigning to the nhs today pledging to give a bigger pay rise to nhs staff in england if it wins The General Election. Labour says it would scrap tuition fees and Restore Bursaries for Student Nurses and midwives which are due to end in august. The party says it would end the current 1 cap on Wage Increases, in part because nhs staff had been undervalued, Overworked And Underpaid by the government. Labour says. And it says its policies would be paid for by reversing Corporation Tax cuts. The party says a Labour Government would also introduce tougher rules to ensure that Staffing Levels in hospitals are safe. The Shadow Health secretary, jon ashworth, said the money was ther
The Prime Minister called the election because she wanted a mandate. A mandate shes got, has lost conservative seats, lost vote, lost support and lost confidence. Saying it is in a dramatic falling sterling on the back of the election outcome. Not the only thing that is going down this hour, uk Housing Starts and Home Builders losing their foundation on fears of a labourled government with barclay, Travis Perkins and taylor wimpy near the bottom of the stock 600. With days to go until negotiations start, Jeremy Corbyn says delaying brexit talks is not a british decision. Nigel farage tells cnbc he could return to frontline politics. If the brexit, the british people voted for, gets betrayed, i would have no choice but to go back into full time campaign. What happened last night imperils the whole brexit process. All right, lets bring you up to speed with what we know so far. Is theresa may going or not . Apparently she has no intention of resigning. She will attempt to form the next go