Now fled the city and many are in refugee camps. It is a terrible irony that in order to retake raqqa, theyve had to destroy the city. Hours after being released from a secure hospital, Jeffrey Barry killed a kurdish refugee, stabbing him 25 times. Thousands of patients in Northern Ireland are experiencing waits of up to three years for non emergency surgeries, far higherthan in other parts of the uk. Leicester city sacks manager craig shakespeare, only four months after he was given thejob. And one of the worlds most gifted photographers of the past century will be joining us to talk about his life and his iconic images. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that prices are rising at a faster rate than at any time in the past five years, according to the latest data from the office for national statistics. Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices index, rose to 3 last month, driven up by increases in transport and food prices. It means state pensions are set to increase by a minimum of
But lets begin. With me is andrew tuck, the editor of monocle, a global news and business magazine. Andrew, good to see you again. Good to see you. Lets start on daesh, the taking back of raqqa, as is a lwa ys the taking back of raqqa, as is always the case, it takes so long to do it. Even now i see they are still saying there are a few is militants holding up in there . Roughly 90 of holding up in there . Roughly 9096 of the people have been cleared out who we re the people have been cleared out who were working with daesh. Theyre still 100 fighters within the city but it looks like the city will properly fall in the coming days but eve ryo ne properly fall in the coming days but everyone is wondering what that will mean, notjust everyone is wondering what that will mean, not just for terrorism everyone is wondering what that will mean, notjust for terrorism but what it will mean for the region, it seems once the city has fallen the Syrian Government will be able to turn its fire on t
Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se
Day after briefly touching that level. And it did so with confidence, surging triple digits. This is the blue chip indexs 4,000point milestone this year. Ibm played a big role in todays advance. Shares of big blue soared nearly 9 , its best day since 2009. On the back of its Quarterly Results that we told you about last night. Solid earnings and improving Global Growth have also contributed to the markets seemingly uninterrupted rally. When all was said and done the Dow Jones Industrial a gained 160 points to 23,157. Nasdaq rose just fractionally. The s p 500 was up nearly two. Bob pisani takes a look at why nothing seems to s reporter stocks seemed to be racking up record highs. The dow grew 5,000 points in 18 months. That means the dow has advanced 1,000 points on average every 3. 6 months. At this rate well hit 24,000 at the end of january and well be celebrating 25,000 in the middle of may. The markets keep rallying because everyone has come to believe that all the problems of the
In parliament, our look at the best of the day in the commons and the lords. On this programme. Another day, another Prime Ministerial update on brexit. I am ambitious and positive about britains future and these negotiations. But the labour leader isnt impressed. Im now beginning to feel a very worrying sense of groundhog day here. Warnings for britons whore returning home after fighting with is terrorists in iraq and syria. We have to make sure that if they ever do return from iraq and syria, they do not pose a future threat to our national security. And a former labour leader is fearful of what will happen if Interest Rates rise. Will the ministerjoin others in strongly urging the bank of england not to increase Interest Rates, which would devastate families, businesses and the economy . But first theresa may has told mps important progress on brexit was made at the recent eu summit meeting. But the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn said it sounded like groundhog day. The Prime Minister mu