Into doubt by the collapse of Coalition Talks. Also this hour, celebrating their Platinum Wedding Anniversary. The bells will ring out for the queen and Prince Philip who married in Westminster Abbey 70 years ago today. And tributes to the former wimbledon champion jana novotna, who has died of cancer at the age of 49. Good morning. Its monday, november the 20th. Im Rebecca Jones. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. We are going straight to zimbabwe to see my colleague ben brown. Hello from ra, where that deadline has come and gone for mr mugabe to resign. The president is still, against all the odds it would seem, technically head of state of this country, despite all the pressure from the military with their ta keover last from the military with their takeover last wednesday, from the Ruling Party Zanu pf which has fired him as its leader, and from people who have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands demanding he stepped down. When he refused to stepped down. When he refused to
Lets have a look at the stoxx 600. Falling for a second day. It is a big week for Central Banks. We are keeping an eye on oil and the dollar. The dollar, sixday winning run come to an end. Best winning run until early 2015. Crude high is the most in over two years. The big news in the oil market is what is happening to brent crude, 1. 3 higher, something above 65 a barrel for the first time in 2. 5 years yesterday. One of the most important pipelines in the world was shut because of a crack. Coming up, we are going to talk markets with Vasileios Gkionakis. Bluebellpeak to thomas , the chief executive of axa. Do not miss those interviews. Lets get to Bloomberg Business flash within the low. Ed walt disney may announce a deal. That is according to for some familiar. That comes after comcast, the other major contender, said it was no longer in the running. This thing was to acquire foxs movie and tv studio including fx and national geographic. Britain once a trading relationship with the
Im nejra cehic in london. Were checking a third day of declines for european equities. The the stoxx 600 down. 7 . The bloomberg dollar index on track for its first weekly loss in a month. The dollar weaker against yen. The b. O. J. Pushing for more stimulus. Well talk about that more throughout the show and the new Zealand Dollar best performer in this session on the announcement of a new central bank governor. Perhaps that might not hold up with some of the data were going to get next week but thats how were looking in todays session. Coming up today on surveillance, we talk surveillance and get a take on markets later on in the morning. First lets get the first word news. Greenbrussels, giving the light for brexit talks to move on to the next stage. They have complied with their conditions over a future trade deal. Diplomats warned the discussions will be more difficult than the First Six Months of talks. In japan, calling for more stimulus, prompted the b. O. J. To adjust its commu
Face. Let me see the face. The interview was recorded as part of the today programmes guest editor series to be broadcast later this year. In half an hour here on bbc news bbc sport will have a round up of all the days Sports Events with sportsday. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A British Embassy worker has been killed in beirut. The body of rebecca dykes was found by the side of a road in the city yesterday. What we know . Lebanese Police Believe rebecca dykes was murdered on friday night. Her body was found on friday night. Her body was found on saturday. They believe she was strangled. They carried out a postmortem but due to do a second. Rebecca dykes worked at the embassy in beirutand rebecca dykes worked at the embassy in beirut and had done so since the beginning of the year. She worked for the department for international development. We have spoken to the Foreign Office, who issued a statement saying they are liaising with the lebanese authorities and looking after rebe
The jingle . It is magnificent, darling. Laughter i didnt edit it. What do you think of the brexitcastjingle . Yeah, a good summary of where we are so yeah, a good summary of where we are so far . And who said brexit is a dogs breakfast . Was it Yanis Varoufakis . That was a niche question, wasnt it . Lets focus on the big picture, where are we on the seemingly never ending Brexit Process . Seemingly never ending Brexit Process . It is the Christmas Party at downing street, and for journalist and officials this evening, and their Christmas Party because, after all the nxt of the la st because, after all the nxt of the last few months, after the frustrations, their difficulties, all of the wrangles at a cost for theresa may, last week at the end of the week she got her piece of paper, she was able to come home and say yes, phase one is over. Now, does that solve the contradictions we have discussed on the programme . Does it mean the problems have gone away . Does it mean anything other