Good morning. Its 930 on tuesday, the 19th of september. This is britains newsroom on gb news with Andrew Pierce and bev turner. Thank you forjoining us. Thank you for joining us. Youtube has suspended Russell Brand. Adverts will no longer be used on his channel after he was accused of rape and Sexual Assault. Allegations that he assault. Allegations that he denies a brexit betrayal. Labours keir starmer. Hes in paris to meet president macron to secure what he says will be much better arrangements with the eu. A strike solution with the eu. A strike solution a senior doctors walk out again over pay Health Secretary Steve Barclay says that doctors will be forced off picket lines and face a minimum Service Level mandate. Mandate. Its important we protect patients ice alongside recognising the right to strike and the final hurdle. And the final hurdle. The governments Online Safety bill is finally to become law. Today some people, though, still have strong concerns about the legislation.
Coffee table diplomacy north koreas olympic delegation was welcomed by the south korean Prime Minister. Plus the challenge Small Businesses in nigeria come together to fight rising costs. Israel is responding to the downing of one of its warplanes by Syrian Government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli fighter jet was shot down near the occupied Golan Heights on saturday it all began when israel said it intercepted an iranian drone that flew into its airspace from syria israel replied with airstrikes targeting what it says were iranian bases in southern syria near the capital damascus the u. N. Secretary general meanwhile is calling for an immediate and unconditional deescalation and russias president Vladimir Putin is warning israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against raising tensions. Well imran khan joins us live now from west jerusalem him and so what do you expect to come out of israel today. Well a Cabinet Meeting is taking place right now
Continuing the trend we saw last week that pushed the s p 500 above 2500 for the first time all three major averages are at record once again as we see this upward trend and investors are keeping an eye on at whichs fed meeting they are anticipating some details of the fed Balance Sheet wind down. All three major averages are higher. One trend we have seen change in the last week or so is that stocks have continued to go up we have not seen the same for bonds. We have seen yields go up and prices go lower. All this year we have seen stocks rallying and we have also seen bonds rallying. The u. S. Treasury index has been trending higher as yields have largely been trending lower. In the past week or so we have aen some the virgins as stocks have continued their upward trend but bonds have gone lower and bond yields have gone higher. Pretty significant move higher in yields and some analysts and strategists thing that tells trouble for stocks as we get more details on the Balance Sheet wi
Against attempts by the National Government to stop an independence referendum. Now it is time for our news review. We begin with the irish times which focusses on the bitter words being exchanged between irans president Hassan Rohani and us president donald trump. Mr rohani warned iran would act decisively if the us walked away from the Current Nuclear deal. Mr trump in his recent address to the un called iran a rogue state that threatened world peace. The times reports on the protests that continue in barcelona against the Spanish Governments attempts to halt an independence referendum. Thousands of demonstrators took the streets after Police Seized nearly ten million ballot papers. The guardian leads with uk Prime Minister theresa mays speech to the un where she warned President Trump that his plan to withdraw from the paris Climate Change treaty ranks alongside north Koreas Nuclear missile crisis as a threat to Global Security and prosperity. The times business pages say the Us Cen
Its tuesday october the 17th im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Inflation has risen to its highest level in more than five years. The rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices index, increased to 3 last month, up from 2. 9 in august. The figure is significant because the government uses data from september to set pension and benefit increases. Our Business Correspondent ben bland is here. You are here to chew over these latest figures. What is behind this rise . When we talk about inflation, cpi, typically the things we spend oui cpi, typically the things we spend our money on like food, this figure relates to an average how those prices have gone up this september with a year before, and as we were talking about that figure was 3 , in pa rt talking about that figure was 3 , in part driven by food prices going up, transport cost going, but also as you mentioned the weak pound, after brexit, which affects Raw Materials and foods, imported, the prices you and foods,