Is through to the second round of the australian open, with a straight sets win over american Madison Brengle. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, Roger Federer reaches round two in melbourne but isnt expecting another fairy tale year after two grand slams aged 35 in 2017. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A growing number of businesses are saying they are facing big losses and have already had to lay off staff because of the collapse of carillion. Firms working on private sector deals for the construction giant have been told theyll receive only two days of government support. One Industry Group estimates that up to 30,000 firms are owed money by carillion. The government has ordered a fast track investigation into the companys directors. Our correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. This is the sort of work, painting offices in newly built flats that the carillion collapses putting in question. A london decorating company which had 30 people turn up for a job to find sud
Machines are still in peoples homes. An exclusive report as breakfast hears claims of chaos in the special Educational Needs system in england. In sport, Johanna Konta looks back to her best. The british number one cruises through to the second round of the Australian Open, after a confident straight sets win. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Good morning. It is a cold start to the late for many of us. Cold start to the late for many of us. It will be a cold day generally. We have brisk wind in the forecast adding to the cold feel and as well as that we have snow showers for some even at low levels. And then the weather livens up. I will have more details in 15 minutes. That sounds exciting. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story, the future of some Major Construction projects and hundreds of Public Service contracts hang in the balance this morning after the collapse of carillion. Britains second Largest Construction Firm, which also holds cleaning and catering contrac
Celsius heat to beat her opponent and reached round two although she seemed more exercise that she left two blueberry punnets on the Conveyor Belt at the local supermarket. I will explain all later on. Snow and ice and heavy gales coming. Plenty to talk about as the weather is set to do some of its worst in the next 48 hours. Thanks, susan. Also coming up catching police on the hop the wallaby who crossed Sydney Harbour bridge springing a surprise on Early Morning commuters. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. After the shock of yesterdays announcement now the reality is kicking in, as companies who relied on carillion for their contracts face the prospect of laying off workers and big financial losses. Firms working on private sector deals for the construction giant have been told theyll receive only two days of government support, that runs out tomorrow. 0ne Industry Group estimates that up to 30,000 firms are owed money by carillion. The government has ordered a
Know a thing about the way globalization really works. Country backcountry, deal by like i wish it was all free trade and all that other stuff. Thats not where we are. Manus and china kicks off the year on a robust note. The dollar rebounds as with potentialal trump trade tensions. His bloomberg daybreak europe, show. Ag shy flagship anna him these in the house of commons behind me set late into the night yesterday just to give the mps time to have their say, to say their piece, what they thought about the brexit vote. This is all because theresa may has been forced by the Supreme Court to bring the brexit vote into the houses of parliament. The vote will take place later today after 6 00 this evening. Thats just one of the many stages the bill will have to go through. Next week they will continue the conversation but the debate continues before then this afternoon. There will be more outpourings of emotion over brexit. We have breaking news, fullyear net profit comes in at 619 million
25 jump in earnings and vowing to restart its dividend. Happy holidays for intercontinental. Shares rise as the hotel group increases its dividend on higher fullyear profits. The ceo tells cnbc the impact of sterling weakness is muted. It had marginal impact on us on the year, it reduced our overhead cost on sterling, but we had an impact on revenues because were dollarbased, report in dollars. As far as the rate, very little amount. Good morning. Lets kick things off with a bit of data for the eurozone, that looks to be stronger than forecast. Market february flash composite pmi came in at 56 versus a reuters pole of 54. 3. This 56 print, that is the highest since april 2011 that follows upbeat data from germany and france this morning. In germany, private sector growth the fastest in three years, and in france, the composite pmi at the highest level since 2011. Interestingly enough, also prices rising. That obviously could crimp growth going forward. Now by in large it looks like a h