It has come down slightly, Nudging Par 77 a barrel. To explain why markets responded so quickly on thursday, heres our economics editor, faisal islam. In the aftermath of irans ballistic Missile Attack and as we wait for news on Israels Response there has been a rise in the price and that means since the attacks it is up 10 to over 77 a barrel on the Brent Crude measure, still down on the year because of local economic concerns but the spike up economic concerns but the spike up occurred immediately after president biden added to Suggestions Israel would target Irans Oilfacilities. Reporter would you support israel striking Irans Oil facilities . Israel striking Irans Oil facilities .. facilities . We are discussing that. I facilities . We are discussing that. |think facilities . We are discussing that. L think that facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would be i facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would
hello and welcome to our digest of the global week seen through the eyes of leading journalists from the uk and the foreign correspondents based here who podcast, broadcast, blog and, yes, even these days write for audiences back home from the dateline, london. confidence it s the magic ingredient which makes us all believe that notes or coins in themselves worth next to nothing do have value and will be accepted as payment. governments need the confidence of the money markets who do the lending if they want to borrow money at affordable rates. over the last week, liz truss and herfinance minister have struggled to create confidence in their economic strategy and to sustain it in the british currency. to discuss the uk s dash for growth and the border war between russia and ukraine isabel hilton, a distinguished foreign correspondent who founded china dialogue, an independent body which explores the environmental challenges for that country and how that affects the re
translation: to be with its own | people to be with it s motherland. meanwhile an attack on a civilian convoy in one of the four annexed regions, zaporizhzhia, leaves at least 23 people dead. a bbc investigation has found big regional differences in the number of fines issued to parents whose children missed school in england without a valid reason. some local authorities handed out thousands of fines in the last academic year, in other areas there were none. when we sign up to train with the dogs we know one day this day is coming. saying good bye to sammy, the story of a retiring guide dog and how hard it is to get another one. and coming up later in the hour viola davis the are among an all star cast in the women king. find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of this week s big cinema releases in the film review at 5:45. a coroner has found that unsafe content on social media platforms her own life five years ago. the inquest into molly s death had heard she
protesters in iran, the biggest ever iranians overseas.- ever iranians overseas. i ust don t ever iranians overseas. i ust am like ever iranians overseas. i ust don t like you i ever iranians overseas. i ust don t like you anymore. h and we speak to colin farrell and brendan gleeson about their new film about the end of a friendship britain s former prime minister borisjohnson and the former finance minister rishi sunak, have held face to face talks about the conservative leadership race, though neither has formally declared their intention to stand. penny mordaunt, the leader of the house of commons, was the first to formally declare, on friday. mr sunak has the public support of over a hundred conservative mps the threshold required for this leadership contest. some of mrjohnson s former cabinet colleagues have warned against his return to downing street, barely three months after a series of scandals forced him out. our political correspondent damian grammaticas