The pound drops further. Financial markets think a no deal brexit is increasingly likely, sending the pound close to its lowest in 30 years. Good morning. Yesterday some torrential thundery downpours lead torrential thundery downpours lead to some flash flooding in parts of yorkshire. Today we could see some more of that as we continue with some heavy, thundery downpours. The drier across some southern and south western areas. I will have more in 15 minutes. The latest uk climate data has revealed that the ten hottest years on record have all taken place since 2002. Analysis of temperature records dating back to 1884 also reveals that none of the ten coldest years have occurred since 1963. Scientists say the report underlines how much the uk has been affected by Climate Change, as our science editor David Shukman explains. Temperatures so low, the sea off kent actually froze. This was back in 1963, one of the chilliest years experienced in britain over the last century. But what is sig
Hello and welcome to hardtalk, im shaun ley. Hong kong is in uproar. Each weekend for the last two months, thousands of people have taken to the streets. Alvin yeung, who leads the civic party, shares their fears, first of a plan to give beijing a greater say in extradition, then for wider cause, to defend hong kongs freedoms. But as local authorities struggle to contain the crisis, and beijings grumbles grow ever louder, could the Peoples Liberation army be on its way . Alvin yeung, welcome to hardtalk. Late into sunday night, protesters clashed with the hong kong police. It is the eighth weekend in succession that we have seen street protests and skirmishes, some of them violent. What has gone wrong . Well, hello, shaun. Things are not doing so well in hong kong, and of course, we have seen and witnessed protesters taking to the streets, and of course, we have seen clashes between the police and the protesters. We have been accusing the police for abusing their powers, and of course
Open, london benefiting from a wea ker open, london benefiting from a weaker pound, rest of europe weaker pound, the rest of europe treading water. And when is a cake, not a cake . When it means a 365,000 difference in your tax bill. We meet the firm that asked a judge to rule on whether their product fell foul of uk tax laws. Well explain why a little later. Today we want to know how soon is too soon . As one Famous London Department store opens its Christmas Store 149 shopping days before christmas would you be tempted to buy . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive personally, imjingling personally, im jingling all the way to that well known Department Store hello and welcome to business live. We start with the pound, which has fallen further in asian trading overnight, as investors worry about the increasing likelihood of a no deal brexit. Its now at a 30 month low against the us dollar. It comes as the uk Prime Minister borisjohnson has toughened his rhetoric on brexit. Micha
The results of the latest round of voting were announced earlier. Michael gove 51. Jeremy hunt 5a. Sajid javid 38. Boris johnson 143. Rory stewart 27. Rory stewart is out. Yesterday he got the support of 37 tory mps, today 27 and that wasnt enough. Borisjohnson is top again up 17 votes on last time and almost getting the support of half the mp5. Those mps will vote again tomorrow twice if need be. And that will leave us with two candidates. The conservative partys140,000 members will then select the winner. And well get the result in latejuly. Well Rory Stewarts campaign definitely shook up this contest. And he spoke after his exit. The fact that the lib dem voters and labour voters wanted to vote for me should be something we should be proud of. Something we should embrace in this party and im disappointed also that in the end, perhaps some of the things i was saying that a no deal brexit would be catastrophic or that she cant negotiate a new deal with europe, probably proved the trut
And at 11 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Four men are left in the race to be next Prime Minister after rory stewart was knocked out of the conservative leadership contest. The International Development secretary was eliminated after coming last in this afternoons vote by tory mps. Jeremy hunt came second, with 5a which was narrowly ahead of michael gove with 51. Sajid javid also made it into the next but mr stewart has been knocked out after receiving just 27 votes10 fewer than last nights with 2 more rounds of voting to go, by tomorrow evening we will know the last two candidates in the race. 0ur Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has the latest. Good morning, mrjohnson. Mrjohnson, youve been fired. Not a shabby birthday present. A gift from boris johnson, support from nearly half of all tory mps, as he turned 55. Are you an honest person . Despite the appearance of chaos, no blunder so far from the former foreign secretary. Can t