The governments promised all students who achieved the required a level grades will be offered a place at their First Choice University. A prominent critic of the russian government is in intensive care his supporters say hes been poisoned. A man is found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in a plot to blackmail the Supermarket Chain tesco. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hashem abedi the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been sentenced to at least 55 years injail, for the murder of 22 people. Abedi refused to attend his two day sentencing hearing and face the families of those who died, who gave emotional statements about the impact of the attack in 2017. Number 10 have issued a statment from boris johnson, the Prime Minister, on the sentencing of hashem abedi. Mrjohnson says, the Manchester Arena attack was a horrifying and cowardly act of violence which targeted children and families. Those who were taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the sp
Things like volatile food and energy prices, so called Core Inflation was 4. 7 , the lowest since october 2021. The good news is that inflation has drifted down from last summers a0 year highs, but it is still well above what the Federal Reserve thinks of as normal prices and with the overall trend heading in the right direction, policy makers, well, they may feel that they dont need to raise Interest Rates further. The us central bank, you may recall, raised its benchmark Interest Rate to more than 5. 25 percent, the highest level in 22 years, all in a bid to cool the economy and ease the pressures pushing up prices. So while its too early to say Mission Accomplished from the white house to wall street, there is a sense that progress is being made in the Worlds Largest economy. Chinas E Commerce Giant Alibaba reported its strongest quarterly Revenue Growth in almost two years, pushing its us listed shares up more than 4 . Earlier this week, the latest data showed Consumer Prices falli
Prevent capital from some investing in high tech sector investing in high tech sector in china such as Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and advanced semiconductors. The goal is to stop the speed up of technology that could help china develop weapons for use against america in a military context. We put also require firms to make arrangements to report activities. Potentially laying the ground for more restrictions down the road. The regulations are not expected to take effect right away and there will be a period so businesses can weigh in on the proposal. China is the worlds second biggest economy, a vital market for American Companies and the concern expressed by some us executives may explain why this order has not been released until now even though expected back in february. A senior official described the move as targeted saying this is our National Security action not an economic one and adding the us is not decoupling our economy. The move is likely to upset beijing w
Guidance on whether or not the bank ofjapan will remain an outlier and keep its Interest Rates ultralow. I spoke to the International Groups in china is facing a Confidence Problem within the Consumption Sector as well problem within the Consumption Sector as well as problem within the Consumption Sector as well as the problem within the Consumption Sector as well as the corporate l sector as well as the corporate sector as well as the corporate sector and we had the simply and aggregate and data and there was released and is marginally weaker than expected and tomorrow, we have this operation, the expectations dont have much cuts in the way generally speaking, we could see an increase in probability of ten basis points and policy is not going to have a change its going to be tweaking to be accommodative. Imilli its going to be tweaking to be accommodative. Its going to be tweaking to be accommodative. Will be getting extra data and accommodative. Will be getting extra data and what ac
Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, a lot of money by anyones metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period. So i put it to our middle east Business Correspondent Sameer Hashmi that even with falling profits, the biggest winner is the saudi government, which is aramcos biggest shareholder. The saudi government owns around 90 of the c