turmoil is spreading. credit suisse will borrow almost $54 billion from swiss bank. the bank stock surging in the first few minutes of trading today in europe as shares plunged to a record low on wednesday after getting cut off by its biggest shareholder. anna stewart is live in london. markets are now open there. what is the latest? reporter: i think that we re seeing a bit of relief now on the european indices particularly with the banking stocks. let me show you how the european market opened. all the major indices are higher by around a percentage point led by the smi in switzerland. credit suisse closed down yesterday 24%. and today you will see share price is now up around 23%. i think some investors saw a little bit of value early this morning as a result of what the swiss central bank has decided which is that they would provide liquidity back stop and credit suisse have taken them up on that offer, $53 billion in terms of the loan. and they will be buying back arou
hello, i m christian fraser. hello, i m ben thompson. you re watching the context on bbc news. tim scott becomes the latest republican to quit the race to be president as a new poll shows joe biden trailing to donald trump. we ll talk about that poll in just a moment. donald trumer has returned to the witness stand for a second time in a civil fraud trial in new york. former us president donald trump and his two eldest sons are accused of fraudulently over stating the value of their real estate empire, to obtain favourable loans. the defence has argued that banks made money from mr trump, and they didn t rely on his financial statements. they also say prosecutors have failed to prove that banks wouldn t have loaned him the money even if they had known about inflated assets. our correspondent nadia tawfik joins us from new york. today more quotes. interestingly donald trumpjunior describes his donald trump junior describes his father as donald trumpjunior describes his father
when they did train, bangladesh wore masks and took precautions. our doctors keep a close eye on players. some of the players didn t turn up for practices because they are asthmatic, so they stayed indoors. and even for practices we are very conscious. we train what we have to train and they go back into the dressing room. the international cricket council who organised the tournament say the air at the ground has been passed as safe by independent experts. fans, sprinklers and air purifiers were used to improve conditions. so play began and sri lanka started hazily. wickets fell. this was the fourth and it brought to the crease angelo mathews but apparently too slowly, he had an issue with his helmet but the clock had been ticking. bangladesh were watching when 2 minutes passed with mathews not ready to bat. they appealed, timed out. no one s ever been dismissed that way in international cricket until now. mathews into history very reluctantly, while others checked the dusti
interference and political warfare. the former president and two of his sons are accused of fraudulently inflating the value of assets owned by the trump 0rganisation by billions of dollars. this is what he said going in. this comes at a time when the former president is by far the favourite to become the republican nominee for the presidential election. this is what he said going in. and it s a very sad situation - for our country, we shouldn t have this is for third world countries. and it s very unfair, it s very unfair. - but in the meantime, - the people of the country understand it, they see it, and they don t like it, - they don t like it, because it s political warfare, as you would call it, or political lawfare, another name i got a lot of names for it, but usually it takes placel in third world countries and banana republics. i nobody s ever seen that to this . extent, we ve never seen it here. but we will go along - and we will hopefully do very well in eve
welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to be with you again, stephen. it s good to talk to you. you, of course, are a medical doctor. you have many colleagues in gaza. communication is very difficult. but does it seem to you right now that there is any semblance of a functioning medical and humanitarian system left inside gaza? no, the situation in gaza is absolutely drastic. it s a huge humanitarian crisis because not only of the israeli siege on gaza, but also of this terrible bombardment. we ve lost up to now more than 10,000 people who were killed by israeli air strikes and bombardment. we ve lost 6,000 children, 6,000 children, stephen. nothing can justify that. but on top of that, israel is depriving gaza from fuel, from electricity, from food, from water and from medications. we have 17 medical teams working there around the clock. they do their best, but they tell me that the situation is intolerable. first of all, we have more than 130 children in incubators who could