Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. So we start with breaking news in the last hour or so, and israel has reportedly launched an attack on iran overnight in a retaliatory strike, with reports of explosions near a military base in isfahan and thats according to us officials. Yes. Iranian state media have been quick to downplay the situation, claiming their air Defence Systems were able to destroy three drones in the centre of the country. Now yet to get any official statement from israel on the attack. Well, meanwhile, the Australian Government has urged its citizens to leave israel over fears of a revenge attack by iran. Lets talk to our security editor , mark white, who joins us editor, mark white, who joins us now. Morning, mark. What do we know at this stage . Morning well, we are still waiting on any official word from israel as to what this attack was, whether, of course, it was israel. We suspect it was, as israel. We suspect it was, as its being widely
Solidarity with my sisters tonight in black. A sea of black at the baftas, as stars line up to show solidarity against sexism and harassment in the film industry. Employers are in the dark ages when it comes to attitudes to pregnant workers and those planning to have children. Thats according to Research Published this morning by the uks Human Rights Commission. It isa it is a busy day that the brits at the Winter Olympics. And matt has the weather. The ice to be found here today. It isa the ice to be found here today. It is a cost free start to your working week. Its cloudy and expect some damp weather. A full forecast coming up damp weather. A full forecast coming up inis minutes. First our main story. The Prime Minister will admit today that students and their families have serious concerns about the cost of university. Theresa may will launch an independent review into Higher Education finance in england, saying many courses are notjudged to give value for money. Universities are f
Wasnt as bad as many feared, since its historically one of the worst performing months. The dow rose 55 points. Nasdaq climbed 60, the s p 500 added 14. For the month, all three indexes were higher, but it was the mo for the dow and the s p. Dominic chu has more. It was supposed to be a terrible mon was suggesting, but august turned out n expected. The major u. S. Stom indices ended up higher with the nasdaq kensho,site leading the way, over the last 20 year, august e s p falling an average of almost 1. 5 for the no month. This large stock index got a mix from different sectors Like Technology and more defensive areas like utilities really h p helping lead the charge. Meanwhile, telecom and Energy Related stocks r were among the biggest drags, but one theme continues to play out in 2017. And was reenforced in august as well. And thats the outperformance of higher growth oriented stocks over value stocks. As for whats on tap for september, recent history prints a less optimistic picture
The moment in europe, not overexcited by moves from the worlds most powerful central the fed big brother is watching you businesses now have more personal information than ever before, but how are they using it . Well hear from the boss of an Analytics Company later in the programme. And as the Music Industry has bounced back after a decade of falling sales, thanks to a boom in streaming services today, we want to know how do you listen to music . Do you stream, download or buy cds and vinyl . Let us know, use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. As usual we are jam packed so lets get started we start in taiwan where in the last few hours smartphone maker htc has struck a billion dollar deal with alphabet the Company Behind google. Shares in the Taiwanese Company were suspended on reports google was planning a take over of the firm. Instead staff from htcs mobile unit will bejoining google, leaving htc to carry on with its other projects htc used to be one of the
Going on with the rerun of the kenyan president ial election. The Opposition Leader has pulled out. Lets beginning catalonia in the north east of spain. We have heard from the president of the region, carlos pigem on. Carles puigdemont. He stopped well short of declaring independence in a speech to parliament. He is suspending the result of that referendum of two weeks ago, in order to facilitate more dialogue with the Spanish Government. This is some of his speech. The government and myself propose that this Parliament Suspends the effects of the independence declaration in order to establish dialogue, without which we cannot reach a solution. We want to de escalate the tension, in order to work towards putting into practice the results of the referendum. He is suspending the result of the contested referendum, which the Spanish Government never recognise. He wants more chance to speak with the Spanish Government. But he made it clear that independence for catalonia is still the final