At tomorrows 0peneing ceremony. She will be keeping warm, because this is the scene this afternoon. 20 this is the scene this afternoon. 20 degrees, making it one of the cold est 20 degrees, making it one of the coldest Winter Olympics on record. And well find out how theyre putting the sparkle back into blackpools famous tower ballroom. And carol has the weather. This morning, a cold start in the south east, temperatures as low as minus six. Scotland and Northern Ireland brighter with showers in the north and west. Good morning. First, our main story. The Workplace Culture at westminster is in need of urgent reform. Thats the view of a Cross Party Group of mps who will publish a review into bullying and sexual abuse later this morning. According to a leaked version of the report, almost a fifth of people working in parliament have witnessed or experienced Sexual Harassment in the past year. A new, independent complaints procedure is expected to be recommended to tackle the problem, as
A new deal for yorkshires economy will be debated in Parliament Today. Steph will be there to see what it will mean for the economy. In sport, heartbreak for wales. Their dreams of playing in the world cup end with defeat to the republic of ireland in cardiff. Ive been chatting to Michael Fassbender about his gripping new film, the snowman, his love of surfing, and his incredible impersonation of a red breasted robin. Birds. He tweets. To the birds either . They do actually. That is quite good, that, isnt it . Very good. And matt has the weather. Thankfully, no snowman in the forecast today, fairly mild across the country, some rain but overall it isa the country, some rain but overall it is a brighter day than yesterday. All of the details coming up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Sweeping inequalities between different ethnic groups in areas such as education, housing and health are expected to be exposed in a government study later today. The findings will show t
So presumably theres a guarantee these initial customers will actually get their hands on the device. The iphone x is important, because its about protecting margins at the Company Margins dipped below 38 guidance now is for margins to recover to 38 to 38. 5 , which means that the cost of the device is okay for customers and theres a real enthusiasm for the iphone x which is more expensive than the latest upgrade to the iphone 8. Sales of the device will be closely watched. There have been declining expectations on the back of some initial reports about what the x looked like and also production to where street forecasts dipped 2 2. 8 billion from when the iphone event was first launched to where we are today. So the market was guiding lower on what it was expecting from the new device when you talk about the device, why is it important . Hardware is about 90 of sales at apple as opposed to Services Revenue. Lets show you what were seeing on the boards in europe. It will come down to t
Good morning very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Reagan in for sara eisen thanks for having me no shortage of news today. We have a lot to talk about. And its friday what more could we want . Great to have you with us. Lets check in on the market picture. We got a laterally yesterday, pretty much in line with when President Trump announced jay powell as his pick for the fed we saw markets rally up towards the close. Not a huge rally but the nasdaq ended essentially flat the dow up 0. 35 the s p was up fractionally. Banks rallied a bit as well. Jay powell in a short speech had time to say he felt the banks were safer than they used to be. That was encouraging in terms of the deregulatory outlook this morning were pointing higher the dow up by 17 points. Nasdaq by 19 s p by 1 tenyear treasury note has seen yields slip significantly over the past week or so. Down to the mid 2. 3 level. 2. 35 . Looking at the action around the world starting with asia we
Game last night. Uefa have opened Disciplinary Proceedings and marseille have opened an internal investigation. Ben has all the weather. Eyes to the skies this weekend, fireworks displays across the country. Tonight is soggy. Colder weather in subsequent nights. All the details later on. Thanks, ben. Also coming up a parting gesture the twitter employee who took down Donald Trumps account on his last day at work. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im rebecca jones. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is under pressure to explain why he promoted the mp Kelvin Hopkins into his shadow cabinet, a few months after hopkins had been reprimanded, following allegations that hed sexually harrassed a young activist. The mp for luton north has now been suspended while an investigation is carried out. He was suspended last night while the claims made by Ava Etemadzadeh are investigated. Mr hopkins has not commented but labour says it takes such complaints extremely seriously. Meanwhile, sir Michae