Live from london this live from london this is business todAy. Is business todAy. We stArt in the Red SeA where irAn bAcked Yemeni Houthi rebels AttAcked two more Crude Oil TAnkers with missiles And drones on mondAy in whAt us CentrAl CommAnd cAlled Reckless Acts of terrorism. LAte lAst week the group releAsed these pictures of Another AttAck on the greek flAgged tAnker sounion. Since the houthis begAn tArgeting ships in support of the pAlestiniAns over the GAzA WAr bAck in november they hAve lAunched more thAn 70 AttAcks, sinking two vessels, Seizing Another And killling At leAst three seAfArers. The economic impAct hAs been felt fAr beyond the region with ships forced to divert on A long And costly detour Around the horn of AfricA. West coAst soAred 389 Betwen December And july. From AsiA to europe its been even more expensive up 469 over the sAme period. Those prices hAve eAsed A little since but Are still mAssively higher thAn when the houthis begAn their AttAcks. Peter sAnd is Chi
Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
For the Second Quarter. We can provide hints on whether the bank ofjapan will continue to remain an outlier and keep Interest Rates ultra low. Earlier, High Speed Two fidelity international s Catherine Yeung who said china is facing a confidence problem. It is lack of confidence within the consumption and corporate sector. In fact last friday we had julys money supply and aggregate Financial Data released and it was marginally weaker than expected, so tomorrow in fact we have this operations, and while the expectations are there will be no cuts on the benchmark generally speaking, you could see a slight increase of probability of ten basis points rent cuts, so again policy is going to outgrow chains, but it is going to be this continuing tweaking to accommodate. Tomorrow we will get some extra data out. But really what is the biggest problem facing china to get its economy up and running . If china to get its economy up and runnina . ,. , china to get its economy up and runninu . ,. ,
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
walked out in protest over arrangements was created to trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. it s not clear what exactly is in the deal but it won t reverse the basic settlement between the uk and the eu. let s go straight to stormont and our island correspondencejohn campbell. we were listening a few moments ago tojeffrey donaldson, is it becoming clear how soon power sharing could be up and running? power-sharing could be up and runnina ? , . ., . , power-sharing could be up and runninu? ,~ ., . , running? every chance it will be by the end of this running? every chance it will be by the end of this week. running? every chance it will be by the end of this week. jeffrey - the end of this week. jeffrey donaldson was in fighting form, outselling this deal, saying it s going to deliver more than some of his critics had suggested. at the moment we only have what he is telling us and his spin on this deal, he says there is going to be new legislat