The chance discovery of some rare 500 year old printed pages from William Caxton which were stuck in another book. Strictly has a new head judge find out more about the queen of latin later in the programme. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news a lucky escpae for chris froome the Tour De France champion was unhurt after getting knocked off his bike by a hit and run driver. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The Prime Minister says britains Energy Market isnt working and has vowed to end what she described as rip off bills. Theresa may has confirmed that the conservative Party Manifesto will propose a cap on Energy Prices for anyone on a standard variable tarriff. The party says this would benefit 17 million households. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Cook our lunch, making a brew, heating our home we have all got to do it, but its not cheap and the conservatives say too many are being ripped off. The key thing is that people are clea
Alexander blackman, the former royal marine who was jailed for killing a taliban fighter in afghanistan, tells the bbc how he regrets his actions. A ride at Drayton Manor theme park closes after a girl was airlifted to hospitalfollowing an incident. And International Ballroom champion Shirley Ballas is the new head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, replacing len goodman. Its 5pm, good afternoon. Our top story concerns mixed signals over brexit from the labour party. In a bbc interviewJeremy Corbyn, declined to confirm hed definitely take the uk out of the European Union, if brussels offered a bad deal for withdrawal. Aides later had to issue a clarification, saying the uk would definitely leave the eu, under a labour government. Mr corbyn was speaking exclusively to the bbcs political editor, laura kuenssberg, at the launch of the partys Election Campaign. Hed been in manchester, telling supporters he was offering a real alternative to what he called a rigged system under the conservativ
Another voice on the discussion later in the program. Kaplan is going to be joining bloomberg after 1 00 p. M. London time on bloomberg radio. Pay attention to that conversation. U. K. Finally admits it is going to have to pay a brexit bill if in thement government. A more realistic look at the divorce. Trading is expected monday warned us about that. How week willis actually be 00 weak will it actually be . Matt less than half an hour away from the cash trading in europe. Futures gaining, although they are slight. It looks like investors are taking it easy today. I have got a threeday chart of here. Up here. Yield bounces back up yesterday. We are back down a little bit today. We will see how that goes. Direction as we saw happen yesterday. Gmm . Is going on on asian assets generally are outperforming. Yesterday, a Strong Performance in south africa. Argentina going in the opposite direction. , useful guest later on insight into what is happening in argentina right now. 5 aussie marke
Breathing companies, not companies hostage to the overall gloom or the feds onagain, offagain pronouncements. They all combine, and on days like today, the bulls went out. Dow gaining 77 points. S p advancing 0. 47 . Nasdaq climbing 1 . Lets start with the living, breathing companies because thats all people were talking about today, namely the merger between at t and time warner. Ive talked about this deal in more detail, and ill do it again later in the show. But right now, i want to raise a larger point. Jeff bewkes, the terrific, some would say Great American ceo of with wall street for years, claiming his company is worth substantially more than what its stock was selling for. While the stocks been a good one, candidly i thought time warner traded at discount to what it was worth because wall street has such a bias against networks, tv networks, and, yes, movies. The antinetwork bias has to do with timeshifted programming and the endless talk about cord cutting. The Younger Genera
I am not an isolationist. I am not stupid, okay . I can tell you that. Show is not going to start with news that donald trump is releasing names for those that he will consider for the cement court. That is not because we think its a big story. We do. We will discuss his perspective think at some length. But a testament to how bad the bad blood between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has gotten. We are leaving with democratic discord. This is arguably one of the low points between team hillary and team bernie. Her team has been trying to tamp down the squabble that started in nevada, when Bernie Sanders supporters say they were mistreated by party leadership. After pouring fuel on the fire with a strongly worded statement, sanders made it clear in carson california that clinton was narrowly winning the kentucky primary, and sanders was taken oregon, that he not know planes to go away quietly. Anders the Democratic Party is going to have to make a very profound and important decision