Queensferry crossing. The queen was accompanied by Prince Philip 53 years to the day after she opened the neighbouring forth road bridge. Should girls and boys close clothes be a thing of the past . John lewis decide to take boys and girl labelling off their childrens clothes. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. South korea says it has seen indications that the north is preparing more missile launches, possibly an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The south has carried out live fire exercises, and says it is strengthening its Missile Defence system. The escalation follows north koreas testing of a Hydrogen Nuclear bomb at the weekend, which it says can fit onto a long range missile. The us has warned that any threat to itself or its allies will be met with a massive military response. Our correspondent robin brant reports from seoul. After the norths Nuclear Explosion underground, this from the south. A series of missile launchers above ground. From land and from the air, south k
Percentage point dax is slightly weaker, relatively flat as is the cac. Crude oil prices, crude Oil Yesterday was flat ended up by two cents this morning another 44 cents 55. 35 so wti above 50 a barrel. Back to the markets in a moment first the latest developments on Hurricane Maria. The hurricane making landfall on the island of dominica as a category 5 storm it is now weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 thats the good news forecasters warn that maria could reach strength as it nears the Virgin Islands, puerto rico also in marias cross hairs. You know, when these hurricanes come, they come. This come in waves we are also following developing stories out of Southern California overnight a magnitude 3. 6 earthquake shook parts of los angeles it happened at 11 20 p. M. Local time dren residents as far away as costa mesa felt the rumble joseph, why never heard of costa mesa i called it so ed ied it cos, im mesa. Im a messa in the morning. Look at my script its thi
Experience will continue to see that in the most exciting way possible. One of my biggest most exciting challenges. Thank you. [applause] we are going to get to tax reform because that is a big issue set in motion by the president yesterday but i want to talk about issues that are an important part of what you do in the country is trying to achieve. With north korea, and general David Petraeus said he and others are discouraged by the recent trade numbers indicating china still trading with north korea, these sanctions were apply last week, what is your level of confidence those sanctions will change materially chinese behavior . Can you clarify, there has been different reporting about this, what chinese banks are and are not doing Going Forward with north korea . For bringing that up. It is an important topic. I did have the opportunity to go with the president to the Un General Assembly last week, it was an incredible experience sitting in the General Assembly listening to his speec
In which at least fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured the only message i can say is that were with you one hundred percent we are friday invited a lot of them over to the white house is that if you read what you did you come over to the office of the old saying you want to do it i will do it ever leave me ill be there for you but the message i have is we have a great country and we are here for you. Offices and now questioning the partner of the gunman after she returned to the u. S. From the philippines hundreds or castro has more. The one person who may have information on the reclusive gunmans motive arrived in the United States on tuesday night f. B. I. Agents escorted stephen paddocks girlfriend Mary Lou Danley through los angeles airport when she landed from the Philippines Police say she was overseas during sundays shooting but will be questioned about the cache of weapons found in Paddocks Hotel room and inside the two homes the couple shared curre
In the u. S. After all three major averages reached records yesterday. The focus is more on individual Companies Reported earnings, and we are heating up in that department. A lot of Companies Reporting today and over the next couple of weeks. We are closer to a milestone. It is not the universe not the anniversary of black monday, although that is approaching as well, but we are going to match the longest streak ever without a 3 decline in the s p 500. If you look at the bloomberg, the last time we had that kind of streak from january 1995 to january of 1996, that was 247 trading days. As long as we dont see a few percent pullback this week 3 pullback this week, we will match that or exceed it. The blue line is this week back into the mid1990s. Health care shares of the bestperforming stock today, and that is led by united health, the nations Largest Health insurer, came out with its earnings. The medical loss ratio is lower than it had anticipated. Its medical spending by its custome