Russian tax fraud. Europes top table. Eu parliament votes to confirm new commission has today. We will be live from strassburg all morning and we will be speaking with the Incoming Commission president , ursula van der leyen. Lets look at those futures. We have quite a positive picture coming through in the futures right now. European markets expected to go in little bit higher at the start of trade. Fresh alltimed highs on the s p 500, the dow jones, and the nasdaq in yesterdays session. It is easy to see why stockmarkets are going to head upwards from here. These are the futures as per europe. Lets show you what the u. S. Story is. We have had these lines from President Trump saying a trade deal is in its final throes. We continue to see upside for u. S. Stocks but not perhaps by as much as the european futures are suggesting. You see quite a broad picture of green coming through on the equity page here. We have money going into equities and sovereign bonds. It seems this rising tide
And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 2am in geneva, where a Un Fact Finding Mission is due to release its first oral report looking into alleged crimes by Myanmar Security forces against rohingya muslims. The un has warned de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi she has one last chance to end the military offensive thats forced 400,000 rohingyas to flee to neighbouring bangladesh. 0ur correspondent, jonathan head, reports from the border. 0n the muddy shore of bangladeshs southernmost point, the stream of muslims seeking safety never stops. This is one of the places where the boats bring them in. And on the other side of the naf river, still the fires burn. It is astonishing that more than three weeks after the violence broke out in Rakhine State, were still seeing these incredible numbers of people coming across the naf river looking for shelter here in bangladesh. With so much of the rohingya population already in thi
Its wednesday 18 january. Iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Foreign Secretary has said countries are queuing up to sign Free Trade Deals with britain when it leaves the European Union. Borisjohnson also suggests that agreements could be achieved quickly after the article 50 negotiations are concluded, and said the uk would not be hauling up the drawbridge, despite the new Migration Controls promised by theresa may. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminsterfor us. Over to you. Thank you. What is striking this morning is the confidence oozing from number ten about yesterdays Big Speech By theresa may on brexit, insisting there has been a positive reaction from other senior eu leaders such as Angela Merkel and francois hollande, both of whom theresa may spoke to last night. This despite the fact that she has thrown down the gau ntlet that she has thrown down the ga u ntlet to that she has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the eu say
Management urges bhp billiton to unify in australia. And slashing staleys salary. The barclays board decides on an very significant pay cut for the ceo following a whistleblowing probe. Will regulators go further, matt . Matt interesting breaking story that we will continue to follow. I want to take a look at the half hour to go until european open, at what futures are doing, at what the other risk assets are showing us. It looks like a risk on day to some extent. We see futures rising, although not huge gains. The euro stocks 50 futures up, more significant gains in london and frankfurt, not so much in paris. But if you take a look at bunds, it looks like investors they had been selling off german debt, and that push the yield up at the beginning of session. They have been buying at the route the first half hour of trade. You can see the trend here is risk off. If you look at the other asset classes, you see a risk off signal from the asian trade going into european trade as well. Guy
Trains operated by the operator of last resort. We want a better life for our families, thats why we cross. Making it across the border. As europe faces a fresh migrant crisis, we have a special report from greece. Three in a row for Manchester City. Pep guardiolas men see off aston villa to win the league cup for the third successive year. After the wettest february on record, march is a starting off on a quieter note. Still showers around but not the relentless heavy rains and strong winds we have seen recently. I will keep you up to date. Its monday, march 2nd. Our top story. The Prime Minister will chair his first meeting of the governments Emergency Cobra Committee this morning, as the number of cases of coronavirus in the uk rises to 36. 13 of those were diagnosed yesterday the biggestjump in a single day. 0vernight, the United States reported its second death. More than 3,000 people are now known to have died worldwide. Andy moore has the latest. Ahead of chairing a cobra emerge