In healthy treats. And spurs lead swa nsea. In healthy treats. And spurs lead swansea. We will get you the latest. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The biggest hike in train fares for five years. The average price for tickets rose by 3. 15 with some commuter spending as much as £5,000 on season tickets. The industry said it will mean Better Services and investment but unions have said that consumers will be priced out, as the burden falls increasingly on passengers. This report contains flashing images. Its one of the most reliable things on the railway. Every january without fail, the fares go up. This years rise is especially steep, the highest in five years. This is a busy commuter line, people coming in from cambridgeshire and hertfordshire into london. Plenty of people on this train are just a few pounds shy of the £5,000 club. £5,000 for an annual season ticket. Thats gone up by about £600 in the last five years. Price rises have been relentless. Other countries in europe d
But markets are down. Hello and welcome to business live. We will get the inside track on how you stop winter flu. The boss of one of the biggest Vaccine Companies in europe will talk to us about how healthy. With toys r us on the brink of collapse, we want to know, do you buy your toys online or in a shop . Let us know. Welcome to the programme. With just over a year to go until brexit as we speak, the eu is publishing a draft of the brexit treaty that will specify the terms of the uks departure. But for business and investors theres still a huge amount of uncertainty. One of the key issues it covers is Northern Irelands land border with the republic of ireland. In 2015 3. 1; billion worth of goods were traded across it in both directions. On tuesday, the Uks International trade secretary liam fox reiterated that the avoidance of a hard border in Northern Ireland is of crucial importance. Thats something the republic of ireland agrees with. But businesses on both sides want to know wh
Coming up, carillions Senior Executives are lost for words. And you are still all right . All of you . Arent you . 100 years after the first women get the vote, female mps are still suffering abuse. What this is about is about misogynists seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. And plain speaking from a model about the online abuse of her disabled son. We are not fans of yours, we dont like you but what you are doing is amazing. It will help a lot of people. The chairman of the collapsed Construction Company carillion has told mps how upset he is at the firms demise. Carillion provided services for schools, hospitals and presence. Prisons. It went into liquidation, leaving suppliers unpaid, and a hole in the companys Pension Scheme which amounts to nearly £1 billion. An array of Senior Executives gave a joint committee of mps their side of the story. But the chairs of those committees were not impressed saying afterwards that the directors were delusional characters who mainta
When the nation woke to the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire almost four months ago now, a report quickly emerged of a baby apparently thrown out of a window by a desperate mother. Miraculously, the child was caught by a man on the ground below and saved. It was a moving tale and it had currency because it encapsulated the tragic choices that those trapped by fire might have to confront. Above all, it was a glimmer ofjoy on a terrible night, with a hero in the man who caught the baby. Stories like this are a big part of news reporting. They help us to form judgements on larger events. And the specific stories that catch on, often Say Something about us. But given that this account of the baby was so seized upon, in a night of total confusion, its worth asking if it was all as it seemed. David grossman was moved by it as soon as he heard it, and he has been trying to find out more. Listen to him. We need to leave now. Straight to that breaking story in west london. London fire brigade
Amazon raises cash to pay for whole foods. Goldman sachs takes a game to silicon valley, roosting storage for top tech talent. Betty this is daybreak asia, live from bloombergs u. S. And asia headquarters. I am betty liu, it is just after 7 00 p. M. In new york. After 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong. I am shery ahn. Volatility falling, the japanese yen, and gold retreating this week. It looks like geopolitical tensions over north korea are waning. But political tensions in the u. S. Are on the rise. Betty you could not see that reflected in the equity markets by any means. That turmoil you are seeing engulfing the president and throughout the country, largely shrugged off by the equity markets. Certainly no rally like we saw the day before. We had markets closing unchanged. Ingestrs still trying to all the news and the impact at my it might have on business and the economy. Shery that Economic Data out of the u. S. Good july retail sales, that probably helped. Lets look at the markets in