Its thursday 8th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Within the next half hour the leader of the house of Commons Andrea leadsom will be presenting the results of a cross Party Investigation into Sexual Harassment at westminster. Well be taking you there live when it starts, but first the findings show that nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced or witnessed Sexual Harassment in the past 12 months. And the report recommends a new code of conduct and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. We now have a set of proposals which mps will vote on, to revamp procedures for pursuing complaints of Sexual Harassment, a new investigating process, a new code of conduct, but nothing particularly new in terms of sanctions, and that is what will concern many people who work at w
Cheryl the focus on all this is on the 10year treasury yield. Worries out of federal debt and Interest Rates, as you can see yield is 2. 84 . Lauren we had a hawkish tone from the European Bank yesterday central bank done are down across the board. The cac in paris is down half a percent. Cheryl in asia stocks slammed, nikkei down 2. 3 , in china down 4 . Lauren biggest leak in the history of apple. Someone actually leaked the secret source code for iphones of the worldwide weapon, fbn am starts right now. Cheryl 5 01 a. M. In new york, its friday, good morning, im Cheryl Casone. Lauren here we go another crazy day of tradeing, im lauren simonetti. The government has been shutdown for five hours, this is the second shutdown less than a month after congress failed to pass the spending bill in time, youre looking at nancy pelosi live pictures on the house floor where lawmakers are debating a bipartisan twoyear budget deal that the Senate Passed right now. And today we have an opportunity
President wants to divvy up more than four trillion dollars plus investigators are still searching for the cause of a plane crash in russia which killed seventy one people on. South africas embattled president has been delivered a deadline state media reporting that jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign by his party the African National congress that follows a mountain meeting to discuss his fate president serve is understood to have met to the main person to inform him of the partys decision from a poster ramped up the pressure on sunday saying the issue was causing disunity and discord zuma faces a number of corruption charges but is refused to stand down before his term ends next year the media has more from johannesburg. Theres been no official. A word from the African National congress as to the outcome of this meeting held by the National Executive committee the top Decision Making body of the a. N. C. But we do understand based on reports from the National Broadc
Halftime report starts now. Just because were not up or down a thousand points of the dow does not mean the markets are calm in fact, the dow has been up and down tripledigits today now right now we are holding on to the strong gains, but with three hours to go, you never know what could happen risk also coming off just a bit as stocks rise volatility gauges are falling but the vix still above 20 match. Com soaring the dating site which oend owns tinder as more people sign up chipotle down and comp sales missing targets and it expects the decline to continue toward the middle of the year and wynn resorts and michael kors an and hasbro rallying and wynn, get to that story soon. Im Tyler Mathisen breaking news out of washington, Senate Leaders have announced a longterm budget deal. Kayla is on the hill with details. This is a deal in discussion since this fall. But earlier today just a few minutes ago leadership from each party in the senate took to the floor to announce they had resolve
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