Fire, killing three, including a child. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. That is with gavin. We will hear from liverpool managerjurgen klopp, as he prepares for what he calls the sites first cup final before the season sites first cup final before the season begins. That and plenty more coming up. Thanks. And ben rich has the weather. Remember the heat of last week, things have changed significantly, flooding rain in places over the weekend, pretty unsettled over the next few days, and that transition to something more unsettled has brought some really Severe Weather gcioss brought some really Severe Weather across some parts of europe. We will be looking at that plus all the weather news just before half past. Thanks, ben. Also coming up trapped up to his neck in water for several hours the man who got stuck in rocks as the tide came in and had to be freed by firefighters. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. Boris johnson is in scotland this afternoon on
First half net profit jump for roche as they lift their Sales Outlook for the year the ceo tells cnbc the trend will continue into 2020. Given the strong momentum we have with the new medicines, we also expect growth beyond the current year and to be able to continue to overcompensate the effect of the entry of the bio similars. Astrazeneca shares hit a record high as they beat Second Quarter estimates. The ceo hales strong growth in cancer drug sales. It was a growth rate of 19 this was driven by oncology Franchise Growth of 58 . We got to 4 billion for the first half, china grew by 35 . So very great driver of growth for us and ab inbev beat Second Quarter forecasts as beer sales grow at their fastest pace in five years, while diageos ceo tells cnbc a taste for gin is boosting performance a lot of that growth is coming in the early evening occasion from ill call it boring wine an boring beer an beautifully served tangaray and tonics have a beautiful space to play. Just some of the la
The ftcs settlement of its back and the stock climbed towards highs in the session. Romaine lets go to our markets reporter. I am looking at the u. S. Dollar. We did not see the same action and the dollar despite the rally. We see the u. S. Dollar slipped for a Third Straight day versus major currency competitors. Investors are trying to haven currencies they happen to outperform during the day. In the amid turbulence markets and resurfacing u. S. China trade tensions. Traders are weighing concerns for Global Growth and the outlook for the u. S. Interest rate cuts and the rise in american Producer Prices added some pressure on the u. S. Dollar. I was looking at the record highs we had. Lets focus on the s p 500. The second consecutive closing high. Above 3000 for the first time. The day,ed. 4 through enough for the superlatives. We really ground higher through the day. Todays gains were set up by fed chairman jay powell, his comments pointing toward easing Monetary Policy at the end of
Who has now agreed to be the leading force for russias development. The situation around wildly for example which is not only being sidelined. Out of the Global Market in some circles it is even called the 1st technological war. The u. S. Is blacklist for several Companies Including google and qualcomm from doing business with huawei furthermore the u. S. Is pressuring other countries to pick a side to side whether or not they will allow fallujah to help build out their 5 g. Network warning that their decision will have consequences. And while it appears that russia has welcomed the Telecom Giant with open arms western nations continue to ramp up their antagonism against qual way but its not just the u. S. One on the left front what has some of the war was canada and joining now on the ground in canada that is our correspondent taj the head of a. Young canada right now so before we get to the russian president s remarks lets start with huawei is drama unfolding in your country whats th
A mega one joshi we know that she was arrested here but last december you know this is a story that weve been talking about a lot and as things are being pushed forward now were hearing that we will actually see some action in the courts starting to september and october were talking about basically disclosures of evidence but we can look and weve talked about this before this is going to last a long time it could last well into 2020 so mang if shes here you know theres a lot of people saying theres really no evidence against her and while weight stood up as well to talk about exactly whats going on with her we heard from Benjamin Howells and heres a quote from him hes a while away Vice President of International Media affairs the u. S. Allegations against miss wayne are based on violations of unilateral sanctions imposed by United States on Financial Services in iran canada does not impose any such thing therefore transactions conducted with the bank do not pose any risk of breaking c