Were suspended because of threats against staff. Does it matter what mask you wear . We examine the difference between the various makes as one expert suggests we should be double masking. And travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland, with some motorists stranded as heavy snow brings chaos. And coming up in sport on bbc news. The government meets with campaigners to discuss the issue of Head Injuries in sport, with concerns over the number of former players being diagnosed with dementia. Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. Just when the government said it was trying to get on top of one variant the South African Variant Of Coronavirus now comes another one. The kent variant of coronavirus which has been spreading around the uk now appears to be undergoing some new genetic changes and Scientists Say theyre worried. All this as a door to door Testing Blitz of 80,000 people is under way in a number of areas around england, as the government says it w
Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
Lets get into these results from samsung. What was the offer . Not as impressed as the shareholders are. They seem pretty impressed. I think there is a lot of concern they need to be aware of. First of all, the chip business really fell off a cliff. Operating profit really fell a lot. The other thing is the smartphone business had a good quarter. It was the secondhighest sale on record for that division. Incomecompare operating versus a couple of quarters ago, operating profit was a lot lower. Margins a lot worse than it had been in the past. They said themselves this quarter, the fourth quarter, they would see a deterioration, not only in shipments, but also a have bees. What they ship will be the cheaper phones. Not the flagship stuff they had in the first quarter. The cheaper stuff. Those are the landmines investors need to be worried about as we go into the next. Components are weak and their products are week as well. It definitely is downbeat, a column this morning. You sum up by
Were increasing our Sales Guidance in innovative medicines and santos and our bottom line guidance for the full year. Easyjet shares take off after backing the fullyear outlook and lands a new chief operating officer. And shares in asos sink after issuing their third profit warning in the last eight months all right. Very warm welcome to you all we are right in the middle of european earnings season things are beginning to ramp up. Annette and julianna will have the latest on s. A. P. And novartis first two stocks here in the uk. Asos is one weve been following closely. They have issued the third profit warning in eight months citing operational issues in europe and the u. S at one point asos you can see the stock is down 12. 7 , at one point they were down 20 another stock were looking at is easyjet First Half Results did meet expectations the budget airliner reiterated their fullyear guidance easyjet is up there at 3. 6 . One of the few green spots on the heat map today s. A. P. Says
Turmoil in Hong Kong Hits the swiss watchmakers first half sales. Chipmakers gain ground as Dialog Semiconductor raises its guidance and asml forecasts solid growth for the rest of the year good morning top of the hour on street signs. Lets go over some price action weve had over the last 24 hours ending with the wall street moves yesterday. What we saw on wall street is u. S. Equities slipped for the first session in four days the dow ending about 23 points lower. A tenth of a percentage point. A fraction weaker as we get into the heart of the earnings season the drops were bigger for the s p and nasdaq, but still about a third and a fourth of a percentage point the focus has been on earnings season with some of the key banks reporting yesterday. Goldman sachs, jpmorgan, wells fargo looking head we also get bank of america one of the ones you want to watch out for. As we were talking about, the focus is back on trade more commentary out of the u. S. President suggesting that they coul