the financial times is reporting that the country s biggest bank, ubs, has offered to buy credit suisse for up to one billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than 50 billion dollars by switzerland s central bank but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. more now on one of our main stories this hour a potential takeover of the struggling credit suisse bank by another swiss based bank, ubs. let s get the latest now from our correspondent in switzerland imogen foulkes. what is the latest on these stories to try and shore up we hearing a lot of things but i can tell you the crisis talks taking just on the road from me in berne financial authority of the banks, people are being very tight lip
to $1 billion, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me now. an urgency around these talks in switzerland to try and facilitate this takeover by ubs. this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding all- this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding all last - this takeover by ubs. yes, the i shares were sliding all last week and there was a period of a pause for a couple of days when markets have been shut till tomorrow morning, so this has given them time to sort this out
vladimir putin, has visited the ukrainian city of mariupol. it s the first time he s ventured inside territory seized by russian forces since last years invasion. his visit, under cover of darkness, has been fiercely criticised by the exiled council of the southern port city, which has seen some of the fiercest battles of the war. i m joined now by the ukranian mp for kharkiv, maria mezentseva. thank you for being with us. what you make of this visit by president putin? well, nothing spectacular really. it is one of the first visit to the occupied territories that president putin has conducted. this is the scene of a brutal invasion. and i am looking at the footage of him sitting all alone in the filler monarch building, and russian authorities are claiming that they have restored the building etc, we are asking, what has been done regarding the cleaning of the green seeds over their quest but this is not a joke for us at all. apart from criticising that visit, i am linking i
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