Lets start with the news that Christine Lagarde has announced she will be stepping down as managing director of the International Monetary. Lagarde is often referred to as the rock star of international finance, and has led the imf since 2011. She will be best remembered for her role greeces bailout, which actually side stepped some of the funds own rules. She also presided over the imfs biggest bailout, a 57 billion dealfor argentina last year. Lagarde is now expected to lead the European Central bank, after being nominated as Mario Draghis replacement. Speculation is rife who will replace lagarde at the imf, with many predicting current bank of england governor, mark carney, may be the next boss of the international fund. Well, lets get more on this now from Michelle Fleury in new york. As head of the International Monetary fund, Christine Lagarde was pretty unique. The former french finance minister was the first female to lead the Global Financial institution, which acts as a lende
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Chasing after a car. Colin paterson, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Still pretty hot in the south but a large chunk of the uk is cloudy at the moment with some wet weather on the moment with some wet weather on the way. There is rain in the forecast today, overnight and tomorrow as well. We have a couple of weather systems coming our way, one on friday so a couple to get through by the end of the week. This is the forecast right now, a weather front moving into scotland and northern ireland. The heaviest of the rain in the north west of scotla nd the rain in the north west of scotland at the minute. We think it is just Clearing Northern scotland at the minute. We think it isjust Clearing Northern ireland right about now commit the heaviest of the rain. Elsewhere some bright weather and then overnight the cold front weather and then overnight the cold fro nt m oves weather and then overnight the cold front moves across the uk. I say cool because in the south of the country st
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