hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far the markets seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. and other stocks are up too. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly
majority of workers, they have the most votes in this. if they get behind us, then this could get through. if other small unions don t recommend this, for example unite, that might not matter. at this stage it s not clear whether all the unions are going to recommend this offer to their membership. my sense is that the unison, gmb unions will probably get behind this. but it s a big question whether the membership are going to think that is good enough. there is a lot of anger out there. and why is it a sense of suddenly more serious talks now? i was interviewing a key union leaders fought some time, so be it for them, it was completely obvious obvious, that they were offering olive branches to the government that were not being taken up. what changed? that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ~ that were not being taken up. what chanced? ~ , ., ,, . changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat changed? why do we look like we re closer to a hat deal chan
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
sanctuary in europe. redford again. oh, what a goal! what a goal! radford the scorer, ronnie radford! and legendary football commentator john motson has died aged 77. he covered over 2000 games during his 50 year career. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news, good to have your company this hour. three men have been arrested after the shooting of a police officer in northern ireland. he is now in a critical condition in hsopital. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot multiple times in front of his son after coaching young people playing football in 0magh, county tyrone. he is well known in northern ireland not least his involvement in investigating organised crime. northern ireland s political leaders have issued a joint statement condemning the callous attack. the irish prime minister and northern ireland secretary have both condemned the attempt on his life. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page has this report. john caldwell is a father who was coaching football