Their prey become more agile so they can escape at the last minute. And does this womans face look familiar . It turns out the basel mummy is a distant relative of borisjohnson. Good morning. Its january the 25th. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Official figures show that recorded crime in england and wales rose by 14 in 2017. In the 12 months to last september, knife crime rose by 21 , sex offences by 23 and robbery by 29 . Knife crime rose by 21 . However, the separate crime survey based on interviews with 35,000 households suggests that crime continued to fall. Lets speak to david jamieson, the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands. Thank you forjoining us. The figures in the West Midlands, 431,000 total recorded crimes, and thatis 431,000 total recorded crimes, and that is an increase in line with whats happening across the country. What do you put it down to . Crime has risen in the West Midlands in accord with the rest of the country. We have lost over 2000 of our uni
Increasingly stretched, could home testing kits like this one help bear the burden . And, our twitter question of the day are you fed up with fake news . Should Tech Companies be doing more to keep your newsfeed fa ke news free . That is a tongue twister just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome. We start with the growing backlash against social Media Companies over their role in the spread of fake news. Today executives from Facebook Youtube which is owned by google and twitter will be questioned about the issue by british members of parliament at a public hearing in washington. Critics have given the tech giants an unflattering new acronym baadd. As in big, anti competitive, addictive and destructive to democracy. Last month, facebook reacted to criticism by refocusing on updates from friends and family, rather than news publishers and brands. It says that has led to people spending 50 million fewer hours a day on the network a fall of around 5 . Facebook has admitted 146 mi
This weekend. What will it mean for the soft commodities market . Trade tensions. With no breakthrough on nafta to my and tensions over north korea, what is trumps next move . We speak to the former president of the u. S. Export and import bank at 8 30 a. M. U. K. Time. 30 minutes to go until the start of your trading day. Lets show you how the markets are shaping up and it is risk off. There is no consensus, that is the issue for equity markets. Rise and itstocks was the u. S. That had to do the heavy lifting. 20 percent. Making up for lost ground. There is no consensus. Mr. Men will speak with mr. Putin today. The head of south korea warned of uncontrollable north korea. If we failed to stop could sinks they into an uncontrollable situation manifest inions are markets. Lets have a look at gmm and asian sweep of equities. Credit now seeing the default swaps were south korea exceeding that of china on a fairly consistent basis. Hence the reason why youre seeing a little bit of move in
Died in 2012, say they are proud of her legacy. The newspaper publisher, Trinity Mirror, has confirmed that its in talks to buy express newspapers and other publications from Richard Desmond. And, on track to do the double can chris froome add the Vuelta Espana title to his Tour De France victory earlier this year . Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. At least 1a people have been killed and more than a Million People have been affected by the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma as it barrels through the caribbean. Millions of people are still under threat. The massive storm one of the most powerful Atlantic Hurricanes ever recorded was over haiti yesterday and caused widespread damage in the British Virgin islands overnight. Cuba is the next major country in its path. Its due to hit the island later today. Irma is then expected to make landfall in the United States over the weekend. Jon donnison has the latest on the destruction across the region. Hurricane irma is proving to be
Teens. The reason is this area of low pressure between us and iceland and a trailing weather front. Helping to drag in airfrom the mid atlantic. Helping to drag in airfrom the mid atla ntic. There will helping to drag in airfrom the mid atlantic. There will be a chunk of milderaircoming mid atlantic. There will be a chunk of milder air coming through the uk tomorrow. Whether you have sunshine oi tomorrow. Whether you have sunshine or include, itll be a different feeling kind of day. Northern ireland, rain on and off throughout and feeling cooler because of the breeze here, same too in western scotland. Heaviests bursts on the hills. Good parts of eastern scotla nd hills. Good parts of eastern scotland and england after the odd splash of earlier rain will stay dry. Most of england and eastern wales will have a dry day, varying amounts of sunshine and feeling pleasant. Temperatures into the low 20s or one or two, generally mid s to high teens, rain band spreading into west wales, devon a