and us regulators were informed of and us regulators were informed of an international stately drive to manipulate interest rates in the 2008 financial crisis but they cover it up. this morning the times newspaper on the bbc have published quotes from a secretive interview with barclays treasurer who gave evidence. artificially push down benchmark interest rates. that evidence was withheld from parliament and from jurors in the criminal trials of traders for manipulating interest rates. regulators, though, say they have met their disclosure obligations. what is going on, economics correspondent andy verity led the investigation and told me about the significance of holding them at lowering those rates. when you hear about interest rates whether on your mortgage or your personal loan actually they are not based on those central bank interest rate that is business hacks obsess about. they are actually based on how much it cost banks to borrow cash and international money market
between the two leaders. and brazil lights up in honour of pele on the first of three days of national mourning for the footballing legend. for you watching in the uk, on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. a us congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in 2020 he paid nothing in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand, they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. i spoke with lloyd doggett, a democratic party congressman and a member of the ways and means committee. he have his reaction to the revelations in trump s
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
One of the reporters who broke the news. Good to see you. Tell us more about the deal. ~ good to see you. Tell us more about the deal. , ~ ,. ,. ,. , the deal. Thank you for having me. Basicall , the deal. Thank you for having me. Basically, artificial the deal. Thank you for having me. Basically, Artificial Intelligence basically, Artificial Intelligence was one of the big sticking points in all these negotiations. The writers were very reluctant to cai being used by the studios for fear of theirjobs, the studios felt like this is our script, we need to be able to train ai this is our script, we need to be able to train al to use them, and basically on that Committee Studios from our reporting will be able to do that , the studios. They could do that already, it was not a concession they were going to make. That said, writers will get credited for work even if ai is helping on that work. You have to credit a human being. It is a middle of sorts. There is still so much with al we dont
Cheaper prices as the pumps. The supermarkets have cut Petrol Prices over the last few days, but are they here to stay . I will have the details. Strawberries and cream at the ready. Wimbledon gets under way today, so we have sent sally and carol to sw19. Good morning and welcome to wimbledon 2017. As he starts the defence of his wimbledon title today, andy murray says he is fit, despite suffering with a hip problem. But the world number one has already faced some of his toughest questions this fortnight, when he was interrogated by our mini murrays, who wanted to know who was the best cook in his family. My my gran has got a lot of experience cooking, so i will say it would just. Just be her. It isnt my mum, she would definitely be third on the list. More from them later. Lets cross to inside the all england tennis club, where carol has got the weather. Good morning, and out here it is this grandmothers shortbread which is particularly good. We have some spots of rain this morning. Th