Of overcharging the nhs by tens of millions of pounds. And less than 48 hours until the start of the ashes, and so the sledging begins, with the aussies delivering theirfirst round of pom bashing. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, australia may have retained the womens ashes but england level the series with a record run chase in canberra. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Zimbabwes governing party, zanu pf, has started impeachment proceedings against Robert Mugabe. The motion accuses mr mugabe of failing to uphold the constitution and of giving his wife, grace, too much power. Zimbabwes former Vice President , who was sacked by president mugabe, has warned him to resign immediately orface humiliation. Ben brown is in the capital, harare, this lunchtime. Can you hear us . We will try to come back to ben brown. He is there. President mugabe has so far stubbornly resisted. No, i cannot hear anything. We have to apologise, hear anything. We have to apologise, he has
The International Community now had to engage with zimbabwe. Well, we expect the International Community to be our underwriters and guarantors, to make sure that there is the holding of credible, legitimate, free and fair elections. Tonights speech was an appeal to a divided party, not a wounded nation. Zimbabweans are waiting for mr mnangagwa to outline a vision that breaks with the repressive politics of his past. Fergal keane, bbc news, harare. In just under two hours time in brisbane, the England Cricket Team will walk out to face australia, at the ground called the gabba, in the first test match of the ashes series. It can be an intimidating venue, where australia havent lost to england since the 1980s. Live to brisbane and our sports correspondent, andy swiss. Yes, huw, welcome to brisbane where its very nearly the moment that cricket fans have been waiting for. 40,000 supporters deaccepteding on the gabba for the late latest chap term of one of sports most famous sagas. England
Good morning, welcome to squawk alley. With me here at post 9, Kayla Tausche back again all three major averages hitting record highs the dow at one point within 150 points of 25,000 its backed away from that a bit, but were still keeping an eye on it. For more, philip swagle and jim paulson, chief investment strategist welcome to both of you jim, we keep hearing simultaneously that the market is rising on tax reform optimism and also that tax reform is priced in. Which is it . Well, its hard to argue that its priced in when it keeps going up every day thats for sure. I dont know what has not been vetted by the market as far as this tax policy is concerned the news has been out there for some time. People got a very good idea exactly what its going to be and already have adjusted their earnings estimates and so forth, so i sort of lean in the camp, too, that even though theyll probably pass it this week, most of that is included in the market here, but its hard to get in front of a one
This is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where donald trump can celebrate perhaps the biggest victory of his presidency so far. Well, sort of. The house of representatives has passed a Major Overhaul of the nations tax laws. It includes steep cuts for the wealthy. The senate has still to vote that could happen in the next few hours. But a last minute procedural hitch with the bills passage could mean lawmakers having to vote again on wednesday, though its not expected to change the outcome. This was the moment when the bill passed the lower house the first time round on tuesday. The wire and our 227 and the nays are 223. The yays are 227. Today this raises taxes on 86 million middle class families. Hands 83 of the tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 . Well, donald trump has welcomed the house vote on social media. He tweeted his congratulations to what he said were the great republicans who had voted to cut taxes for american