More diplomacy, President Biden may visit israel and the coming days alongside secretary of state Antony Blinken who just met with leaders over the weekend. Gaza continues to brace for a ground offensive. U. S. Says it held back channel talks with iran warning about escalating the israel and hamas conflict. Plus, investors on the sidelines, market study as geopolitical risks wayne. The dollar slipping while oil is higher. A lot of the chaos we saw, and the volatility in the bond market seems to be abating. The theory is simile that you are seeing maybe things calming down and thats not the read i recommend you take. I think its more investors hopping onto the sidelines a very cautious approach as we are waiting for a few more details about what the war looks like. Is this contained or do you see a broader regional conflict into the ripple effects into oil will have repercussions for the stock market and bond market. Until there is that clarity, which lacks for the Federal Reserve and o
Impact on patients waiting. It might cost lives. It might just mean that youre in pain and uncomfortable and cant get the treatment that you want today. Let us know. Vaiews gbnews. Com is email first though in the is the email first though in the gb news newsroom. Heres Rhiannon Jones. Bev thank you. Good morning. Its coming up to 932. Your top stories from the newsroom. The stories from the newsroom. The governments plan to deal with inflation is working. Thats inflation is working. Thats according to the chancellor data out this morning shows the rate of inflation fell to 6. 7 in august, down from 6. 8 in july. The bank of england had predicted the figure to increase to more than 7. It comes ahead of another expected Interest Rate increase tomorrow. It would be the banks 15th in a row. Chancellor jeremy be the banks 15th in a row. Chancellorjeremy hunt says chancellor jeremy hunt says despite the fall inflation is still too high. The path to lowering inflation is never easy because i
Juncker. On the menu is the rather chewy issue of whether enough progress has been made to start talks on a post brexit trade deal. A weekend of diplomatic activity has brought the two sides closed together on the uks financial settlement and citizens rights. That comes after last weeks offer of more money from downing street, a sum the bbc understands could be as high as 60bn. But when it comes the issue of the land border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland nobody wants a hard border, and the republics foreign minister has told the bbc more credible answers are needed for talks to move on. That border is politically important. But the two sides economies and citizens also depend on good flowing freely. In 2015 that trade was worth just over 4bn. But theres fiancial inter dependence across europe too. Last year the uk exchanged about 730 billion of goods and services with the other 27 eu countries. Zsolt darvas is a senior fellow at the brussels based economic think tank b
Southern england. At least we have blue sky and sunshine but unfortunately thats not the case for everyone but it was beautiful as you can see by this picture in southwark. However, a weatherfront has struggled across the moment at the moment bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain. Its also introducing something a little less cold for some of us under the cloud and rain. More on that in a moment. The rain will live in South West England, wales into the north of england. Quite a lot of cloud through the end of the day and a few scattered showers into the northwest. Around 7 9d. As we go through the night tonight, we will see the rain pep up a little bit gcioss see the rain pep up a little bit across South West England, wales, Northern England as it gradually d rifts steadily Northern England as it gradually drifts steadily eastwards. Behind it, temperatures falling away. Those showers will be wintry in nature. Under clearer skies, scotland, Northern England, you will see temperatures fall
Tea m Lizzy Yarnold, she has been named as team gbs flag bearer. More from her later. Louise has the weather. that is 1; our l. That iseeeizz they that is ; they are they are glorious start, cold and frosty, 6 vii; fiifc in southern england. Unfortunately, the cloud has arrived and we have a weather front. It is the cloud has arrived and we have a weatherfront. It is bringing rain, if we look at the Lake District, we ¥ w 7 12 ; ii can see rain pushing east overnight. More coming up. Thanks, louise. Also coming up well be giving a warm handshake and not in any way a dodgy one to the head of the freemasons in england and wales. Hell tell us why he thinks theyre getting an unfair press. We always seem to talk in a negative way when we discuss seen on the ie Interest Rate rises, have seen on the banknotes, is the seeing eye, but for millions of savers efi ourselves z z ~ of course they are good news. They, at least, will take cheer from bank of england chief mark carneys suggestion that