We start with gender equality and the rising number of women at the top levels of business and finance. Today Christine Lagarde oversees her first policy meeting at the head of the European Central bank. Shell be named later as one of the worlds most powerful women by Forbes Magazine alongside the bosses of general motors, ibm and banco sa ntander. Lets put this in context though. This year the number of women running americas Top Companies hit a record high of 33. But thats still only around 6 . The number of female Board Members of companies around the world has almost doubled in the last decade but still, on average just 20 of Board Directors are women. According to research by the Bank Credit Suisse gender diversity is good for business with companies with both male and female directors outperforming male only run companies. Also figuring on the forbes list today will be ursula von der leyen as of this month the first woman to head up the european commission. As the first woman to
Prints on it. I can. You cant really see her figure prints on it. Ican. Ifeeli can. I feel the poise that she brought in to undermine and strengthen the writing on that side and bring a bit of for punch and economy. There are various women in the centre piece as well that i feel is interesting. Bond has never been against women but one of the things she has done is sort that out. I hope that your enthusiasm pays off. Will be an Easter Parade bond film, yes. Thank you for coming in. Now its time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. Hello there. It wasnt a bad day across england and wales, again, plenty of sunshine around, albeit rather chilly. But it was wetter across scotland and Northern Ireland. In fact, this was weather front, which will continue to move southwards and eatwards overnight tending, to fizzle out. Well, there will be lots of showers packing into the northwest of the country. As we head on into thursday, its low pressure which will be taking over, particularly ac
At the time he felt it was the right and honourable thing to do. The year is 2010. Prince andrew was in new york. He is videoed staying at the mansion of a convicted child sex offender called Jeffrey Epstein who had just been released from an 18 month prison sentence. Andrews presence gives rise to questions put to him by bbc Newsnights Emily Maitlis. You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. Yes. It was a convenient place to stay. I mean, i have gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But, at the time, i felt it was the honourable and right thing to do. I, i admit fully that myjudgment was probably coloured by my, um, tendency to be too honourable, but thats just the way it is. And then, there is andrews alleged friendship with the then 17 year old Virginia Roberts who was onJeffrey Epsteins payroll. She has alleged andrew seduced her. She says
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Against simona halep. Roger federer gets the better of his old rival rafa nadal, to set up a final with Novak Djokovic tomorrow. Good morning, it is a fairly settled weather weekend here in the uk. It will not be completely dry there will be a few sharp showers developing as we go through the day but equally, therell be fair amounts of strong july sunshine as well. I will have all the details for you in around 15 minutes. Its saturday, july 13th. Our top story a criminal investigation has been launched into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in the us, which were critical of President Trumps administration. The fallout from the data breach prompted Sir Kim Darroch to resign and has been a talking point in the conservative leadership race, as our Political Correspondent, nick eardley reports. Kim darroch, the uks man in washington. Hell leave soon, though, after leaked e mails criticising President Trump caused a huge diplomatic row. Last night, the met said it