You look so wonderful in that dress i love your hair like that. Serenaded by Sheeran The Moment The Star surprised a school teacher, who was out for a jog after work. Im coming up, it is a repeat of the 2023 Champions League final as Manchester City get their European Campaign under way against Inter Milan later. Good afternoon. The United Nations says the timed explosion of pagers used by hezbollah in lebanon marks an extremely concerning escalation in tensions in the middle east. Health officials say at least 12 people are now known to have been killed, and nearly 3000 wounded. Hezbollah has blamed israel and vowed to retaliate. 0ur middle East Correspondent Yolande Knell is following developments from jerusalem. Lebanon is still reeling from the shock. Across the country, Hundreds Of Pagers carried by hezbollah members exploded simultaneously wherever they happened to be. The iran backed Armed Group had been using the low tech devices to try to make it harderfor its messages to be i
Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor
after major concerns over the bank s finances. its shares fell by almost a third on wednesday at one point, forcing the swiss central bank to take action. it issued a statement saying credit suisse can borrow up to $54 billion us to boost its bottom line. today the shares have rebounded and are currently up just over 20%. the selling has continued in asia today, with japan s topix banks index falling more than 4%, after recording its worst day in three years earlier this week. we re nowjoined by craig erlam, who s senior market analyst at oanda. for the story to come out was unfortunate timing. it has the backing of the central bank. covering short positions? it keeps investors that they are holding onto something that is not going to become more innocuous. we will see more volatility over the coming days and now investors are going to be looking at more financial institutions to see if there are material weaknesses there as well. i don t think this is over at this point, i t
hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far things seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly and remove their funds from banks