Jobs numbers on friday. Investors worldwide are braced for a volatile week with the sell off injapan expected to continue in europe and the us. Lets have a look how asia is fairing now. As you can see, the main Market Injapan is down over 7 . This is in Reaction Injapan a great deal to what happened last week, the central banks apprising with a movable Interest Rate, and that because the japanese yen, the currency to strengthen versus the us dollar. So that specific pressure for stocks listed, slight decline for the Hang Seng, other markets in asia, they are down. Lets go to our Asia Business Hub tojoin the bbc s Resident Yen Geek, mariko oi, because, mariko, the sell off injapan is partly because of the japanese currency, isnt it . It isa it is a bit ofa it is a bit of a Bloodbath Today. The decay as you mentioned opening 7 lower and more crucially they are actually down by more than 15 in three Sections Nikkei. If confirmed at the end of today, biggest three day funds in 2011 when th
mr sunakjoined ministers at the executive round table this morning, sitting between the new deputy first minister, emma little pengelly, and first minister, michelle o neill. the irish taoiseach leo varadkar has also arrived at stormont. the assembly reconvened on saturday, exactly two years after the democratic unionist party walked out in protest against post brexit trade agreements. our correspondent charlotte gallagher gave us this update from stormont there has been a lot of comings and goings at stormont here this morning. firstly, rishi sunak, the british prime minister, he arrived around 8.00am, was met by chris heaton harris, the northern ireland secretary, and the speaker of the newly formed assembly. edwin poots, made his way into the building behind me to meet with parties to discuss issues. one thing we know they re going to talk about is money. as you ve hinted there, parties here don t agree on many things and that s partly why the assembly collapsed for two ye
and the products are then sold to the uk. it s not illegal and does not breach the uk s russian oil ban, but critics say it undermines sanctions aimed at restricting russia s war funds. mai rosner leads the ukraine project at the charity global witness which is behind some of the research. she told me about the implications of the loophole. what it means is that countries like india and china and turkey are importing millions and millions of barrels of russian oil, which they then process into fuel products like diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. those products are then sold on to the west to countries that directly embargo russian oil. this means that western countries like the uk are still linked to supply chains that are fuelling kremlin revenues through these oil purchases and that uk flights and cars are still running on products that are derived from russian oil. how much money is that putting into the war chest for moscow, given that there is a reliance and some countrie
but behind the headline number it s not all good news as sales of electric cars to to private individuals are continuing to struggle. let s hear now from the smmt chief executive, mike hawes. this kid to have you with us, mike. apologies for that, a few technical issues. quite a milestone, the 1,000,000th car. it is not private individuals, it is company cars? car. it is not private individuals, it is company cars? evs have been on the market it is company cars? evs have been on the market for it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a decade - it is company cars? evs have been on the market for about a decade now. the market for about a decade now and it has taken us that long to get to a million. we need to accelerate that progress and hopefully we can get to the next million in two years rather than ten or 20. it is the business buy
this is bbc news, the headlines: america s top diplomat visits the middle east for talks after the latest round of us strikes on iran linked targets in the region. a deadly combination of war and drought leaves ethiopia s tigray region facing famine we have a special report. taylor swift! and taylor swift makes history at the grammy awards becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. becoming the first artist ever to win best album four times. an update from the metropolitan police who are investigating the chemical attack in south london from last wednesday, they have said early this morning a 22 year old man was arrested for assisting an offender and the police are searching for abdo is a:d., the man in the picture, after the attack in clapham last week abdul ezedi. a22 year old man has been arrested and was taken to a police station where he was interviewed before being arrested on bail. they have also given an update on the woman who was injured in