shares ended up more than 50% after it confirmed it was exploring strategic options including a possible sale. but pac west isn t alone, and shares of other mid size and small banks are also taking hit. our north america business correspondent has more on what is driving this. us regional bank stocks suffered more sizeable losses on thursday despite assurances from the head of america s central bank, saying that the us financial system remains sound. leading the way was pac west, which saw its share price halved yet again, which means since the start of the week, its stock is now worth about a quarter of its value. also trailing we saw first horizon and the western alliance. those stocks under pressure, and the value of those shares falling more than 30%. what is driving some of this is higher interest rates. that has meant that they have had to write down the value of some of their assets that are sensitive to rising interest rates, then you have the fact that there are slig
The pope says he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday youre watching bbc news. Now its time for traces left behind a migrantjourney. Every year, thousands of migrants try to make their way to europe. As they leave their homelands behind them, the possessions they take with them give us a sense of who they are. Remnants of a painful past or glimpses or a more hopeful future. Some dedicated people on the italian island of lampedusa have saved some of those items. Where are these people . Where are they . Im here to see if i can tracejust one person through one of these lost objects and shed new life on this dangerous journey taken by so many. My name is thomas naadi and im a bbc correspondent. Im based in ghana, my country, but my journey starts here in london but do so. This has long been an arrival spot for refugees seeking better opportunities in europe. Im here to meet one of the founders of a collective set up for objects lost by those travelling on this route. Im hopi
ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than a dozen ministers if you add up the ministers on each side, gathering for a one day get together. it ll be about half an hour chat, i would have thought, bilateral, as they are known diplomatically, between the two leaders. lots on the agenda. ukraine, obviously, central. there s a sense that with the northern ireland brexit deal that the relationship is a bit better than it might otherwise have been. quite a lot in personal terms of similarity between the two leaders. both former finance ministers, both former investment bankers. current nerves. ner
embassies within two months. a gunman opens fire at a jehovah s witness hall in the german city of hamburg. police say at least 7 people have been killed, including an unborn baby. hello. it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and in a few minutes time we are going to bejoined around this very set of microphones by the education secretary, gillian keegan. she s quite an interesting character even when she s not being the education secretary, so it ll be interesting to see what she has to say about a whole load of things. one of the things we ll ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than
we begin in the middle east where israeli officials say two israeli women have been killed in an attack in the occupied west bank. in an attack in the these pictures of the attack have just come in. the authorities say a third person was also seriously wounded in the incident, near the settlement of hamra. the israeli military says troops are searching for suspects who opened fire at a car, causing it to crash. this latest development come after the israeli military hit targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. the air strikes hit areas of the gaza strip and lebanon israel says they re in retaliation for a major rocket attack on israel launched from southern lebanon which the israelis blamed on hamas. these are the latest images showing the aftermath of the attack in gaza. the air strikes are the heaviest since last august. our correspondent lucy williamson spoke to us from jerusalem. israel says it carried out a series of strikes overnight against targ