Reduce the citys glut. Here are exclusive interview. Hear our exclusive interview. Manus it has just gone 9 00 across the emirates. It is daybreak middle east. Warm welcome to the show this morning. We are in limbo. Will we get a december 12 election . Labor looks as if they will hold out. Could there be more pressure coming to bear on the pound this week . We settled down by 1. 21 last week. We broke the overall trend. They say sell the rallies. Ubs had a tactical overweight position. Sterling remains cheap. I leave it to the words of blackrock. Its like a 1980s pop song. Neverending uncertainty. Lets have a look at the oil markets. We are gliding to a deal. What is that going to do to the oil market . Stockpiles dropped for the first time in five years. A big week for the oil market. All hitting the table this week. Oil had a nice rally last week. Lets get your first word headlines from around the world. Desiree humphrey is with me right here on the ground. Desiree thanks. The leader
Ahead with an announcement today on next years public Spending Plans, with an extra £2 billion 2. 1; billion of brexit funding. Hello and welcome to business live. And a very rain drenched westminster. Dramatic political events here in westminster are heightening marketjitters about brexit. Prime minister borisjohnson lost a key brexit vote last night, giving mps more clout to prevent a no deal exit from the eu. That bill will be voted on later today. The defeat has prompted the Prime Minister to push for a snap election, though that will also be put to a vote in the commons. That will be later. The pound bounced in the wake of the vote to defy mrjohnson, after falling on tuesday to below 1. 20 against the dollar its lowest level in three years. The pound was trading at about 1. 50 before the Eu Referendum in june 2016. Data from the office for National Statistics shows the uk economy shrank by 0. 2 between april and june for the First Time Since 2012. 0ur political correspondent, rob
Planet. Winning start a at the rugby world cup, running for tries to secure a 30 points victory over russia. Anchor hello, welcome to the program. We begin in yemen, where the rebels say they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drones and other weapons. The statement, the head of political office, said they expect the saturdays to stop targeting yemeni territory. And the reserve the right to respond if rehab continues to target react continue react continues to target them. We will cease to target saudi arabia and territory with military drones, Ballistic Missiles and all forms of weapons. We wait for a move from them or for them to declare all kinds of attacks, including aerial bombardment, will cease. We reserve the right to respond if they fail to respond positively to this initiative. The continuation of this war will not be positive for anybody. We say this knowing the ones who suffer more our enemy nations. A journalist spoke to al jazeera earlier and said of saudi arabia doesn
The storm is currently off the east coast of the united states. German chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three day visit to china to push for greater access to markets there. Over the past year, germany has called on the eu to adopt a tougher line on china, but analysts believe her government may be softening its stance to avoid economic damage. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Stephen sackur interviews lord falconer. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. British politics is in full on meltdown mode. Prime minister borisjohnson has lost a series of key votes on brexit, and hes lost his parliamentary majority. He is now seeking a general election in mid october to let british Voters Decide whether brexit should happen, come what may, at the end of next month. But will the labour 0pposition agree to a snap poll . Well, my guest is former labour cabinet minister lord falconer. Is labour in any fit state to win an election, amid britain . S brexit chaos . Lord falconer, welcome to hardtalk.
Degree. A Record Number of migrants crossing the channel. Record numbers of stores disappeared from britains high streets in the first half of this year, according to a report from a leading accounting firm. A 5 3 win for england, who were four goals up at half time but conceded two without reply to kosovo. Coming up a warning from car insurers on Driverless Cars they say theyll cause more accidents without proper regulation. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Labours deputy leader is to call on the party to prioritise another brexit referendum over winning a general election, putting him in odds withJeremy Corbyn. In a speech this morning, tom watson will warn there is no such thing as a good brexit deal, and labour should campaign unequivocally to remain. Jeremey corbyn said that the Party Supports a second referendum with both leave and remain options on the ballot paper if the party wins the next general election. In other brexit developments, borisjohnsons brexit ne