And on newsnight, chinas president , xijinping, wants china to take centre stage economically, politically and militarily, exporting his brand of socialism with chinese characteristics. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Mps have voted tonight in a non binding commons vote to pause the roll out of the governments flagship universal credit benefits programme. It is seen as a symbolic victory for labour. Earlier it was revealed that ministers had abandoned charges for calling a universal credit helpline, after strong criticism from campaigners. Our social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports. For some, this is the front line of welfare provision. In newcastles west end, the food bank has seen more people forced here due to problems with universal credit. The biggest welfare reform in decades, currently claimed by 600,000 people nationwide, is creating rent arrears, debts, and hunger. Theres nothing in my cupboard, not a thing. And so i didnt want to go to my mums for breakfa
Theres a chinese saying coming events cast their shadow before them. That huge shadow, on display at the communist Party Congress in beijing, is the form of president xijinping, who wants to make china great through a unique kind of socialism, one with chinese characteristics, and with him very much at the helm. China will soon become the largest economy in the world, and also the biggest undemocratic country. Its something that the west cannot compute, and yet china affects all of our lives in some way or another. This is the largest trading nation, and yet it has a horror of free communication. It has a powerful internet firewall. Even messages that feature xi and his nickname, winnie the pooh, will be blocked. Is it possible that there will not at some point be a clash between the us and china . We asked Isabel Hilton, founder and editor of chinadialogue, for her view on xi jinpings china dream. You can tell a lot about a country through its dreams. Consider the american dream, the
Warm wul come to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc update on the market picture this morning we had gapes last week, the seventh straight week of gains for the s p and the dow. The nasdaq led the week for returns up 1 , s p less than that, the dow up more like half a percent. The nasdaq needed a 2 gain on friday to take it into positive territory for the week for the whole and some of the tech earnings we discussed late last week the main driver, the alphabet, google, microsoft, for example. This morning we are mixed to low. The nasdaq holding on to slight gains but the dow down 32 points we did see yields rise above 2. 4 middle of the week, we were pushing close to 2. 5 2. 44 was the level we hit. We did come back by the end of the week and were just above that 2. 4 level this morning looking at asian equities, the nikkei having another stellar performance last week, up 2. 6 as you can see didnt quite go into the red today but still had a fantastic run of late 22,000 the level there. Hong ko
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications rose whats the object lesson here . I want a restaurant just like that. We begin with a look at the news of the week. Here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. A deadly terror attack strikes new york city. At the annual halloween parade, new yorkers came out in force. I refuse to live in fear, absolutely not. In colorado, a deadly shooting at a walmart 10 miles north of denver. Republicans are vowing to keep this mornings deadline to release their tax reform plan. The c. I. A. Released a collection of videos and other materials recovered during a raid to capture osama bin laden. Kevin spacey apologized following allegations he made sexual advances on a 14yearold boy. Big tech taking a stand on capitol hill and russias meddling in the election. Rose new revelation in addition the russia investigation. Weve been saying from day one theres been no ev
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications rose whats the object lesson here . I want a restaurant just like that. We begin with a look at the news of the week. Here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. A deadly terror attack strikes new york city. At the annual halloween parade, new yorkers came out in force. I refuse to live in fear, absolutely not. In colorado, a deadly shooting at a walmart 10 miles north of denver. Republicans are vowing to keep this mornings deadline to release their tax reform plan. The c. I. A. Released a collection of videos and other materials recovered during a raid to capture osama bin laden. Kevin spacey apologized following allegations he made sexual advances on a 14yearold boy. Big tech taking a stand on capitol hill and russias meddling in the election. Rose new revelation in addition the russia investigation. Weve been saying from day one theres been no ev