On the wrong end of it as a captain makes me very hungry to be on the podium at the oval as captain hopefully with a massive smile on my face. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The government has announced additionalfunding to prepare the uk in the event of a no deal brexit. The chancellor, sajid javid, says the extra two point one billion pounds was necessary to ensure the uk is prepared for leaving the eu on october 31 with or without a deal. Nearly £350 million will be spent on upgrading border and transport infrastructure at the biggest uk ports. This will include an extra 1,000 borderforce officers double the number previously announced when mrjavid was home secretary. A further £434 million will be spent on the stockpiling of vital medicines. Lets get more from our political correspondentjessica parker. Brexit preparations cost money, and today the man now in charge of the publics finances signalled that hes willing to turn on the taps. The chancellor, sajid jav
Davos keynote. We will take you live at 1 p. M. London time. And some like it hot. Mario draghi says the euro area is firing on all cylinders. Hes not going to get in the way. When does the first hike come . The cognitive Monetary Policy is still required. Matt we are less than half an hour from the european open. We are looking at gains across the board. Futures up to 10 stash. 2 . In cace strong gain futures and euro stocks. You can see this is a threeday chart. You can see the big spike there. Now coming back down. Still at a relatively high level. Coming off the highs we had previously seen. Guy european equities would generally lower. Equities saucer from sweden to denmark to norway. The nordics didnt have a great day. The kiwi trading down by. 7 . The aussie dollar, the norwegian krone, the swedish krona, yes there is a relationship. Day for the dollar and for the single currency. Lets talk about lets happening elsewhere. We could be about to head for the first negative week for
The pound rising for the First Time Since the uks decision to leave the European Union. We have seen recovery of investor appetite for higher yielding assets. Urrency markets zapping demand you can see the volatility index dropping down 9. 8 . When you look at the underlying compass for this slightly entrenchment slight entrenchment, Monetary Policy and the Central Banks to stay firm. Will get one that. We will bring you Mario Draghis speech live from portugal. The skip to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra David Cameron is set to face his european leaders for the First Time Since the brexit results. The Prime Minister will endure an awkward dinner with his cohorts later after his efforts to calm britains failed to stop the pound from slumping again yesterday. George osborne has made it clear that the u. K. Will be poor in the wake of the brexit vote. The u. K. Chancellor added that the country is a certain to need hikes and further spending cuts. He ruled himself ou
You can also join us on twitter. You can go to facebook. Com cspa n. We will begin with the bbc website, they are doing uptotheminute reporting on this attack in turkey. This is what they are reporting so far. This attack has killed 41 people, injured 239, three attackers opened fire near eight terminal entrance. A terminal entrance. The Prime Minister believes it is the Islamic State that could be behind these attacks. It also says in their reporting this morning that the pope has condemned what happened at this International Airport. He said he was praying for the victims, families, and the turkish people. He asked the crowd to pray in silence. The bat that is from the bbc website. Here is the list of other people and their nationalaties that were fatally wounded in this attack. One was from jordan, one from tunisia, respect stand, iran, and the ukraine. In california, republican scott, you are up first. What is your reaction to this attack in turkey . What do you think it means to t
Venezuela is a living example of the failure of socialism and why we cannot let that happen in the United States. But first breaking news. The staTe Department admitted a deliberate request was made to delete a portion of the december 2 state Department Press briefing when james rosen asked about secret negotiations between the staTe Department and iran. I have no news for you on the typing of where he there were any discussions with any iranian official. Reporter let me trite one last way. Is it the policy of the staTe Department where the preservation of the secrecy of secret negotiations is con stoarnd lie in order to achieve that goal . I think there are times when diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that. There are remaining concerns that we have as you all are familiar with, whether its their involvement in the support of regime in syria or humanitarian issues. The Obama Administration says judge napolitano that was the transcript in question.