it s revealed that almost 400 hotels across the uk are now being used to house asylum seekers at a cost of £6 million a day. and why something fishy has been going on after the body of a rare shark was discovered on a beach in hampshire. and coming up on the bbc news channel. facing a length ban aleksandar mitrovic s moment of madness means he could be out for a significant part of fulham s season. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. for the increasingly isolated russian leader vladimir putin, it is a hugely significant moment the chinese leader xijinping has travelled to moscow to meet him. president xi says today s state visit will give new momentum for relations between the two superpowers. mr xi will be the first foreign leader to shake vladimir putin s hand since an international arrest warrant was issued for the russian president on war crimes charges. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. when xi jinping arrived you could tell
fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo
supply of cash. but concerns that other lenders could get into trouble and create a 2008 style banking crisis haven t gone away. this should not be 2008. 2008 was a common problem through the banking system, bad assets that virtually everybody owned. this started out as isolated problems. the policy response is turning it into something more systematic. so should banking customers here be worried? analysts say for most people there is no cause for concern just yet. if you ve got savings in an account with a bank that has got a banking licence, up to £85,000 per account is guaranteed by the financial services compensation scheme, and forjoint accounts up to 170,000. 11,000 people work at credit suisse and ubs here in the uk, and amid all the turmoil, theirfuture is very much up in the air. theo leggett, bbc news. almost 400 hotels across the uk are being used by the government to house more
credit suisse has been battered by scandals and it s been losing billions of pounds a year, but even so it was not expected to get into so much trouble so quickly. and that s the problem the banking sector is now facing, a loss of confidence, because if people aren t confident their money is safe in a bank, they will go and withdraw it, and that can rapidly create serious concerns. the demise of credit suisse was triggered by the collapse last week of two american lenders which sent shivers through the industry. now the bank of england and five other central banks have taken coordinated action to ensure banks have access to a steady supply of cash. but concerns that other lenders could get into trouble and create a 2008 style banking crisis haven t gone away. this should not be 2008. 2008 was a common problem through the banking system, bad assets that virtually everybody owned. this started out as isolated problems. the policy response is turning it into something more systematic.
what saved our lives because it taught me to be aware of my surroundings, to know where the exits are, and then the rest of that is run, hide, fight. meanwhile, the brother of the hostage taker told the new york times he was a deeply troubled man and had grown distant from his family in the recent years. we ll have much more ahead, of course, on the investigation and how the hostages pulled off their escape. we ll have more on that later this hour. in the meantime, the uk says it s planning to send anti-tank weapons to ukraine to help it defend against a possible russian invasion. meanwhile, a bipartisan group of u.s. senators arrive in kiev on monday, discussing tougher sanctions on russia and more military aid for ukraine, but diplomatic efforts to avert a crisis haven t ended yet. fred pleitgen reports to us from moscow.