Live from new york, at the opening bell, this is business today. Traders tread water on wednesday. Cranking up the voltage on trade tensions. Canada slaps hefty import taxes on electric cars made in china older, wiser, and ready to spend. How businesses are finding a Silver Lining in indias ageing population. Welcome to business today, im Michelle Fleury live from new york. Us markets slip at the open after the record close. More on that any moment. Lets turn our attention to markets, the dow is down two tenths of a percent right now, after the wreck a close yesterday. The snp and nasdaq have not fared so well. Traders are turning away from the Technology Stocks right now. For more on this is the chief market strategist, great to see it this morning. Are you surprised this rally is stalling . What should we read from the dow slipping back slightly . Read from the dow slipping back sliuhtl . ,. , slightly . Good morning, i dont think they slightly . Good morning, i dont think they can
Well tell you why thats bad news for england. Its a double for the dutch, they beat italy to setup a womens world cup semi final against sweden. Charles leclerc takes pole for ferrari at the austrian grand prix, but Lewis Hamilton is penalised by the stewards and bumped down the grid. Also coming up in the programme. Lets play ball. London hosts Major League Baseballs first match in europe. Evening, weve had some fantastic games at the cricket world cup recently. Todays match at headingley went down to the final over as pakistan pipped afghanistan to win by three wickets and keep their tournament alive. They are now up to fourth in the standings at englands expense. Well have the latest from edgbaston ahead of their game against india tomorrow, but first heres how pakistan stormed into the semi final places after a late show in leeds. Michael redford reports. But only members of that victory we re but only members of that victory were quickly forgotten. Cover 15. Gone in the very next
in new zealand. good afternoon. a meeting of the government s emergency cobra committee has taken place this afternoon to discuss how to respond to the record temperatures that are expected to hit parts of the uk next week. a national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time, meaning there s a risk to life. jon donnison reports at the bristol harbour festival this weekend, a cold shower more than welcome. and with potentially record temperatures forecast for early next week, this summer s heatwave is entering uncharted waters. well, i don t like the heat. it s all right at the moment, it s all right in the shade, but i do burn too quickly. for those climate sceptics, i think this is evidence that something s definitely happening, so, you know, people need to take a bit of responsibility, definitely. he can t be in nursery for the full day because it s going to be far too hot for him, so he ll be home for the afternoon in a p
it is hot out there. here is susan powell with a look at the weather picture. hello. the uk faces the prospect of extreme heat in the days ahead. the met office has issued a red level warning for monday and tuesday, where it is anticipated rising temperatures will have impact on infrastructure and just the way we can go about our day to day lives. portugal and spain have experienced crippling heat through the last week, and the heat is going to be migrating northwards into france on sunday and then for the uk, monday and tuesday offers the prospect of temperatures widely at least 10 celsius above average for the time of year. overnight, we will see some rain pushing out of northern ireland into scotland and northern england, but already it is warmer than it was at the same time on saturday. 3 4 degrees at the end of the night, saturday morning, if you like, across northern england, we are looking at the mid teens first thing sunday, the warmer air is beginning to push in. the
do with one flying lap for paul, as rival max. verstappen was hit by power problems, charles leclerc was inch perfect to take his fourth pole inch perfect to take his fourth pole in six races ahead of max verstappen and team mate carlos. ahead of that revival, muscle fourth, hamilton six. on sunday, you may well have seen them at the front already this season. ben croucher, bbc news. harlequins have secured a place in the rugby union premiership semi finals. that didn t look likely at half time at twickenham when they trailed gloucester by 17 points, but they turned it around to win 28 24. jim lumsden reports. it always helps when you can host the occasion or game down the road at english rugby. gloucester cared little and soon repaid the hospitality with a try from ben morgan. a win would boost their semifinal hopes, but victory or a draw would confirm harlequins place. alex tom brown s converted score brought them level. half an hour gone and he tries were flooding in. two