Hello. This is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines amber rudd resigns from the cabinet and the conservative party in another major blow for Boris Johnsons government. It is the combination of the fact there is not enough work going into getting a deal, which is not what the Prime Minister signed up to do, and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues, who are good, moderate conservatives. Shell be replaced as work and pensions secretary by therese coffey. As work and pensions business secretary, andrea leadsom, says the conservatives will break with precedent and field a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next election. Peace negotiations between the taliban and the United States have been called off. In a tweet President Trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. British Airways Pilots go on strike for the first time in the airlines history. A full paper review coming your way injusta a full paper review coming your way injust a few a ful
Hello, welcome to countdow. It is 7 00 here in london on this monday morning. Vodafone is looking at a link with liberty global. And talks to buy the portuguese assets. T is all pointing one way analysts expecting a wave of consolidation in the telecom space. Here with more is caroline hyde. Lets start with bt. It has set the cat among the pigeons. It has. We understand it is looking at 02, getting a grip on mobile. It is about quad play. This is the choice of words we use when it comes to telecoms. You have to have all four things if you want to win it. It offers television. Rather nice soccer rights. It now wants to offer mobile as well. The u. K. Is bizarre. We dont often have all four things rolled into one. We like to pick and choose. The way you can make money, the way you can have synergy and stop people moving to rivals is having all four things. Is considering teaming up with its old rival, liberty global. Remember, they used to battle over assets in germany. He were trying to
Offer. The equity markets are a little bit lower. U. K. Manufacturing data will come out later on. What is taking the ftse down . Levels of 2009. Ubs was justo onset, saying, perhaps it is all a little bit overdone in terms of the Price Movement of oil. Have got Goldman Sachs onset with you shortly. Commodity super site over . If he ever does want to do a deal for real. The whole mining complex all lower. Commodities are lower. China manufacturing misses. Oil prices are dropping. We will pick up the interview of mr. Gilbert, the ceo. Equity markets are lower. Manufacturing will come out in the united kingdom. Think typically the final numbers are revised. According to bloomberg elevation it has been revised. Lets have a look. Price one of those moments where you wait to see the price. We will come back to that. There are a couple of stocks that are worth keeping an ion. T is the Telecom Group worth keeping an eye on. It is the Telecom Group, vodafone. Will they do a deal . The debt lev
The germans might have some objection to that. London opened virtually flat. Oil is making a comeback. Is that being overgenerous . You are seeing just a little bit of a reprieve on these equity markets. We are going to run towards super tuesday. Lets have a look at some of the currencies. Everything is priced into the euro dollar. You are probably going to see the eurodollar at 120. The market has fully priced qe by the European Central bank and the onemonth money suggests you are going to see a little bit of a turnaround on that. Have a look at the euro yen. Money was coming out of the euro and going into the yen. That is where you see a big move. Have a look at the couple of stocks we are keeping an ion. Keeping an eye on. Who day is becoming ceo. They would create the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom with the 41 share of the market. That really surprises me. They are coming together creating 41 . Telefonica up 1. 38 . Would it be 9 Million Pounds they might receive. Th
For Sergio Aguero. A hat trick in Manchester Citys 6 1 win at aston villa makes him the premier leagues all time leading overseas goalscorer. Hero of the hour Rugby League Legend rob burrow joins us on the sofa after an emotional game following his diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease. It is the quiet before the storm today with many of us are starting with sunshine. Do not be fooled because storm brendan is on the way, bringing heavy rain and squally winds touching gale force, heading east during the day. More in 15 minutes. Its monday the 13th january. Our top story prince harry will meet the queen at sandringham for talks about his future as a senior royal. Prince charles and Prince William willjoin the discussions, aimed at working out a way forward for the duke and the duchess of sussex. Simonjones has this report. It is being called the sandringham showdown. The queens already there but later today, she will be joined with joined by other senior members of the royal family includ