Investment platform. Thanks bro. Thanks for joining Thanks Forjoining us. Mortgages cost more so it is a bit of a Vicious Cycle for First Time Buyers . It is, yes, and there is a bit of respite for people looking to get onto the Property Ladder but they have still got very high costs of borrowing and it will still cost a lot to afford the mortgages once you have got on the ladder and it still costs a lot of money for renting whilst you are trying to get on the ladder. But it is good news for people who are looking to get off the ladder and looking to use their housing as part of that so there is a bit of balance but i suppose house prices matter most when you are trying to change your position. For the vast majority it is a number that changes without us actually trying to change our Housing Position but i think the people trying to get on the Housing Ladder to make the first step are really feeling the squeeze right now. The numbers tell the story. 3. 8 fall in july alone, the fastest
big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we ve got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that s bad bunny. we ll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and syria. two powerful and devastating earthquakes striking jurs hours apart. 7.92 earth kwair quake near the city of gaziantep in turkey. that number only expected to rise as the tremors toppled buildings across the region. take a look at this moment. look at this. this whole building just comes down in the city just outside the epicenter collapsing in a matter of seconds. bystanders fleeing the scene
senior civil servant sue gray a topjob, after her inquiry into lockdown parties was critical of number 10. the arctic monkeys and guns n rosesjoin eltonjohn at the top of the bill at this year s glastonbury festival. and a final sign off, from ken bruce on bbc radio 2, after 31 years. and coming up on the bbc news channel, jason roy returns to form with a brilliant century as england close in on a one day series win against bangladesh. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. constance marten and mark gordon, the couple charged with gross negligence manslaughter and concealing the birth of a child, are appearing before magistrates. it follows the discovery of the body of a baby, found in woods near brighton on wednesday. police say it s too early to tell when the infant died. a postmortem examination is taking place. duncan is taking place. kennedy has the very latest. mark gordon arrived at the court and was helped out of the van by police and prison officers. he