Tonights latest headlines. Michelle, thank you. Well, good evening to you. Michelle is right. Todays top story is the home secretary has been saying migrants are arriving in small boats, has put an unsustainable pressure on the uks asylum system and that the british taxpayer delivering a speech in washington earlier on today. Suella braverman also argued that being discriminated against for being gay or a woman was not enough to qualify for asylum. Where individuals are being persecuted. Persecuted. And it is right that we offer sanctuary, but we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if, in effect simply being gay or a woman or fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection in. But the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has commented on the speech and accused the government of failing to set out any new plans to tackle the small boats crisis and says the government is looking for a scapegoat to try and target lesbian and gay people
Investors look ahead to earnings from the magnificent seven and from europes banks. U. S. Aid passes the house. Volodymyr zelenskyy says billions in new funding could help kyiv retake the initiative against russian forces. Plus, tesla Slashes Prices once again amid a drop in sales and its stock price as the headaches pile up for elon musk. Eyes turn to the crucial Earnings Report tomorrow. Lets check on markets then. Unwinding some of those risk off safe haven moves. A little more optimism percolating through markets, and there is a look ahead to the earnings season. 40 of the s p coming through with earnings this week. The mag seven about half of those companies, starting with tesla on tuesday. Then you have data out of the u. S. , growth data and the feds preferred inflation gauge which comes out on friday, will we be hearing from head officials around the need for higher for longer around the interestrate environment . Futures in europe pointing to gains of 0. 3 . Looking at s p fut
What we care about and even before the nasdatax cut. I tell you that tax cut be sill something. The u. S. Has agreed to keep pressure on north korea while secretary of state Rex Tillerson asks his counterpart to reduce the violence in ukraine. And good morning again, everyone we are still with you. Lets take a look at stocks, how things are look one hour into the trading session. We did start off on a firmer footing. It seems the momentum has changed. The profit is a little weaker on the day, lets remember, its the Holiday Season lets take a quick look at sectors, see european markets quantiti quantities 51 hundred is trading in the green. The rest are a picture in the red, struggling down 2 . Now we can delve into the sectors and see which ones are standing out a couple days for Mining Sector and commodities in the overnight session. We are overseeing it, to the down side, telecom is down. 3 technology is down almost 3 as well utilities lagging, too our next guest believes looking eas
It and what it means for eight million customers. Good morning. And in sport, a suprise win for the underdogs in americas super bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the favourites, the new England Patriots, by a0 to 33. Its the first time theyve won the title. Let me hear you, minneapolis and Justin Timberlake wows the crowds at half time. Ending up dancing in the crowd. And its getting cold out there. Carol can tell us how cold. A few warnings. Good morning. A cold start to the day. The risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Wind from the east. Some of us will have snow from the west. I will have more in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. The eus chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, will visit downing street today for talks about a possible transitional period after britain leaves the european union. The government has indicated it remains determined to leave the European Customs Union after brexit. The move is seen as an attempt to defuse a growing row within the cons
And it is day six of the Winter Olympics. There are hopes that the british skeleton racer, don parsons could secure a medal. Good morning. Its the 15th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The district of parkland just over an hours drive north of miami was named floridas safest city last year. Now, a former pupil armed with a semi automatic rifle has opened fire at the south florida school, killing pupils and teachers. At least 17 people are known to have died in the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. It started at 2. 30 in the afternoon just before the end of the school day. It is the worst School Shooting since sandy hook in connecticut in 2012 and is the sixth School Shooting in 2018 that has either wounded or killed students. There have already been a total 18 School Shootings in the United States so far this year. President trump tweeted his condolences saying there has been no mention of gun control or whether donald trump is considering any ch