Macro advisory in moscow. He said the situation for the russian currency is unique. You should not be looking at it in the same way as if there was a slide in a normally functioning economy or a european economy. The rouble is entirely managed now by the central bank in conjunction with the Finance Ministry, and has been since we last saw the rouble collapse down to about 130 in march of last year. So the Central Banks priority last year was to keep the Rouble Exchange rate high at around 60, because it was tackling inflation, but this year, because of the sanctions impact and because that has led to a big hit on the value of russias oil exports in particular, they have devalued the rouble in order to compensate for that fall in dollar terms. In other words, weaker rouble translating dollars into a higher rouble amount to balance the budget. Thats been the priority this year. It doesnt reflect an imminent crisis. Sort of a broad collapse in the economy. Its the result of the central Ba
Of £115 million. Liverpool agreed a deal four million shy of that figure for the 21 year old on friday. But caicedo s favoured chelsea and they have finally succeeded with a bid after having a number of offers knocked back by brighton. Caicedo will become chelseas eighth signing of the summer. Theres been another coup for the Saudi Pro League. Brazilian star neymar is leaving Paris Saint Germain tojoin al hilal. The fee is understood to be around 90m euros, plus add ons. The two year deal is subject to the 31 year old completing a medical and all the necessary paperwork. It comes after it became clear neymar was not part of new coach Luis Enriques plans for the new season at p56. Solves a problem for ps6 because i dont think they really wanted name are there any more. Wanted neymar there any more. Also it is good news for the Saudi Pro League because amongst a number of star names clearly the move the move this summer, neymar is one of the biggest in football. Everton have released a
to support their teams in the final of european club football s most prestigious prize. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we re going to start in the us and the latest from that mass shooting at a primary school in texas. many families are outraged at the police response. authorities admitted they waited too long to storm the classroom on tuesday. officers waited in a hallway at the robb elementary school for a0 minutes, despite several emergency phone calls from pupils inside. meanwhile, at the annual conference of the pro gun lobby group the national rifle association former us president donald trump said he wanted more citizens to be armed. our correspondent barbara plett usher has the story. just days ago, children cowered on the floor in this school as a killer stalked their classroom. some of them stealthily called 911, begging for police to come and save them. we now know there were up to 19 policeman in the hallway outside for nea
If you have a host of inexperienced, not terribly well trained staff, a lot of young staff, and they are all overstressed because there are not an awful a lot of them. So they are all under pressure. And because the men, most of them dont get out of their cells for more than a couple of hours each day, that adds to the pressure. The issues are all contributory. They do not help towards the event that happened in september. Severe Staff Shortages and overcrowding were highlighted as problems and in two wings there were only 11 showers for 265 man. Chris aitken is a film maker who spent nine months in Wandsworth Prison for tax fraud. My reaction to the report is extremely depressed and upset that it seems to have actually got worse since my time there back in 2016, 2017. The prison is an inhumane, dysfunctional mess that is not fit for purpose and actually makes peoples rehabilitation worse not better. It is the kind of environment that if you put animals in, you would be rightly prosecu
Were live until am this morning. Are you waiting for a non urgent operation . If so, wed love to hear from you this morning about how long youve been waiting. Are you one of the many people whove arrived at hospital only to have your operation cancelled on the day . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. We are going to go and live now to hear from donald we are going to go and live now to hearfrom donald tusk, the president of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to speak in malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be talking about those brexit negotiations, so we will go back to that live as soon as it happens, you wont miss anything at all. Our top Story Today Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements as a trade off, so that improvements can be made in other areas like a e. That