Even higher levels of air pollution hitting southern britain with an oppressive mix of local emissions and dust from the sahara. Hello, everyone. The war in syria is into its fourth year. The plight just gets worse. Any family that can tries to flee the country. The crisis has been underlining by this, a tragic and new symbolic number. 1 millionth refugee. The u. N. Calls it a devastating milestone. One million new of just 6 million people. Altogether, the u. N. Says a total of 2. 5 million syrians are now registered as refugees abroad. And the actual number who have fled is unknown. Its widely thought to be much higher because many are too frightened to register. Many have fled in every direction. Northern iraq, northern turkey, jordan and above all, lebanon. Lebanon has taken by far the most. It received only 14 of the funding its asked for. Some refugees have told us about their struggles. Some names were leaked to the authorities. So they were afraid of possible retaliation of thei
We have been pushing against that ceiling this week. Currencies, yesterday it was the ecb decision that got things moving. The euro is slightly higher at 1. 362. Thats because the euro was so much weaker ahead of the news yesterday. Lets get over to andrew. He has some top corporate head liens for you. Good morning, andrew. Thank you, becky. I dont call these corporate headlines. Its like wall street fine headlines. Bank of america this morning reportedly now in talks to settle mortgage probes. The wall street journal reporting that the bank giant could pay more than are you ready for this, joe . 12 billion with a b. They did robo signing on people that were two years in arrears. To settle with the Justice Department in several states. The probes involve the handling of mortgages before the financial crisis. 5 billion of that number amounts to what is expected to go towards helping home owners in reducing principle amounts and monthly payments. Bank of america and the doj are not comme