To European Markets opening up, and the close in asia saw significant gains in Hong Kong and japan. The picture there is across the world, that is last night but this is what we are drawing our attention to here, the Hang Seng up by almost 4 and then Ak Injapan up by 3 as well. For more, joining me now is rory green, chief China Economist at t5 lombard. How significant are the new measures . It isa it is a significant Step Up in stimulus from beijing. What we have had announced so far, and we have got clarity on the monetary Side And Today the Politburo Set for september gave us an indication, we do not yet know the size of a fiscal stimulus and that will be crucial to assess the acceleration of growth. As you touched on, until traders are loving these signs and china assets are ripping higher. Observers have been saying for quite some time that beijing needs to do something dramatic to stimulate its economy. Why has it waited so long or until this point to do so . It has it waited so
By fears about a worsening us economy and all eyes will now turn towards Apples Headquarters in california in the next few hours of the most valuable company in the world will be launching its latest generation of ai ready iphones and optimism about the profits to be made from Artificial Intelligence have been driving us markets to record highs this year. Apple hopes its Ai Offering will persuade people around the world to upgrade their phones as Tech Analyst Paul Armstrong told us earlier. Its the big News Everyone is interested in. They have teased it in the last update they did. Apple intelligence is essentially the new Ai System that will be baked into every iphone. It draws on use personal contents, things like the photos on their E Mail and its obviously not without its Privacy Issues but apple is very good at that and its very good at saying how it protects consumers. So again this ai play could actually be very good. The worry is that a lot of people are saying publicly and Beh
the dutch foreign minister has said the training of ukrainian pilots on f 16 fighter pilots on f 16fighterjets should start sooner rather than later. the remark comes after the us president joe biden support for the joint ally training programme. you may remember, on friday president biden said he will support delivery of fighterjets to ukraine by allowing western allies to supply them. in the last few hours russia s ambassador to the us has responded. he questions how effective this will be. he said. there is no infrastructure for the operation of the f16 in ukraine and the needed number of pilots and maintenance personnel, is not there either. he also said. any ukrainian strike on crimea would be considered a strike on russia. it is important that the us be fully aware of the russian response . second important update to bring you. these conflicting claims about who controls what in the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine s deputy defence minister says, its troops are sti
with any investigations. a fraud victim has won a £153,000 refund after the bbc s money box programme contacted lloyds bank about him being targeted. they told him he was especially vulnerable to the fraudsters who targeted him. hello. if you havejustjoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. we start in pakistan where security has been tightened across the capital islamabad as the former prime minister, imran khan, prepares to appear in court. he left his home in lahore on saturday morning after a court lifted the arrest warrant issued against him. he s charged with corruption while in office, charges which he says are politically motivated. his convoy has been accompanied by dozens of supporters. they had earlier prevented police from trying to arrest him at his home. the security services have said they will not allow any of mr khan s supporters to enter islamabad while carrying guns. for his part, mr khan has warned of a huge reaction across pakistan if he is arrested or i
the british and us governments scramble to reassure their tech start up sectors after the collapse of one of the main sources of funding, the silicon valley bank. and hollywood is getting ready for its big night we ll take a look at what s in store at the oscars. the impact of bbc sports presenter gary lineker s removalfrom match of the day is continuing to affect the bbc s sports output. the controversy over the broadcaster and his tweets criticising the uk government s policy on asylum seekers shows no sign of abating. he d been told by the bbc to step back from presenting its flagship football show, match of the day. on saturday, it led to widespread disruption of the corporation s football coverage as fellow presenters and commentators pulled out. in the coverage of the women s super league on sunday, there was no bbc in house commentary and there were no pundits to talk about the game either. let s take a look at the background to this now with our correspondent, ste