wales. it looks pretty messy for the weekend with some longer, heavier spells of rain and then sunday or monday, look what happens there. we start to pick up a northerly wind and temperatures plunge right the way across the uk. spring has not properly set up shop yet. you have been warned, thank you, susan. and that s bbc news at ten on tuesday the 18th of april. there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which is just getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are but from the ten team, it s goodnight. the police investigation into snp finances widens. another arrest on the day the new first minister hoped to set out his stall to scotland. is the snp now in freefall and, if it is, what, or who, can stop it? can humza yousaf the snp continuity candidate distance himself from the previous sturgeon regime, when he wa
George w. Bush Administration State Department official paula dobransky. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guest posts interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Paula david, congratulations on ur book newolwars , chinas rise, russias invasion, and americas struggle to defend the west. I read this book and it is outstanding. Truly a masterpiece. Truly amazing. I felt, as being a former Government Official, someone who was inside the set room, inside or on the phone with all the different policymakers. Just every detail here jumps out at you, but i love, and he puts it best, michael bass last put it this way, this is truly a brilliant book, a masterpiece of reporting, revelations and analysis. Congratulations to you and also congratulations for the fact that it is on the New York Times bestseller list. Well done, well done. David thank you, paula. Great to be back here with you. We have had a lot of years over the years as a Government Official and
We will check the mood live in beijing. Not politics daunting markets, the outcomes not exactly the results we were expecting. We are going to be delving into the in depth in the next few hours. I want to take a quick look at a close in the u. S. Market on friday. Not surprising that after a fed meeting, continued concerns over what was coming out of the u. N. , tensions with north korea, there was about a mixed close. You can see that the dow was just down ever so slightly. Flat, fractional gains in the s p 500 and the snp s p 500e up. Not a lot of direction for us. We have a lot hanging when it comes to the big week in washington. Centralbank speakers set to speak, as well. New zealand not a whole big reaction to this weekends election when it comes to stocks. We are continuing to see the kiwi dollar, 7310 weakening from the third of desperate 3 the surprise outcome here as we look ahead to those Coalition Talks. Australia, we are seeing teachers up about seven point four the excess
The general election. Mark welcome to countdown. Manus as miliband prepares to unveil his manifest with a pledge to lower the budget deficit, every year we look to this week in politics and the bloomberg debate. Caroline to export engine in the worlds secondlargest economy is suffering. Lets head straight to hong kong. Yvonne has the latest. 14 decline, a big miss. Yvonne it is definitely a nosedive, economists were expecting an eight point gain but those overseas shipments falling close to 15 . That was also a miss. Economists expecting 10 in the fall. That makes the trade surplus at 3 billion. Compare that to february when we saw 60 billion in trade surplus. There is that falling commodity price which is driving down the value of the imports, instead of an actual fall. The currency one thing to take a look at. The stronger yen. Compare that to the chinese goods may be looking relatively more expensive compared to their counterparts and they may start to see that big impact on chinese
I am here in our International Studios in moscow. Welcome to the program. Im carol is about happy to bring you this hours most pressing stories from around the globe. The embattled supper rogia power plant in south Eastern Ukraine has been a focus of fighting in recent days with caps. Troops now firing at a Nuclear Waste storage facility, nearly destroying a radioactive container. Thats according to the head of the local government. Russia also says ukraines attacks on the plan have raised the potential for a Nuclear Disaster by destroying energy infrastructure. The key of regime is putting millions of people in europe in danger of Nuclear Disaster with washington turning a blind eye. The Nuclear Power plant is the largest in europe and the shelling there has sparked fears of a potential tragedy. Worse than her noble Russian Forces took over the facility in march as they swept through parts of the eastern new grain. At the start of their military campaign, moscow has recently spoken wi