We start in asia, where the british pound has fallen sharply, amid investorfears over a no deal brexit. Its now at a 28 month low against the us dollar. It comes as the uk Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has toughened his rhetoric on brexit. Michael gove, who is in charge of planning for a no deal exit from the eu, says britain is currently, working on the assumption of that outcome. Lets take a look now at where sterling is against the us dollar. Currently it stands at 1. 126. The bbcs Sharanjit Leyl has been monitoring trade across asia from our business hub in singapore. Bring us up to date on what the pound has been doing against the major basket of currencies overnight. While that is right, as you said, it continues to slide and has been sliding here in asia, lurking at the more than two year low against the us dollar that you just read out. Trading lower than it was in the initial plunge brought on by the brexit vote in 2016. To set it all into context, it hasnt been this low since
And arise sir Andy Andy Murray is knighted at the palace over two years after he was given the honour. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news. Manchester city say they are disappointed but confident of a positive outcome as Financial Investigators refer them to uefas adjuticatory chamber. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The inquests into the London Bridge attacks have heard how helen kennett, an off duty nurse, tried to save the life of one of the victims. Alexandre pigeard told her to leave him and to run for her life instead. When she was confronted by one of the attackers, the nurse asked him what was wrong with him and he then stabbed her in the neck. Helen kennett told the old bailey there was empty souless evil in her attackers eyes. Jon donnison reports. This is the moment Alexandre Pigeard first knew something was wrong as panic started to spread in the borough restaurant where he worked. Minutes later he would be dead. The 26 year old frenc
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Paul in a four out of jail he is going to benefit is is should have flipped when he had the chance or should have told the truth to the special counsel when he had the chance these charges might have been levied against him had he been seen to be somebody who had remorse and was cooperating with authorities so i dont think that triple pardon him at the new york matter has to go to trial it does but right now from the from the initial reading that ive done on it it looks like a very open and shut case in terms of the way he misrepresented to value of his assets in order to get these mortgages for these apartments that he was purchasing trends says hes going to rough go if tim does. What will be the reaction of the Congressional Republicans and his base. Well his base in the Congressional Republicans will look at that pardon as part of trump saying oh its all a witch hunt its all fake its all phony but the reality is i think hell pay a price more broadly because hes not just releasing th
Little bit about her before we start the discussion. Lindsay is british and started life as a worker in latin america and africa and progress to journalism and i remember coming across first of all because of the reporting from rwanda on the genocide in 1994 and i think you were one of the few englishlanguage reporters at the very beginning. Lindsay halindsey had a strong N Broadcasting she has covered most of the big stories of 15 to 20 years including accomplice in much of the middle east into the bureau chief in china. This book gives you an incredibly detailed and im not going to say sympathetic but at the same time a very famous journalist that shows the wonderful agreement as a reporter. We are very lucky to have with us two of the childhood friends who grew up as some of you know in long island on oyster bay and started a career in journalism and then for those of you who dont know what it is, it was a wire service that rivaled a p. And it was a good school i worked as a corresp