And pressure continues to mount on Prince Andrew as lawyers representing the victims of Jeffrey Epstein call for him to speak to them. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted for coruption. Heres israels attorney general making the announcement. Translation it is a difficult and sad day. Today, i notified the lawyers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of my decision to indict him on three charges. A day that the attorney general of the serve an indictment serves an indictment against the Prime Minister on serious allegations of governmental corruption is a sad and serious day for the citizens of israel and also for me personally. Benjamin netanyahu quickly called a press conference to defend himself. Heres what he had to say. Translation what we are witnessing this evening is an attempted coup against the Prime Minister. What false charges and a contaminated and tendentious investigation. And i think you need to be blind not to see that something wrong is going on
Katie gornall, bbc news, manchester. Hello. This is bbc news with lukwesa burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines. Campaigning intensifies as politicians canvass in key battlegrounds with just days until the country goes to the polls. In india, at least a0 people are killed in a fire at a factory making schoolbags in delhi. A 13 year old boy is among three people detained for involvement in the murder of a woman, stabbed to death in northamptonshire. A man is arrested after video emerges of alleged racial abuse of Manchester United players during yesterdays derby. Ive got something wrong with me. That is what to know. I have threads in my head, man. Edward norton is a private detective with tourettes, tracking down the man who killed his mentor. That and more, in the film review just after 6. 45. Straight after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the parliament
The selection because of brexit. We wa nt the selection because of brexit. We want to be getting out and buying christmas presents. If anyone comes up christmas presents. If anyone comes up to you and says they know what is going to happen, cocked an eyebrow and, smile politely, and turn your back. Hello everyone, it is the end of the first full week of the general Election Campaign. The main news is that everyone who works in this programme has finally started calling it reflection cast because we re calling it reflection cast because were going to look back at what happened in the week. But it has not caught on with the public at all. So you can just call it electioncast. So, we have crammed this tiny studio with some big brains to talk about the weeks events. I will let them introduce themselves. Hello former special adviser to sajid javid. Stand up comedian and he used to work for the labour party. And i am the bbc pickle at her. Any airport based reports not meant for non scottish
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Coming up shortly, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the ceo of Goldman Sachs, it David Solomon. He will join us and give us his take on the banks involvement in the aramco ipo. Let us talk about what is going on in the markets. This is the picture we get from the futures. Cac futures pointing higher. U. S. Futures also suggesting they are moving to the upside on the equity story at the moment. Let us think about where we have at anrom the dow alltime high catching up with the other u. S. Benchmarks. Global stocks up 19 year to date. The trade story is once again guiding the narrative. The Asian Session has been dominated for the most part. Broadly, the narrative around trade is news out of the u. S. And china and that there is as urge going on for a venue to sign phase one. And the discussion of the rollback of tariffs. Some of the emergingmarket equity market going higher and we are seeing money coming out from the yen as well which goes hand in hand with the risk on story.