diversifying lloyd's of london. we talk about the challenges of modernizing a 330-year-old company. ♪ ♪ francine: in inga beale became 2014, the first female chief executive at lloyd's of london. since then, she has transformed the institution, making waves and a leading voice for diversity and financial services. but lloyd's still had a 27% pay gap in 2017. what is the company doing to tackle inequality? when it comes to diversity, how backward is the industry? inga: we are not the worst sector around. we are not doing that well. in the u.k., having to report the gender pay gap has highlighted the financial services sector. banks are bad and insurers are not so good either. but getting that data out there is going to help us all at least realize where we are and i feel do something about it. the gender pay gap outlets in -- at lloyd's just in the u.k. are 27.7%. that is a sign of the lack of females in senior positions. so we have to do a better job not necessarily of enticing them in, but keeping women. giving

news live from berlin a car has crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament in london several people are reported to be injured and police have detained at the driver of the car we'll get more details from london also coming up more than three hundred people have been killed in a taliban attack on the key afghan city across many people fleeing saying bodies are lining the streets and some bribes events have been without food or electricity for days. and the turkish lira appears to be firming up as markets respond to new measures by the central bank and the government to contain the currency crisis. i'm sorry so much scott because i have you with us we start with some breaking news this hour from london a car has crashed into security barriers outside of the houses of parliament injuring a number of pedestrians now london metropolitan police say they have detained the car's male driver and that officers remain on the scene they say none of the pedestrians has incurred life threatening injuries the area around parliament square has been cordoned off and it is unclear if

inga: lloyd's of london has changed dramatically. it used to be funded by individuals who put their own money into lloyd's. that all changed a little bit a few years ago, way before i joined five years ago, and now we have 90% of the capital is no longer individual, private names. it is either insurance groups who want to own something in lloyd's because they want to access that specialist business, or it might be hedge funds, pension funds who want to diversify their exposure and investment portfolio. they are a minor part of the capital that comes into lloyd's, but also an important part. we are about being innovative, entrepreneurial. we are launching a lloyd's lab engaging with tech startups, entrepreneurs. they will need backing. we may find that we have more interest going forward than has been, because we will be doing lots of new stuff. francine: did you always feel you had the new chairman behind you and he was ready with your policies, innovation? did he think you were going too fast, too slow? inga: i hardly worked anywher

to londoners orthe rest of the uk. our at this time of danger to londoners or the rest of the uk. our party now is to establish the identity of the suspect and his motivation, if we can. he is not currently, rating. however, as you would expect, detectives from the counterterrorism command and making urgent so enquiries to ensure there is no further danger to the public. jason williams saw what happened this morning, tell us where you were?” was coming from westminster bridge road, i live in that area. eyeballed over the rage onto millbank —— i walked over the bridge onto millbank and saw a man driving very fast at speeds, radically, he pay the barriers —— he hit the barriers and specialist police were on the scene within minutes, they removed the man andi within minutes, they removed the man and i understand he has been arrested. because i asked police what was going on, they said it was just an incidence, and now i'm being told it is classified as terrorism. what was running through your mind? i was thinkin

francine: because they are leaving london? inga: they are leaving the sector, not necessarily london. we have not been able to identify where they are going, but anywhere that is appealing to tech savvy people, people where it has a more modern look, it feels very dynamic, you have flexible working approaches, we have got to change. peoplea bit -- we had still challenging, are you at your desk still, are you about to leave your desk, we have that mentality, which we are trying to change. francine: what do you think your legacy will be? ina: we will be digitalized very soon. we are mandating it. that has made a huge impact. we have managed to get lloyd's much more global. we have a really strong presence in key markets like singapore, china, dubai for the middle east, i was very proudly opening india this year. we have a much stronger foot some ofd presence in the exciting markets in the world. hopefully a much more inclusive working environment. francine: up next, lloyd's of man-maderecast disasters could cost the world cities

lived in london for thirty years. and the seven says have never been fantastic but the level of overcrowding now is something else and that again that boils down to lack of investment because they technology is there not that you could grow more trains but they decision has been taken because these franchises are awarded every five or six years maybe get it years or from there's no really in the real incentive for private companies they invest long term and isn't that congestion on the trains and making commuters lives easier what they want to do is get on make a quick buck and get back out again have you got a structure in mind for a public we would really hope we avoid the the british rail futile structure as you called how could you see that a new structure for a new publicly owned really well thank george mcdonnell and the labor party is as actually forwarded a blueprint for that and what he's talking appoint is a democratically controlled railway you would have consumer groups you would have for example in transp

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exists in london like. some boards of the. league to see. you can be a little bolder. there . are. welcome to all the parts we may leave in the global village but every corner office villages guarded by different polls on what one may or may not same public one man's truthteller has long become another man's bigot while public debate often comes down to have done ting outrage or hurling insults rather than discussing policy is it still possible to have a substantive conversation of those who disagree with me me being. of to discuss that i'm now joined by katie hopkins a british journalist and media personality katie good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for seeing me now you're a pretty controversial person in your own country and many people consider your purposefully offensive and yet over the past few days that you've been here in russia in st petersburg you've only set of nice things that have this interest honestly is not very used to hearing nice things about itself being purposefully spiteful i saying all those things as a contrarian. people have be

now, the british and the americans did agree to establish an ally-planning team in london in march of 1943 which was going to be led by the newly designated chief of staff to the supreme ally commander and the title name for the group came from the commander's title, coss, the best name of all time. they were given order to develop deceptions to be engaged and degraded and, you know, that was the benefit of either strategy and then second to develop come as you are options for short-notice response for collapse by going back into the continent and last was the plan, cross-channel intact, it started out with the enormous challenges. what they had to do plan for the most difficult military maneuver, at that time there was no precedent for success with that. they had no defined strategic goal, no knowledge, what resources they would have to plan for and no one was samed supreme allied commander. they didn't have a champion for all of the competing things going on around the world wanting, divide scarce resources, one thing that they did have was a justified sense that none of all of the

ok kitty kitty logan there for us in london thank you so much thought. now let's take we got some other breaking news coming in just now it's a motorway bridge has collapsed in the northwestern italian city of genoa these are the first images from the scene shared by telling police on twitter the local fire department has launched a large scale search and rescue operation so far there is no information on possible victims the country's transport minister has said the incident seems to be an immense tragedy. living on to turkey turkey's president says his country will boycott u.s. products the latest move in a tit for tat dispute with washington this after the u.s. doubled import tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum present one suggested that turks would buy local or asian made smartphones instead of electronics sold by us for us but it's not clear how he intends to enforce the point. on the result we will produce every product we are importing from abroad with foreign currency here and we will be the ones exporting these products. boycotts u.s. products

across london. the attempts to divide has met countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of armed officers. that is will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be. do you feel any. londoners will see an increased number of peaceable police officers. go to david low counterterrorism expert lecture liverpool john walsh university hi david things come on the short notice here we're hearing now say that police are treating this potentially as an act of terrorism the ramifications of that is that a preliminary measure of what they always say they think they know something beyond the scenes here what would. how they managed to mark that out so quickly do you think. it may be from some evidence they've already gathered because karen is just at the top and you can scale down if it's not terrorist incident it's very difficult to go your way. what t

millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of london. morematter of minutes, than 1500 different sections of thatity worst into flames merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. in the midst of the fire and destruction, vital water mains were shattered and water pressure was almost entirely cut off. heroes of the night were men of the london fire brigade as they stretched temporary hose lines to the center of the thames river. the nazi's had carefully picked a night at which the thames river had one of the lowest tides on record. while london burned above them, the people of the city held on, chin up, thumbs up. they knew this was the people's war and they were the people. the people could not be panicked, could not be beaten. ♪ [cymbals crashing] thehe months to come, british suffered many bombings and burnings. theretion calls on cold -- curis and when hot courage from then, they die. -- hot courage runs thin, they die. engines roaring] [shooting] [explosions] the battle of britain was one -- won, but not by hitler. hitler ha

millions of fire bombs rained down on london. in a matter of minutes, more city1500 sections of the burst into roaring flames, flames that merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. ♪ in the midst of the fire and destruction, hydro water mains were shattered and water pressure was must entirely cut off. were men ofe night the london fire brigade. they struggled through mud. the nazis carefully picked a night on which the thames river had one of the lowest tides on record. while london burned, the people of the city held on. chin up. they knew this was the people's war and they were the people. the people cannot be panicked or beaten. [plane engines roaring] in the months to come, the british were to suffer many but the and earnings, nation calls on the nation calls on cold courage one hot courage runs been. [explosions] the battle of britain was one, not by hitler. hitler.not by hitler had lost the battle and lost 2375 planes and crews. time, it was the germans ate the bitter dirt of defeat. gone was the legend of their

no, i was not in london at that point. there was a real sense of calmness about the whole situation. everyone is aware of terrorism and things, but there was not any sort of mass panic in the area. no, and it is obviously quiet now in terms of rush—hour traffic, but a big security operation continuing their just on the ground. tom, thank you very much for talking to us. richard lister, our news correspondent is in the studio looking at these pictures with us now. according to four eyewitnesses, not necessarily the last one, but the one before, it does appear as far as they were concerned that this was a deliberate collision, a deliberate attempt to drive into the barriers. if that is the case, and it has not been officially confirmed, it would u nfortu nately set officially confirmed, it would unfortunately set a pattern not only in the uk, but around unfortunately set a pattern not only in the uk, butaround europe unfortunately set a pattern not only in the uk, but around europe and the world. it would. as you say, the

from london to scotland the skull to london used to be eleanor mistake you went up to play golf or in northern days for the shooting will be less in the old days actually. a nice thing that would make that aspect of travel with a proper cabin from sweet facilities the less could that mean a revival in the sleeper service yes i think so because that was a huge convenience also for people who are from scotland who had to do business in london and there's as you got as to send you off to sleep in edinburgh or glasgow you could order a dram or two from the carriage attendant. and then you would drop gently through the months and a week refreshed in london so it is that level of service that are free privatisation the opana dock sickly killed privatisation was supposed to produce improvements in service and they did precisely the opposite michael the e.u. say the railways are a thing of the past but look at the opening the borders lou railway i'm in the long stretch a lane which i think carries the over a million passengers sure that's been an outstanding success yes i'm not sure how much

they will sell shares in london here it in london. very different to ferrari which sold their stock in the united states of america. first half revenue comes in up 8%. it is london that wins yet on a grand coming to the market. of course, what you have got here are some key investors in italy. the kuwaiti fund management company has a large stake as well. it sold 140,000 cars per year on average. ins london that wins the bid terms of where they want to list. that is different from where we saw ferrari. the valuation waiting for a little bit of an indication on what the value is. the speculation on the valuation is it will be around 5 billion pounds. that was the intimation from the market. publication of the regulatory results and their intentions to list comes through on that brand. i would say that's going to have the rarity value attached to it in terms of iconic cars and rarity values. let's get back to something which has real value and perhaps even higher yields to come. we have all got it wrong. goldman sachs, they released the

i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: the australian senator condemned for an immigration speech that used the term final solution. he's refusing to apologise. and crazy rich asians, it's the first hollywood movie in 25 years to be led by an all—asian cast. live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. glad you could join us on the programme. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and iam in the italian city of genoa, where a state of emergency has been declared following tuesday's bridge disaster. prime minister giuseppe conte also said he would make five million euros available from central funds following the collapse, which left 39 people dead and dozens injured. our correspondent, james reynolds,

across london. the attempt to divide has met countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of armed officers . that is will see an increased police presence today. and over the course of the next few days no reason to be alone. both. feet. long that is we'll see an increased number of peaceable police officers. well the london metropolitan police deputy commissioner just spoke to the press within the past thirty minutes or so and confirmed they believe the crash was deliberate. the driver of the fiesta who was alone in the vehicle was arrested at the scene by armed officers who were already on. the man is in his late twenty's and he's been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offenses and has been taken to a sample of the police station where he remains in custody. given that this appears to be a deliberate act the method of this being an iconic site we are treating it as a terrorist incident and

this is a man who lived in birmingham and was actually according to some reports being made now in london to reportedly apply for sudanese visa to be able to visit his family back home it's also being reported that he was not known to the m i five or the counter-terror police but local police in birmingham where he lived were aware of his identity and we do know that police here who are now investigating this case have been saying that he. he's not been cooperating with them and that's their main priority remains to be able to determine what exactly has motivation is police have investigated and looked into two properties that could have been associated with him still searching another but no other people have been arrested in connection to this so the police are continuing to look into that and we're also hearing here that the car that he had driven to london in from birmingham actually arrived the night before this incident took place and interesting we just mentioned we know that the metropolitan police commissioner here in london has said that it might be the worst idea to consider pe

you say london tourism goes down. people are more weary, there is going to be more barriers and more restrictions but that's hartley 9/11. this is what they are down to now. do you think they have no other options? >> well, i think we have to remember, brian, that they have been for a long time now spreading the message just go out as an individual and do whatever you can do. maybe that was all he could manage to do. i think that the big message here is that terrorism is going to be with us for a while. whether it comes from the domestic direction or comes from these people who are still trying to participate and make the best of the international jihad. we will just see what this brings. it certainly wouldn't surprise me it's a person trying to commit an act of terror and intimidate people. ainsley: terry, why does this keep happening in that particular area in london? >> it's happening in london, i believe and it's just my opinion because their immigration situation sought of control. again, i don't know who this pe

good morning from bbc london news, i'm charlotte franks. 54 pubs have closed down across london in the first six months of this year. it's one of the worst affected areas of the country, according to the campaign for real ale. it says pubs are struggling with high beer duty, rapidly rising business rates and vat. as a result, a third of the cost of a pint is now made up of various taxes. it's calling on the government to abandon plans to increase the tax november. the river thames is not being utilised as the transport hub it could be — that's according to the london assembly transport committee. they've written to the mayor, sadiq khan to urge him to expand river transport services. commuterjourneys on the river bus account for only 20 to 30 per cent of total passenger journeys on the thames, despite the route cutting right through the heart of the capital. this week bbc london is looking at the difficulties faced by those with disabilities when it comes to getting around the capital. alan benson is the chair of transport for all. he says thatjourneys across london always take longe

come,cer: still to diversifying london. we talk about the challenges of modernizing a 330-year-old company. ♪ ♪ beale became the first email executive at lloyd's of london. she has transformed the institution, making waves and a leading voice for diversity and financial services. lloyd's still had a pay gap in 2017. what is the company doing to tackle? industryard is the when it comes to diversity? inga: we are not the worst sector around. in the u k, having to report the gender pay gap has highlighted the financial services sector. banks are bad and insurers are not good either but getting that data out there is going to help us realize where we are and i feel do something about it. the gender pay gap applets in the u.k. are 27.7%. that is a lack of females in senior positions. we have to do a better job not of enticing them in, but keeping them in. giving them confidence to go for senior roles. provide them with the mentorship that seems to be so important. i know how to affect it me. -- affected me. i know i needed t

stand and you're a famous or infamous or referring to london as london which you have to agree carries some pejorative connotation and majority of oh yes well it sounds. the reason i called london last little on the star is because to me it's completely fallen to the control of the most lemaire can he is spectacularly useless at his job undercity can there are some statistics that i'm sure neither you nor i could argue about in the sense that our murder rate is now higher than new york in the sense that all stop rate is just going up by twenty five percent in the number of acid attacks that are happening sixteen moped attacks a day with hammers and machetes that's life in london it's stand under the muslim and what i see from that is the lack of control a lack of law and order and a political islam religion and politics are integrated and people vote according to their faith and that is not democracy for what you describe it in to have to be free of the control regime and your situation policies and yet the way you express it is pejorative and then larger broader sense because stance s

london is going deeper underground. train going to road in southwestern london. home to bentley's and saudi princes as well as their nannies no pairs. this is the epicenter of the underground movement. twenty two houses already have mega basements they're like icebergs above ground it's all english and picturesque below there's a cool elegance sometimes three stories of it you might not be able to see anything but you can certainly hear it the ongoing construction noise is a source of conflict among neighbors. we sat between two amazing enormous very noisy developments and. the it was it was absolutely the walls were shaking off and my son moved out couldn't stand it it was very very noisy. here and iceberg has triggered a major conflict the victorian fortress is a listed building owned by rock star jimmy page. the led zeppelin icon has lived here almost fifty years and was happy until another music legend turned up and wanted to start digging below ground. robbie williams bought the house next door for his growing family he has plans to build an underground swim

london this weekend. organisers have raised more than £50,000 for the 29—foot blimp as part of a campaign to try to get sadiq khan to stand down from his post as london mayor. it comes after mr khan defended the flying of a giant balloon of donald trump over the capital during the us president‘s visit last month. tim donovan reports. this is what will be seen above parliament square on saturday, a giant balloon mocking the mayor, like the one of donald trump flown during the us president‘s visit. dressed in a bikini, that is a reference to the mayor‘s previous ban on bus advertising is choosing pictures of scantily dressed women. it is in the basement of a cafe in northampton that we find the man behind it. yani says he was infuriated by the mayor‘s hostility to trump when he says he doesn‘t speakfor the to trump when he says he doesn‘t speak for the nation, and to trump when he says he doesn‘t speakfor the nation, and he wouldn‘t have allowed the donald trump or learn. the us president

across london. that the attempts to divide has met countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. you need. to continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices. thank. you. londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be along. those. lines maybe one agency. that is will see an increased number of peaceable police officers. well for more on the latest incident we can welcome to the program charles shewbread charles is a security analyst and former scotland yard detective and intelligence officer good to have you with us charles just looking at some of the lines in this it does seem to be beyond any doubt according to authorities at least. a terrorist attack on parliament what what are the key details that would define whether it was an accident or deliberate here. well you've hit the nail on the head in a way and certainly across from the house as well in respect of whether this wa

live from berlin a car has crashed into the security barriers outside of the houses of parliament in london two people are reported to be injured and police have detained the driver of the car we'll go live to london for the latest also coming up more than three hundred people have been killed in a taliban attack on a key afghan city across me people fleeing say bodies are lining the streets and some residents have been without food or electricity for days and the turkish lira appears to be firming up as markets respond to new measures by the central bank of the government to contain the currency crisis. i'm sorry so much got it good to have you with us a car has crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament in london injuring a number of pedestrians london police say they have detained the car's male driver and that the investigation is now being led by their counterterrorism unit none of the pedestrians has incurred life threatening injuries armed officers remain on the scene in the area around parliament square has been cordoned off. a look at the very latest with our c

across london. the attempt to divide us much countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices. in london as will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a law. broken. people are in a way. that is will see an increased number of the visible police officers. we discussed the incident with x. british police officer roger gray and former intelligence officer charles shoebridge. there's no question that intelligence is key to foiling sorting and alchemy even preventing these attacks taking place and in that respect for example as we've seen today if the intelligence systems fail to the extent that an attacker actually gets through to his target today it was against a hard target but it wasn't to be a softer target in terms of civilians in the street for example tourists and so on then of course there's nothing can be done at that stage

their normal way of getting to london would be to hop ona train. of getting to london would be to hop on a train. it is going to be quite funfinding on a train. it is going to be quite fun finding other workarounds. you would think we could go via derby, and head down to st pancras, but derby is largely cut off from the rest of the world by rail and will be very good few. it is worth explaining what the reasoning is behind the closure. why does a station have to close for two days the three weekends in a row? well, you could do all sorts of things. you could close it for an entire week, but that would upset the commute is quite a lot, and there are far more people who use the trains from monday to friday that they are at weekends. —— and at weekends. network rail, the operators know who will be using the trains and on sunday in the middle ofa bank trains and on sunday in the middle of a bank holiday, that is really quite day. partly because a lot of people think i am not travelling over a bank holiday. most of the network will be running normally, but i am afraid it is the usual o

lockdown there now we can see the police behind you but this is affecting a fair old chunk of central london that still basically shuts off all the police investigate yeah. yeah actually fairly standard major crime scene type code and put them in places where traffic can easily divert and obviously keep protesting so i just to avoid getting under their feet it's more about them because there's any perceived danger i think if there was perceived to be any improvised explosive device we wouldn't be where we are here and we'd be further away yeah the police within an hour or two we're pretty quick to kind of link this suspicion of some terrorism being perpetrated here was the difference between investigation this investigated by the terrorism squad as opposed to the ordinary police squads to be investigating this is there a profound difference or not. there's not really a major difference in terms of what. bit of a difference in terms of how to really stone hypertext by simply the same things that are done for any major investigation. the difference in practical terms is the counterterrorism co

big difference to what is happening in london, outside london, the north and south. indeed, a lot of that driven by the cooling london market and commuter belt, whereas the midlands and north still buoyant markets, but having said that, this month, all regions dropped as sellers realise buyers affordability is stretched and as i say, they are distracted by perhaps lying on a beach rather than looking for property. what extent is brexit playing a part in the housing market in terms of peoples perception, their concern, lack of clarity about what the sap mixture? obviously political uncertainty puts people off especially on major purchases and it's the top of the ladder that is being affected most, 4—5 bedroom plus robert hughes. lower down the price brackets people have more pressing housing needs, often less discretionary, they have to move, families are growing, a lot of people in law braced brackets are carrying on but it's more really about stretched buyer affordability and since we sort this price upturn start in 2010, average prices have gone up by around a th

london is one of the oldest centers of global finance the city of london was the first to create a commodities exchange to develop credit markets and tissue bank notes on a massive scale. without the invention of a centralized banking system the explosion of the slave trade in the eighteenth century would not possible. preparing for a slave expedition was expensive and having a financial arsenal gave england a decisive advantage over its competitors. you've got to remember that the state is getting a tremendous amount of revenue from the plantation complex and they have a very strong vested interest in the slave trade. if you had gone to the king of england in sixteen eighty and said look i'm going to give you a choice you can either have these thirteen colonies in north america or you can have this one little island called barbados he would have taken barbados of the split second because of the sugar revenues and this is something that's going to persist as a very important interest for european states up until the very end of slavery. to support the civil war the city let money with abandon.

. —— 25 or 26 degrees in london. it‘s not a dominant high, by any means, and a string of fronts arriving in the north—west, but very late on in the day on tuesday. ahead of that, increasing cloud perhaps, but some sunshine for a while, and the odd shower in scotland and for northern ireland and england. a dry day, a bit more sunshine around as well, and those temperatures more widely into the mid—20s across east anglia and the south—east. 20 or so north and west. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: devastating floods kill more than 300 people in the indian state of kerala. prime minister modi makes an emergency visit. funeral preparations for victims of the genoa bridge collapse. the search goes on for five people still missing. in just a few hours, pakistan‘s former cricket captain, imran khan, will be sworn in as the country‘s new prime minister. and indonesia is about to host the asian games, the world‘s second—largest multi—sport e

he says he is under no notion at all that london isa under no notion at all that london is a phenomenal financial centre, regardless of what happens. presumably, less phenomenal than it was and it will costjobs in the city, presumably. it will, but nothing to the extent that was immediately thought. the idea that there were going to be up to 40,000 jobs coming out of the city of london is away from the mark. the cost of moving people on an infrastructure basis when they are basically well settled here, there has been interested to hear for 70 yea rs, has been interested to hear for 70 years, the get there political connotations, the human connotations are very strong. and we are in london because english is the international language of the world, the best in the world for financial products, there is no reason to change that. just time for our last story from the guardian. i suppose the guardian would be keen to work ona the guardian would be keen to work on a story in any case. the top pay for ce05 up 11%, median. look at what an average worker gets. how do you view this? 11% sales wh

if we look at london particular, in london the tends to be a lot of mortgages. interest rates rise and the thought they might keep rising. that affect prices in london more than around the country with the blood not so reliant on mortgages. also the impact of brexit. there were european nationals coming into the uk and the demand isn't there. bright spot from balfour beatty today. they had a really good profit. it shows what a difference things can make. if you look back at 2015 when their new ceo came in they have failed takeover but now they shall really good profits. they are being picky about the projects they are picking. the uk‘s top share index is down. a fall across mining stocks is weighing down the index., with shares in rio tinto, bhp billiton, glencore and antofagasta all down as the price of copper fell to its lowest level in more than a year. balfour beatty reported a 69 percent jump in underlying operating profit as its measures to cut costs and boost margins paid off. european shares slipped into negative territory on wednesday after a doubling

that's right, the greatest falls have been in london, and the south—east has seen in london, and the south—east has seen greater rises since 2010. so really stretched affordability. other parts of the country, buoyant market, properties selling more but certainly the south is overheated to a degree and after a big price rise, there has to be a readjustment period. that is what we are seeing at the moment. so where would you say it is buoyant at the moment? well, the midlands and the north and scotland. we have seen price falls in all regions this august, so that summer in all regions this august, so that summer sale is happening across the country, as is usual at this time of year. but generally affordability a lot less stretched in the midlands and the north because they didn‘t see the big price rises that london did also, and the commuter belt. as you say, it is a lot about affordability. is it anything to do with people changing the type of lifestyle they want to have now, fewer people wanting to live in london, or anything like that, or do you think i am going too far with th

in london as will see an increased police presence today and other. course of the next few days no reason to be a lot ok. to be going to. london as we'll see an increased number of visible police officers. we have discussed the incidents with experts place officer roger gray and former intelligence officer charles sheep ranch. there's no question that intelligence is key to foiling sorting and i believe in preventing these attacks taking place and in that respect for example as we've seen today if the intelligence systems fail to the extent that an attacker actually gets through to his target today it was against a hard target but was it to be a softer target in terms of civilians in the street for example tourists and so on then of course there's nothing can be done at that stage and very little can be done to actually protect them should this indeed turn out to be a terrorist attack but of course it's too early at this stage at least to speculate about today's incident and whether any of those considerations were actually applied but generally speak

hello i'm maryanne demasi this is al jazeera life from london also coming up the. rescue scramble to find survivors after sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia ninety eight people are confirmed dead. daya warnings of disease flooding and landslides of bangladesh's overcrowded refugee camps unless conditions are improved for the remains of muslims living there. and we report on an initiative to turn the tide on london's plastic problem by bringing back water fountains. iran is bracing for the first round of u.s. sanctions to come into force following donald trump's withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen u.k. deal but the timing couldn't be worse to her on is struggling to deal with a faltering economy the reale has lost half of its value since april inflation is high unemployment is getting worse and sporadic protests have been reported across the country and this is just the first round of sanctions access to u.s. banknotes will be blocks cause carpets and foodstuffs will no longer be imported into the u.s. iran will be blocked from buying and selling gold

is london safe? it is one of the safest cities in the world, yesterday, tha nkfully cities in the world, yesterday, thankfully the level of injury was not as serious as it could have been. 0ne not as serious as it could have been. one person treated at the scene been. one person treated at the scene and two taken to hospital and released very quickly. what we saw yesterday was the planning and practice, the preparation that our police service, that our security services do pay dividends and what was remarkable yesterday was the speed and the bravery with which the police responded not knowing who was inside the car, what was inside the car, you saw the police racing to the barriers. police officers, some armed, some not, rushing towards this vehicle. i have nothing but gratitude and appreciation for our police services but we must never be complacent and always vigilant. we are seeing pictures of what happened yesterday outside westminster and you are right, many people commenting on the amazing job

i'm ben bland, in london. also in the programme: decades of conflict and thousands disappeared — one woman's search for truth in indian—administered kashmir. and women's wrestling conquers the world. we meet the new generation of wrestlers thrilling sell—out crowds. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 3am in moscow, where earlier, russia's president, vladimir putin, tried to boost his approval ratings by speaking straight to the people. his popularity took a rare dive when his government introduced controversial plans to raise the state pension age. steve rosenberg has this report from moscow. vladimir putin rarely does this. a half—hour television address to the nation. it was an attempt to convince the russian people to accept that pension reform is unavoidable. translation: it is really impossible to postpone any longer. it could lead to serious consequences for the economy and the social sphe

high level appeals to restore -- in london and this was a real crisis. they were beginning to come with accusations of american breaking of oral commitments. in july, u.s. secretary of war met with churchill in london, where proposed solution to restore cooperation emerged tentatively. they signed up close the proximity of strategy negotiations. churchill then sent all of the atomic advisors out of the room, close the door, and the two of them alone discuss strategy. they reported to fdr that he had a hammer and tongs. partly through stimson in london, the jcs and white house learns and alarms that churchill was coming to north america for the conference early. with the intent of influencing fdr's position. jcs was intent on winning this quadrant. they had to have fdr on their side. at that point, the president's position and the overlord strategy was very much in doubt. not helping was that some of the staff in the pentagon were openly arguing that the mediterranean strategy should take priority as the bird in hand. u.s. history subtitled that revolt. c

alone barbarous are you watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. rescuers scramble to find survivors after sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia ninety eight people are confirmed dead canada stands by its human rights comments despite saudi arabia freezing all new trade and ordering the country's ambassador out also ahead of that which we're told is going to limit. what. do you do bear or enemy of the state china bans a new movie starring we need to prove. and those thank you for joining us iran's president has given a television interview just hours before u.s. sanctions will come back into effect a sudden rouhani described washington's call for new nuclear negotiations at the same time as it reimpose is crippling sanctions as an attempt at psychological warfare the sanctions were triggered by donald trump's decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which the white house has described this horrible will be live in tehran in a moment with more on what iran is saying but first though this report from kimberly how. the unite

i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: the catholic church in pennsylvania is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of children by hundreds of priests over 70 years. and a fishy tale from china. the humble trout has now been elevated into the salmon family. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. glad you could join us. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 2am in genoa, where italian rescue teams are continuing to search for survivors following the collapse of a road bridge. at least 26 people are known to have died when the bridge came down, with cars and trucks falling almost 100 metres. the country's transport minister called it an ‘immense tragedy‘. james reynolds has the latest. "oh god, oh god," a man shouts. he captures the moment a motorway disintegrates in bad weather. a vast section of the road falls to the ground. a rescue helicopter reveals the scale of the disaster. the four—lane highway collapsed a0 metres onto the valley floo

it is beautiful in london, the temperature is just right, it is beautiful in london, the temperature isjust right, not it is beautiful in london, the temperature is just right, not too hot, not too cold, blue skies and we are still crying out for rain. there is some in the forecast this week. todayis is some in the forecast this week. today is largely dry for england and wales, patchy rain in scotland and northern ireland but this week it will turn fresher and there will be rain at times. some more significant rain at times. some more significant rain is quite possible towards the end of this week even in the south—east, where we haven't really seen south—east, where we haven't really seen any. south—east, where we haven't really seen any. what's happening is we have two weather fronts across us at the moment, the cold one with the blue triangles is slowly moving south—east through the next couple of days and as it does that will introduce fresher conditions. this morning we have patchy light rain and drizzle in parts of scotland and northern ireland, moving south into northe