meanwhile, the new york times focusses on alphabet, the parent company of google, reporting quarterly profits down by 23%. the paper describes it as a rare financial stumble by the tech giant. on a lighter note, the times carries a story on its front page about the queen giving elocution lessons to her dresser, angela kelly. and finally, the daily mail splashes on how to kill a cold within hours of catching it. that is assuming you know you have got one. lots of remedies in there. so let's begin. with me is fiona cincotta, who's a senior market analyst at city index. let's start with the financial times. many pictures of boris johnson, his attempts to get the december 12 election through. he needed a supermajority, two—thirds 01’ more needed a supermajority, two—thirds or more to vote yes. he did not get that, which is not a surprise, but

he is going to try again today? that is right. there is this feeling this might be the last chance to be able to get that election in december. so, he's going for a different route which requires a simple majority. as far as statistics are talking, it's possibly easierfor him far as statistics are talking, it's possibly easier for him to get that than the two—thirds majority. there are is talk from the liberal democrats and the snp that they can actually be supporting this as long as he puts his brexit deal on hold while the elections take place. so there is a sensation that this could be, the population voting for that deal, or not, that could be broadly interpreted that way. absolutely. and the financial times talks about the difficulty he had in parliament late yesterday, jeremy corbyn, the

labour leader saying "we are being wrongfooted by this prime minister and his government, we don't trust the prime minister." which is why labour, the vac majority of those on the opposition party, didn't vote for a december 12 election. they are worried brexit might get posed through in the meantime while eve ryo ne through in the meantime while everyone is electioneering. -- boost. there is a huge sense of distrust in parliament and among politicians right now. in terms of the actual withdrawal meant bill —— withdrawal agreement bill, or wab, thatis withdrawal agreement bill, or wab, that is on hold now in terms of debating what is in the withdrawal agreement bill. that's right, and thatis agreement bill. that's right, and that is why the focus is coming to these elections. he wants to have a mandate from the british public to really drive through brexit when he doesn't really have that right now. we shall see what happens. in the meantime, the coins must be melted. the 50p coins minted to commemorate october 31, they are going to melt them all down. there was one with

march 31 printed. it's getting embarrassing, isn't it? laughter. i know! this is an embarrassment for boris johnson because he took such a firm line on this as well. "do or die", "i would rather be dead in a ditch." so now to be melting down the coins, it does feel like the final humiliation. but we don't know what will happen yet. let's not spend money on making coins forjanuary 31, because who knows what could happen? in the times, google posting a 23% decline in profits. alphabet, the owner of google. why the decline? ad revenue, their main revenue, is not going as fast as it used to. they have had increased

competition from armours on and snap. they have also invested money in other areas like the cloud, self—driving cars, hardware, fed. the revenue actually increased, much more than analysts were expecting, but because of increased costs and pushes into different areas, profits have been heard. years ago, alphabet 01’ have been heard. years ago, alphabet or google could do no wrong, they we re or google could do no wrong, they were the dialling of all street in terms of the stocks he wanted to have in your portfolio. but now there is so much more attention on there is so much more attention on the likes of google and facebook and their influence, whether they should be regulated or not, whether their wings should be lit in terms of the marketing spend, how much they dominate that as well, the advertising industry. there are a lot of regulatory issues on at the

moment that they are under the spotlight on. that is something that could dent the share price going forward if these investigations do go forward to prove to be of the mattock. a lesson from the queen's english from the queen herself. angela kelly, her majesty's dresser, who has released a book talking about her relationship with the queen and how it works and what you do when you are her majesty's addresses. —— dresser. wearing her shoes, they are the same size. that's wonderful. normally you are not allowed to say a word when you work in buckingham palace with your relationship or what happens. angela kelly has been given the all clear by the queens are really sold these details. it's fascinating, isn't it?

_by details. it's fascinating, isn't it? —— by the queen to release all these details. it's fascinating. yet add some colour to the relationships within the royal household. a lesson in the queen's english from the queen herself. that is the horse's mouth, isn't it? it's a really lovely story that she was telling the queen, well, she wanted elocution lessons. the queen said that she would help her with a few words. no, it was lovely. really nice anecdotal stories. another one was revealed that when michelle obama hugged the queen, which is not the done thing at all, etiquette says you just do not go there. the queen hugged her back. there was not a discussion about how the queen reacted to that, whether she was ok with that. angela kelly reveals in her book at the queen was very happy with the hug and was happy to

respond. right. let's talk about how to kill a cold hours after cutting it. this is the daily mail which has talked to three experts, one of them professor ron echoes, director of the common cold centre in cardiff university. he knew there was such a place? how can we stop this? we are talking about over the course of 18 hours there are different remedies. the first one — two hours, gel in the nose which can trap the bug. how do you know you have got it? that is the difficult question. a sneeze is a lwa ys the difficult question. a sneeze is always an early warning. sickly nose? it is the body's attempt to expel the virus. trying to get it out, so i think that is a fairly early on sign. and then you've got the classic rest, because it takes over your body, you need that. the classic rest, because it takes over your body, you need thatlj

over your body, you need that.” don't get any rest. chicken soup was in there, it might be anti—inflammatory, decongestants and some hot lemon and honey. honey and lemon provide immediate relief on a sore throat and a cough. didn't mention vitamin c? it mentions vitamin cand mention vitamin c? it mentions vitamin c and it says if you are living with somebody who has a cold, you will probably catch it anyway evenif you will probably catch it anyway even if you do take vitamin c. so it is our by our what to do. hours 2—9, do you have any top tips? rest ideal. i feel like i'm getting a cold. i have thousands and thousands of milligrams of vitamin c believing that will help. let's see what you have been saying about this. you have been saying about this. you have so many various ideas and remedies. john says get your

business odds, i had to get my shots in may for the first time in years. -- flu in may for the first time in years. —— flu shots. i went through the whole season without getting cold. and drinka whole season without getting cold. and drink a lot of water. we've also heard the mothers how the virus breeds in the nose. steam yourface over a basin of hot water, tea tree oil, alba soil, nothing else has medical evidence to work. —— albus oil. and finally, don't go to work and share the virus. right? using the keyboard, spreading the love? laughter. we've all been there, we will see no. thank you so much for joining me. and i hope you have a really good day. i hope you are healthy, we will see you soon.

hello there. well, it was a cold but glorious start to the new working week. in fact, parts of lancashire had over nine hours of sunshine on that monday. and it doesn't get much better than that, really, at this time of year. now, the next few days will stay dry and sunny but we still keep that cold theme. so, high pressure hanging on in there, but the winds are going to change to more of an easterly direction and that could have a consequence for one or two of us. and at the same time, into the south—west we've still got that nuisance weather front which willjust enhance a little more in the way of cloud and outbreaks of rain. but it's going to be a chilly start tuesday, as you can see quite widely, low single figures for many with that cloud and light rain into the south—west keeping those temperatures up here. so, it could be a disappointing start to tuesday, then, across the isles of scilly the channel isles and into parts of cornwall. but elsewhere, despite that chilly start, despite that frosty start, lovely spells of sunshine once again. but with an easterly breeze

we could see a few showers later on in the day coming up through the thames estuary, can't rule out one or two generally across that east coast. now, as we go through the evening, on tuesday we still keep those clear skies for many. but that rain just edges that little bit further inland and so that means temperatures are going to hold up at around 7—10 degrees south of the m4 corridor, further north of that, again it's another cold start. so the high pressure is still with the bulk of the country but it is starting to shift its way a little bit further east, and these weather fronts threaten a little bit further as we go into wednesday. so yet again a bit of a north—south divide, some decent spells of sunshine after a good start for scotland, northern ireland and northern england. clouding over from south wales and into the midlands, an we'll see some outbreaks of rain into the south—west, predominantly. here, temperatures 11—13 degrees, further north we are looking at 8—10 celsius as a high. now as we move out of wednesday into thursday, that frontal system is going to start to push in from the atlantic, the high pressure drifts east off into the near continent. so things are going

to start to change. now, in some respects that might please some of you because it is going to get milder, the mild air pushing in from the west, pushing that cold air off into the near continent. but, it also is going to get wetter yet again. so there's going to be some rain around for the end of the working week, thursday into friday. but we're likely to see those temperatures returning back into the mid—teens for many. so, if you haven't already got the message, as we close out the week it looks as though it is going to be rain at times but milder. take care.

good morning, welcome to breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. our headlines today: a damning report into the grenfell tower disaster — london fire brigade's response is described as wholly inadequate and lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner. borisjohnson will try again today to win support for a december general election, despite mps rejecting his plan yesterday. two british men have been seriously injured in a shark attack in australia. the plastic straw of the fashion industry — 100 million hangers are thrown away every year in the uk. french fashion designer,

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