hub and let's get to caroline hyde in london for more on how london is bringing in big tech.oline: thank you very much, and i will speak to the man whose job is to do just that. he is the first of london's cheap officers effort. he is touring the west coast as he speaks and joins us now on "bloomberg technology." great to have you on "bloomberg technology." talk to us about how much trade and investment you are managing to her in from big tex into london. have you found any big deal is yet? >> we are here for two purposes. one is to bang the drum for the u.k. tech sector and particularly london's tech sector. london is a city of convergence with over 40 tech sectors located there from artificial intelligence to cleantech, financial capital, obviously of europe. secondly, we are here to discuss smart cities, how we use data to make london a more livable place and also open up opportunities for business. those two things together, we are over here supported by our team in london and partners which helps brings businesses to the u.k. and helps them start of their and deal with r

they should get out now and ta ke london.ut now and take their families and be gone immediately. that sounds like an invitation, or are you saying that he would take steps to force them out? i am saying that we should make it absolutely clear that their wealth is not acceptable here, we should be using unexplained wealth orders to freeze the assets and seize their goods and should be robust. but there are lawful and legal and honourable people who have come from russia, who have fled the brutality of the putin regime and you're living in exile, sadly, in london, and they are welcome here and have a place because the bond between our two people are very, very close. you only need to get postcards of sore neck of the second standing next to george v to realise that ourfamilies standing next to george v to realise that our families are very close. —— of these are standing next to george v. the links between scientists and research and cosmologists and i points to a depth of connection between the united kingdom and russia that i

they were risky cases london bombers. work with. who else is supposed to work with them? in this case we supposed to work with them? in this case we knew he was part of the programme and still plotting an attack? i have been putting this argument too many colleagues in the prevent field and civil servants and ministers. the current home secretary fully understood my concerns about the practitioners we have at the moment on the ground, but over the last five or six years, the level of expertise is appalling and aside from that, the level of risk averse this within government is also appalling. there are lessons to be learned. since 2006, we have had a number of different experts coming out with policies and ideas and strategies and we're still learning lessons. this is costing lives. this is absolutely ridiculous to come from the government, to say we are still learning lessons. how successful ca n we are still learning lessons. how successful can these programmes really hope to be with everybody? if we just really hope to

mayor sadiq khan of london.ank you for joining us from austin. >>> two important issues for america and the world in our focus tonight. and that is it for our program. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs and join us again tomorrow night. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. ♪ katty: the british prime minister slams the russian government over the poisoning of a former spy. christian: theresa may says it is likely the kremlin was involved. what is she going to do about it? katty: the russian ambassador has been summoned to explain, and mrs. may says there can't be business as usual with moscow. >> this is attempted murder using a nerve agent in a british town. it is not just a crime. it was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the u.k. katty: radio silence from north korea on trump's offers of talks. there is still much to be agreed. christian:

its spread all over london now.een about unilever moving their headquarters out of london and at the same time you are moving your headquarters and choosing to stay in london. is brexiter concern for you? it's a concern because we hire the best of the best from europe. but london is an ecosystem, and ecosystems are very important and the creative industries are very powerful and work of each other in london. with brexit, you are used to hiring people from across the eu and to some extent you might be hamstrung. i hope david davis will give me some clarity because at the moment we hire people from uk universities and european universities. that's very important for us, the flow of graduates is important and i hope it will not be disrupted. a clarion call for clarity, we have heard that a few times. your focus is on the us and asia. you would see that is partly the way that you avoid the issue. in the uk, in europe and america, there are less than 1 billion consumers for what we collectively do as a living, in terms o

meanwhile, the teenage bomber left london and went on the run.te britain because his father had been killed by coalition forces in iraq. at the time of his attack he was on the government's de—radicalisation programme, prevent, aimed at turning people away from terrorism. he was very cunning and devious and, on the face of it, hassan was engaged on the programme but coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive in relation to what he was doing, what he was planning, and nobody around him actually knew what his plot was. 2a hours on from the attack, firearms officers were surrounding hassan‘s house in sunbury in surrey. inside were his petrified elderly foster pa rents, penny and ron jones. this was a couple who had received mbes from the queen for fostering hundreds of children. ahmed hassan repaid them for giving him a home by secretly building a bomb in their kitchen. and it came out in court that the teenager staying in their spare bedroom had told immigration officials he had been kidnapped and trained to kill by the islamic st

it would be awful to have a total attack on all russians in london.this expatriate russian committee, the political parties should be careful and government should be careful and government should be careful and government should be very careful about who it does business with and take money from. people are saying there is a trouble with jeremy corbyn's judgement about russia. is that the only problem with british politics and russian influence? it has got to be said that the conservative party has been very rash in some of its, who it has taken money from, who would have done business with, and new labour who is currently on the war path againstjeremy corbyn has all kinds of questions to answer. but russian money has washed around the corridors of power in london for perhaps too long. the question is will be nerve agents poisonings in salisbury change anything, or will it continue to be rubles as usual? we might pick up 12 of those things shortly, but the country has not just been talking about russia this week, we have also been talking aboutjeremy

mayor sadiq khan of london.ank you for joining us from austin. >>> two important issues for america and the world in our focus tonight. and that is it for our program. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs and join us again tomorrow night. >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter. ♪ ♪ ♪

it was enormously helpful and turned into the source of numerous stories exposing dirty london, the londonfinancial world and came to trust me. he was desperate to have someone in his life who would listen to him and actually hear him and not judge him through the lens of this is an evil criminal. i am pretty empathetic usually, like most other journalists at the time i viewed him, and i loved the idea of cops busting as a journalist, nor bankers need to be locked up and i was a cheerleader for the idea and the irony is a banking criminal, and i was meeting with tom at least once a week. this guy is not the big party guy, really true, he loved me taking him out to tgi friday's where he would get something really fancy and didn't drink at all. eventually his wife found out we were secretly meeting and threatened to divorce him and if he continued and we had to develop a more clandestine way of arranging to meet. after a year of this, tom has not been on trial yet, he is awaiting trial, started cooperating with the british authorities to help build cases against alleged co-conspirators and t

firstly, banging the drum for investment in london, explaining why london is a place to come to if youator, a tech company. we have seen apples, googles, amazons expanding into london, also startups and scale out. as we embark in this forced industrial -- this tech revolution, the pace is exponential. too longave seen for in the recent past is the pitchrs vacating and assuming tech companies will act responsibly and offensively. technology is fantastic. all of us use social media to meet friends, go on a date and fall in love with people, or to poor creativity on social media. we have to recognize that sometimes social media can be used negatively. terrorists, far right group radicalizing people to become extremists. politicians,s policymakers and tech companies work together to grapple with these issues, don't be surprised if people start putting pressure on politicians and consumers put pressure on tech companies to take action. mayor, there are still people saying that brexit is just one year way that perhaps the city of london or the u.k. is more or less a less attractive place to

and the symbol of iraq's resilience and loss which is being unveiled in london's trafalgar square. hello we have high pressure in charge across a good part of north asia means largely fine interact for much of to paddle and also into the korean peninsula that dry weather the subtle weather the high pressure that extends its way down towards beijing where we have had some visibility problems recently some pollution problems as well trapped underneath that large area of high pressure the ante cycle and that has led to visibility is falling below five hundred metres in places across parts of northern and northeastern china over the last two or three days hopefully things will improve as we go on for the next day out so you can see some disturbed weather pushing its way in from the northwest and that will help to just wash things out and as we go through friday on into saturday winds coming in from over a westerly direction twenty six celsius in beijing warm enough went to the high teens across the korean peninsula add also into much of japan although a socket to touch twenty degrees c

this week, glushkov was due to appear in court in london.ties were continuing to pursue him for more than £100 million of aeroflot‘s money. did his past make him a target? russia's sternest critics have no problem believing that. mr glushkov‘s death fits into a wider pattern of the last 12 years or so of kremlin opponents dropping dead across europe. the consequences for the kremlin of this were limited forfar too long. the uk response has recently been much stronger but there's still an awful lot more that we could do. but it's clear to take the strongest possible action britain will have to rely on the gathering of solid evidence. so the world watches another complex investigation unfold. an iraqi teenager who smuggled himself into britain on a lorry to seek asylum has been found guilty of the london tube bombing at parson's green. 18—year—old ahmed hassan left his bomb on a packed underground train during rush hour. the device only partially detonated, but injured 50 people. it's emerged that hassan was on the government's deradicalisatio

this week, glushkov was due to appear in court in london.rities were continuing to pursue him for more than £100 million of aeroflot‘s money. did his past make him a target? russia's sternest critics have no problem believing that. mr glushkov‘s death fits into a wider pattern over the last 12 years or so of kremlin opponents dropping dead across europe. the consequences for the kremlin of this were limited forfar too long. the uk response has recently been much stronger, but there's still an awful lot more that we could do. but it's clear to take the strongest possible action britain will have to rely on the gathering of solid evidence. so the world watches another complex investigation unfold. the direct attack by britain's foreign secretary on the russian president has triggered a swift and angry response in return. borisjohnson says he believes it's "overwhelmingly likely" that president putin was personally responsible for directing the use of a nerve agent on the former spy sergei skripal and his daughter in salisbury. the kremlin has

so, london is a great city to start up a business.rse, we have seen the likes of google and facebook investing in some big european headquarters in london as well. uber has been the big headlight in terms of being under fire with your administration when it comes to their license being revoked. what do you need to see from the company here for them to continue to operate in the city of london? uber is a very popular service around the world. uber, and my message to everyone, no matter how many lawyers you employ or p.r. experts, he will play by the rules. the rules are there for everyone and if you play by the rules, of course you can do business in london. i want london to be a place where disruptive companies come, where tech companies come, but you have got to play by the rules. time, theews, of the new ceo of uber has a very when comparedtude fro with the previous ceo. and this bodes well for over. emily: london mayor sadiq khan there. this is bloomberg. deborah: it is 11:29 in hong kong. china has announced plans for $43 trillion

people think that london is the thin tech hub in london, you are betting on dublin, wife?t. it is in the eu. also, dublin is increasing its phenomenal talent market. where you have this melting pot effect. it reminds me of what you get in the valley and what you get in london, people coming from all over europe to work in dublin. we are using dublin as a hub for which to serve europe, the middle east, and africa. what is the threat to the —— what is the threat brexit has on london as the tech hub?l to the —— what is the threat brexit has on london as the tech hub? a big one. it is twofold. firstly, in actuality, it'll get harder to have actuality, it'll get harder to have a talent hub here where people from across europe, especially, are coming to work. we are seeing this in the us right now where it has already proven the case that people are already proven the case that people a re less already proven the case that people are less willing to move to the us. they don't even want to enter the visa process because of what they perceive to be the political climate and how th

good morning from bbc london news.bling in the last five years. government figures show that there were more than 1,000 incidents reported each day in the last year — creating a cost of more than £18 million. members of the london assembly's environment committee are calling on the mayor to adopt a london—wide strategy to tackle the problem. more police will be at west ham united's next home game at the london stadium — after crowd trouble on saturday as the team lost to burnley. at an emergency meeting yesterday, the club was also warned it could play behind closed doors — if there's a repeat of the trouble. the family of a toddler from carshalton say they need to find £80,000 to fund treatment before he loses his hearing altogether. benjamin needs cochlear implants, but they can't be funded by the nhs under current guidelines. we wa nt we want him to be able to hear the ocean, hear the birds, we want him to be able to hear the ocean, hearthe birds, dance we want him to be able to hear the ocean, hear the birds, dance

having had 14 in london yesterday!ople falling is expected to rise to nearly 1000 a day by the end of the decade. that's according to figures obtained by the local government association. it's prompted calls for more funding for adult social care. the former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, has been fired just days before he was due to formally retire. andrew mccabe said his sacking had been politically motivated, and claimed it was part of a wider effort to taint the fbi. president trump tweeted it had been a "great day for democracy". sport now...and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here's john acres. it has been snowing at twickenham. we've reached the climax of this year's six nations championship, three matches today and a huge afternoon ahead at twickenham. ireland have already taken the title but they're looking to complete the grand slam with victory over england, who've yet to lose at twickenham under eddiejones. here's olly foster. jose mourinho gave a 12 minute answer to a question at

and as break that news london face it could lose its top creative talent. base is your business update on how to humphrey invited good to have you with us as promised u.s. president donald trump has slapped tariffs on china in response to a trade deficit which he has termed out of control and allegations of industrial scale intellectual property theft the levies on steel an ottoman image you to come into force tomorrow meanwhile the european union and six other countries have been spared the same fate for now at least they have been granted temporary exemptions u.s. trade representative robert light told a senate panel that trump has authorized a quote pools in the tariffs while talks are underway to find a more permanent solution argentina australia brazil canada mexico and south korea will also be exempt from the twenty five percent tariffs on steel imports and ten percent tariffs on the menu. while the same cannot be said for china the world's second largest economies facing levies on products coming into the united states worth up to sixty billion dolla

london's tate gallery honours picassos.f money. we have good news for music fans. regulators are cracking down on so—called secondary ticket providers that re—sell tickets for sold out shows and inflated prices. many artists like ed sheeran are opposed to their practices, which can often see tickets selling for far more than their face value, he now insists that four forms of id are shown by fans at his concerts. lots of you getting in touch about this, you feel strongly about it. paying for foo fighters tickets, i pay double the price on a certain site because i wanted to see them and the official site sold out in minutes. they resold tickets for the original price. lots of artists are getting involved in solving the problem, aren't they? 300 pounds for gaga tickets, they were £46 each face value. went on sale 10am, straight on the site, never again. this person said they were too ill to go to the gig so they were unused. many people saying about the time that tickets go on sale, people are at work, they disappear complete

london this morning. understand, snow falling over london. london.storm right now. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m sara orchard. is expected to cause disruption across the capital later today. to check before they travel. for their journeys. situation this morning. and london overground. great western, greater anglia, and gatwick express. with your airline before travelling. and poor visibility. following an earlier accident. camden market has announced a ban on the sale of all fur items. were in fact from animals. the animal rights organisation, peta, has welcomed the move. about the garden bridge project. had already been spent. mrjohnson will be asked who‘s accountable for the expenditure. let‘s have a check on the weather now with elizabeth rizzini. good morning. in previous days, we‘ve had some snow, but also some sunshine. today it‘s looking a lot less pleasant. pushing up from the south. we have two met office weather warnings out. but also the strength of the wind. right across the capital. it was always going to be worse the further w

outside of london, there is a world outside of london, there is a world outside of london, amazingly,r public transport, and houses are being built, and every house has two cars, roads cannot take that number of cars, there are too many cars, it is not good enough or frequent enough, public transport, and if you ta ke enough, public transport, and if you take away bus lanes, and sometimes in london the buses are back—to—back, you can walk across them rather than get on them. i think everyone should stay at home, check their facebook all the time... 0r... all, stay away from the quizzes, all, join elon musk, have your car floating around in space! the mail, and the sun. plastic bottles victory for the daily mail... they have one in 5p charge on plastic bags in the past, and now a bottle scheme... there is nothing new. you will not remember this, but we do! whatever happened to the limit bottles. i do find this astonishing, the daily mail has no shame! it is a 10—year campaign against plastic pollution. i seem to remember they were very disgruntled about the 5p plastic bag charge, and t

markets in london. well you say you summed up the numbers quite nicely just a few few minutes ago and you talked about the fact that the european economy now perform the u.k. economy and that is only true. contrary to the predictions of doom and gloom that work came out the fall the brics referendum economic growth actually hasn't been that bad and let's not forget here that the u.k. economy has expanded from twenty consecutive quarters has been expanding since two thousand and twelve the economic recovery here is much more mature than say for example the economic recovery in europe so i think we are slightly ahead of you in the economic cycle which would i think reinforce the reasons i think why the european economy is probably growing at a faster right but certainly i think there are there are obviously negatives inflation you mentioned it is slightly higher it has pressed down on consumer spending but overall the unemployment rate is twenty five year low and wages to finally starts to be appear to be

earlier this week business was found dead in london on monday police have confirmed the cause of death was compression to the neck was a close associate of prominent bhushan opponent boris berezovsky who was found dead in the u.k. in two thousand and thirteen tens of thousands of slovak ins have turned out in the capital bratislava to demand early elections they are angry at the failure of political leaders to address high level corruption slovakia's prime minister abbott feet so resigned on thursday following the killing of journalist young could siac that's it for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is next. al jazeera. where ever you. alone has a secret this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week are all knowing russians getting all they bargained for as putin heads for reelection. also this week saudi aramco puts its i.p.o. on ice and keeps the financial world guessing about the fate of the world's biggest stock market listing. plus open for business the push to revive zimbabwe's economy . well he is on

been there i seen the a picture a for london as a center for financial services for quite some time we have the infrastructure here in the u.k. you know with the guy whites of the u.s. with a gateway to europe i would really hesitate before we start calling that the noise of london as a financial center it's culprit pretty much going everything going in his favor and i would really urge policymakers on both sides of the channel to think of that in the months ahead. look at trade relations britain will not get any special deal it seems and become one trading partner of many for the you will that hurt and who. yeah i mean financial services are a big part of the relationship between the between the european union and the united kingdom makani the bank of england governor said essentially london in the u.k. is the central bank head to the european economy so wallie officials have said there will be no financial services paul supposing i think it's incumbent on both sides to make sure there is some form of arrangement which does include financial services there was some talk about it wi

meanwhile, the teenage bomber left london and went on the run. britain because his father had been killed by coalition forces in iraq. at the time of his attack he was on the government's de—radicalisation programme, prevent, aimed at turning people away from terrorism. he was very cunning and devious and, on the face of it, hassan was engaged on the programme but coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive in relation to what he was doing, what he was planning, and nobody around him actually knew what his plot was. 2a hours on from the attack, firearms officers were surrounding hassan's house in sunbury in surrey. inside were his petrified elderly foster pa rents, penny and ron jones. this was a couple who had received mbes from the queen for fostering hundreds of children. ahmed hassan repaid them for giving him a home by secretly building a bomb in their kitchen. and it came out in court that the teenager staying in their spare bedroom had told immigration officials he had been kidnapped and trained to kill by the islamic stat

when lit within couple of day in london it was the same situation and still we hear no. results of that investigation so we will wait. someone will find. the results and. if we hear from any. relation to it we'll take measures but even so i mean it's terms are saying i'm sorry if i just may interrupt you for a second this is an army grade nerve agent that was well made in russia so there is some link there is there somebody else who manufactures this type of talks it. these never guess maybe one hundred chips in any country because. as we know the formula is well known it is present in the internet. and we have no stockpiles of chemical weapons in our country so we reject these accusations ok that's very clear barbara want to go to you in london moscow asked london to back up its claim with evidence why are british authorities so reluctant to share the proof. because it is going to take quite a while and people here are experts who even speak of some months where until they really can be sort of like a trail of evidence that is presented police is still working on how th

and oflong as a large group clients are in london we will have large operations in london.t was the euro next ceo speaking to bloomberg. it can cap -- you can catch that interview on rules and returns at 8:00 p.m. london tomorrow night. let's get a bloomberg business flash. we go to hong kong and debra mao. : softbank is edging closer to a deal to buy a stake in swiss three, value the reinsurer at as much as 39 billion dollars. according to people with knowledge, the company is holding talks to buy a 25% stake. the acquisition would [indiscernible] with healthy cash flow. --wiss rate representative swiss re-representative was not available to comment. it is considering a bid for shire. if the offer goes a headache could approach $50 billion which would make it the japanese company -- make the japanese company's biggest takeover. the ceo is seeking growth overseas. with a shrinking domestic population limiting opportunities. cme group has reached an agreement to buy next group. the value is at 3.9 billion pounds. acquiring next which runs markets for trading currencies compl

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we were working in london. and we we re we were working in london. of the project we were coming back with my wife from london and we came to waterloo station and near waterloo station is the russian shop where russian food is being sold, and of course as usual you can't find original russian but from former soviet republics. it is run not by a russian but by an afghan quy not by a russian but by an afghan guy who speaks russian. what became there there was a man who was buying different stuff also there, and we recognised each other because we had once met in russia but frankly speaking i recognised only that i know the face. but he had better memory maybe but also because of my articles and might story with kremlin and conflict i was the only one who accused kremlin of corruption and started official criminal prosecution, and because of my story the head of the service lost hisjob, the my story the head of the service lost his job, the deputy lost his job, everybody in the department was fired and lost theirjobs, the head of the police as a result

emily: that was london mayor sadiq khan.nvestors are lapping up the labor and's entry -- lapping up blue apron's entry into brick-and-mortar. no word yet on how much the meals will cost in stores, but the kits will be available by the end of the year. shares have dropped more than 75% since the ipl last june. coming up, the emily: a former equifax executive is facing charges. federal prosecutors announced wednesday that a grand jury has indicted her for selling $1 million of equifax stock before the stock was announced. the company did not disclose the breach until september 7. ceo elizabeth holmes was accused, in addition to the ban she was serving for operating blood testing labs. they live for years about their technology and used the publicity to get investors to fork over more than $700 million. tech company recalled it -- claimed it could run multiple tests on a drop of blood for a fraction of the cost. we have the detailed from gadfly and bloomberg tech. just a fascinating story here and fascinating filing that was dr

emily: caroline hyde in london.wants a bigger piece of wantsoming toronto office to occupy 20 locations in toronto by 2020. offices in toronto were 90% occupied and wework is benefiting off of global shared offices and freelance contracts. apple is making another big push in video and it is not by acquiring netflix. all the details next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: tesla temporarily suspended election of the model three sedan for a week in late february. it was a plan that ultimately will help increase output of the closely watched vehicle and model three production was i don't and the production rate has been a source of fascination i fans and investors alike and the work has developed a tool to estimate output. february, the tracker indicated the weekly production rate had plunged. cheap at sxsw suggest that apple isn't interested in buying netflix or disney and instead will build out its own original video content. the tech giant is wide a digital magazine for in undisclosed amount. it will boost efforts of onlin

and the expectation is that much will be exactly the same and london will be exactly the same and londongs here. probably shootings in new york. and reg retta bly, probably shootings in new york. and regrettably, a lot of these crimes in london are involving young black boysin in london are involving young black boys in rival gangs and you probably remember the metropolitan commissioner the others —— the other day saying it is so feeling they start running rows on the internet and it whips up the excitement, with up, move them into going onto the street and doing terrible things to each other. that is one aspect. it is distressing to put it mildly that we are ahead of new york. do you have children that use social media? yes. how do you pass on the message. my yes. how do you pass on the message. my child is now 30 years old. 0k, grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am withjohn. my grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am with john. my children are grown grandchildren. no, i am afraid i am withjohn. my children are grown up, but the question is siddique khan has done some good work on this, get i

hi and welcome back to sara's music today we're at the barbican center in the heart of london and as part of the sound unbound festival this weekend every corner of this huge building is full of music and other really cool events. this is the main consequence of the boppin center and the home of the wonderful london symphony orchestra to start off the festival they are treating us to some john williams. huge we have a fantastic bird's eye view over the lake fired up here i love it as head of music of the papa kid what is the idea behind this weekend's assign them bound is a weekend of sixty call to over four hundred fifty performers and then on to the weekend is really about shine people that classical music has my boundaries it is limitless i'm really the something for everyone so often there are so different calls it's going on at once and people have to make choices and they have to choose their journeys and everyone is having their own individual experience of this everyone is taking the own journey through this and this was incredibly exciting for us and i saw a tweet cooling du

cooled in the last year with london a particular weak.onsumers facing a squeeze on their incomes after brexit. a report from nationwide building society last week showing that brexit and the weaker economic outlook are reinforcing the slowdown in 2018. let's move on, some investors concerned the most popular trend following commodities trading, ctas not able to handle son declines and sudden volatility -- sudden declines and sudden volatility spikes. it fell 6.4% in february. the worst month since 2001 according to a basket of the largest 20 managers. funds in the first three trading days of march and many programs were built on data from nine years of relative market calm. that is breaking down. seng, benchmark in hong kong fell 1% today, buffeted by concerns over a possible trade war. -- a rebound yesterday and a decline of 2.2% on monday and the last time measures had back-to-back moves up over 2% was in january of 2016 and the risk of a global trade conflict is coinciding with the annual npc. a gauge of 50 day volatility of the hang s

south london has been affected.after controversially being introduced into several london boroughs, nearly 75% of council tenants who claim "universal credit" are now behind with their rent. it was supposed to simplify the benefits system, but critics say the credit has delayed payments, which pushes some of london's poorest people into debt. that is 12 weeks without money, 12 weeks without paying my rent every weeks without paying my rent every week 12 weeks without paying my licence, because all i could borrow money for was food and gas. i could not taken my friends and that, pay for my bank loan, pay for my tv licence. so, itjust mounted and mounted. -- say to my friends. the government says it's taken seven days off the wait time and offered an extra fortnight of housing benefit to help ease the situation for new claimants. pushing ahead with universal credit, it says, will help people get back into work. a theatre group is helping military vetera ns a theatre group is helping military veterans come to terms wit

of what happened in london with alexander litvinenko this other perilous being drawn somebody kremlin critic who was poisoned here here in london and at this point in time there is no official of official analogy or the police are not saying that it's got anything to do with russia or you know the that is something that they could link the kremlin to but of course this is what people will be wanting to find out more about you know people are speculating indeed berkut erin coming to you we saw a report a little bit about this former russian agent but what more can you tell us about. well you know paul is that he was actually over the course of thirty years in agent for the g.r.u. that's the russian military intelligence service in two thousand and four he was arrested in that used to being a double agent for the british secret intelligence services and those were allegations he actually admitted to it seems that seriously paul had become a double agent sometime in the ninety's he admitted to taking money in exchange for turning over information that expose the identity of several dozen

and had of asylum here in london he was poisoned in central london. not very far from where i am at the moment and he died in two thousand and six of university college hospital which is also just around the corner were now in which which was at the time the seed of a huge media interest from all over the world there was an inquiry held into his death. and that found out that the most likely vladimir putin was to be held responsible for his death which was caused by polonium at the time and indeed there was a trail of polonium all over london and this is something that a lot of london as i think can still remember our data is very good masa with the latest from london thank you becker. now some other stories making news around the world uncertainty is mounting in italy after sunday's election failed to establish a majority for any single party leaders of both the euro skeptic five star movement and the anti immigrant league are now buying to rule the country there are unlikely coalition partners in forming a government could take weeks of negotiations

just standing outside here of the london headquarters the c.e.o. paul polman said that it was really more to do with the streamlining of the company to make it more focused more efficient and that it was simply the corporate of that would be rebalanced over to. that the majority of those seven thousand three hundred jobs that are based in this country would remain here he also went on to say that the company has invested in manufacturing and research here in this in this country that it wouldn't do so if it had been thinking about sort of pulling out all together so really looking at some more of that streamlining effect having it and more to do with the legal headquarters being based out of holland thereby instead of making it a jewel headed company just making a single entity in that respect but it may have something to do with the fact that over the twelve year review it did have a hostile takeover bid from the u.s. food giant croft times trying to make a bid for that that was unsuccessful but if it continues to remain in the u.k. the u.k. has l

they joining us now from london is our correspondent of it so good evening to you tess so so what do we know so far about the investigation into coffs death so he has been found yes of the night probably by its doctor but these requests have not been confirmed there was a report that he had traces of strangulation on his neck and that even the name has to now not been consent police so we have to wait in the met and requests of needless to say that he lived a very quiet life it was nice he came back two weeks ago from an operation on his leg with an kratos so he didn't seem to have the easiest periods of his life but right now. i'm tell us more about scalds background and why it's important. he was an associate in friend of or a spare izhevsk who was not only in a russian oligarch an ex and might want the most pronounced poutine critics of the past eighteen years and. because he was in this. had lots of problems also till today with a russian authorities he first when barry's us he moved to london in two thousand. was put in jail for fraud for a few minutes in russia and after he was

subsequently also killed him here in london and it was a case that really strained the u.k. russian relations it was a long standing inquest which was pursued by the widow of alexander litvinenko so of course it's something that comes to mind when you hear a case like this but the police saying it's not a counterterrorism operation at this moment but of course. you know people will be thinking about what what happened here before ok ok our correspondent there you must there in london with this breaking news story a sixty six year old man a thirty three year old woman the man we understand is a former russian spy who both of them living in the u.k. in critical condition this evening having been exposed to an unknown substance thank you very much. the ramifications of italy's national action are starting to unfold with its once promising leader former prime minister matteo renzi has resigned as head of the center left democratic party after a bruising defeat in the polls frenzy made the announcement just moments ago his party won less than nineteen percent of the vote that is

i'm on the in central london, we have a few white rooftops around london but up and down the country an improvement in the weather so it will be a most lieb dry day. a return to some sunshine. ice will be a problem because what we will see it is some of the snowfall will ring out during the day and then re— freezing once the sun goes down. some pretty tricky conditions over the next few days, disruption also likely. through the course of this week, things will start to change and feel a little more springlike. after the cold and the dry start, temperatures bradley on the rise. but reform gradually. —— gradually. but reform gradually. —— gradually. but across the country, we have got a largely dry day. a little more cloud in the far south in one or two flurries of snow hanging on down towards the channel isles. the cloud wolf dean and break up. much of the country a dry day and return to some fairly feeling sunshine. this afternoon across southern england and wales, still a cold north—east of the wind so although there will be some sunshine it will feel cold. watch a fall of the lying

were joining me now from london is timothy ash a senior emerging markets sovereign strategist with blue bay asset management thanks very much for being with us so is russia under putin's leadership equipped to deal with the current economic challenges was a difficult few years i mean we had sanctions and lower all prices from twenty fourteen onwards the russian authorities kind of put the barricades up we saw we've had a very tight fiscal and monetary policy since and it's been about building barricades and defenses and you know that's worked in some respects it's created financial stability exchange rates been pretty stable inflation is drops the problem is they haven't had growth i mean growth has been very weak and very disappointing arguably fiscal and monetary policy has been too tight too aggressive because of concerns about the political challenges facing russia and putin is also held back from you know structure of forms of the russian economy is in dire need of the per deep structural forms things like business environment fighting corruption is lots of demographic problems in

we are already seeing talent we would naturally come to to london immediately after their studies on hesitating and so they might move to barcelona or berlin or london is an expensive city as well so it's kind of slowly losing traction the u.k. benefits hugely from london's reputation as a hub for creativity creative industries amount almost ten percent of all u.k. exports creative workers are in high demand there are already skill shortages creative industries are amongst the fastest growing sectors of the u.k. economy industry leaders want the government to recognise that asking for example first special visa system after breakfast that. the majority of staff at nexus are freelance highly specialized artists. they are often hired only with a few days' notice. the great thing at the moment is that i can call someone up in france they can hop on the or start coming if there are any issues or issues that we have to deal with my worry is that that won't be able to happen and that will definitely affect us and it will affect how quickly we can assemble a team here in order to qualify fo

you know labor moves its headquarters from london to rotterdam and this comes at a crucial point and the u.k.'s brics it negotiations plus. i'm andrew thomas at the opening of sydney's b.n. ali this is the first ever to have an altruistic director i'll be explaining why significant what you say is about rule to change its. society. britain russia have exchanged strong words at the un security council is the u.k. accused moscow of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter in england but received support from its allies on the council including the u.s. its ambassador to the u.n. called the suspected attack a defining moment emergency meeting came just hours after britain's prime minister theresa may expel twenty three russian diplomats the biggest expulsion since the cold war christen salome has more from the united nations headquarters in new york . the united kingdom laid out its case for blaming the russians and got full throated support from its strongest allies on the council including the united states france and sweden other council members were reluctant to point the fin

cheap in london last september.the device involved failed to fully go off. an autumn morning in the rush—hour and there an emergency on an underground train in west london. today the old bailey heard how last september an improvised explosive device partially detonated on a district line train. it had just pulled into parsons green station. this partial explosion created a large fireball in the carriage. there were around 93 passengers in the carriage, the court was told, some were caught by the flames and sustained significant burns. today the teenager on trial for the attack was brought to court to face charges of attempted murder and causing an explosion likely to endanger life. 18—year—old ahmed hassan, an asylum seeker from iraq, is pleading not guilty. at the time of his arrest he had been living with foster parents. opening the case, the prosecutor alison morgan said of the passengers, many ran in fear and panic. they were fortunate. had the device fully detonated it is inevitable that serious injury and sign

they are due to leave london on tuesday. in salisbury are continuing their investigation... into the poisoning of the former spy, sergei skripal and his daughter. our reporter tom burridge is in salisbury with the latest developments into the police‘s investigation. some new information about the movements of sergei skripal and yulia on the morning of monday the 4th of march are spur for ibe became critically ill. what the metropolitan police have appealed for, information concerning the car of sergei skripal, it is a red maroon bmw and we had an appeal from the met saying that they wanted to hear from anyone in salisbury on that day who might have seen the car early in the afternoon here in the city centre and what they are now saying is they would like to hear from anyone who saw the pair are in the bmw earlier in the morning around about 915 on the three main roads in salisbury. those three main roads link the house of sergei skripal to the cemetery where his wife and his sun are buried. we have seen a lot of activity at

we have a talented population in london.e investing in the next generation to have the skills for tomorrow. second is access to capital. london has cultural capital in the country, political capital, and financial capital. thirdly, our ecosystem. the proximity to culture, tack, -- culture, tech politics, , politicians, regulators. it explains why 40% of the world's companies have european headquarters in london. 40%. number two, by the way, is paris with 8%. and so london is a great city to start a business. to come if you are a big company. it is going to stay that way while i am there. and we've seen the likes of google and facebook investing in london as well. uber has been the one under fire under your administration. when it comes to their license getting revoked. what do you need to see from the company for them to continue to operate in the city of london? mayor khan: uber is a very popular service around the world. the idea of linking an app to a taxi is popular. but my message to uber and everyone, no matter how man

leave the russian embassy in london and head back to moscow. also coming up europe's human rights court condemns turkey over the jailing of two journalists it's of course first such ruling in connection with turkey's crackdown on anyone suspected of having links to a failed coup attempt two years ago. also coming up a sad day for conservationists the world's last mail northern white rhino dies in kenya only two females remain can anything be done to stop the species from going extinct. and facebook under fire over its links to the controversial political consultant the cambridge analytics it's alleged to have illegally obtained a data from more than fifteen million facebook accounts so what can you do to protect yourself from. the last. place. i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us diplomats expelled by the u.k. have. after russia's london embassy headed back to moscow this as international weapons inspectors have begun analyzing the talks and used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of salzburg russia has hit