turkey's lira is in freefall last week alone it fell by one fifth against the dollar president retta tie affair to one has appealed to the public to stay calm and believe in god he's also urged them to convert their foreign currency holdings into lira but people are doing the opposite hoping to keep their cash safe in dollars and euros. that's accelerated the dive i'm sent inflation soaring it was a ready hide back in january ten percent by july it had risen to sixteen percent . the ripple effects could soon be felt beyond turkey with concern growing about foreign banks being exposed to turkish debt within the e.u. spanish banks of the most vulnerable have been lent a total of eighty billion dollars to turkish bar whereas. turkish companies are concerned they won't be able to meet their debt commitments to foreign investors. u.s. president donald trump's decision to double tariffs on turkish steel and alue many i'm imports have come as a further devastating blow to the economy investors are now seriously questioning whether the country can free itself from what's turning into a major

in her case, i think what was deeply reg retta ble, in her case, i think what was deeply regrettable,port by the fact—finding mission, is that she was in a position to do something. at the very least she could have kept quiet. there was no need for to be the spokesperson of the burmese military. she didn't have to say this was an iceberg of misinformation, a fabrication, she could have stayed quiet or, even better, resigned. she could have said, look, you know, iam prepared to be the nominal leader of the country, or prepare to be the sort of de facto leader, but not under these conditions. while you were in office, what kept you awake most at night, and now that you are living, what you will miss about it? the greatest pressure on me and my staff, my extraordinary staff, and people don't believe this, it is really not from the member states. you know, you can withstand the pressure of governments, they can call you all sorts of, you know, use all sorts of expletives, and in my case they have. the pressure is coming, or where you feel you need to do more to help the vulnerable communi

that's a very reg retta ble" in reality.ink, to frank's career. “— regrettable" and i think, to frank's career. —— a regrettable" and i think, to frank's career. —— a very regrettable" and i think, to frank's career. —— a very regrettable end. the question is how many could follow and walk out of the parliamentary party. follow and walk out of the parliamentary pa rty.|j follow and walk out of the parliamentary party. i shall be staying and fighting. i shall fight to the last and the end. there is a danger others will say, i've had enough, i'm not taking any more of this. why should i be putting myself through this? there is a danger. if this isn't sorted, others will go. therefore, sort it, labour leadership, and salt it very quickly. —— sort it very quickly. 0ne quickly. —— sort it very quickly. one thing is certain. shami and chatty, tea and a sandwich. don't expect to see this this again any time soon. the opening of a major part of london's new crossrail line, which had been due to take place in december, has been delay

earlier, charlie, that will happen in the first week of september, are so critical, and why it is so reg rettanews. the is quarter past seven. -- the time is quarter past seven. sarah's in bristol at this years balloon fiesta with a look at this morning's weather. iam here i am here in bristol at the international balloon fiesta and i have managed to get up in the air. i am with steve and you have been a balloon pilot for 38 years of. whenever you fire it is an adventure. what is the perfect conditions? around ten mph with the wind. it is down to wind speed and direction, how do you preplan your voyage is? it is like playing a game of chess, you look ahead of you and try to find an area with no animals or damage. you usually carry a gift for the land owner? is courtesy because we are on somebody else's property. today we are tethered here. there is a little bit too much wind to take off and we have a rainy and the forecast. how is the weather looking? a bit of an unsettled thing today of sunshine and blustery showers and it is a pretty breezy day a head too. we have low pressure towards the ea

clearly when patients wait longer than we would like, that's reg retta ble, than we would like, that'st want to keep them waiting but unfortunately the weather conditions meant it was exceptionally difficult.” appreciate it's a hard job. do you think that everything's all right and there are a few anomalies because of things like whether? know, there's clearly things we've got to work on. we mustn't lose sight of the fact we are doing exceptionally well. —— no. patients with trauma, you reported that a couple of days ago, more patients are surviving major trauma than ever before and we're getting to patients who have had a stroke and getting them to stroke centres quickly. patients with heart attack. the very serious patients with life—threatening conditions, we are doing extremely well with. but we've got to not be complacent, we have to continue to make improvements that we are making. what do those improvements need to be? so, we want more paramedics dealing with patients, we want more patients going to the right services, so we get many calling us who don't really have a life—threa

products after washington doubled import tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum president retta type heir to juan suggested turks should buy local or asian made smartphones instead of electronics sold by american firms. oh. witnesses in the italian city jenna was shouting oh my god horrified as a bridge crossing the heart of the city collapses during a sudden storm at least twenty two people died rescue teams will spin the nine searching for survivors in the heaps of stealing concrete that were never meant to meet the ground. this is the day. that she did incident events proportions affecting a crucial road. and so much of a cause which traveling on the bridge when it collapsed. you know that i mean that bucket when it gets on acceptable to work and die like this in twenty eighteen increase they're going to sue and. it was a very fragile structure for them.