investors eyes were cast on london's royal academy today as federal reserve chair janet yellen gave a speech expected to spell out in the near future interest rate hike and other monetary policy in the run up favored in part by an easing dollar gold held held optimistically steady thanks largely to reforms of the banking system since the two thousand and eight financial crisis yellen does not believe that there will be another such crash in her lifetime as for ours she says we are at least much safer with current reforms in place instead of being unwound this comes as u.s. president donald trump has vowed to cut banking regulation u.s. secretary of the treasury steve newsham has proposed easing up on restrictions big banks now face in their trading operations yellen also reiterated her view that the u.s. central bank would continue to raise interest rates only gradually gold responded by notching its fourth gain in five sessions and then at twelve hundred fifty dollars as the dollar itself and equities weakened. and the man responsible for the deaths of seventy six people infected wit

computing company raspberry pi has won the macrobert award, a top innovation prized run by the royal academyge based firm has now become the uk‘s largest computer manufacturer. fourteen million have been sold around the world with the us the company's biggest market. new rules banning junk food advertising across all children's media including online and social will coming into effect tomorrow as part of efforts to tackle childhood obesity. the changes also bring print and cinema ads into line with television, where strict regulation prohibits the advertising of unhealthy food to children. a consignment of the cereal weetabix has reportedly been impounded by new zealand customs officials, after complaints from rival weet—bix that it could confuse customers. the 300 boxes had been ordered in for a shop in christchurch, specialising in uk products. according to the guardian, weet—bix owner sanitarium said it would only release the cereal if a sticker was placed over the weetabix label but the shop's owner said it was bullying and that she was holding firm. we will watch that story. the price o

of businesses and industry as well and rasp reply has just won a top innovation prize from the royal academybring us in one. but not edible, sadly. a chinese bank and a shipping firm have been hit with sanctions by the us over allegations of support for north korea. let's get more with tim mcdonald who's in singapore. tim, this is a real ratcheting up, perhaps in relations with china by the us? well, it is interesting you say that. in fact, the us has kind that it not really so much about sending a message to china as just focusing on the entities involved. in this case, as you've mentioned, two chinese citizens, a shipping company and the back, which the us says are connected to north korea's weapons programme, the bank of dandong which the treasury department has zeroed in on is for all intents and purposes just a local chinese bank, not well—known beyond the city of dandong itself but it's on the border with north korea and one of the few places where there is significant traffic into and out of the country and the us says about 17% of its transactions are with entities that have us or un

and, you know, he's surrounded by queens and, you know, the royal academy, royal military academy, and it's just a completely different world. but when he's, so he's taken as a prisoner of war x he escapes by himself. he's 24 years old. he knows that if they catch him, there's a very real risk that they will can kill him. they will kill him. and he's terrified. and he has no hope can and very little hope x he falls to his knees and he prays x. he's not a religious man. and in that moment, i can understand him, you know? and i think that's a connection. and i think that's humanizing, and that's what we all need in order to, we hope, not have more war, in order to understand each other. we actually, we're all humans, you know? we all want the same things. and it's so important to make that connection so you don't dehumanize somebody else x that can be done absolutely across time as well as across geographical distance. [applause] >> i think that that is an excellent point on which to conclude as i'm being told we're out of time. i'd like to remind you all that the books of our panelists

he studied at the royal academy in prussia, where he was from. he realized america had some of the most amazing structures. he was interested in bridges. around 1847 or so, he came to the united states, planted himself in saxonburg outside of pittsburgh. he started farming. what is an engineer doing farming? not much. the pennsylvania railroad was having issues developing ways to pull ships and trains over mountainous areas. they were using hemp rope, they often would break. john roebling saw a problem he gets off with engineering practice and know-how. after taking his idea to the railroad system, they said if you come up with the idea and make it work, we will buy it from you. he set up an engineering lab on his own farm and came up with a way to use wire to make rope. he took steel, turned it into wire, turned that wire into rope, and transformed the world. the most famous structures in the world are associated with roebling and his company. the brooklyn bridge, people are familiar with that iconic bridge. the design of john roebling, the mind

ballgames and my friends were hoping for a job in a factory and he is surrounded by queens and the royal academy, royal military me and it's just a completely different world, but -- so he is taken as a prisoner of war and his skills by himself. he's 24 years old. keynotes that if they catch him there is a real risk and will kill him. he is terrified and he has no hope and little hope and he falls to his knees and he prays and he's not a religious man. in that moment, i can understand him. i think that is a connection and i think that is humanizing and that's what we all need in order to, we hope, not have more war and in order to understand each other. we are all human. we all want the same thing and it's so important to make that connection so you don't dehumanize someone else and that can be done absolutely across time as well. [applause]. >> that is an excellent point on which to conclude as i am being told we are out of time, but i would like to remind you that the books of our panelists are available for sale in the ballroom and they will be available to sign them according to the schedule

computing company raspberry pi has won the macrobert award, a top innovation prized run by the royal academye uk‘s largest computer manufacturer. 14 million have been sold around the world with the us the compa ny‘s sold around the world with the us the company's biggest market. new rules banning junk food advertising across all children's media including online and social will coming into effect tomorrow as part of efforts to tackle childhood obesity. the changes also bring print and cinema ads into line with television, where strict regulation prohibits the advertising of unhealthy food to children. a consignment of the cereal weetabix has reportedly been impounded by new zealand customs officials, after complaints from rival weet—bix that it could confuse customers. the 300 boxes had been ordered in for a shop in christchurch, specialising in uk products. according to the guardian, weet—bix owner sanitarium said it would only release the cereal if a sticker was placed over the weetabix label but the shop's owner said it was bullying and that she was holding firm. we will watch that story.

the london—based royal academy of dance is teaming up with marylebone cricket club in a bid to encourageourage others to get involved. the initiative also aims to take inspiration from the worlds of sport, video games and comic books in a bid to attract more young people. let's have a look at the travel situation now. looking at the roads, this is chiswick. queues were back to the m4 junction. let's have a check on the weather now. hello, good morning. we start today how we ended yesterday, with lots of blue sky and sunshine around and of course still in the warm and humid air, so it is another mild start to the morning. some sunshine around first thing and then we'll see some showers develop a bit later on through the afternoon. some of the showers could turn out to be heavy and even thundery, bit of hail to be expected, possibly. we've got a met office weather warning out for some heavy rain. but as with all showers, they will be fairly hit or miss in nature. so lots of sunshine around through the morning, then the sunshine will turn hazy and we start to get some high cloud pushing in

he's a member of the national academies of sciences and an honorary fellow of the royal society of edinborough. he was president of the american economic association in 2009. in 2015, he received a nobel prize in economic sciences. in 2016, he was knighted by prince william at buckingham palace ceremony. thank you for joining us today, professor sir angus deaton. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, members of the committee for holding this hearing on economics and the opioid crisis. thus from legal and illegal drugs are contributing to an almost unprecedented increase in mortality among middle aged white non-hispanics. there was a halt at the end of the 20th century. and mortality rates for this mid aged group were higher in 2015 than in 1998. driven by these developments, life expectancy at birth, fell for white non-hispanics from 2013 to 2014. and for the whole population of the united states, from 2014 to 2015. opioids are a big part of the story. supplies of opioids have stoked and maintained the epidemic, selling heroin is profitable and illegal. selling prescription drugs a

university of southern california, a member of the national academy of sciences, the american philosophical society and i honorary fellow of the royal society of edinburgh. he was president of the america economic association in 2009. 2009. in 2015 received a nobel prize in economic sciences in 2016 he. was knighted by prince william at buckingham palace. thank you for joining us today, professor angus deaton curcumamo recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman, he very, senator hassan, and the other members of the committee for holding this hearing on economics and the opioid crisis. from legal and illegal drugs are contributing to almost unprecedented increase in overall mortality among middle-aged white non-hispanics. a cinch of mortality decline came to a halt at the end of the 20th century, and mortality rates for this group were highee in 2015 that in 1998.. driven by these developments, life expectancy at birth, a key indicator of how well a society is doing, for white non-hispanics from 2013 to 2014 fell. and. and for the whole population of the united states from 2014-2015. opioids are big part of this story. suppl