Welcome to Business Today live from new york. Shares are inching higher on Wall Street ahead of the most closely watched meeting of the Us Federal Reserve in years. In just underfive federal reserve in years. In just under five hours time the fed is expected to finally start cutting the cost of borrowing from its two decade high. But how deep are the first could be and with concerns in some quarters about a rapidly weakening us economy, has the fed left it too late . Let s get more from the chief fixed Income Strategist at janney montgomery scott. The big debate here, 25 or a 50 Basis Point Cut. What are you expecting . Basis point cut. What are you petting . Expecting . Its a close call. I think there expecting . Its a close call. I think there is expecting . Its a close call. I think there is relatively think there is relatively little economic impact from one or the other depending on how that decision is made. 0ur Expectation is that the federal reserve will reduce overnight Intere
to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but received no response. untiljune 6th when the bbc says it made a phone call to t
aid to gaza. this is the scene live in new york where the members of the un security council are making statements after the passing of that resolution. police in prague release body cam video from the moment officers arrived at the scene of thursday s deadly mass shooting. sudan s army chief vows to hold his commanders accountable after a rival paramilitary group captures a strategic city. plus. and sam or wham? we find out this hour who s topped the christmas charts for 2023. all of those headline stories in a moment or two. let s go back to our breaking story in the last half hour because the united nations security council has approved a resolution aimed to bring more aid into gaza following days of negotiations. the statements still going on by the member countries let s cross back to the un in here a little more. here is the chinese representative at the moment. . ., ., is the chinese representative at the moment. . . ., , , , , is the chinese representative at the mo
cloud, particularly in the west. one or two showers. most places should see a decent amount of sunshine. while the temperatures do not look spectacular, given the sunshine it will not look too bad. into the start of april it will slowly through the weekend become drier and brighter. good news. thanks, ben. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. hello, and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. our headlines this evening. michael vaughan is cleared of using racist language towards a former yorkshire team mate after a panel decided that on the balance of probabilities, the charge wasn t proven. wimbledon s u turn it lifts the ban on russian and belorussian players for this year s championships a decision one ukrainian politician has called immoral . maybe not the title decider of r
and miss, but another mad day. a little drier in northern ireland through the afternoon as this band of rain works into scotland, some heavy rain in the final for a time. shetland should hold on to some sunshine. forthe shetland should hold on to some sunshine. for the second half of the weekend, we have this ridge of high pressure bolting in. that will give us a window of fine weather, some spells of sunshine for most of us on sunday. a few showers in the final. by sunday. a few showers in the final. by the afternoon, cloud and rain getting into northern ireland, maybe getting into northern ireland, maybe getting to the west of scotland later in the day. a little bit cooler, but not a lot cooler. it will stay mild as we head to next week. while there will be some spells of sunshine, we can expect a lot of rain and some brisk winds at times. have a good weekend. thanks, ben. and that s bbc news at ten on friday 17th march. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on ne