You are watching the context. Now its time for europe votes 202a. Elections in the uk, elections in the European Union. Two weeks today, 400 Million People across europe will vote to elect their representatives to the European Parliament. They will choose 720 politicians from 27 countries in what many people consider the most pivotal vote the European Union has staged since members were first elected in 1979. And by the end ofjuly, there will be new parliaments in both the eu and uk, with implications for both sides, for those negotiations post brexit, and in a whole range of areas. Most notably security, migration and trade. Now, for those who dont follow politics in brussels, you should know there are the institutions involved in the legislative process. There is the european commission, that shapes policy, the parliament, directly elected, that debates and vote on those bills, and the council of european leaders, that have an equal say in what is adopted. And at the top of the commi
Major market reaction, and like you say weve seen prices up over 4 fuelled by the conflict in the middle east and it comes after oil prices suffered the biggest weekly drop since march last week which was reversing a lot of the price action we have been seeing betweenjune and september this year which of course was because of Supply Constraints from saudi arabia and russia but this increase in geopolitical risk is providing a major tailwind to Oil Prices Today and The Big Question really is the market is wondering whether there is iranian involvement in the attack which is something that has been alleged by the israeli authorities because if they are, the tensions are likely to have a more longer lasting upward impact if it were to negatively impact oil surprise and supplies in terms of pushing Prices Higher so it depends on that. Pushing Prices Higher so it depends on that. 0k, we have the sense depends on that. 0k, we have the sense of depends on that. 0k, we have the sense of how de
happen in between that period that time and now and we re in a new situation now. of course, we know sweden very well they know us very well, too. so we re preparing what we have seen lately from them, and what we want to do and how we want to play. max verstappen was fastest on day one of practice for the japanese grand prix. on and off rain wrecked second practice, but in the first session there was a marked improvement for the mercedes with both lewis hamilton and george russell finishing within half a second of verstappen. but williams awful start to the season conintined with american logan sargeant losing control at a high speed control at a high speed corner and crashing out. thankfully he was ok, the car not so. a silly error, to be honest, one i shouldn t be making, especially in p1. but yeah, fortunately it wasn t like the mistakes last year, it wasn t over pushing. nevertheless, still left the team with some damage but fortunately got away better than it cou
Of coronavirus this winter. They are dealing with a lot of ongoing pressures. So whilst £3 billion sounds like a lot of money, we need to be absolutely clear how and where that money is going to be spent. Later today the Prime Minister is expected to set out the next steps on the road out of lockdown restrictions and its known hes keen to encourage commuters to return to the workplace to help the economy recover. The uk Tourism Industry says that since lockdown theres been a near total shutdown in International Tourism to and from the uk. Russia dismisses allegations that it tried to steal uk research for a Coronavirus Vaccine. Captain tom moore will be knighted by the queen today in his own personal ceremony at Windsor Castle. Please do get in touch with us regarding any of todays stories, on twitter annita mcveigh, or bbcyourquestions and coming up this hour the Big Butterfly count. The public is urged tojoin an annual butterfly count, as part of efforts to protect wildlife. Good mo