Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
competitors line up as the competition officially opens in liverpool. celebrations for king charles s coronation are continuing across the uk today, ahead of a special concert at windsor castle this evening. around 20 thousand people are expected to gather to watch artists including lionel ritchie, katy perry and take that. numerous street parties are also being held across britain under the collective title the coronation big lunch. some of these are attended by members of the royal family. live now to lucy hockings who is in windsorfor the big lunch in celebration of the coronation. hello everyone it is a glorious evening here in windsor. the sun is out the hottest day of the year so far and all of these people who are queuing, waiting for the concerts might have been loving the sunshine. look at how politely they are queuing, how orderly it all is. there is a rogue glimmer in the crowds as well i ve seen people in evening dresses, fascinate or scream out lots of people in
interview with bbc, elon musk, the owner of twitter, admitted he only went through with the purchase of the company because a judge was about force him to do so, that his takeover of twitter was painful and quite a rollercoaster, but that he would sell the company if the right person came along. musk purchased twitter for a whopping $41; billion, just over £35 billion pounds. just over £35 billion. he inherited a workforce of over 8,000 employee which he has defended cutting down to around 1,500, saying the company would have gone bankrupt otherwise. it s been just over a year since mr musk began his takeover of twitter. he purchased his first shares on 5 april, 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold, he said because of the volume of fake accounts. twitter denied that and invited musk to a me
additional funding available t help banks meet the needs of their depositors this comes just days after the collapse of silicon valley bank nbc news producer garrett grew back joins me now. gary, what more. do we know we do have the statemen straight from we will read a portion of it t you now. after a recommendation from th board, the fdic in the federal reserve, and consulting with the president, secretary yelle improved actions enabling th fdic to complete its resolutio of silicon valley bank tha mirror that fully protects the depositors what does this mean? basically, the depositors will have access to all of thei money starting tomorrow. and no losses associated wit the resolution of silico valley bank are going to b borne by the taxpayer. that is zero dollars there senior management of f s vp ar going to be completely removed from the company, according to treasury and they say that it i decisive action that wil protect the u.s. economy b strengthening public confid
mirror that fully protects the depositors what does this mean? basically, the depositors will have access to all of thei money starting tomorrow. and no losses associated wit the resolution of silico valley bank are going to b borne by the taxpayer. that is zero dollars there senior management of f s vp ar going to be completely removed from the company, according to treasury and they say that it i decisive action that wil protect the u.s. economy b strengthening public confidenc in the banking system. now, one big thing, th statement did not say wa anything about the sale of the bank if you talk to any members o congress, like our team on capitol hill, yesterday an today, the biggest thing the want is a sale of the bank and on the congressional side, the california delegation of republicans and democrat wrapped a briefing call this afternoon. they were briefed ahead of thi public statement they want both the engineering of a sale of the bank, and t raise the fdic limit right