The eastern United States, with record breaking low temperatures that have already claimed several lives. Good morning. Its friday 5th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Chairman of the parole board has apologised unreservedly for not telling of the release ofjohn worboys. He was jailed in 2009. The black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for offences against 12 women, but detectives believe he carried out more than a hundred rapes and sexual assaults. This morning a Cross Party Group of mps has written to thejustice secretary to call for an investigation as to whether the voices of victims were heard in the decision to release him on parole. The parole Board Chairman said he recognised there was a lack of transparency and would hold a Public Consultation. Our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, has more. For six years, john worboys cruised smart areas of london in his black cab, looking for women to drug and rape. When he was finally caught, thejudge said h
London, this is daybreak europe. Animal spirits seems to be present. That seems to be the story of 2018 so far. Asity markets are doing well we said in our headlines, the dow hitting a new record, many indices hitting a new record. Msci asia picking up where they left off. Data fromd robust various locations, whether its the u. S. , china, or europe. All of that underpinning the strength we are seeing in these risk assets at the moment. We have the Dow Jones Futures in their. In there. Despite the snow perhaps. The jobs data it will be crucial, the two numbers we are watching, not a great start for the year for the dollar. Prices put in the nymex to show they were pretty stable after what we have seen via record run of gains in commodity markets. Around that 62 a barrel. Animal spirit in these markets, certainly a theme. Manus a couple of big things. Rises. Asking for 3 wage , the relationship is broken. Well talk more about that between inflation and the job market, but the animal spi
The u. S. Economy and the fed path this year . And the former uber boss travis the private sale of a 29 stake in the business. Will this be the start of a new era for the Ride Hailing Company . Matt good morning, guy. Great to see you back here on the european open. Take a look at what we are inecting this morning futures. Not a lot of movement there as far as directional change. Maybe we see it continue to this rally we saw yesterday, although i cant believe we would see the same kind of scale as yesterday. The cac and dax yesterday and euro stoxx 50, up 1. 5 . Big gains in europe yesterday. We could see gains today. You would expect to see investors selling off debt in order to raise cash. You dont see that so much. This is the onemonth chart. Let me switch it to oneday chart. Bund truem into the today. Yields are up a bit, so investors are selling off on this to a next and, but looking at a 44 on the bunds. Not a huge for break from the range. Thatstocks bid, the story has dominated
I hope its not going to be as cold as in new no, thankfully not. That isa as in new no, thankfully not. That is a tremendous temperature, isnt it . It is going to turn colder, drier, with quite a frost on saturday night. Increasing amount of sunshine of the weekend goes on. This picture was taken today on the somerset levels in between the showers across this part of the uk. Further north and higher up, we have seen snow falling in the Peak District and then the staffordshire hills for a while. That weather is moving away, heading towards lincolnshire and the wash and should be mostly rain. A bit of sunshine now with a brighter day for Northern Ireland. Colder across the board. Damp weather in scotland, a mixture of rain, sleet and some hill snow. It will sink its way southwards overnight, mostly ending up in northern england. Colder air beginning to arrive across scotland later in the night. A chilly night. Temperatures went to be far of freezing. Fog patches, which will lift in the m
The chair of the parole board has apologised unreservedly to victims of the serial sex attacker john worboys, after some of them were not told of his imminent release from prison. The black cab driver was jailed in 2009, for offences against 12 women but detectives later said they believed hed attacked more than 100 women. Mps are now calling for an inquiry into why the victims were not informed. Our home editor mark easton reports. Rapistjohn worboys has become symbolic of the charge that police and prosecutors in england and wales still dont take violent sexual crimes against women seriously enough. The london cabbie, who drugged and raped or sexually assaulted numerous women in the back of his taxi, is to be released after nine years, a parole board decision that has prompted fury and questions, not least were victims ignored . 58 mps have written to thejustice secretary calling for an investigation into why some of worboys victims were not told their attacker would soon be back on