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Just after half past midnight here in bbc news. It is now time for tuesday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, where the government bill setting out the terms of the uks divorce from the eu clears its first hurdle in the commons. The ayes to the right, 329. The noes to the left, 299. But mps reject a tight timetable to get it through the commons by october the 31st. The Prime Minister says because of that, hell put the brexit bill on hold. But insists. One way or another, we will leave the eu with this deal, to which this house has just given its assent. Also on this programme. A plea for the government to help british children trapped in syria. And condemnation of Barclays Bank as opts out a scheme allowing customers to get cash at post offices. It seems that some banks are only interested in big cashless customers that have large deposits. But lets st ....
Amounts of money into the monetary stimulus, but only three of 32 economists saw this one coming. Now it is going to be ¥80 trillion per year that the Japanese Central bank is injecting. About trying to foster that inflation, that 2 target they have. We look at what it did to asia. It ignited asian equities. Hang seng up more than 1 . Nikkei up almost 5 . Nikkei, highest in seven years. Lets see what it did to the yen. We saw the yen really see a sixyear low weakness, that is helping exporters of course. All of this helped by our rather tasty bit of gdp data yesterday. That helped the dollar. Lets look at what is happening to the dollarruble. We are expecting the central bank of russia to hike Interest Rates later. Could they hike by half offer percent half a percent . That is the consensus. Today, dollar is gaining against the ruble. Yesterday was a stellar day for the ru ....