as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history if you
Strong set of earnings after the market close on wednesday. The stock has soared more than 90 this year alone will stop this off the back of enthusiasm that al this off the back of enthusiasm that ai will boost corporate profit. The question is will als big spenders, the likes of Amazon Microsoft continue to place orders and drive sales and Profit Growth . Or is that trajectory beginning to ease . Wall street is beating the chipmaker will exceed expectations. In other news, Pixar Animation Studios known for producing classic films like toy story, is laying off roughly 14 of its workforce. This is part of broader restructuring by Parent Company walt disney, and reflects a move away from the production of original content for the disney plus streaming service. Instead, pixarwill refocus on feature films. These layoffs follow similar cuts made injune last year. To another big story we have been covering newsday. A Singapore Airlines flight was hit with severe turbulence causing the death
been slated for a couple of days and their timetable has been fairly strict throughout this, but there is plenty of room for manoeuvre. they don t normally sit on a friday but i think they are expecting to speak to him. not that many people behind me today, but we have seen over the past four weeks, we have seen protesters, plenty of media, so we can expect all of that tomorrow as well, but his testimony crucially important, and he has received plenty of criticism from civil servants, advisers, scientific advisers, to name but a few, who said he showed nuclear levels of confidence in dealing with the crisis and he will certainly want to face some of that criticism down. but interesting, yesterday, we had from michael gove, the chancellor of the duchy of is that, that brilliant name in british politics, which basically means he was in charge of the cabinet office, and he was pretty defensive of matt hancock, who he said showed wisdom and foresight in many of the decisions he h
and the result ensures they ll be among the top seeds when the draw is made. but, as our football correspondentjohn murray says, it wasn t the way they wanted to sign off. gareth southgate s team will be amongst the strongest sides in poti amongst the strongest sides in pot 1 for the finals draw a week on saturday. yet these last two matches against the weakest teams in the group were disappointing. debutant rico lewis was unfortunate to concede a penalty which, although it was saved by pickford, the macedonian captain bardi followed up to score. a headerfrom a corner by harry kane on as a substitute forced an own goal for the equaliser. but otherwise, on a difficult, newly re laid pitch, england struggled to break macedonia down. and so it was far from the uplifting end to the campaign they d been hoping for. i campaign they d been hoping for. ., ., , campaign they d been hoping for. ., , for. i have to be pleased with the progress for. i have to be pleased with the pr
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are christopher hope, chief political correspondent and assistant editor at the daily telegraph, and ayesha hazarika, columnist at the evening standard & the i, and times radio presenter. tomorrow s front pages. starting with. the discovery of human remains in the search for 33 year old sarah everard is the lead for the guardian a serving police officer is being detained on suspicion of her murder. the metro carries a picture of the police search in woodland near ashford in kent where the discovery was made sarah everard was last seen a week ago walking home through clapham in south london the telegraph says the arrested officer lived in deal in kent and worked in the met s parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. the times highlights the words of reassurance from the metropolitan police commissioner dame cressida dick said women should feel safe walking the streets