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live from london, this is bbc news. avoiding another banking crisis: us regulators race against the clock to find a buyerfor troubled first republic bank, whose shares plunged last week. more protests in france as unions call for further strike action against the government's pension reforms. and solving london's housing crisis: we'll tell you how one community is building its own solution by selling affordable housing to the locals. hello. i'm mark lobel, here with your top business stories. let's start in the united states, where us regulators are racing to find a buyer for the tro...

by plane, are taking boats. the british government recently estimated that around 4,000 britons were stuck in sudan. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams has been following the situation from nairobi. the evacuation of foreign nationals from sudan does continue, largely now from port sudan, where people are able to leave by ship across the red sea, and also by plane. britain now says it is evacuating more than 2000 people altogether since the airlift began. but far more sudanese people are on the move. the un estimates 50,000 have crossed sudan's borders into egypt, chad, south su...

by caving in to tory mps who are complaining about gary lineker. they have got this one badly wrong and now they are very, very exposed — as is the government. us regulators shut down silicon valley bank in the biggest banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis. the bbc has cancelled two of its football shows, football focus and final score, after a number of presenters and pundits refused to take part — as controversy continues over the corporation's decision to take gary lineker off match of the day. the presenter will not be hosting the programme tonight after criticising...

the financial times is reporting that the country's biggest bank, ubs, has offered to buy credit suisse for up to one billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america's silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than 50 billion dollars by switzerland's central bank — but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. more now on one of our main stories this hour ...

point them towards guidance. and we really don't want the products getting into the hands of children. how often is the guidance on these things reviewed, and who does it? most of the guidance out there at the moment is actually done by trade associations, like we have done them with the association of convenience stores, and they are updated very regularly and this is such a growing area for retailers and we have to keep on top of the law. we have to make sure all of the guidance out there is correct, so it is available and we don't have any particular guidance from government which...