In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

HSBC is cutting up to 8,000 jobs in Britain and slashing the number of branches as part of huge global restructuring plans. The banking giant - which employs around 48,000 of its 258,000 global staff in the UK - revealed it is axing 25,000 jobs worldwide in a bombshell announcement this morning. It plans to relocate its UK headquarters from London to Birmingham by 2019 and could move its global HQ out of Britain and over to Hong Kong. The bank also intends to close up to 12 per cent of its branches worldwide, with the 1,057 branches in the UK expected to be affected.Europe's largest bank is cutting 25,000 jobs worldwide - 8,000 in the UKUp to 12 per cent of its 1,000 UK branches could also be closedSpeculation mounting it could move its base from London to Hong KongBritish headquarters are set to move from London to Birmingham
In its keenly-awaited strategy update, HSBC added it would make a decision about where to base its headquarters by the end of the year, after announcing recently that it was considering a move away from the _ due to regulatory and structural reforms.

Online shopping juggernaut Amazon has today launched a one-hour delivery service for certain central London postcodes. The Prime Now service will be available on a range of more than 10,000 items, from games consoles and sports equipment to coffee and nappies. The basket value must be higher than £20 per order. It is available to Prime members who pay £79 a year and are willing to fork out a £6.99 delivery charge. Amazon already offers one-hour delivery in certain parts of the US, including Dallas, Manhattan and Miami. The service is expected to reach all of London and more UK cities by the end of the year. The move is likely to put more pressure on the struggling high street.Amazon Prime members can pay £6.99 for one-hour deliveriesExpected to reach rest of London and other cities later in the yearWe list the postcodes which can currently take advantage below
The one advantage the high street had over online shops such as Amazon was the fact people can pick up products straightaway opposed to waiting - but this move by _ will be appealing to those who won't even need to leave their home or office to obtain products they want quickly.

Washington (CNN) The White House did not anticipate that the Russian government would allow its state news agency to post photographs of an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia's ambassador to the US, a White House official said. Photos of Wednesday's meeting, taken by a Russian state news media photographer one day after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey amid questions about possible Trump campaign collusion with Moscow, were ultimately posted by Russia's news agency, TASS. The White House did not post photos of the meeting until Thursday. The State Department did post photos of Lavrov's meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but that was open to the press.The White House did not post photos of the meeting until ThursdayThe Russians used the photos to troll the White House in its social media posts Wednesday

"That's the problem with the _ -- they lie," the official added.