Series by meeting the boss of the tech company where all the consultants are on the autism spectrum. What am i thinking right now . And whats the most selfish thing that youve ever done . A new report on the toughestjob Interview Questions is out and we want to know whats the most surprising thing youve ever been asked in an interview . Use bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Now, profits have slumped at Aerospace Group airbus during 2016. The Aircraft Manufacturer has reported a 63 fall in net income to 995 million euros. But that was after a One Billion Euro charge over its aaoom military transport plane. It has been a tumultuous year for the company. It has been forced to accelerate last minute plane deliveries in order to meet key targets. There has also been a slowdown in demand forjets. It has been forced to cut production of the prestige a380 superjumbo. And the aaoom military transport plane has also proved a major drag the project has been plagued by delays and technical problems. Robert wall is Senior Aerospace and aviation editor, the wall streetjournal, Europejoins Us now. What do you make of the numbers . The numbers are mixed. On the xhefrtion side, things are fine, it is overshadowed by aaoo m where the 1. 2 billion charge on top of the 1 billion charge on top of the 1 billion earlier in the year takes the shine off what would have been a decent year, but that programme is just something airbus is unable to get its arms around and really get fixed. It seems to be failing to ta ke fixed. It seems to be failing to take off at the moment. When will they see that aaoom project reaping some rewards for them . Well, thats a good question. Will it ever really rea p a good question. Will it ever really reap rewards for them is another question . Right now theyre worried about stopping the financial bleeding. The ceo spoke to some of us bleeding. The ceo spoke to some of us reporters this morning and said theyre going back to the governments to ask for relief so some of the forced penalties that are being forced for delayed planes are being forced for delayed planes are being forced for delayed planes are being eased. They want the governments to co operate more to get the plane into the field, thats been very difficult, thats a complicated programme structure. So, lots of reasons for these problems and no Clear Solutions and certainly no easy solutions. At the same time, the company though has restrict tured. Its the first set of results, isnt it, as airbus group, as posed to eads, whats the outlook for the company as a whole, despite the a400m for the company as a whole, despite the aaoom difficulties . For the company as a whole, despite the moom difficulties . You have to a lwa ys the moom difficulties . You have to always think about the fact that a400m, it is always think about the fact that aaoom, it is an Important Programme for them, but airbus is all about the commercial airliner delivery market. They delivered strongly last year. Aircraft deliveries, Airliner Deliveries this should be more than 700. They seem to be executing on their programmes reasonably well. This is another challenging year for them as they will admit. The outlook is good for them on that side, but you know, if you keep having to pay, have the big charges on one or two programmes thats obviously not something that management can really stomach. No, tricky. Tricky times, thank you. Robert wall from the wall streetjournal. Interesting. Yahoo has agreed to cut 350 million off its original asking price in the sale of its Internet Business to us telecoms giant, verizon. The new deal comes after two huge Cyber Attacks at yahoo ending months of uncertainty over the agreement. It is now worth 4. 5 billion. The Worlds Largest retailer has seen a boost in sales. Wal mart has reported profits rising 1. 8 , higher than investors were expecting. An increase in online sales and higher number of customers going in to their stores lifted profits, leading to the tenth straight quarter of comparable sales growth. Thats pretty impressive. Lloyds reports its highest profits for a decade. Well talk more about that in a moment. But also when youre talking about people walking into shops, not the case for the uk high street. Slow progress here in the uk. In terms of access for disabled people, thats part of our disability works week. There is lots of other stories as well on our website. Of course, lloyds shares going up some 4 on the markets. But all sorts of other stories as well. Just trying to find them here. Lots about lloyds on the business live page. But also hayes uk, its profits have been stymied somewhat by the decision lastjune, the uk, to exit the european union. So an Eu Referendum took the wind out of the uk Interim Results for the uk specialist hays. The company saying that Operating Profits in the uk and ireland fell by 29 from the six months to the end of december. Also weve got metro bank, this is another good news story for banking. Metro banks boss has been a guest on business live. The founder is a proud man. Metro bank coming out with positive results. The markets are buoyant and enjoying the figures. Metro bank is one of the banks that were familiar with in the uk. Metro bank is focussing on bringing customers in and maintaining that customer cashier relationship. The bank of america, we heard earlier in the week, opening three cashierless branches in the states. You just go in. Look at headline, boring is beautiful. Lloyds is back to being a boring bank and boring is good news about loulds. It was bailed out by the uk taxpayer following the 2008 financial crisis. The government saying now that the lloyds will be returned fully to private ownership. There is a 5 stake left which is owned by the uk or uk taxpayers as it were and the plan is for it to be returned fully to private ownership. So lots of stories on our website as ever. Rachel over to you. Sally, that was a thorough and comprehensive coverage of our news stories. Asian stocks up overnight. Despite the yen strengthened. Markets were boosted by strong reports from retailers including wal mart. Lets look at the european markets. We mentioned lloyds. Their shares are up by almost 5 this morning. They posted their best profits or ten years, also impacting the european markets we will have revised uk gdp figures out for the Fourth Quarter in under an hours time. The First Reading for the last three months of the year was 0. 6 . This report out at 9. 30am uk time is an update with more detail of investment. Economists expecting it to stick at 0. 6 , something that could be revised up to 0. 7 . And Michelle Fleury has the details about whats ahead on wall street today. Wall street is the us central bank, not Donald Trumps economic policies that will be in the spotlight. The Us Federal Reserve releases the minutes from its last Policy Meeting Setting and investors will be pouring over it for clues about the timing ofany pouring over it for clues about the timing of any future rate hike. Now, there has been a lot of speculation as to whether or not the Federal Reserve may increase rates, may lift rates, in march at their next meeting. Janet yelland, the yet of the central bank was testifying on capitol hill and was suggesting that the economy was improving and there we re the economy was improving and there were dangers of waiting too long to move. Now, given that were talking about an environment in which Interest Rates are going up, there has been concerns about what the Knock On Effect will be on borrowing costs, specifically mortgages. We should get another clue as to how the housing sector is performing when the National Association of realitiors releases home sales for january and wall street will be looking at that for any clues as to whether or not there is a slowdown in the housing sector which after all has been one of the bright spots for the us economy. Jane foley is senior Currency Strategist at rabobank and joins me now. Nice to see you. So much going on and michelle touching on the fed minutes which are out today. Daopk there will be a lot of anticipation as to what might be in there in terms of clues about the next rate rise . There really is. We have had the statement for the meeting already. This was a couple of weeks ago. We get the full report and the market is looking for clues a to whether or not the fed is of the mind to hike Interest Rates in march june. The fed said it could hike three times this year. The markets area three times this year. The markets are a little bit dubious or has been dubious, but there are seven more meetings this year, if it is going to do three hikes, it has got to get a move on. Several officials have been hawkish meaning that they are more likely perhaps to raise rates than not, but there is still lots of unsirenities in the us economy particularly related to trump and what he could do with spending. This is the second rev of figures. Just explain that to us. We get the first gdp, only 40 of the information they need, is that right and then they need, is that right and then they get more and they go, yeah, we we re they get more and they go, yeah, we were right. Or, no, we were wrong. They get more data coming in and they are able to fine tune the data and we will get more of the breakdown, we will see how investment was in the final quarter of last year and the Services Sector. The Services Sector is the biggest part of the uk economy and how that fared as well. What do you make of lloyds . Shares up strongly. The numbers on the face of it look quite spectacular, dont they . They really do. This is a huge increase in profits relative to the previous quarter, but of course, there are a little bit of Warning Signs and provisions for bad loans up 14 and total income below last year. Lloyds said their outlook depends on that of the uk economy and there are warnings and uncertainty about the uk economy related to how the consumer will fair because of brexit uncertainty. All right, thank you very much, jane. Jane will be back. Jane have a think about what the trickiest Interview Question youve been asked. Or that you have asked 0h been asked. Or that you have asked oh yes. Confessions of an interviewer on business live still to come, well get the latest in our disability works series. The boss of a leading tech firm explains why his firm only employs consultants on the autism scale. Youre with business live from bbc news. Lloyds banking group, which also owns halifax and the bank of scotland, has reported its full year financial results. Its annual pre tax profits rose to £4. 2 billion from £1. 6 billion in the previous year. You might remember lloyds was bailed out at the height of the financial crisis when the government spent £20. 3 billion to acquire a 43 stake. But in recent months, the government has been quietly selling off its remaining shares so its now under 5 owned by the taxpayer. Our Business CorrespondentTheo Leggettjoins us now from the business newsroom. Give us a bit more detail on lloyds. Look at that chart behind you. That talks about the reaction today. Well, you always know i like a big spike on one of my graphs. Ive got one this morning. Is how the markets reacted from the results from lloyds. Up 3. 6 . A certainlying of optimism. On the face of it, the results look very good, butjust as hsbcs results yesterday looked bad, but werent as bad beneath the surface, these arent as good beneath the surface. We are seeing a big increase in profits over last year when you account for things like ppi insurance payments. Now, last year, like ppi insurance payments. Now, last yea r, lloyds like ppi insurance payments. Now, last year, lloyds had to set aside about £4 billion for compensation for pment pi mis selling, payment protection insurance, this year it is just £1 protection insurance, this year it isjust £1 billion protection insurance, this year it is just £1 billion and that elevates the profits. If you look at underlying profits, it is slightly worse than last year. So although we have had the enthusiastic response from the markets, underneath it all, you know, the bank is still trueing along reasonably well, but not in a spectacularfashion along reasonably well, but not in a spectacular fashion just as along reasonably well, but not in a spectacularfashionjust as hsbc yesterday when you stripped out the one off items, the writing off the value of businesses that havent performed well, underneath it all, it was doing pretty much the same as it was doing pretty much the same as it had been the year. So reasons to be optimistic, but it depends really for lloyds, it is a boring bank and the investors seem to like boring banks today, it is a bread and butter bank, it is a retail bank focussed on the uk, but that means its performance depends on what happens with the uk economy and we have a lot of uncertainty over the brexit negotiations and thats going to affect lloyds. They say the outlook is reasonable, but who can tell . Thank you, theo, we will see you again soon. Have you ever been delayed on a flight . Yes. Shocking. Five airlines that fly into europe have been told they must pay compensation to passengers for delays if they are at their final destination more three hours late. Youre watching business live our top story, European Aircraft Maker Airbus sees its profits plunge by more than sixty per cent. Its A400m Military Transport Plane has been plagued by delays and technical problems, and has put a big dent in earnings. A quick look at how markets are faring. Lloyds is the star of the week. Metro bank shares also other percent. Up 1 . Its thought that around 70 Million People around the world are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Yet perceptions about autistic people and their abilities can sometimes be a little bit hazy. We continue our week long disability works series by focusing on the tech firm auticon. All its consultants are autistic. It was founded by Dirk Muller Remus in berlin in november 2011. Auticon taps into the cognitive abilities of autistic adults, skills such as logic, pattern recognition, precision and ability to intuitively spot errors and gets them into Mainstream Employment as consultants. The enterprise employs 140 staff, 80 which are on the autistic spectrum. Its clients range from big corporate names like siemens, allianz and unicredit to smaller start ups. Kurt schoeffer is the ceo of auticon. Thank you for coming in. How did the company come about . The founder is autistic himself, he could find ways strengths and deficits were. His thinking was, if he was helped with the deficits, should he not be better in certain areas than typical people. The company was started, presumably it was quite difficult to get going . Very specific company, looking for very specific individuals. How do you get the ball rolling . First of all, we were lucky to find quite fast and very good colleagues, we are very interesting cv s. Particularly strong in the it field. The issue was to find customers at the beginning. We were a tiny company, did not have a big track record, so one. The theme itself helped us, many people understand, if you bring autistic people into the right areas, they are good at working, mental recognition, finding mistakes without needing to look for it. We tried it out, fortunately we got big support from shareholders, we were able to step into Companies Like siemens, and our colleagues did a tremendousjob. Immediately siemens, and our colleagues did a tremendous job. Immediately the orders were elongated. We rolled out to germany, then the uk and france. Hgppy to germany, then the uk and france. Happy to replicate this as often as possible. You get a consultant, you employ them, they work for you, somebody on the autistic spectrum. The pair them somebody on the autistic spectrum. The pairthem up somebody on the autistic spectrum. The pair them up with a buddy and a life coach, they go with them to the client, to help them with the things they are not so good at, the social skills. Exactly, besides the fantastic consultants, the most Important Role we have in the company is our job Important Role we have in the company is ourjob coaches. Their task, in a four month period, preparing the consultants before sending them out to customers, they need to understand what works, and what does not work. We are very open with that. We tell the customer exactly what he can expect. We tell the consultants what you can expect. We have a fantastic track record than we did not need to stop any project. Tell us some of the people you have taken on board. Quite incredible stories, trying over and over again to get employment, and failing. 10 15 of autistic people are on the first level market. How many of them having jobs suiting their special knowledge or Special Interest . The number is single digit. We found people seven years unemployed, people who have not survived the trial period in other companies five or six times. It is a whole range, the 20 year old Guy Programming since he was eight years old, up to doctors and professors with 30 years professional experience. You have to provide a pa rental experience. You have to provide a parental role as the boss of the company . You have to look after them completely. Not just about their role. Providing a service for the clients. The important thing is we do not want to offerjobs, we want to offer careers for the guys. They can develop nicely if you support them in the right area. At the end of the day, we feel very responsible for what were doing, for the Co Nsulta Nts, for what were doing, for the consultants, the employees. It is a fantastic thing to do. Our customers also feel quite strongly in the teams where the consultants are, they make a big difference, from a working point of view, they also change the perception. People who are different. That is what we can do in the end, we can help people to understand how good it is to have diverse teams, how beneficial it is for everybody. You are speaking in The Green Room from the attraction for a lot of clients is your Co Nsulta Nts ca n for a lot of clients is your consultants can solve the unsolvable. What sort of information do you need to give the clients. There may be Brutal Honesty . Do not force a handshake . First of all we call force a handshake . First of all we ca ll forces force a handshake . First of all we call forces a different operating system. This can lead to results you would not expect. Typically as we know our consultants in and out, we have to give a few tips to help partners. Do not force them to shake hands. Do not be surprised about honesty, all those kind of things. Literally two, three things for consultant. If you see the feedback of our customers, you can see on one hand, great results, on the other side much easier than they thought to bring people. Thanks so much for coming in. Good to talk to you and hear about your company. So many more stories like this on our website. You can find more on our special coverage of this issue. And how businesses are dealing with it, at bbc. Co. Uk disability. And on twitter at hashtag disability works. The former leader of hong kong has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for the misconduct in office. He was found guilty of hiding dealings with hong kong tycoon when applying for broadcasting licences. We have more details from hong kong. Giuliana, this sounds quite shocking, the man in charge of the city stayed behind bars. Extremely shocking. Thejudge said never before in his Entirejudicial Career had he seen someone falls so quickly. He was sentenced today. The jury quickly. He was sentenced today. The jury found him guilty last week, one charge of misconduct in public office. They essentially believe he concealed his Business Relationship with a hong kong businessman, at the time that the businessman was trying to get his licences past three. Passing through. Guilty on one count, not guilty on the other. Looks like the prosecution will want to press for very real fora for a retrial. Jane foley is senior Currency Strategist at rabobank and joins us now. The 20 toughest Interview Questions. Some interesting questions . Some of them, i have been asking the make up ladies some of them, asking about sexuality, whether they were planning to have a family. I was asked, what does your husband do . Trying to work out whether i was thinking of taking maternity leave. Not very nice questions. We had a tweet from one viewer, saying have you ever attempted to overthrow the government, or the state of texas . What about the one, what am i thinking . You are thinking, you should hire me. Is that the right response . Some of the other stories. In the telegraph, the bank of england, our economic forecasts will a lwa ys england, our economic forecasts will always be wrong. That is the headline, but not actually what they said. It is referring to the forecast before breakfast. The doom and gloom of the leave out. The Chief Economist said it was a michael fish moment. One of the reasons they got it wrong, and many forecasters got it wrong, the bank anticipated that consumers would be so anxious they would stop spending and save more, they did not, in fact they borrowed more, or eating the wheels of the economy. The most recent lending data, there has been a calming down, retail sales in december rising. For our international viewers, michael fish was a Weather Forecaster who got a very wrong. See you soon. forecaster who got a very wrong. See you soon. Got it very wrong. Hello. Some really nasty weather on the way tomorrow, in the guise of storm doris. Likely to cause some disruptive weather. We did Dave In Northern Scotland Due to pressure. Little area of low pressure does not look like much, it will become storm doris, exploding in deepening in the next 2a hours. Windy weather across scotland, it gusts of up to 70 miles an hourfor the scotland, it gusts of up to 70 miles an hour for the northern scotland, it gusts of up to 70 miles an hourfor the northern isles. Blowing in plenty of gusty showers. Sunny spells in between. Feeling cool in the wind. Temperatures around 5 degrees or so. Northern ireland seeing outbreaks of rain spreading, for all areas. Quite wet around the Greater Manchester and merseyside, northwest midlands area. Persistent rain for north west and wales. Southern count of england, cloudy, patches of rain, mild day in the south, cooler in the north. Rain pushing overnight. Storm doris continuing to explosively deepen. Nasty storm system on the way tomorrow. Probably the worst storm of the winter. The met office issuing an amber weather warning, for wind. Gusts of 80 miles an hour across parts of north wales, a swathe of northern england. Taking in cities like Greater Manchester, sheffield. Strong windss moving across lincolnshire and yorkshire. Likely to be damaging gusts. Heavy snow over the high ground of the southern uplands. Some snow possible down to lower levels. Likely to cause disruption. Heavy rain in Northern Ireland could bring the risk of localised flooding problems. Nasty storm, could bring a number of weather impacts. A high risk of disruptive weather going through the cause of thursday. Even across parts of Southern England and wales, gusts of Southern England and wales, gusts of 50, 60 miles an hour. Quieter on friday. Outbreaks of rain in the north west going through the day. That is your weather. Hello. Its wednesday. Its 9am. Im victoria derbyshire. Welcome to the programme. Should british citizens be allowed to bring their spouses to the uk whatever their income . Right now, they need to earn over £18,000 a yearin they need to earn over £18,000 a year in order to do so. Were expecting a Supreme Court ruling live in the next hour or two. Well bring you the result. How can you carry on like this . How can we continue to live like this . We wa nt can we continue to live like this . We want to be able to be together. We want to be able to be together. We wa nt we want to be able to be together. We want to be able to be together. We want to be able to be together. We want to be able to sit down and relax together. But we cant. We have to stay like this. Also, its the brit awards tonight. Well be asking if the organisers have done enough to celebrate black artists after criticism of last yea rs