The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
We will now fund the cost of their training in full. This will cut costs for businesses and Training Providers and support thousands more young people to start an apprenticeship. These announcements by the Prime Minister come amid a warning from the Industry Trade body make uk which represents 20,000 british manufacturers that output wont grow at all this year and wont be much better next, thats the findings of its latest survey of members published today. Joining me now is make uks chief operating officer, ben fletcher. This survey is quite stark. Facing the prospect of two years of anaemic growth, yet your survey suggest that your members are still pretty optimistic. Your members are still pretty optimistic your members are still pretty 0 timistic. ,. ,. ,. , ~ optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from the optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this co
We will now fund the cost of their training in full. This will cut costs for businesses and Training Providers and support thousands more young people to start an apprentice. Make uks Chief Operating Officer is ben fletcher. A little earlier he told me why his members were still quite optimistic, despite a difficult outlook,. A lot of this comes from the fact that manufacturers are an extremely hardy bunch. They are, by definition, problem solvers. They are about how you take a problem and fix it and get through it. Our members have always been resilient and optimistic and positive, and they have a great deal of faith in they have a great deal of faith in the work they do in the sector. I think the challenges, for a variety of reasons, loss of our markets and the integrated supply chain is that we are part of a cross europe, they are depressed because economy in all of our Major Trading partners are not strong at the moment. There are some significant and ongoing issues with Energy Pri
You are live with bbc news. I am anna foster in bethlehem. Some Breaking News this hour. Five people have been killed in an explosion at a Warehouse Run by the United Nations Relief Agency in rafah. It appears to have happened on the eastern side of the building. These are the latest pictures just in. We can see blood from the attack and aid the boxes that are damaged. Ambulances are there. As yet there is no statement or response from israel or the Israel Defence forces but we will bring that to you if it comes. Breaking news to begin this hour, five people have been killed in an explosion at a Un Aid Warehouse In Rafah in the Southern Gaza strip. For the first time in this conflict a new road route has been taken to actually deliver much needed food aid to Northern Gaza at the opposite end of the strip. This is something that has been particularly difficult to do, to actually get aid to the 300,000 people in the north of gaza who desperately need it. The un has said its the first tim