Secretary Steve Mnuchin arrives for another round of talks in italy. I understand theres an ambitious Tax Reform Program in the United States, were watching closely on what is good for the United States and what would be learned by other countries about tax reform. Donald trump calls fired fbi director james comey a grandstanding showboat as he tells nbc exclusively his rational for sacking him earlier this week. You said i accepted their recommendations. You had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless. Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Glad youre with us once again. We have another packed show for you. Lets kick things off with our top story. Vivendi announced plans to buy a 60 stake in Advertising Group halves have ff s ha havas for 2. 4 billion euros. The step marks another milestone in vivendi chairman Vincent Bollores plans to build another media powerhouse. Shares of vivendi are up 5. 71 . Karen has been following the story all morning long. I wonder what the
Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t
Over tv because youre such an expert in ratings. And ill take over your job expert in ratings. And ill take over yourjob and people can finally sleep comfortably again. Coming up on sportsday. Two days to go until the start of the six nations and home nations teams have been announced. Good evening. Phil shiner a human rights lawyer who brought dozens of allegations of murder and torture against british soldiers who served in iraq has been struck off for dishonesty. Mr shiner, a former solicitor of the year, has paid thousands of pounds to a fixer to find iraqi clients. Hed already admitted acting without integrity and his firm, is no longer in business. The defence secretary, sir michael fallon, said mr shiner had brought great pain to soldiers and their families and should apologise. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has been following the case. Once an Award Winning human rights lawyer, tonight phil shiners reputation lies in tatters. He made his name at the expense of the br
His critics say it is being used to help allies convicted of corruption. After joining the e. U. In 2007, romania was pressed to put an end to mass corruption among its politicians. Later, romanias Prime Minister assured Angela Merkel his government is fighting graft intensely. I want to express the determination of the government and the Government Coalition to have and to strengthen a constitutional state in romania to fight corruption and create the best possible legislative conditions for investors. Reporter but leader of this the same Prime Minister was tried for forgery, Money Laundering and tax evasion. He was romanias first Prime Minister to be sued in office. He was far from being romanias only corrupt politician. The countrys anticorruption director has prosecuted former leaders and ministers, 1170 people overall accused of abuse in office. Including the current head of the ruling social democrats. Romania has made progress, but still ranks 57th on the Transparency Internatio