And its been a busy few days for the likes of apple, emirates and blackrock. Well be taking stock with our business guru theo leggett. Today we want to know, why are millennials not playing golf . The popularity of the sport is falling all around the world. Is it to expensive or does it just take too long . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The government running the worlds biggest economy is staring a shutdown in the eyes. Thats what will happen if the United States congress doesnt agree a budget deal by the end of friday. Late on thursday, the house of representatives passed a short term bill to fund the government until february 16th but getting it through the senate is proving much more difficult. One major Sticking Point is the fate of 800,000 so called dreamers people who came to the us illegally as children and face the prospect of deportation. Democrats are using the budget talks as leverage to try and stop that. Then theres the c
In sport, edmund defies the heat to win in melbourne. Hes through to the fourth round for the first time after a 5 set win. I want to be a pilot. I want to be a game designer. I want to be a maths teacher. From sports stars to social media icons, well find out what thousands of children said when they were asked to draw their future careers. And matt has the weather. Good morning. I certainly am, i have come in search of snow and i have found it, what is of the showers again today across parts of north west england, Northern Ireland scotla nd north west england, Northern Ireland scotland and in southern scotland there could be some issues later. I will have all of the details in your full forecast in the next 15 minutes. Maps, thank you. Mat. Good morning. First, our main story. Scientists in the us are close to a major cancer breakthrough, after trials for a new universal blood test detected eight common forms of the disease. Overall, the test found 70 of the cancers but researchers s
Today, we want to know as the premier League Football tv rights auction looms once more would you pay more to keep watching the footie . Let us know. Just use the bbcbizlive. We start in Silicon Valley where the giants of the Technology World have been reporting their latest results. The biggest of them all apple has been hailing its best ever quarter. That means its edging ever closer to becoming the worlds first trillion Dollar Tech Company by stock market value. Lets show you the numbers because they are staggering. Apple made revenues of more than 88 billion in the three months to the end of december, the all important Holiday Shopping season. 20 billion of that was profit. That was up 12. 6 on the Previous Year setting a new earnings record for the firm. Apple sold 77. 3 million iphones in the quarter. That was down slightly on last year raising concerns the iphones popularity is waning. But remember many sales were of the more expensive and profitable iphone x and we should put t
New figures suggest its makeup and computer games. But are they facing more pressure than ever to spend . Ell leek, at. The numbers;~ , ~ ~~ it is nearly there. Our first medal from britain is within touching distance. Don parsons is a split second outside the medals in fourth in the halfway stage of the mens skeleton that we will have to wait till tonight. Mat with the weather. A few showers around again producing snow across the north and the west of the uk. Details on that and a full run up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. At least 17 people including children and adults have been killed after a gun attack at a high school in florida. Several other people are being treated in hospital. Shortly after the shootings, Police Arrested a 19 year old former pupil whod been expelled from the school in parkland, around 50 miles north of miami. From there, nada tawfik reports. This was supposed to be one of the safest communities in the country. In an instant, these student
Next hour. We will have the latest from the picket line. Scientists say theyve settled one of medicines biggest debates. A huge Study Concludes that anti depressants do work, afterfinding common anti depressants were all more effective at reducing symptoms of depression than dummy pills. And at the Winter Olympics russian curler aleksander krushelnitski is stripped of his bronze medal after admitting to doping. Good morning. It is thursday, 22nd of february, i am rachel schofield. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. Theresa may is due to host a lengthy meeting with senior ministers today to try and hammer out the cabinets position on future relations with the eu. The meeting will take place at chequers, the Prime Ministers country retreat. One of the main issues on the table is how closely the uk should follow eu rules after it leaves. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminster. Norman. Thank you very much. A key meeting and probably a marathon meeting today which some say