first republic came under intense pressure after silicon valley bank and signature bank collapsed last month. the bbc s samira hussain has more from new york. normally when a company s earnings for are released, executive hold a call with analysts where they take questions. but that wasn t the case for first republic bank. executives spoke for about ten minutes and then took no questions. it is perhaps an indication ofjust how bad things have become at the regional bank. during the first quarter, it lost $102 billion in customer deposits. that s way more than half of the $176 billion it had on hand at the end of last year. after silicon valley bank and signature bank were taken over by federal regulators, wall street worried that first republic could be the next bank to go down, since it has similar clients to silicon valley bank people in the startup space. on monday, the bank said it would cut about a quarter of its staff and slash executive compensation. samira executive
of three years has been cheating on me with some little skank. audience: ooh! and, do you want to know the best part about it all, though? yes, i would like to. his own mother was the one who walked in on them. jeremy paxman interviewed jerry springer back on newnight back in 2014. here s a bit of it. jerry springer, the godfather of the confessional chat show, is here. are you ashamed of it? uh, the show s stupid, i ve always thought the show s stupid. ashamed? no. shouldn t you be? no, not any more than a journalist should be doing the news. because, for example, you would make a living. let s say you re a journalist, let s say you do the news every night. every night, you tell stories about very bad things and it s very profitable for the station. you re not necessarily helping the people you talk about. newspapers are in that business all the time. you could decide only to put well scrubbed, wealthy people who speak the queens english on television and just do that. but t
large rallies have taken place in houston, new york, washington, los angeles and chicago. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme. it brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline in london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries, strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides, in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland, topping the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all of that we have brian o connell, a bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, a portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly british citizen, and jeffrey goffman, who has been able corresponding and new news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you with us. we start with nato expansi
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian o connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguesejournalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you back with us. jeffrey, let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on f