Of up to £5,000. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. The American Food giant kraft heinz walks away from its proposed merger deal with unilever. And a nose for talent. Indias Perfume Industry on the unique hiring push. Welcome to Asia Business report. Now, the biggest Potential Merger Deal in corporate history is now not happening, and that is after the American Food giant kraft heinz said it was dropping its bid to buy rival unilever. The anglo Dutch Company which makes marmite, lipton tea and dove soap rejected a bid from kraft heinz on friday. Kraft heinz has said it has amicably agreed to scrap the plan. For more, here is our business reporter. I calculate that within 55 hours of the bid being submitted it has been withdrawn entirely and this will have brought together some major Global Brands that you and i know in our households such as philadelphia and kraft heinz beings. It would have brought together coleman s mustard and magnum ice cream. It wo
today the milwaukee journal sentinel confirms that yes, that trump white house lawyer has been hired by this guy to work on the wisconsin audit of the election results. oh, yeah, that seems totally fine. you re auditing the election results, you ve put in charge of the audit a guy who says it was stolen from trump, who can t tell you anything he s actually investigating, who says he has no idea how elections actually work, and he s hired a trump white house lawyer to help him with it. that john delta gmail address email was sketchy enough and concerning enough to wisconsin s clerk that it prompted some of them at least to reach out to the u.s. department of homeland security for guidance on if or how they should comply with these demands. the demands are in terms of the breadth of what this guy is demanding from the city clerks, it s just bewildering. here is what those subpoenas asked for from all the county clerks in the state. quote, all documents contained in your files and/or
a carnival taking place outside. that s my editorializing. is this an organized effort by republican activists to spread the arizona audit strategy to other states or a grift? i mean, i think that there is some of both. there s a financial motivation. there are various groups, including anchors from oan, the pro-trump news organization who are raising money for this. you know, donald trump himself, we have reported, is really fixated on this arizona process. he is talking about it constantly. he is asking for updates about it. multiple times a day. the reason why he is doing that is he believed a lot of his fans believe it s the first domino. we will see this in arizona. then we will see it all over the country and it s going to vindicate his false claims that
elections are administered. joining me is the author of that piece and columnist and editor haze browns who looked at that security firm, titled cyber ninjas. which is a funny name. arizona s audit of the 2020 election say con artist s dream. how is the audit a grift is your view? cyber ninjas is a firm out of florida that has no experience with this. the founder was out there posting conspiracy theories on his twitter account. he saw an opportunity in arizona and took it. you know what?
my right as an american citizen. and every american citizen had that right. i thought this was picking on the naacp. it was close to the election. we re an effective get out the vote apparatus. most of the people going to turn out to vote are not by our design democrats but happen to be democrats. it was an attempt to weaken us just before the election. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle comming down on what we re seeing today in the irs apparently targeting these tea party groups. doing so at a time in 2010 during the mid-term elections where we saw an up rise in the tea party sweeping in the congress. is there not shouldn t there not be the same level of out rage certainly from the white house? i mean, at the time in 04, congressman charlie rangel called the audit a, quote, police state tactic. do you think that there might be a double standard being looked at here? no, i don t think there s a double standard at all. i think it s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party.