Hello and welcome to bbc world news. South africa are the Rugby World Cup champions for a third time in tournament history. South africa are the Rugby World Cup champions for a third time in tournament history. The spring boks took the title injapan beating england 32 points to 12 in the final overpowering the english in the second half of the game. Makazole mapimpi scored a try, putting south africa ahead 25 points to 12. And with less than ten minutes left on the clock, winger Cheslin Kolbe side stepped the England Defence and scored another try, sealing the win for the springboks. It was an historic win for the rainbow nation and for many it was more than just a rugby match. Andrew harding reports from johannesburg. Its always good to win. Back home in south africa today, ecstatic celebrations nationwide. But theres more to this rapture than just rugby. The sport was once monopolised by the white minority here, but not any more. Congratulations to the springboks and thank you for br
This week on press here. Good morning, everyone im scott mcgrew. My first guest is trying to change the way the world feeds itself. Hampton creek foods wants to create all kinds of foods, but in the ageold question of which comes first, they started with the egg. The san franciscobased Company Makes a kind of mayonnaise though for reasons we may get to later, the word mayonnaise is up for debate. Hampton creek recently started selling a cookie dough instead of egg in the dough, Hampton Creek uses canadian yellow peas. Now, the man who put pea in your cookies is josh tetric founder and ceo of Hampton Creek. Hes been on the show before. Here to update us on the companys progress joined by j. P. Now of mashable and hanna kuchler. Im glad you laughed at my 11yearold joke. I couldnt resist. That said your food is very pure. You are doing alternative foods, but youre not doing meat in a petrie dish, right . No. Were doing food to figure out how to get rid of food. How do we get rid of bad fo
Former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister is here to weigh in on that. Oils also a hot topic at the university of dayton. The school is going green after divesting all of its fossil fuel investments. Youre going to hear exclusively from the schools president about why he is doing this and his plan to have other University Follow daytons lead as well. Yeah, bill, potentially a lot of money at stake here. Theyre doing it for ethical reasons, but theyre also under pressure, like other universities like stanford, that have done this, from students. All right, want to see whats happening with the market right now . Heres what were doing today. As you can see, kind of a meandering session. Selloff on the open this morning following what happened in asia and europe overnight and this morning. Nasdaq is up just a tiny fraction right now. Its the only of the major three averages thats actually in the green at the moment, while the s p is down a point and a half at this moment at 1,961. Lets ta
Yeah. Dow still negative by 55 points. It was a sleepy summer session until the headlines began to cross. Look for confirmation of exactly what happened. As we head into the final hour of trade with the dow off 55 points this hour, take a look at the nasdaq as well trading higher to the tune of seven points. The s p 500, roughly unchanged, off by just under two points. Joining our closing bell exchange, Gerard Fitzpatrick from russell investments. Ken, chris from Jk Investment Group and rick from cnbc along with michelle who has been leading our coverage on the situation at the Ukraine Russia border today. Michelle, any sort of subsequent headlines after these early claims today by the ukrainians they had tracked and destroyed Russian Military vehicles moving into their territory . Yeah. For sure. Russia is denying they had any vehicles there. After 10 00 big dive in the markets. This gentleman came out, hes a military spokesman and he said what youre talking about, they had destroyed
Here. Well talk about the big miss of big blue and spoke with david faber and investors are watching to see if we shake off that mess. Interesting, had the news of ibm come out midweek last week, big problem. Oh yeah. Dont you think . Markets for the most part, even though the dow hit pretty hard, is kind of taking it in stride at least now trying to work back into positive territory. All about earnings, fundamentals, a miss, one of the biggest price weighted names in the dow, youre right. A more nervous environment is raising the concerns. Today trying to fight back. A change of sentiment we felt over three days. Apple takes focus after the bell. Third quarter earnings with about nine days of iphone 6 sales and obviously closely watched and the reaction in the stock could be significant and well have the first analyst and best anywhere around. Jim breyer, he was in on facebook before anyone really knew what it was and well find out what hes interested in right now. Turned out pretty w