The question is is alibaba really worth that much . And samsung and motorola dedicated jump on apple getting a jump on apple created on apple. Is expected to unveil two new iphones next week. What are the technical glitches and what will apple do in response . We will talk about the elite team of engineers dedicated to solving problems. And after weeks and delays of months alibaba released the latest ipo filing, getting close to the ecommerce company, hoping to raise 21. 1 billion. That would make it the largest. Po in the stock market history alibaba is going to sell 320 million shares. Would value the company as high as 162 . 7 billion in market cap. Can begin its roadshow for september 18, or at least so they hope. Lee is the accounting professor and former google china executive. Also is our Bloomberg Ipo reporter on the phone. Of something we know from this business from these filings. I was just talking about this. You rarely see a company that has been around so long and has an
Dateline london. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to a programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists, bbc specialists and foreign correspondents who file their stories for audiences back home from the dateline london. This week, a dickens of a programme with an election past, an election present and an election still to come which may be sooner than we think. And weve a spirited panel, even though theyre not a panel of spirits. Polly toynbee s column appears every week in the guardian, a liberal newspaper in the uk. Jonathan sacerdoti is a political commentator, explaining the uk and europe to audiences in the middle east. He also campaigns against anti semitism. With me in the studio, hugh pym who, as the bbc s health editor, has been guiding audiences through the pandemic, as well as all of us in bbc news who rely on the specialist knowledge of hugh and his team. Welcome to you, hugh, as well as polly and jonathan. Its good to have you on dateline. During the four yea
Continue going up. And the path out of this in terms of living with covid which we in the uk and people around the world will have to adjust to doing perhaps for years to come at some level how kind of treacherous is that path out . Well, the vaccine roll out has been widely, widely praised for where the uk has got to more than 3 million actually vaccinated now with the first dose 300,000 recorded in one day and there is a target to get to the middle of february where vulnerable groups, the over 70s, care home residents and workers and Health Care Workers will all be vaccinated about 15 Million People. The government will have to be held to account over that but beyond that, the roll out of the vaccine does offer hope but this virus will be around for a long time and people have to get used to a new normal, i think. Polly toynbee, you wrote this week about something that people perhaps hadnt even thought about very much in the uk that election yet to come, which you think might conceiv
In england the number of patients waiting for more than a year has gone from 1,600 just before the pandemic to 192,000 now. It is an extraordinarily complicated picture. Given the terrible effects this has had in the uk and around the world, how is the uk system bearing up, the Health System and the people who are accountable for it, the government . If you go into hospitals as i have been privileged to do you see the extraordinary dedication from nhs staff working in really difficult conditions as they are in hospitals and all Health Care Systems but with intensive care patients the strain and stress on staff they went through it all last march and april then in the autumn and now and it is really admirable scene what is going on there and the nhs, we should all be proud of them for what it has been doing. The uk is at a very important phase in this pandemic because we have got to the stage were Senior Health officials are saying the peak in terms of new cases may have passed and some
Apples earnings that will be out after the close. Right now at 2986 on the nasdaq. The s p is up 2 3 4 points app 1411. So whats the market looking for . We had some good Economic News this morning. Earnings mostly positive, though we cant seem to get a rally going. In todays closing bell exchange, je ngentlemen, good have you on the program. Jim, let me kick this off with you. Talk to us about what youre seeing in terms of the backdrop earnings as well as Economic Data and how they fit into in terms of the valuation of this market here. What do you want to be doing . Were longterm investors, and were fairly optimistic that this things going unfold fairly well. Right now were kind of held in the cross currents of earnings reports and the anticipated election, the uncertainty that goes with that. We think once we get over the election hump that the markets going to look a lot better and then this is jim moffitt speaking, right . Yes. So youre optimistic long return. Jim bianco, any thou