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
Who own their own home has fallen dramatically over the last 20 years. And the alarming decline in the number of orangutans on the island of borneo, one of their three main habitats. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. 13 russians and three russian organisations have been charged with interfering in the american president ial election in 2016. Three of those named have been accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five have been accused of aggravated identity theft. The announcement was made by special counsel robert mueller, who is investigating alleged russian interference in the election. The indictment says the russians set up fake social media profiles to spread disinformation about Donald Trumps rivals, organised political rallies, and tried to encourage minority groups not to vote. The Deputy Attorney general of the United States, rod rowden steyn, has been outlining the allegations. In order to hide the russian origins and their activities, the defendants allegedly purc
For cumbria down towards cornwall. And it is pretty mild, 13 degrees is the high and belfast. Into the evening, the rain in the north west pushes south and east. It merges with an area of cloud and rain in the south east. Skies clearing from the south east. Skies clearing from the north west overnight. Staying cloudy with that a patchy outbreaks. But we start tuesday with a frost free start, cloud and rain lingering in east anglia towards kent. But away from the selfies, not a bad day. More sunshine than there is today, temperatures down. Many of us in double figures, but cooler in the east coast on tuesday. Eventually, we lose the cloud and the wet weather from southern and eastern parts overnight heading into wednesday, the winds falling quite light so were clear spells, a chilly night. A frost in scotland and Northern Ireland. Milderfurther south first thing on wednesday, but likely to see some mist and fog lingering. Wednesday is largely dry, with mist dan fog and low cloud in cent
You pick your paper and you get your version of the story that you want. You can be our sceptic. Im sceptical as to whether this is spin rather than the truth. This is as much about uniting the cabinet as trying to put together a united thing for the eu. Theresa may offers 20 billion euros brexit divorce deal to europe, not so long ago Boris Johnson said they can whistle for it, we are not paying anything. This has been a major sticking point, the amount we are willing to pay in the divorce bill. The uk needs to settle its accounts, Michel Barnier says. We are hearing it will be 20 billion euros that will be offered to the eu. It is also to do with eu residence in britain and their status. That is also one of the sticking points. The idea of whether it will go through the Central Court of europeanjustice it will go through the Central Court of european justice in it will go through the Central Court of europeanjustice in europe or come to britain, that is also part of the package she w
North koreas leader has vowed to make President Trump pay dearly for threatening to destroy his country. President trump made the remarks at the United Nations on tuesday. Kimjong un has now hit back in this war of words, calling donald trump mentally deranged. On thursday, President Trump imposed new sanctions against individuals, companies and foreign banks that trade with pyongyang. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. In recent weeks, north korea has simply ignored new sanctions imposed by the United Nations and pressed ahead with its nuclear and missile tests. So now the United States has responded by promising to increase its own restrictions. At a meeting in new york with the leaders of japan and south korea, donald trump said he had signed a new executive order extending us sanctions against companies and banks that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. Today im announcing a new executive order. The us president said this would specifically target nort