The worst affected areas are in the caribbean where 17,000 people desperately need shelter, with some still short of food and drinking water. Its believed that 37 people were killed on the islands. Nick bryant reports from one of those territories, the turks and caicos. This church was supposed to protect people from irma, a sanctuary from the storm. Butjust hours before the hurricane hit, the plan changed. People went elsewhere, and just as well. Like many buildings here, it was destroyed. In the turks and caicos islands, low lying coastal communities were worst hit, beach side homes now unlivable. Basically, my family, we lost everything, everything. Its going to take some time to get back on our feet again, but, through the strength from god, we will. Long bay beach is routinelyjudged to be one of the most beautiful in the world, a bucket list location, but this is what a category five hurricane can do to a five star hotel. Whats striking here is the determination to rebuild notjust
The eu plans a shake up of the system to make the likes of google and apple pay theirfair share. But will ireland play ball . Plus hacked off. Russian Cyber Security billionaire Eugene Kaspersky hits back after the Us Government bans his products as a threat to national security. We have an exclusive interview. Welcome to World Business report. In a minute, bitcoin slumps further after an exchange in china stops trading without giving a reason. Well have the details from our asia team. We start in the estonian capital tallinn where European Union finance ministers are gathering for a meeting this weekend. Top of the agenda plans for a shake up of the way huge tech firms, the likes of google, facebook, apple and amazon, pay taxes. The giants of the so called Digital Economy have faced huge criticism in europe forfailing to pay what some see as their fair share of tax. So whats being proposed . Well the plan is to make the Companies Pay tax wherever in the eu they make money, notjust whe
By firing a Ballistic Missile over northern japan. The japanese government said the missile was fired without advance notice, and was a provocative action that raised regional tensions. South koreas military said the missile was launched towards the east, from sunan near the north korean capital pyongyang. It flew 3,700 kilometres over the island of hokkaido and crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 kilometres east of cape erimo. The Un Security Council is to meet in emergency session later on friday to discuss the crisis. Stephen mcdonell reports from the south korean capital seoul. The south Korean Response was swift. It launched its own missiles into the sea following north koreas Ballistic Missile test. This region is again on high alert. In seoul, the president called an emergency meeting of the national Security Council. He said, in this climate, dialogue is impossible, adding that his country must prepare for potential attacks from the north, including biological and chemic
Given that a large portion of Bitcoin Trading is in china, what does this mean for other crypto currencies . I posed the question to the founder and ceo of change bank, a crypto currency start upholding an initial Coin Offering this saturday. I think everything new, if you are a government or a bank, is uncertainty. And you are afraid of that. People were afraid of airbnb and uber when they started, but nowadays you book your house with a airbnb, you book your taxi with uber. I think crypto currency as well, in a few years everybody will be using this. That is what app change bank is trying to bring to people, so they can pay with debit cards and use services with crypto currencies. This is more of a medium to long term plan, but in the near term you are planning and ico. Could this affect demand and your business . Yes. If i was a chinese company, that would be the case, but actually, with change bank, our ico was very successful. We actually broke records, we sold 10 million in an 2a
But i think uber will do something to fight back. The north Korean Leader describes President Trump as deranged, as the regime says its considering a nuclear test over the pacific ocean. Counter terrorism operations are placing unsustainable pressure on everyday policing, warns one of the countrys most Senior Officers. A poll finds women havent received new warnings about the dangers of taking the epilepsy drug valproate when pregnant. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, James Haskell is the most experienced of four offers somes british and irish lions to be left out of englandss autumn training camp. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Theresa may is preparing to deliver her long awaited speech in florence about the governments plans for brexit. The Prime Minister will say the uk and the European Union have a responsibility to make brexit work and shes expected to offer continued payments to the eu during a two year transition period after britain leaves. Ministers