Muted start. And Chlorinated Chickens, the Electric Mini and tech titans well be looking at whats been a busy week in today we want to know does great wealth bring great responsibility . Yesterday amazon founder jeff bezos was, briefly, the richest person in the world what would you do if it was you . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with retail giant amazon it has seen its shares fall sharply after its latest figures disappointed wall street. The good news it is raking in huge sums of money as its sales keep expanding. The bad news its spending a fortune on developing its business and that is making investors nervous. Lets show you the details. Total sales in the three months tojune jumped almost a quarter compared to last year to just under 38 billion. Unfortunately they spent almost all of it Operating Expenses surged to well over 37 billion. That means there wasnt much actual profit a comparatively measly 197 million and down 77 on last
Lots coming up today, have you bought diet pills . Many are illegal and deadly but can be bought online. Get in touch with us as we are talking about that also some new research that might seem a Bit Suprising which is that people who drink three to four times a week are less likley to develop Type 2 Diabetes than those who never drink we will explain all. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. The bbc understands at least 60 buildings have failed a new Fire Safety Test. The test is seen as more they were owe than previous ones as more materials were analysed together for the first time. So far, just nine of the buildings which failed have been identified. Theyre in salford in Greater Manchester. The local council is asking for help from Central Government to meet the cost of replacements. Ministers will publish the full Test Findings later this morning. Dan john
And a romcom with a diference boy meets girl, and girl falls into a coma in the big sick. Well get film critic james kings thoughts on this and the other releases in the film review. Good evening. In the past few minutes, the government has announced that an independent review will be carried out into Building Regulations and fire safety, because of the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in west london, which killed 80 people, raised serious questions about about the fire safety of high rise buildings and led to the widespread testing of cladding, like that used on Grenfell Tower, on other buildings across the country. Also in the past few minutes it has been confirmed that 82 buildings have failed those new fire tests for cladding. That includes these in salford. 47 of them are in local Authority Control run by housing associations. All the details of the findings of those particular tests have only just been released, just in the last few minutes. So our correspondents arejust reading few
To put england on top in the third test at the oval. Plus, a moment of tv history. Casualty celebrates 30 years on air with a special episode filmed in just one take with just one camera. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Its a fairly mixed picture through the weekend. There are spells of sunshine, but also plenty of blustery showers. Ill bring you the details in about 15 minutes. Look forward to it, sarah, thanks. Good morning, first our main story. Donald trumps Top White House aid has resigned after days of Public Infighting at the white house. Earlier this week Chief Of Staff, Reince Priebus, was described as a paranoid schizophrenic by the president s new director of communications. The new man in charge of making sure the administration runs smoothly is former military generaljohn kelly. Heres our North America correspondent peter bowes. Another tweet, another resignation, another day in the trump presidency. Reince priebus is the latest senior figure in the white house to
To put england on top in the third test at the oval. Plus, a moment of tv history. Casualty celebrates 30 years on air with a special episode filmed in just one take with just one camera. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Its a fairly mixed picture through the weekend. There are spells of sunshine, but also plenty of blustery showers. Ill bring you the details in about 15 minutes. Look forward to it, sarah, thanks. Good morning, first our main story. Donald trumps Top White House aid has resigned after days of Public Infighting at the white house. Earlier this week Chief Of Staff, Reince Priebus, was described as a paranoid schizophrenic by the president s new director of communications. The new man in charge of making sure the administration runs smoothly is former military generaljohn kelly. Heres our North America correspondent peter bowes. Another tweet, another resignation, another day in the trump presidency. Reince priebus is the latest senior figure in the white house to