Steve mnuchin the treasury secretary says that the Trump Administration does not intend to intervene in the currency markets right now. And mixing it up. Well be getting the inside track on a Company Making a stir with its cake mixes. A global slowdown in the diamond market is hitting the sales of industry giant de beers. Today we want to know have diamonds lost their lustre for you . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The Business World reacts to the british Prime Ministers decision to suspend parliament in the run up to brexit. The speaker of the house calls it a contitutional outrage. Business groups here in the uk have been quick to condemn the move. The British Chamber of commerce says while the bosses lobby group, the confederation of british industry says the uk government, though, says its working closely with businesses and unions across the country to help ensure they are prepared for the uk leaving the eu on october 31st, whateve
You were named back in 2015 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by time magazine. Then the likes of steven spielberg, denis villeneuve, Martin Scorsese all praising your film making. Without embarrassing you, how do you do it . Gosh, thats a. Thats a long list of accolades some deserved, some probably not. Um. How do i do it . I just love making films. I started making films when i was a kid. I borrowed my dads super 8 camera, started making super 8 films when i was seven or eight years old and ive never stopped. Itsjust something i love doing and i feel very fortunate and privileged to be able to work with a team of really, really talented people on each film. In the case of oppenheimer, this Incredible Cast that, you know, youve already mentioned, cillian and emily, but also, you know, Robert Downeer and matt damon and ken branagh you know, a very, very long list. Florence pugh and many others. Um. For me, how i do it is to bring together talented people like that
And the sports biggest prize. And after the wet and windy day for some of us yesterday, some improvements in the weather for today. For many of us they will be some sunny spells, it also a few showers which could be heavy at times. I will have the full forecast throughout the programme. Good morning. Its sunday the 6th of august. Our main story people who were wrongly convicted of crimes will no longer be charged living costs for the time they spent in prison. The Ministry Forjustice is scrapping the rule with immediate effect, following an outcry over the case of a man who spent 17 years injailfora crime he didnt commit. Joe inwood has the details. There are many shocking things about the case of Andy Malkinson. Ajury misled. Dna evidence suppressed. 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But for many, it was the revelation that Andy Malkinson would have to pay back some of his compensation to cover board and lodgings that was most shocking. The very idea of paying, once yo
major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the big winners post pandemic. but can they keep their lustre in a shaky global economy? i m catching up with the big boss of the world s biggest diamond supplier. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, back in 2001, a directorfrom goldman sachs, jim o neill, now lord o neill, coined the phrase the brics, an acronym for what he gauged were the countries with the highest growth potential that would dominate the glo
north, temperatures will fall away under the starry skies, and we re looking at a fairly widespread rural frost at the very least. so we start off on a rather chilly note first thing sunday, quite a keen wind coming through the north sea as well for eastern areas, still that brisk ish wind towards the north and west. but for mostjust a day of dry and bright weather with hazy spells of sunshine for the most part. and temperatures will obviously not be as high as today because they re starting at a lower level, about eight, possibly ten degrees celsius in east anglia. but some pleasant feeling weather, light winds, if you re out and about. during the evening and overnight, we do pick up a little bit more cloud ahead of the next weather system in the north and the west. so it won t be quite as cold for the far north west of scotland, northern isles, the west of northern ireland. but elsewhere, another cold night and this time it will be frosty further south as well, possibly one