President has violated a gag order and found him in contempt of court. Hes fined a total of 9,000 for nine breaches. 0ur North America correspondent nada tawfik has the latest from outside the court in new york. Tell us about the fine and the comments when issuing the find. Yeah. Well, matthew, we had been waiting for the judge to rule on this request from prosecutors to hold donald trump in contempt of court. He rejected donald trump was not lawyers that the post his Campaign Website were responding to political attacks. He found in only one of the ten instances that there was a tenuous correlation as he put it to some remarks by one of the key witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. 0therwise witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. Otherwise he sided with prosecutors that donald trump had wilfully violated a gag water nine out of ten times. Under new york law, he is only able to find donald trump 1000 per violation. He did that but also said given donald trump is wealthy he might not
and woke up 1,000 miles from home. hello, i m katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. the domino effect is in full flow, first norway and denmark, then germany, france, and italy, and now spain. all of them suspending the use of the astrazeneca vaccine today until the european medicines agency has issued new guidance, which should come tomorrow. 17 million people have had the astrazeneca jab in the uk and europe and there have been 37 reports of blood clots. but scientists say you would expect that number in that many people even without the vaccine. halting a vaccine roll out during a pandemic has consequences particularly when most of the countries in europe are seeing a steady rise in new cases. there were already issues surrounding the astrazeneca jab with some in europe refusing to take it. this will further complicate the roll out. tonight, the ema says it believes the benefits of the astrazensca jab in stopping deaths and hospitalisations outweigh a
Bps shares rising nearly 3 on that news of a return to profit. Also in the programme. Well be getting the inside track on. How you turn one massage and spa centre into an International Business of beauty. As the head of The World Bank forecasts a dramatic rise of robots in the workplace, we want to know what could it mean for yourjob. Would you work with robots . Maybe you do already. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. One of the worlds Biggest Energy companies, bp, has Just Announced its latest results for the First Quarter of 2017. And as expected its delivered much better news thanks to the rising price of oil and some effective restructuring. Using the oil giants preferred measure of underlying replacement cost profit, the First Quarter of the year came in at 1. 1; billion, a healthy improvement on the 485 million loss it made the same quarter last year. This year bp plans to sell off around 4. 5 billion worth of assets as part of a Gl
And well speak to a woman who says she was sexually harassed by the former fox news star bill oreilly. Hello. Welcome to cornwall. We are pretty much in the middle of the county, and we are just off the much in the middle of the county, and we arejust off the high and we are just off the high street, in the main square, a small, pretty square. We are talking to all sorts of people here ahead of the General Election. We are asking about the things they care about with 30 days to go. A lot of people say they dont have a great deal of time for politicians. They feel pretty forgotten, actually. Geographically, they are 300 miles away from westminster. We will hear from pledge of them this morning in detail. Wherever you are, get in touch. What issues do you care most about ahead of this General Election . We will hear from about ahead of this General Election . We will hearfrom more about ahead of this General Election . We will hear from more of you after the news. Our top story today, th
In the European Union. So it is a particular type of cohort you get in britain, which doesnt mean they speak for the whole of british business. Earlier today i interviewed the head of the International Monetary fund, Christine Lagarde, who has been negative about brexit in the past, and i started by asking her if the uk leaving the Single Market would be bad for britain. You have to look at all the parameters. You have to look at the monetary policy, the exchange rate, the interest that would be charged. You have to look at the engines for growth, whether that very solid uk consumption which has held the economy together, and better than we had thought, will last. Whether investment, both domestic and from the rest of the world, will persist, or whether there will be a significant reduction, and under what terms the exports will eventually take place between the uk and the rest of the world. What i know for sure is that theres a lot of work to be done in the coming weeks, months and po