Plus, high aspirations. We meet the pharmaceuticals chief pushing cannabis as the answer to americas opioid addiction crisis. Hello, and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma threatened much, and its delivering on that threat. One of the most powerful atlantic storms on record has pummeled a number of caribbean islands, notably the leeward islands, with extremely heavy rain accompanied by winds of up to 320km h. Thats 200 miles an hour. The Prime Minister of Antigua And Barbuda has told the bbc 90 of buildings on barbuda have been demolished. He said the island, home to about 1,800 people, is now just rubble. A 2 year old child is believed to have died and 6 people are reported dead on saint martin and the neighbouring territory of st ba rts. The eye of the hurricane has passed over the British Virgin islands. Puerto rico awaits, as does florida. Andy moore reports. The island of barbuda, home to 1600 people, was one of the first places to be hit by irma, and it bore the full runt. To be
World business report. Draghis dilemma. The soaring euro poses a new problem for the European Central bank as it debates when to wind down its massive stimulus programme. Plus, High Aspirations we meet the pharma chief whos pushing cannabis as the answer to americas opioid addiction crisis. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme, the us is said to seek a ban on crude oil to north korea. Details in a moment. But first, we start in frankfurt, where in a few hours time the European Central bank holds its latest policy meeting. The big question when will it begin to raise Interest Rates from their historic lows, and start unwinding the massive Economic Stimulus Programme thats been in place since the financial crisis . Some say its about time. But its a big dilemma for ecb chief mario draghi. Lets show you why. The eurozone economy is in much better shape. Its growing atjust over 2 a year. And the recovery is broad, including weaker nations such as greece
Get the view from asia and this is the situation in the markets in europe as they open on the up. A lot of investors waiting for that key decision from the ecb. And reaching for the stars. Well be getting the inside track from a South African entrepreneur known for his passion for democratic technology and a spell on the International Space station. So today we are asking what are your astro ambitions . If you were given the chance to go to the International Space station, what would you do . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in frankfurt where in a few hours time the European Central bank holds its latest policy meeting. The big question when will it begin to raise Interest Rates from their historic lows and start unwinding the massive Economic Stimulus Programme thats been in place since the financial crisis . Its a big dilemma for ecb chief mario draghi. Lets show you why. The eurozone economy is in much better shape, growing atjust over 2
Hello and welcome. Tropical storm sally has made landfall along the gulf coast in alabama, bringing historic levels of flooding and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. Alabama, florida and mississippi have all declared states of emergency. Mark lobel reports. Striking slowly but mercilessly in alabama, some riding out the storm by clinging on. As day came, signs and trees uprooted and power cut for the residents. Got on the first floor and we started hearing the windows pop and part of the roof started coming off any signage was sweeping and we rated out. My kids were so scared and i told them it would be ok. But we will try to survive these. We will try to go through this. We will try to be safe. This is the view from the third floor of my room. Pocket the street roads now rivers in floridas westernmost city. My goodness mac i have never seen anything like this the third worst storm surge ever to hit he, wins reaching 158km h and up to 80 inches of rainfall