The First Quarter. Profits down at yahoo but the numbers beat the street thanks to a great performance by alibaba. And russia warns ukraine it stands on the brink of civil war after kiev launches military operations to try to win background from the separatists. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello and a warm welcome to todays edition of Worldwide Exchange. There is a huge amount to get through in todays show, an awful lot to talk about. Coming up, could the mobile phone as you know it soon be ancient history . Googles planning a modular smartphone that consumers can customize with various hardware features. Well take a look at that. Bank of america set to report numbers from the bell today. Find out why this is a top stock pick. And a fatal ferry industry. Well be in seoul later in the show. First, asian stocks are up. First quarter gdp came in at 7 another 4 , thats down 7. 7 from last quarter of last year. Lets get a breakdown of
Out by leaders of both parties. Debate is scheduled to start at noon. For more, were joined by libby casey on capitol hill. And good morning, libby. Major conservative groups have come out against this bill, and how have the Republican Leaders responded so far . They were critical about it before negotiation had settled. Were talking about groups like clubs for growth and americans for prosperity. Theyre well funded by conservative activists. And what they have in washington, they will go into the state and congressional districts and pour money into congressional or senate races if they dont think that they are being conservative enough. House speaker, john boehner, pushed back yesterday when supporters asked about what he thought of the outside groups criticisms. Theyre using americans and our own people for their own goals. This is recognition. If youre for deficit reduction, youre for this agreement. Paul ryan is also pushing back the criticisms, saying read the bill. Im reading it
In america. How a young mother is fighting to get her family off the treats. Off the streets. [ music ] good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Today the house is said to vote an a new deal that would prevent a Government Shutdown. The bipartisan deal had the backing of House Speaker john boehner, who is lashing out at conservative groups. Erica pitzi jops us with the latest. Bipartisan is the key ward. Democrats and republicans had to compromise on the deal, undercluesing 85 billion. Both sides are not overly satisfied, the deal represents a ceasefire if it gets through congress. Praise and criticism a day after republican congressman agreed on a bipartisan budget plan to avoid a shutdown. We want to deep a quost open and get a traj ectory of savings. Thats what well do. Its absolutely outrageous that we should leave the congress and go home for the holidays when too many people, over a Million People will not get their unemployment benefit. Democrats did give up
More than a century before the nuremberg tribunal and these records created by treaties to promote these human rights objectives promoting the slave trade. If a ship were caught common gauge and illegal slave trade it would be brought before one of the International Courts, and if they found out that it was covered by the treaty, it was a spanish ship for some of the treaty between britain and spain saying we are ending the slave trade, and what happened is the slaves would be freed and the ship would be auctioned off. The money would be split between the sea captain that brought the ship and other governments that were involved. Cities International Courts as i recount in the book heard some 80,000 slaves off of captured huge number and scale of the host what wit was the name f this International Courts tragedy mixed. Treaties given different names. Theyre a bunch of bilateral treaties between britain and other countries. Spain, portugal, the netherlands, with initial country. The u.
Now lets go over to westminster and join that bbc special on the budget with andrew neil. It is budget day, thejohnson government unveils its new plans, with special emphasis on its new voters in the midlands and the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in the job, the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in thejob, the biggest challenge is the growing Economic Impact of the coronavirus, and what he can do to vaccinate the economy from it. With me for this politics live budget special Political Editor laura kuennssberg, Business Editor simonjack, and economics editor faisal islam. It was meant to be the levelling up budget, to the regions and people that have not done well in the past decade but looks set to be the coronavirus budget. This morning he bank of england has already announced an emergency cut in Interest Rates. The bank of englands role is to help uk businesses and households manage through an economic shock that could prove large and sharp. Meanwhil