Begin the trading week. In positive territory. We will talk about what will move them later in the week later in the programme. We are joined by a french entrepreneur described as a Rock Star In The World of proud funding. She will reveal to us her latest plans shortly. And the winner is. La la land. Moonlight . Sort out the autocue what a night. What is your Warren Beatty moment . Get in touch. Welcome to the programme. One of europes biggest mergers looks like it is off. The London Stock Exchange and its german rival the Deutsche Boerse say their coming together is unlikely to be approved by the European Commission. The merger was supposed to be worth just over 30 billion and would have created a giant trading powerhouse that would better compete against its big us rivals. When they announced the deal last year the two Companies Said together they should be able to make cost savings of 475 million a year, about 20 of the combined groups operating costs. They had already agreed to sel
Than they ever thought possible. Whats that doing in here . Thats a plate of mashed potato. We are lucky that trump will provide most of the jokes for the foreseeable future. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. If youre a pupil or teacher in a school where subjects are being cut, do get in touch with us. Have you studied or taught one of the less popular subjects like german . Does it matter if the fewer people get to take it in the future . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Its been announced that British Telecom and its openreach service, which runs the uks Broadband Infrastructure, are to be legally separated. Telecoms regulator, ofcom, says openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy. Ofcom had been pushing for the move following complaints about poor levels of service and had threatened to force bt to l
Its rare for britains Intelligence Community to make a Public Statement about anything. So the fact that gchq felt it had to rebut allegations that it spied on donald trump shows how seriously they took the comments made by the White House Press secretary, sean spicer. Gchq said the claims were nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored. £225 i292; £553,516 . £52531 777, Downing Street says its been promised by the white house that the allegations wont be repeated. It is an extraordinary claim, that donald trump was bugged by gchq on the orders of barack obama, a claim that has led to strenuous denials from london. It was first tweeted by President Trump who said his phone had been tapped before his inauguration. He said president obama was a bad or sick guy. The Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence. The evidence remains the same, we do not have any evidence that took place. We have cleared that up, we have seen no evidence of that. Where is the president getti
Scottish parliament has voted in favour of making a formal request to the uk government of making a independence referendum. Our top story in the uk britain formally begins the process to exit the european union, what should Asian Companies be looking for . Are we set to the Higher Oil Prices . We will hear from the International Energy agency. Hello. Later today Prime Minister theresa may will be triggering article 50 and that will officially start the process of brexit. Japanese businesses were some of the most vocal against brexit ahead of the referendum last year. Their comments are not surprising considering japan is the biggest asian investor in the uk. And its Companies Account for about 140,000 permanentjobs. Companies account for about 140,000 permanent jobs. Carmakers such Companies Account for about 140,000 permanentjobs. Carmakers such as nissan, toyota and honda are major employers. Theirfactories nissan, toyota and honda are major employers. Their factories make almost ha