But in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, the dinner seems like a piece of the worst of the 1980s or 50s even crashing into the modern era. Is this the night that unreconstructed attitudes in the city and at the top level of business are exposed . Our business editor, helen thomas, reports. A 5 star london location. The guest list scattered with big names and big wallets. And innocuous billing, the president s club charity dinner. This was a Charity Auction like no other. Last week, according to the financial times, 360 men from British Business, politics and finance came to a black tie event here. 360 men but no women except they were joined by 130 hostesses. Young women, reportedly chosen for their looks, who are given short, tight dresses to wear. The women, who were paid £150, were paraded in and distributed around the table. Later in the evening, the paper says, hostesses according to the charitable trusts last set of accounts for 2016, ll; flllillll xl l 2 22; and it
Will discover new perspectives of famous tourist sites. In volcanic paradise why people are flocking to the nordic country of iceland. Where you start off in the dutch capital of amsterdam a city that simply never gets boring now amsterdam is a perfect getaway for the weekend it boasts the unesco World Heritage canal system a wealth of museums not to mention the parks restaurants and of course coffee shops and unlike many other capitals amsterdam is relatively small so you can reach pretty much everything on foot but if you want to do is the dutch do then youd better get on a bike which is what we did to explore the city. Instagram is hands down europes capital of bicycle riders its home to an estimated nine hundred thousand bikes thats more than the population of the city center. In two thousand and one the worlds first bicycle perking garage was built at the citys central rail station shaun cody has been offering individual sightseeing tours of the capital with this company joyride t
Of barcelona, refused to attend a formal reception. And now its time for dateline london. Welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. Jeffrey kaufman, and a water from the gulf weekly. The gulf weekly. 500 people this week, many of them children. Children. Syrian capital damascus has been described as hell on earth. Described as hell on earth. The un has called for a ceasefire. Has called for a ceasefire. See any end to the suffering of the people in ghouta . People in ghouta . The lines of what the United Nations issued. Issued. There was nothing further to say about this. About this. You have to recognise that words can have the quality of deeds. You can pretty much do whatever he wants of the country. Wants of the country. As long as he has been the river. Has been the river. Strategy that president assad is using. Using. And they cant do it because the russians are stopping it. The russians are stopping it. Faqs on the ground that the Syrian Regime is there. It is not going away.
Delta airlines finds itself stuck between the nra and millions of dollars. Gerri willis on how one Political Party is trying to punish an airline for picking a side in the Hashtag Boycott the nra battle. And the chief mechanic at Advance Auto Parts says hes got to retool. Ceo and president tom greco is here to tell us why the gop tax plan is actually revving up his companys turn around. Hes here. Plus, actress Heather Graham using hollywoods half magic to break down sexual barriers in tinseltown, writing, directing and starring in a movie she couldnt get the establishment in hollywood to buy into. Heather graham on how she turned into a businesswoman and fought the establishment. She joins us on set. Were less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. Liz we want to quickly, at the top of the show right now, take a look at gun stocks. They are moving lower by more than 5 , at least two of them here after Sarah Sanders said the white house will have specific policy ann
Hello. Thats loud. Kind of scared me. Thank you for joining us at powells. This afternoon we are very pleased to welcome the legendary actor with his new book, the grouchy historians. Mr. Avner is a Television Legend nominated a total of 20 times for an emmy award, the winner of seven emmys and five Golden Globe Awards for his betrayal of the beloved Mary Tyler Moore show and a Spinoff Series blue grant. Heres the only actor to an emmy for playing the same character in both the comedy and a drama and has won more emmys than any other performer in addition to his acclaimed doc team career he served two terms as president of the screen actors guild. He is also celebrated voice actor, most notably as the voice of the curmudgeon Karl Fredrickson and the Academy Awardwinning pixar film up. A longtime political activist, he spoken out on many issues he cares about from autism to unions and has acted in many charitable organizations including Autism Speaks and the Wildlife Conservation organi