Digital affairs. Fcc for greater access, the latest attempt to fight sanctions, but does that have legs . Our top story. Back to amazon. Bloomberg has learned investigators are looking into its massive Cloud Computing business. Sources say the agency has been asking Software Companies about practices around aws. The unit is one of the backbones of the internet and has a Cloud Computing market share of 50 . Rival microsoft is 16 . Anning us to discuss is analyst from rbc capital markets, and in washington, the person who helped to write the story. Regulatorsprised seem to be looking at almost every portion of amazons business . I think this is as surprise. Complaints about amazons Retail Business are well known. Independent sellers have been talking about ways they think the company is not treating them fairly on this platform, but complaints about age of u. S. Have been quieter, so the fact they have seized this as an area of concern is significant, especially because aws is such a lar
Been starker. And coming up. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for president. Hello, and welcome to world news today. The first results from hong kongs local District Council election are coming in and they show the pro democracy parties making big gains. Theyre on course to all but wipe out their pro beijing rivals. Theres been a huge voter turnout in comparison to elections in 2015. With slightly more than half of the count complete the numbers just a few minutes ago showed pro democracy parties have already taken 196 seats. While pro establishment parties have just 27 so far. These are the numbers being reported by local media and there is still a way to go yet, of course. Now, some notable names ran in the elections, including pro beijing lawmaker junius ho. Hes one of the most controversial politicians in the city and is reported to have suffered a shock defeat. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Stephen, this cou
Digital tax when we talk to the countrys minister of digital affairs. Tech giant huawei sues the fcc for greater access, the latest attempt to fight sanctions, but does the case have legs . Our top story. Crackdownovernments on big tech and back to amazon. Bloomberg has learned investigators are looking into its massive Cloud Computing business. Sources say the agency has been asking Software Companies about practices around Amazon Web Services. The unit is one of the backbones of the internet and has a Cloud Computing market share of more than 50 . Its next biggest rival, microsoft, is 16 . Joining us to discuss is an analyst from rbc capital markets, and in washington, the person who helped break the story. Are you surprised regulators seem to be looking at almost every portion of amazons business . I think this is a surprise. Complaints about amazons Retail Business are well known. Independent sellers have for years now been talking about ways they think the company is not treating
The tsb it meltdown which left nearly two Million People without Online Services the bank faces severe criticism in a new report. And we speak to the prize winning Sir David Attenborough, about the threat still posed to the environment by plastic products. We still have to dispose of the wretched material. Somebody, surely we could invented, somebody somewhere has got to have a way of dealing with it. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, theres a huge night ahead for wales. Win against hungary in cardiff and theyre going to the european championships. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Dozens of demonstrators are still barricaded inside a hong kong university, which has been under siege by the police for three days. Activists have been inside the campus since last week, initially preventing police from entering by lighting fires and throwing petrol bombs. 600 protesters, including minors, have now given themselves up. Police say that any adults who leave will be arre
In a new report into the it meltdown which left nearly 2 Million People without online services. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben croucher. A big night coming up for wales as they bid to qualify for the european championships. They know victory in cardiff over hungary tonight will see them into next years tournament automatically, hoping their big guns like gareth bale and aaron ramsey will be fit. Good afternoon, it was a cold and frosty start for many this morning, slowly they will be a milder air coming in from the south west with the chance of rain, and late in the programme we have a look at how wet it has been so far this month. Good afternoon, welcome to Southampton Solent University where we are coming from during today on bbc news. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in theirfirst general election tv debate tonight. The liberal democrats and snp wont be taking part in the show on itv, after they lost a last minute legal bid to be included. T