Trish regan primetime begins now. President trump playing the role of consolerinchief meeting with survivors, victims families and First Responders after two Mass Shootings this weekend took the lives of at least 31 people as momentum grows over socalled red flag gun laws where the courts intervening and remove guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others. Watch him here in el paso, texas. President trump lets see if we can get something done. Republicans want to do it and democrats want to do it. Trish yeah, they do, maybe. I dont know about that. Here is the problem. This president has an absolutely inept congress. Its very clear congress is repeatedly failing us. Whether it be on immigration, trade or healthcare. You take your pick. Congress isnt fighting for their constituents. The politicians arent fighting for you and me. They are fighting for lobbying money. Whether it be money from big corporations that want to be in the chinese marketplace. Whether it be big phar
Doing business with huawei. This is just as the chinese tech giant is due to be hit with a full ban on working with us firms. So how did we get to this point . In may this year huawei was placed on the us entity list, effectively banning american firms from doing business with huawei because of National Security concerns. The move barred us companies, including google, intel and qualcomm, from working with huawei. But a few days later the us temporarily eased some of the restrictions for instance, allowing google to send through security updates for its android operating system. But this temporary exemption is due to end. There had been reports the us might extend the exemption, but President Trump cast doubt on that, saying he dosnt want american firms to do business with huawei. Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all. It was sort of reported, i think the opposite today, i was surprised, we are open to doing business with them, we are actually not open to doing busines
Talks may be jeopardised if they use a heavy hand. Heres how european markets are performing so far at the beginning of this new trading week. Positive territory across the board. But there are still fears of a recession. We will be looking into what these numbers mean in a few minutes. And getting fit while you travel its all part of the growing wellness industry. Well be talking to one firm cashing in on the trend. And today, we want to know what do you drink when youre avoiding alcohol . Thats our question today as diageo buys into seedlip, the distillers of fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Let us know, just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the united states, where President Trump says he does not want america to be doing business with huawei. This is just as the chinese tech giant is due to be hit with a full ban on working with us firms. So how did we get to this point . In may this year, huawei was placed on the us entity list effectively bann
Is there an echo in here . Amazon wants to put alexa in cars. Has foundtter says it and deleted more than 1000 fake accounts created by the Chinese Government used to undermine the hong kong protestant hong kong protests. Acebook said it also acted on tip from twitter, finding some fake accounts. They say they will no longer state advertising from act media worldwide. We are joined by a fellow from new america and in washington, brett, who set up the first tax force first task force to counter disinformation in the white house. Sarah, what exactly do we know . Sarah they are finding these coordinated efforts from china trying to discredit the protesters, calling them violent, saying what they are doing is maybe backed by western resources, just trying to cause tension within the group. Emily twitter says it kicked off 936 accounts. Facebook, seven pages, three groups. We have statements from both companies. They said, overall, these accounts were attempting to sow discord in hong kong.
U. S. Road map begins with stocks poised to rally at the open, boosted by rising global trade optimism, those earnings we mentioned from coke and utx, ceo of coke will join us today. Fiscal crisis averted the white house and congress striking a budget and debt ceiling deal. And lobbying for huawei restrictions release the ceos of qualcomm, google and intel and other tech giants make their case directly to the president. Futures are higher this morning on the heels of a number of better than expected earnings. Three dow components also cross beginning with coke. Shares higher after the Company Beats the street, raises organic revenue guidance and utx beats on the top and bottom lines. Mixed bag for travelers. Earnings fell short but ref new be beat coke seeing organic revenue five versus the prior four. Doing such a great job. Doing it with coke zero sugar which happens for quite good tasting. Doing it with water. Hes doing it with those small formats. Whimsical. Hes doing it with bette