Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also to come facebook, twitter and google will face tough questions from congress about russian meddling in us election, so were asking do you trust social media as a source of news . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The white house insists that criminal charges brought against former aides to President Trump show no evidence of collusion between his Election Campaign and russia. Mr trumps former advisor, george papadopoulos, admits lying to the fbi while the president s former Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort, has pleaded not guilty to Money Laundering. Meanwhile, in a submission to the us congress, facebook said more than 126 million americans may have read posts, uploaded by russia based operatives around the time of the president ial election. Laura bicker has the latest from washington. Paul manafort, Donald Trumps former Campaign Manager leaves court under house arrest faced in 12 g
Are on this planet, you you can watch this fight. Francine good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. We are getting breaking news out of germany. The Current Assessment for ifo, 1. 2416. This is the latest figure we got. We will bring you any breaking news. We will be speaking to the president of the ifo institute. In the meantime, this is the picture i am looking at on your asset markets. We are seeing a little bit of pause. A lot of currencies, a lot of stocks are drifting a little bit before janet yellen take to the states. Conviction inuch a lot of these european stock trading. This is what we are seeing overall. The euro falling. There was a little bit more Decisive Action in commodities where most Raw Materials climbed. 48 below 40. Thats get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Convictedlee has been of bribery, perjury, and embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison. He was found guilty of conspiring. He says he will appeal the verdict. Hurricane harvey has str
With sally and World Business report. Business leaders and investors are braced for the british Prime Ministers speech as the pound continues to sink against the us dollar. And we gauge the mood among the delegates gathered in davos. With the rise of populism are the elite in retreat . Welcome to World Business report im sally bundock. In a moment ill be talking to inga beale, the Chief Executive of Lloyds Of London who is at the World Economic forum. Theresa may will today deliver a highly anticipated speech on the uks future outside the european union. The speech will focus on Global Britain and how the uk can be an outward facing nation as it seeks new post Brexit Relations with its trading partners. Reports over the weekend suggest the british Prime Minister will use todays speech to signal the uk will pull out of the eu Single Market, although Downing Street described this as speculation. Despite this, the pound hit its lowest level for more than three months on the reports, sterl
He says that president elect Donald Thrump will fail. President legend donald trump will fail. And an exclusive interview with toyota chairman at 11 45 london time. Day ome to bloombergs break europe. m anna. Eric good to see you, george soros punched everybody i think one at a time. Whats the lineup today . Eric this is the first year in my experience that the World Economic meeting has extended to a full fourth day. Moments from now well hear from the Vice President of the e. U. Commission. Te they are morning, joe jimenez, the c. E. O. Of the giant drugmaker novartis. Cannot ignore obamacare, it means a lot to drugmakers. Back to you. Ana amazing that donald trump is not there yet he has such a presence at this event. Conversations about him extend to all corners. A couple minutes past 6 00 here in london. Lets throw up the charts and see whats happening outside of the davos world as well. Janet yellen talking about it being prudent to gradually adjust policy over time. She said the
The firm that promises to make employing people easier. Hell explain how. Today we want to know, what are your questions about brexit . Well be answering your questions on this fridays edition of Business Live. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start of course with brexit as the massive task now begins of agreeing the terms of britains departure from the european union. Theres a huge amount at stake for businesses here in the uk and across the remaining 27 eu countries in the form of a trading relationship Worth Hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A failure to strike a trade deal would be damaging to all sides. But who really has the upper hand . Lets look at the numbers. In 2015 the uk exported 274 billion worth of goods and services to the eu. Thats 44 of all the uks exports and represents 13 percent of the entire british economy. Lets look at it the other way. The eu exports far more to the uk than vice versa 360 billion worth in the same