Wall street puts its doubts aside as the dowjones finally hits 20,000. Plus, tax wars. Can Brexit Britain and trumps us beat the likes of ireland at their own game and lure back the multinationals and their billions . Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. We will be checking how markets are doing in asia injust a moment. We start in the us where President Trump has been provoking more controversy over his plans to wall off mexico. Meanwhile, traders at the New York Stock Exchange are cheering the trump effect. Heres what they have been celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial average of top us shares ended here, finally closing above 20,000 points For The First Time in its isi year history. Its a huge psychological milestone for traders, the dow has now risen some 9. 5 since the election in november, one of its biggest rallies on record. It got within one point of 20,000 back on january sixth before nerves caused the rally to fizzle out. But since President Trumps inauguratio
Growth figures later. They are expected to show the economy did pretty well at the end of last year, but with rising prices and a fall in the value of the pound, what will the value of the pound, what will the year ahead have in store . In sport, a Wembley Final for southampton. They knock liverpool out of the league cup with an injury time winner. It has taken tim peake to space and back. Now the Soyuz Capsule is going to be landing in london. Well be finding out why. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Today is a cold start to the day. Weve also got a fair bit of cloud around. Some of it will break to see some sunshine and a few of us will see some snow. Wherever you are it will feel raw in the wind. More details in 15 minutes or so. Good morning. First, our main story the us President Donald Trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. But he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring Back Techniques su
Protection measures in sports clubs. We will bring you all the details, including the extra Background Checks you might have to go through if you work with children. Do get in touch on that, it would be really interesting to hear your views, two loopholes they are calling for the government to close immediately. I would be interesting to hear what it is like trying to get a Background Check now if you work with children. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The us President Donald Trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. But he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring back techniques such as Water Boarding. Speaking to the american abc network in his first televised interview since becoming president , he also repeated his pledge to make mexico pay for a wall alon
Mac equipment. A quarter of those living in the uk who survived genocides, including the holocaust, have experienced discrimination or abuse linked to their religion or ethnicity. On Holocaust Memorial day, well be talking to an Auschwitz Survivor about her experiences. We talk to an Auschwitz Survivor and a student who says he has suffered racial abuse since he was a child. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Lots coming up today on the show, and as ever, we really want to hear from you. One of the stories we are talking about is whether six year old girls think they are less talented than six year old boys. A Studyjust Out says they do. What do you think . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Theresa may will become the first world leader to meet donald trump since he became us president. The Prime Minister told
Psychologist james mitchell. He helped draw up and carry out the cias enhanced Interrogation Programme after the September 11 Attacks. He personally interrogated suspects using techniques like waterboarding. His critics say that he is a torturer. He says he has nothing to apologise for, and what he did was harsh, but legal, and necessary. So this is your study . Yes. The thing that is useful about a library like this is, like, for example, this is reliance of the traveller, its a book of sharia law from a salafist position. Ive got a couple of versions of the quran, because the translations are not always the same. What sort of insights, based on their knowledge from these books, as well as your training as a psychologist, about what motivates the kind of people you have interrogated into carrying out the deeds or wanting to carry out the deeds that we know about . Ive heard people say that these Terror Attacks that were seeing in europe, great britain, and the United States had nothin