Million euros in repayment for the imf. And thats just the start. Also, its known for its cigars and 1950s chevies. What does the opening up of cuba to the u. S. Market mean for the island . And of course, coming up in the program aarons here with the end to a huge case thats rocked india. David, its been described as indias enron. A 1 billion accounting scandal. Weve all seen this bloke the founder and ceo of stattian computers. Once a pioneer in that countrys outsourcing of india. Well go live to mumbai to get all the details and find out how many years he and the nine others involved will now have to spend in prison. Thanks for joining us. Its midday here in london, 75 a. M. In washington and 2 00 p. M. In london where air strikes have carried out more strikes, targeting houthi rebel pogs in northern southern, and central yemen. The houthis who are opposed to the yemeni president have taken large areas in the last few months. Theyre said to be supported by iran which is also said to
Australian commentator and former cricket captain, Richie Benaud. Hello, thanks for joining us. The summit of the americas gets underway in the coming hours, at a time of great transformation huge challenges and also many opportunities for the region that really are worthy of history. Lets just take the headline act. President obama expected to meet the cuban leader raul castro. When john kerry held his talks with his cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, in the course of thursday night, that was already the highest level meeting in more than half a century. Have a look at these two. This is the last comparable meeting. Fidel castro meeting the then Vice President richard nixon, in 1959. Just a year after that that diplomatic relations were broken off, as cuba nationalized all american businesses. Fast forward to 1982 and the u. S. Then added cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. That was for offering sanctuary to separatist and colombian rebels. Now the state department has r
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. President trump is about to unveil his Supreme Court nominee. It comes barely five weeks from the president ial election of november 3rd. Its widely expected that his choice for the job is conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett. If the 48 year old law professor is indeed nominated and confirmed, her lifetime appointment would consolidate a conservative majority in the countrys top court, possibly for decades to come. This is the scene at the white house where the president will make the announcement. It is difficult to understate the significance of these moments, not only ina significance of these moments, not only in a donald Trump Presidency but really in the future direction of the us as a whole. The Supreme Court makes decisions on a range of issues that affects every single american and we will be live in the white house waiting, as you can see, for donald trump to appear. As soon as it does appear, we will waste no time at all and bring you str
I recommended we bring the president up to walter reed as a precautionary measure to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. Just 72 hours into the diagnosis now. The first week of covid and in particular days 7 10 are critical in determining the likely course of the illness. At this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. Thursday he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion and fatigue, all of which are now resolving and improving. We are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that we are prescribing to make him better. We have monitored his cardiac function, his kidney function, his liver function, all of those are normal. The president this morning is not on oxygen, not having difficulty breathing or Walking Around the white house medical unit upstairs. He is an exceptionally good spirits, and in fact as we completed our multidisciplinary
From meeting up indoors. Wheres 007 . No time to release a film the coronavirus pandemic delays the newjames bond movie again. A big outbreak of covid i9, at Sale Sharks Rugby Club threatens their play off hopes. After 16 of sales players tested positive, tomorrows opponents worcester say theyre not sure if the final match of the regular season can now go ahead. Good morning. It is going to be a 599y good morning. It is going to be a soggy saturday. For some of us it will be raining continuously for the next 2a hours. The met office have issued amber weather warnings, and we are expecting some Flooding Issues to build in through the course of the weekend. I will have the full soggy saturday Weather Forecast coming up a little bit later on. Its saturday the 3rd of october. Our top story the us president , donald trump, has been flown to a Military Hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. The white house said the president was tired but in good spirits. His doc