the prime minister meets retailers and farmers to work out how to boost production and lower prices. we are live in the newly crowned world surfing reserve of north devon, but elements of surfing are not as wild and natural as you might think. we have been investigating. is it the end of the line for leicester? after defeat to liverpool the former premier league champions look destined for the championship with just two games remaining to save their season. and good morning, quite a cool, fresh start to the day to day but plenty of sunshine in the forecast. still a few showers in scotland, northern ireland, northern and eastern england. all of the details here. it s tuesday the 15th may. a british businessman, whose foreign companies were at the centre of an international money laundering investigation, has been revealed as a major donor to the conservative party, by the bbc. javad marandi has donated more than £750,000 pounds to the party. he isn t subject to criminal actio
and microsoft both unveiling quarterly report cards beating expectations. shares in alphabet jumping after hours as the company announced that quarterly revenue rose to $69 billion. meanwhile, microsoft a boost in extended trading with quarterly revenue mainly driven by growth in its clad competing businesses. dan ives is senior equity analyst at wentworth securities and says these are welcome news for the tech sector. some sunshine in a dark environment. this reflects the muscles moment for big tech in terms of what we saw from alphabet and microsoft, both on cloud and digital advertising. markets will be focused on these results tomorrow. the hottest thing at the moment appears to be ai, but is google s market share at risk? this was a sigh of relief in terms of what we see on the ai front in terms of bard and ultimately focused on what google is trying to do. there is definitely a game of thrones going on in al. microsoft is leading, but google has all hands on deck des
washington by the white house correspondence dinner is now under way. the event sees thousands of guests including journalists and politicians gather together in support of freedom of the present presidentjoe biden is due to speak in the next few minutes. we can take a lighter washington now and what you are seeing is inside the white house correspondence you can see people mingling and the address there from the npr white house correspondent. she is also head of the white house press association. joe biden preparing to deliver his remarks shortly where he will be focusing on the first amendment, freedom of press, but at the same time expected to make some jokes as well. to talk more about what we can expect as we await the speech from joe biden we can cross over to our correspondent who has been watching for most of the night. you have already been watching. it is a long night and all eyes will be on a fight to, you can call it a toast and a roast. expecting that taste from