President trump is stepping up the pace here in washington. The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today. Mr trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent american industries. The new administration is making big changes to americas stand on both energy and the environment. This morning, the president signed two Executive Orders to move ahead on a pair of Controversial Oil pipelines, known as the keystone xl and dakota access. Both had been stalled by the Obama Administration because of environmental concerns. Senatorjohn barrasso from wyoming is part of the Republican Leadership and he sits on the energy and the environment committees. I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new Executive Orders and President Trumps busy first couple of days. It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, thatjobs are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, i think we can have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy. The Obama Admini
Crew and passengers, while the Tech Giant Google urges some staff not to leave the country. Well find out how companies are being impacted by the us travel ban and what you should do. Benoit hamon is chosen as frances socialist candidate for the countrys upcoming election but will his pledge of a pay cheque for all be enough to lure voters . Welcome to world business, report im sally bundock. Also in the programme another Computer Glitch grounds domestic flights of a major us airline. Details in a moment. President trump is Standing Firm on his ban on immigration from seven countries iran, iraq, libya, somalia, sudan, syria and yemen. Hes also denying the measures are targeting muslims. Hes also denying the measures are targeting muslims. The leaders of many Global Business have been swift to react the Technology Firms among the first to speak out. Google says it will take legal action to protect its employees. Its urging staff who could be caught up in the ban not to leave the us. The
For better ratings, not for himself, but for the apprentice, the show that Arnold Schwarzenegger on all fronts. Arnold schwarzenegger to ta ke fronts. Arnold schwarzenegger to take my place and we know how that turned out. Why dont we switch jobs question would you take over tv, because you are an expert, i take over your job. Hello and welcome to one hundred days with Me Katty Kay In Washington and Christian Fraser in london. Its safe to say we learn a lot about the president s Foreign Policy from his twitter account. As youd imagine, since his tweets are so wide ranging, almost every government in the world is on tenterhooks to see what hes tweeting now. Today iran is the subject. He warned that iran has been put on notice forfiring a ballistic missile. He had this message too iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the us came along and gave it a life line in the form of the iran deal 150 billion. But it is notjust the old enemies that get trumps twitter treatment. It
A £34 million Government Investigation into allegations of abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down. It follows a scathing report by mps which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been investigated but without a single prosecution. 90 of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story. It is almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq in the aftermath of the occupation, thousands of allegations of abuse were made against british soldiers. And a special team called ihat was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer phil shiner brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up business. Now the Ministry Of Defence is wrapping up the investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of british troops who ha
A £34 million Government Investigation into allegations of abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down. It follows a scathing report by mps which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been investigated but without a single prosecution. 90 of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story. It is almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq in the aftermath of the occupation, thousands of allegations of abuse were made against british soldiers. And a special team called ihat was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer phil shiner brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up business. Now the Ministry Of Defence is wrapping up the investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of british troops who ha