Brexit, round one. As eu leaders gather in malta. Maltas Prime Minister calls for a fair deal for britain, but warns it will pay a price for leaving. Plus, small talk, big money. Snapchat files for a stock market flotation, that could be the biggest tech ipo since facebook. Welcome to World Business report. Im aaron hesslehurst. In a minute well have, World Business report. But first this. We start in the maltese capital, valletta, where eu leaders are gathering for a special summit, two days after the British Parliament voted overwhelmingly to start the process of brexit. Prime minister theresa may will be holding one on one talks with various eu leaders. So, what is she up against . Malta holds the rotating presidency of the eu. Its Prime Minister, joseph muscat, has been clear britain cant have its cake and eat it too. He has told the European Parliament this. We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom. But and its a big but that deal necessarily needs to be inferior to membership.
Brexit round one. As eu leaders gather in malta its Prime Minister calls for a fair deal for britain but warns it will pay a price for leaving. And following the announcement that snapchat will be listing on the us stock market, today we want to know would you buy shares in a company with a limited track record of turning a profit . In fact, it has not made a profit. The value of facebook has tripled since it went public in 2012, but will snapchat be a similar success . Do you snapchat . In the last few hours the social Networking Company has filed documents to float its shares on the new york stock exchange. Its likely to be the biggest ipo in the Technology World since facebook floated in 2012. For those of you who dont use it its kind of the opposite of facebook instead of making a permanent record of your life it lets you send Picture Messages that then disappear. Here are some figures. According to the company 158 Million People use snapchat every day to send Picture Messages oi s
i haven t heard a whole lot from them. they ve been just getting ahold of me and asking me all kinds of questions. i ve send the picture messages back to them so they can see the communication that we ve been having. i sent the video that my daughter-in-law sent me of the interview that tyler had on saturday before he was detained, so they have everything that i have can provide from pictures of him. they have his passport information, everything that i can think of to give to them they have now, and i m just now waiting to see what the next step is. i want to ask you, cnn is broadcast all over the world. there s a chance it s not being shown in russia, there s also a chance that tyler or russian officials see this interview. so what s your message? i just want to make sure i want to see a video of my son to make sure he s safe and healthy
january. joining us, dc school of public health, dr. shau, i wake up and search your twitter feed to see what will keep me calm as the covid news seems to get more and more ominous and i have to tell you, understand this audience and believe them to be vaccinated, boosted and putting their masks on when walking into the grocery store and there is a real sense of anxiety, and that we can t escape this one. is that rooted in national science? yes, so first of all nicole, thanks for having me back. i have two kind of big picture messages. one is there is a big group of americans who are done with the pandemic, want to move on, unfortunately that s not a strategy that will work well for us. at the same time, there are people who really worry we are back in march of 2020, nfl is shutting down, we are starting to see closures and somehow back to square one and it s important to be clear, we are not back to square one. if you are vaccinated and