A breakthrough on refugees the parties in germanys Coalition Talks hammer out a deal of allowing refugees to bring family members to join them. Also a historic vote to ireland confirms it will hold a referendum on abortion the Prime Minister leads the push to liberalize the countrys restrictive abortion laws ahead of a public vote planned for may look at why lawmakers are pushing to resolve this divisive issue right now and the temper proof bottles that can be opened by yet the World Antidoping Agency is looking into a possible Security Breach that could compromise thousands of drug tests just weeks before the Winter Olympics kicks off. A. Great to have you along everyone. The kenyan government has. Outlawed Opposition Leader raila odinga as National Resistance movement well thats after he took a symbolic president ial oath of office at a mock inauguration ceremony in nairobi. Disputed the countrys president ial Election Results since last august the Supreme Court ordered a rerun last
Muted start. And Chlorinated Chickens, the Electric Mini and tech titans well be looking at whats been a busy week in today we want to know does great wealth bring great responsibility . Yesterday amazon founder jeff bezos was, briefly, the richest person in the world what would you do if it was you . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with retail giant amazon it has seen its shares fall sharply after its latest figures disappointed wall street. The good news it is raking in huge sums of money as its sales keep expanding. The bad news its spending a fortune on developing its business and that is making investors nervous. Lets show you the details. Total sales in the three months tojune jumped almost a quarter compared to last year to just under 38 billion. Unfortunately they spent almost all of it Operating Expenses surged to well over 37 billion. That means there wasnt much actual profit a comparatively measly 197 million and down 77 on last
Brain damage, according to new research, the first of its kind. So is it time for a change in rules especially to protect Young Players . Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Also coming up, data exclusively given to this programme shows that there has been a massivejump in the number of Abortion Pills being bought online in mainland uk, even though using the pills without medical approval is illegal and which you may not know, could be punished with a life sentence. We will be finding out what is driving the increase, and, of course, we want to hear your experiences. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the Hashtag Victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today, south korea has confirmed that the man killed in an apparent attack at an airport in malaysia on monday was the estranged half brother of the north Korean Leader kim jong un and they believe north korean agents poisoned hi
Cumbria police acted in an Unstructu Red And Disorganised in the investigation into the death of toddler Poppi Worthington. President trump says his Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions is the victim of a political witch hunt in the row over his contact with russian officials. And 100 years of history the Imperial War Museum celebrates it centenary. And coming up in the sport on bbc news sam billings comes in as an opener for england in antigua in the first of three one day internationals against the west indies. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Air Accident Investigators say that the shoreham Airshow Disaster which killed 11 people was caused by pilot error. The pilot was flying too low and too slow. A vintage jet performing a loop the loops stand crashed onto the a27 in 2015. In theirfinal report into the incident in 2015 in which a vintage jet performing a stunt crashed onto the a27 the investigators said the pilot started the loop stunt too low and too slow and could hav
This is what we are talking about for the next hour. Lets get straight to our top company stories. Holcim and lafarge have approved a merger that will create the worlds biggest cement maker. The new company will be led by the lafarge ceo. He tells us more about this major markets event. Manus cranny, you have been speaking to some insiders. What is their take . Their take is that lafarge is born down with debt. Holcim has some huge capital expenditure. They need to get together and get more efficient. They need to move together to actually improve the situation. My understanding is there are a couple of billionaires on the Stock Holdings of both companies. Both stocks reacting nicely today. In terms of market reaction, you have the egyptian billionaire on the lafarge a roster of holdings. Thomas schmidt hiding on holcims roster, they are the people. It is about improving the debt load for lafarge and the capital expenditure, the ability of holcim to commit on that. It is a game changer