Noise and heat than suction will be hoovered up from the shops, under new eu rules. Good morning. Its friday, 1st september. Im annita mcvey. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. We will have more on that gas story shortly. At first. The International Trade secretary has said the uk must not allow itself to be blackmailed by the European Union over the cost of leaving. Speaking in japan, where he and theresa may have been discussing future trading relations, liam fox said businesses have become impatient with the slow progress of the brexit negotiations. Theres a problem if that continues, in that were moving much closer to our exit date before european businesses have an idea of what that trading relationship will look like. And i think that there is an impatience from those beyond the commission, ie the stakeholders in the european economy, to try to get some progress on that. Would you characterise their position as blackmailing the uk . Well, its clear that they are. They have the issues
Here in bbc news. Eight residents of a florida nursing home have died after Hurricane Irma knocked out its power and air conditioning, when it hit the state on sunday. 115 other residents of the home were evacuated, a number of them were in critical condition. Police are now conducting a criminal investigation into the deaths. Sarah corker reports. A state of emergency at a nursing home in florida. Without air conditioning since Hurricane Irma hit, four days ago, police say the deaths at the home in hollywood hills, north of miami, may be related to high temperatures inside the building. A tragedy described by one florida senator as inexcusable. 115 elderly and vulnerable residents, some in significant distress, were taken to safety on wednesday. At this time we have other patients in critical care. Right now the building has been sealed off and we are conducting a criminal investigation inside. We believe as this time, it may be related to the loss of power in the storm, but we are co
Im seema mody in for sara eisen. It is Throwback Thursday we are throwing it back with the clash i fought the law. In honor of martin shkreli, perhaps. I think so. I have a feeling later in the show, given l. A. Being awarded the olympics, well go back to california themed songs. Lets check in on markets. Slight gains yesterday it is a ha behas been a decent k five positive sessions out of six for the dow. We had a good start to the week. Its managed to hold on to that. Yesterdays gains were not particularly pronounced. Today we are called lower only fractionally in the premarket. Down a point or so for the dow tenyear treasury note, back above 2. 2 very briefly closing just below it thats where we remain at moment, 2. 194 given that last week, we touched 2. 05, its been a marked increase in yields with that we have had an increase in the u. S. Dollar as well now to asia, we did get a barrage of data from china mostly the data came in weaker than expected. Fixed asset investment, facto
Of the different components, these are huge media and Communications Networks now, and in the United States and in most countries, these industries have been heavily regulated and very clear stipulations about what can and cant appear, how they can be used. You think about the idea of russia coming in and using nbc and comcast to influence our election what would happen . Thats exactly what happened here and the idea that they are going to somehow escape, hey, were just a platform, we have nothing to do with that. Good news, they are moving in that direction the other issue is antitrust, just the amount of power that these companies have and but i think its important to separate whether they think this is a business issue from a different kind of issue. Yes, this is an important political and cultural issue, but is it a threat to facebooks Business Model or reputation i dont think it is, because they dont rely on political advertising in an outsized way Mark Zuckerberg was way ahead of
And the books, from democracy to freedom. Watch the coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. Host congressman jerry conley, gerry connolly. The collapse of the Senate Republican Leadership Health care bill yesterday, and the loss of the Senate Republican leadership backed candidate and the chump backed candidate. The definition of insanity is you keep on repeating something that does not work. Repeal theto Affordable Care act has gotten tobad that they managed persuade the public so now we are pulling a majority of republicans favoring the program and a very small minority favoring the repeal. Thatyou see numbers like and you see the reaction back home in terms of the prospective loss, find some other line of work. To persist in that effort really was mad at us and does great and to the republican brand to the seriousness of their endeavor. I am glad a collapsed and i hope they will finally work with democrats to fix that which is broken