The separatist leader due to announce within an hour on whether he will drop plans for independence. And how to take on the Online Shopping giants. Well speak to the Company Using barcodes to help you find what you want in a nearby shop, and trying to make it easier for Small Businesseses. And with the British Government pushing us to make better choices have you been nudged into better behaviour. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Letters not about whether you have been persuaded to do something rather than being told. Sally persuades me to cut my Coffee Consumption every morning. We start in brussels, where eu leaders are beginning a two day summit. Theyre due to decide whether brexit talks with the uk have made enough progress to move on to the next phase. The answer is almost certainly no. And its all about money. In march European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker suggested britain will need to pay around 70 billion to settle i
Think about releasing me. I thought that was bordering on blackmail. Well hear from eniola alukos best friend former england player leanne sanderson, whos calling for the men at the top to resign. And the former boss of kids Company Tells us she has nothing to be sorry for over the collapse of her charity. You are not going to apologise to the children let down . Money that you wasted . The children let down . Money that you wasted 7 i the children let down . Money that you wasted . I do not think we wasted money. Why are you assuming we wasted money . This is charity money, donations. It is a minor detail. It is not a minor detail. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. The latest breaking news and stories through the morning. Later we will hear from through the morning. Later we will hearfrom sir tom jones, through the morning. Later we will hear from sir tom jones, who says through the morning. Later we will hearfrom sir tom jones, who says he was sexually
Its wednesday 25th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The uk economy is growing and at a faster rate than economists were expecting. The latest figures from the office for National Statistics paint a more positive picture of the economy. The figures show that the uk economy grew by 0. 4 between july and september. Most economists were expecting growth of 0. 3 which is how much the economy grew in the first two quarters. The bank of englands main Interest Rate is at the record low of 0. 25 . Todays Economic News increases the chances that the central bank will raise interests next month. Will raise Interest Rates next month. We can speak to our economics editor kamal ahmed. Why is the economy growing faster than many experts were predicting . think weve had better manufacturing news. Since the referendum, sterling has declined in value, which means oui has declined in value, which means our exports are has declined in value, which means oui exports are more has de
Intelligence. Joint by re epresentative tom garrett congressman from virginia. Guest good morning. Host violent events in new york and texas the last few weeks, particularly m what it means in terms of Homeland Security in the united states. Dont think we need remind e reminders. We ave vegas as well, that are very vulnerable at home. He nature of the free society is that there will be risk. Mitigate them to the best of our ability. Will tell you without delving into areas i cant go that there are shortcomings in our defenses in any number of areas, whether Flight Safety which you would september 11 we would have gotten straight. New yber realm is a paradigm so we have to be vigilant and understand that bad are going to happen in a free society. We do everything we can to mitigate them. When it comes to the specific incidents say when it comes to texas shooting, there this whole conversation about the information on data bases approved for et guns. Do you think there are improvements n
2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Post on twitter, cspanwj. You can also post on our Facebook Page. Find that at facebook. Com cspan. The hill newspaper looks at its website, takes a look at tax Reform Efforts on the senate side, expected to be released today. The writers say that tax writers in the senate are expected to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes in their legislation. Thats a break with House Republicans, who have proposed keeping it in place for property taxes up to 10,000. It also says that Senate Republicans are also expected to increase the threshold for the popular mortgage Interest Deduction to 1 million, a substantial increase over the house, which lowered the cap to the first 500,000 of a mortgage. They will also change the house formula for taxing Small Businesses with a new passthrough rate of 25 host if you go to the pages of the wall street journal, theres a story saying that when it comes to the white houses perspective on ta