We start in the tiny state of luxembourg where a legal battle between privacy campaigners and tech giants including facebook reaches a critical moment today. What the European Court ofjustice is advised by one of its top lawyers could affect how the personal data of hundreds of millions of people is handled. Its all about the rules which allow companies to transfer peoples data out of the European Union primarily to the us where most tech giants are based. Its being driven by austrian activist max schrems this who first challenged facebook over privacy as a young law student eight years ago. In 2015 he successfully challenged the eus old system of safeguarding its citizens data when it was transferred to the us arguing it wasnt good enough. If the court agrees that the eus latest system isnt up to scratch then thousands of companies from tech firms to banks to carmakers would have to stop exporting eu citizens data. Under new general Data Protection regulations gdpr they could be fined
The detention of muslim uighurs. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 6pm in chicago, where the aircraft manufacturer boeing has announced it will temporarily halt production of its 737 max aircraft, which has been the subject of intense scrutiny following two fatal crashes. The move which will cost the company billions of dollars was made by the company at a Board Meeting in chicago in the last few hours. The best selling boeing aircraft has been grounded since march after two crashes in indonesia and ethiopia, which killed 346 people, costing the plane manufacturer more than 8 billion in charges so far. Our Business Reporter Samira Hussain has the latest on boeings decision. Well, it was not a decision that anyone was expecting a few weeks ago. But certainly there were rumours swirling for the last few days that perhaps the plane maker would ultimately have to make thi
Start saturday, we start the weekend with some bright spells, occasional glimpses of sunshine, a few showers around, it looks like a lot of these are going to fade the rain pushing into ward southern england and south wales, this could be quite heavy in places. Again, this is where we have saturated ground and flooding in some places, that isnt going to help. Uncertainty about how far north that will go, pulling away on sunday, and then on sunday to sunny spells, a few showers, most of these across western parts of the uk, and temperatures into single figures for most of us now, not too far from average for this time of year. Lets ta ke average for this time of year. Lets take a picture on sunday into monday, low pressure to the north of us, this north westerly blow setting up us, this north westerly blow setting up around that, and to the further south you are, more rain. It may just be the Channel Islands but many friends to southern counties of england. We will watch that on monday,
Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its news day. Newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in and 7pm in washington, dc, where the us house of representatives is set to vote later on wednesday on whether to impeach donald trump. Its over claims that he threatened to withhold military aid from ukraine unless it investigated his leading democratic rival in next years president ial election joe biden and his son. In a letter to the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, mr trump called the impeachment process an illegal, partisan attempted coup, that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. The democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favour, which would lead to a trial in the senate, probably injanuary. Heres the president speaking earlier. This has been a total sham from the very beginning. Everybody knows it. Ive never seen the Republican Party so ive never seen the Republican Party so united. We got about 100 of the vote. I belie
Now its time tojoin rico hizon in singapore for Asia Business report. Rivals in disguise. We look at the impact of the boeing 737 max eight production suspension. In the skies. The Million Dollar the 13 million project Richard Ranson wants to convince india. Richard branson. I im rico hizon. Thank you for joining branson. I im rico hizon. Thank you forjoining us. We start with boeing because its decision to stop selling its bestselling plane the 737 max will fall far beyond the company it does itself will stop it plays a big role in the country was like economy, it is the largest exporter and one of the nations top private employers look up the plane maker employs around 12,000 workers at its 737 max Assembly Facility at in washington. And it also supports thousands of jobs washington. And it also supports thousands ofjobs across a network of over 600 supplies and hundreds of other Smaller Companies in the Global Supply chain. Economies see the growth rate for the First Quarter of 2020