Wrong and felt a lot of shame. Afterwards, he said i was to blame for leading him astray. Thejesus fellowship says its committed to helping those whove suffered poor treatment in the past. And do you find this song, relaxing . Ambient music plays what do you think . Researchers have found this particular track could be just as effective as drugs in reducing stress levels in patients having an operation. Get in touch if you use music to help yourself to cope with stressful situations. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about victorialive. If youre emailing and are happy for us to contact you and maybe want to take part in the Programme Please include your phone number in your message. If you text, youll be charged at the Standard Network rate. First, Anita Mcveigh has the news. Good morning, anita. Good morning, joanna, hi, good morning, everybody. 17 people have been injured, some seriously, in what Police D
Attempt to quell protests, she said the controversial extradition bill that sparked the demonstrations is, quote, dead lam said there is no plan to restart the legislation and earlier work to amend the bill has been a failure lam suspended the bill but protests continued with calls for it to be withdrawn completely lam did not say that she is officially withdrawing the bill. She said the bill is in the coffin, the bill is dead and no one needs to worry that there will be any tactics to resume the bill in the lenggislative council term Richard Bransons Space Tourism company now planning to go public. That is according to a wall street journal report it will list shares as part of the deal with social capital company, spac. Weve talked about it in the past it was created by a friend of squawk box, spac will invest 800 million in Virgin Galactic, it will get a 49 stake. The stock market listing is expected to take place later this year. Virgin galactic so far sold 600 tickets to space at
Employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things that we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to systemically important
The number of female employees globally over the next five years. Why diversity seems to be the one big problem big tech cant solve. Itst, ibm has closed purchase of red hat, finalizing the worlds secondlargest tech deliver. Ibm was once synonymous with mainframe computing, but has been struggling to adapt in a cloudbased world. The company is playing catchup to market leaders and Offering Software and services over the internet. Bloombergs david westin spoke to the leaders of both ibm and red hat earlier. I think, a lot of times people think everything is going to move to one public cloud. That is not what we see clients need, want, and are even targeted to. I have an estate, like a house, im going to modernize it. And i have five to 15 public clouds already, private clouds, app, ii modernize an will put it where i want and secure all that. We give them a platform between red hat and ibm that runs on any can runand they it anywhere, secure it, and manage it. That is a distinct capabil
Goals aiming to double the amount of female employees globally over the next five years. My diversity seems to be the next why diversity seems to be the next problem big tex can solve. Ibm purchases redhat. Withas once synonymous mainframe computing. The company is playing catchup market leaders and Offering Software and services over the internet. Bloombergs david westin spoke to the leaders of both ibm and red hat earlier. I think, a lot of times people think everything is going to move to one public cloud. That is not what we see clients need, want, or are targeted to. Estate, like a house, i want to modernize it. Im going to put it where i want and im going to manage and secure all. Betweenthem a platform red hat and ibm, that runs on it and manageure it. That is a distinct capability and that is what i mean by the hyper cloud. Others talk it but they may just have a connection between their public cloud and private cloud. Youve got some other competitors out there in the cloud tha