How deepfake videos can make anyone appear to say anything and what the tech giants are doing about it. Markets overall slightly low, but reports two tankers are on fire. And well be getting the inside track on the business of increasing the visibility of your website through better Search Engine optimisation well be getting some top tips on how to boost your sites ranking. And deepfake videos are suddenly becoming more visible. Today we want to know how concerned are you about the problem . Are the big tech giants doing enough to counter it . Let us know what you think just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us where just days after pulling back from the brink of a trade war against mexico President Trump has a new target in his sights. He has criticized germany for over dependence on russia for energy and threatened sanctions against european firms involved in a massive project to bring more russian gas to europe. Russia meanwhile has said efforts t
4000 critically endangered snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. And coming up in sport british cyclist chris froome is in intensive care with multiple fractures, after a high speed crash. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Conservative mps will get their first chance to vote for the person they want to see lead the party and the country this morning as the first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest gets underway. At least one of the ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister will be knocked out of the race. Tory mps will hold a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting in secret will start in the house of commons this morning at around ten oclock with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around one oclock this afternoon. Further ballots will then be held next week, with the two most popular mps moving to a run off of tory part
Snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. Hello, a very good morning to you. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. The first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest is under way, tory mps have their first chance, this morning, to vote for the person they want to see lead the party in the country. At least one of these ten candidates vying to be oui of these ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister is going to be knocked out of the race today. The mps are holding a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting started in the house of commons this morning at around 10am, with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around 1pm this afternoon. Further ballots will be held next week with the two most popular mps moving to a run of five tory Party Members. The winner is expected to be announced in the week of the 22nd ofjuly. Lets talk now to our political assistan
Following yesterdays rout john ferroli and dan sculley join us. Happy friday to you both a lot of debate this morning about the jobs number, and the degree to which it tilts the macro debate whats your take its more of the same, which is strong job growth, low unemployment, but disappointing wage numbers which is the story weve seen a bunch of times over the last year or two i dont think this does much to resolve the debate growth looks good. The question is where inflation is going the wage numbers dont scream out that theres a whole lot of inflation worries for the nrt nearterm. Dan, do you agree how long can that dynamic last i would say we had solid news in particular in the manufacturing jobs sector this morning. We may continue to see that as we get infrastructure announcements into january potentially some changes in capex trends as we have fiscal tax reform and tax changes the broader takeaway for our team is that were seeing a rate of change inflection in job growth going back
Demanding baby, woken up all hours and nick has the festive forecast for us. Good morning. Storm barbara may be pulling away from the uk, but it remains windy today, tomorrow, and into boxing day as well. The latest on the blustery christmas forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. Extensive Railway Engineering works are starting across britain today, with 200 different projects being carried out over the christmas break. Passengers in london, manchester and cardiff are expected to be the hardest hit by the work. One of the biggest stations in the capital, paddington, is closed, with passengers being told to go to ealing broadway. Its where our reporter Jane Frances Kelly is for us this morning. Good morning. Its going to be a good deal busier there than normal. Yes, it is going to be busy. I have seen people turning up with quite heavy suitcases and that is because trains to paddington are terminating here. That is because paddington will be closed for the next six day