Muted start. And Chlorinated Chickens, the Electric Mini and tech titans well be looking at whats been a busy week in today we want to know does great wealth bring great responsibility . Yesterday amazon founder jeff bezos was, briefly, the richest person in the world what would you do if it was you . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with retail giant amazon it has seen its shares fall sharply after its latest figures disappointed wall street. The good news it is raking in huge sums of money as its sales keep expanding. The bad news its spending a fortune on developing its business and that is making investors nervous. Lets show you the details. Total sales in the three months tojune jumped almost a quarter compared to last year to just under 38 billion. Unfortunately they spent almost all of it Operating Expenses surged to well over 37 billion. That means there wasnt much actual profit a comparatively measly 197 million and down 77 on last
when you are inside the department, your primary considerations are making sure that your evidence is lined up, and the law is on your side. and you have to go through an approval process inside the building on pennsylvania avenue. having everyone who has an equity in the indictment review it. tweak it, sign off on it. i think that s very likely where the process is. there is another factor that enters doj s calculus about went to indict. that is the onset of what the doj calls the silly season, the political season. you have to indict far enough out from the onset of the primaries to avoid the appearance of having a political influence on those campaigns. that means june, even july. that s prime time for getting this indictment across the finish line. hugo, you also had more blockbuster reporting, as you do. this week concerning what i have called the train wreck, that is the trump legal team.
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the trade pack which donald trump pulled out of. he really left a substantial legacy in foreign policy. though he didn t achieve his lifelong political goal of revising japan s post-war constitution, he did reinterpret it, tweak it in ways that made japan more of a player in military and security terms, as well. now, of course, these changes were not without controversy. he was perhaps as polarizing a figure as he was a controversial one. but nonetheless, for all of the resistance to his reforms while he was in office, no one imagined that his storied career would end this way. absolutely. and as you said, hard for us to overstate the force he was in japanese politics. we certainly just don t really have a parallel in american
controllers on the ground say they wouldn t tweak it. it is performing perfectly. now, we get back to sit and wait while they put the finishing touches on it, they calibrate it, so speak to and get the first images. look, once you get under the hood of an exo planet there is no end to what there is. i always say. john, think of what happened with the hubble space telescope, right? it went up there, once it got up into orbit, the lens wasn t it couldn t see. it was fuzzy. it was like an eye that didn t have the contact on it. astronauts had to go out and fix the hubble space telescope. there s a lot of ptsd in the scientific community about what happened with hubble. the fact that webb is performing so well now, everybody is really breathing a sigh of relief. because webb is so far out there no astronaut can go to a space