Amazon made revenues of over 72 billion in the three months to the end of december. That was up almost 20 on the same period last year. 3 billion of that was profit also a record. Amazon now has 100 million us subscribers to its prime service, which gives access to on demand movies and tv as well as free delivery. To put that in perspective, netflix has barely half the number of subscribers in the us at 59 million. The company hit a trillion dollars in stock market value in september. Despite a sell off since then, its currently the worlds most valuable company ahead of microsoft and apple. But amazon has warned that growth will slow in the coming months as dave lee in San Francisco explains. Amazon has had a very strong quarter. The investors are looking forward with a bit of nervousness, because the company has admitted its growth is beginning to slow. This is happening for several reasons. Firstly, this will seem completely obvious, amazon is enormous, so these big percentage increa
base. local officials want to stop the construction. they say workers have destroyed coral reefs by placing concrete blocks in the water. officials sbepd to inspector the entire no entry zone for the extent of the damage. they say they could start as early as next week and expect the work to take 10 days. u.s. military controls water around the facilities. military leaders discussing with japanese officials how and how much to disclose the results of the survey. the japanese government has suspended work to reclaim land for the base for one month. leaders in tokyo are holding talks with local officials to resolve their differences. a landslide has engulfed a mining community in central china. about 60 people are missing. police and firefighters are searching through the rubble. state run xinhua news agency reports the landslide is near a man near shangluo in shaanxi province. four people have been rescued so far. ten others escaped on their own. translator: we heard the s
most posts are going from its militaryjet business. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. a new japanese corporate scandal puts a dent in the country s once revered reputation. and it can the sound of music make money in the internet age? we asked the head of china s biggest music streaming service. good morning asia, hello world. this is the bit weak addition of asia business report. i am rico hizon. we kick off the programme with japan, and tokyo stocks have opened lower after a scandal over kobe steel shook investors minds. it has been discovered that they falsified information on aluminium and copper parts. you never know how far trouble with spread. in fact, you never know how far trouble with spread. infact, some you never know how far trouble with spread. in fact, some of kobe steel s products and it up in this rocket, adding into space, with a satellite, on tuesday. it all went to plan, thankfully, but it shows the extent of the problem. th
of winston churchill. he is now making his way into the chamber. he is about to begin speaking. that will be momentarily. just moments from now. judy is the american islamic forum for democracy president. doctor you know pretty much what we think netanyahu is about to say. he is about to say do not trust the iranians and do not negotiate with them at this point in time. do you support prime minister netanyahu. not only as a muslim. syria has become what it is today. the evil of becoming perpetrated like you said, the iranians are working hand in glove with both sides. anyone who believes in the future must support those like americana, like israel that are standing strong. we must understand and it is important for us to listen to prime minister netanyahu now. our president is not letting us know. there have been negotiations going on for years. meanwhile, just yesterday stuart a cleric and i run said the black flag of ironic will fly above the white house. this appeasement
ministers brace for talks with us trade officials as president trump tells car makers they must build more vehicles in america. a warning from lego that more must be done in china to stop counterfeiters as its own master builder struggles to tell a fake brick from a real one. welcome to world business report. japan enjoying lower or ill prices with a trade surplus for six years. mexico s economy & foreign ministers are due to meet top us officials later today as they brace for the renegotiation of nafta the north american free trade agreement. president trump is pushing to bring more manufacturing jobs back to the us. he s already met with the heads of ford, general motors and fiat chrysler telling them they must make more of their cars in america. the us is a key market for mexico. taking a look at this graph you can see its exports to the us have surged since nafta came into force in 1994. mexico now sells more than $270 billion worth of goods to the us every year. it