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donald trump has fired america s most senior legal official, his acting attorney general, sally yates. she had taken the rare step of defying the white house and ordered justice department lawyers not to defend, in court, the president s travel restrictions targeting 7 muslim majority nations. she said in a statement she wasn t convinced they were legal. a white house statement accuses her of betraying the justice department. mr trump has now named dana boente, us attorney for the eastern district of virginia, to replace sally yates, as acting attorney general. he has also been dismissed the act acting director of immigration is an customs. a short time ago i spoke to the bbc‘s david willis in washington for the latest. the trump white house, clearly affro nted by the behaviour of sally yates, her writing to thejustice department lawyers to basically say that they shouldn t be defending challenges to the donald trump executive order in court, because she s not conv ....
now for the latest financial news, with sally bundock and world business report. microsoft, amazon and expedia team up with washington state in a bid to defeat president trump s travel ban, saying it is unconstitutional and damages the economy. more fines for deutsche bank, this time for its connections with a russian money laundering plan. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme: shares in sony fall during trade in tokyo. rico will have the details. but first: technology giants are ramping up their battle against president trump s travel ban. washington state s attorney general is filing a lawsuit arguing the ban, which covers seven countries, is unconstitutional. amazon and expedia have both made court submissions on how the executive order is impacting their businesses. microsoft is also backing the lawsuit which aims to overturn the travel ban, and will even testify if needed. and it is notjust tech firms. ford s chief executive, m ....
out former president barak 0bama s comments and it is very unusual for a former president to criticise the current president but it is all around the world. theresa may is in around the world. theresa may is in a difficult position. difficult for a difficult position. difficult for auk a difficult position. difficult for a uk prime minister not to invite the us president for a state visit. what was hastie was to do it so quickly. there is no timetable. there is no reason to do so quickly other than the fact that she was visiting the president last week and wanted to make an offer, i guess. visiting the president last week and wanted to make an offer, i guessm is extremely difficult because of the protests in the uk are about his intended visit to the uk. 1.5 million people signing a petition saying to stop this state visit but she was one of the first state leaders to go to his office after the inauguration and you cannot go empty handed as specially if you are after a ....
us. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it is sam it s newsday. glad you could join us. it is 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, where donald trump is preparing to make one of the most meaningful appointments of his presidency. in the next hour, the president will announce his pick tojoinjudges on the us supreme court. whoever he chooses will be able to influence american legislation, possibly, for decades to come. this latest appointment comes as senior figures in his administration have been rallying around to defend his second order ban on travel from some countries to the us. jon sopel reports. four days since president tramp signed the extreme vetting policy and the administration is trying to clarify whether it was a ban or a pause, who was consulted, who will be affected and what the executive order is and is not. it was left to the secretary of homeland security to offer reassurance. this is not a ban on muslims. the homeland secu ....
:: with iron ore , byzpromisingthatparliament howe, fl with iron ore earnings byzpromisingthatparliament howe, fl q and ore earnings byzpromisingthatparliament howe, fl q and making nings byzpromisingthatparliament howe, fl q and making nin! switch to recovering? and making the switch to renewable. they look at taiwan s powerplay. good morning, asia, hello, world. glad you could join us. i m rico hizon. we start off with rio tinto and the world s second largest biggest producer of iron or is set to reveal its numbers later today and expectations are higher. iron ore is the main ingredient in steel and ab contribute. after falling for two years, prices have recovered in 2016, helping the company s performance. earlier i ask an a nalyst performance. earlier i ask an analyst in sydney about the forecast. we expect rio tinto to report fall earnings for 2016, somewhere in the vicinity of 4.7 billion us, or 5 billion us. in 2015 they only reported $4.5 billion us net un ....