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shadow brexit secretary, the portuguese finance minister, and a brexit committee member. the vice president of the european commission also joins us a little later on. the four we get the brussels, let s get straight to the bloomberg first word news. here s nejra cehic. nejra: president trump will be briefed later on various ways to implement comprehensive tax code changes. he will be presented with possible changes i officials including gary cohn. that is according to people familiar with the meeting. french presidential candidate francois fillon s wife penelope has been charged in the fake jobs probe according to reports by french media outlets citing unidentified judicial sources. her husband has been charged with graft, which he denies. calls to an olivia fillon s lawyer were not immediately returned. blackrock is said to be shaking up its unit by cutting jobs, reorganizing funds, and lowering fees according to a person familiar with the matter. the revamp moves mon ....
europe. good evening to those in asia. good morning to those just waking up in the u.s. we begin with a bloomberg exclusive. have strucksneft oil. it has been complicated by sanctions against russia. ryan chilcote spoke to the ceo, igor sechin. this guy rarely talks. i m fascinated that the time he isides to talk his when he in the arctic. give us a sense of the journey you had to get through to talk to this man. it was a four-hour flight to the north. then we flew out to the sea, we got on a icebreaker, a ship that can break ice. that,led two nights on got another helicopter. thatannot actually drive ship right up to the platform. an extraordinary adventure but one that was really important for igor sechin. a symbolic message. igor sechin believes they have found a massive amount of oil, as many as one billion barrels. it could be more than what the u.s. has in the gulf of mexico. he has a problem, that is u.s. sanctions. they bar exxon from drilling in 10thrctic bey ....
you are watching the pulse. we are right here in london. nestlé, this is the world s number one food company. the shares are under pressure this morning. sales of missed estimates. the ceo will be joining us in his very first tv interview of the day. the perfect person to talk about the issues gripping investors right now. thebusiness has exposure to global slowdown. the standoff of russia, the threat of ebola all on his list for the moment. we will explore all of the angles. let s start with hans nichols. what have we learned today? we have a sense of how challenging the global environment is for them. take a look at their sales and developing versus developed countries. developed countries, their sales were only up .5%. developing countries, 9.5%. then they are hit with a strong swiss franc. in switzerland, exporters have such weight because of the strength of the frank. of the franc. they still are claiming they are going to get 5% growth. some analysts don t ....
if the last few weeks have proved anything, it cannot be taken for granted. talking to the plant pickers, prince charles calls on pickers who are stickers , to join a national effort to help farmers with the harvest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. latest figures show that deaths in care homes now account for a quarter of all coronavirus related deaths in the uk. the office for national statistics says the number of deaths in care homes since the start of the pandemic is now more than 11,000. that s more than a quarter of the overall number of people who have died in the uk with coronavirus related symptoms. that number stands at 41,020. meanwhile, the economic impact of the crisis shows a sharp rise in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits. that number has soared to more than two million. we ll have more on the impact onjobs in a moment, but our first report comes from our health correspondent lauren moss. it s another day counting the human cost ....
Creditors of insolvent Auckland beer and food business Brothers Beer include Kiwibank, Inland Revenue, Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ), 2degrees and many staff owed. ....