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an administrative error. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. us markets deliver a cool reception to president trump s plan to slash corporate tax rates. and living a samsung life. why south korea s corporate giants are so big you d struggle to live without them. good morning, asia. hello, world. glad you could join us for this thursday edition of asia business report, i m rico hizon. donald trump is hours away from completing his first 100 days in office, a milestone where the chief executive is graded on his progress in office and before the clock ticks down, following through on a major campaign promise with a proposal to drastically cut the business tax from 35% to 15%. well, it is now clear how the white house plans to pay for the cuts which could add some $2 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade. but the us treasury secretary says economic growth is both the goal and the solution. we believe we can get back to 3% or hi ....
and fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you ve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeat‘s political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide t ....
markets at the moment, or down down is likely because investors were disappointed by presidentjohn‘s actions. the strike president trump s actions. funding the enterepreneurs: we ll meet the man whose bank specialises in getting cash to small businesses. rishi khosla , the boss of oaknorth bank will be here. and united airlines, still trying to deal with the fall out from their overbooked flight, will now offer up to $10,000 to give up your seat. what would be your price? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and a warm welcome to business live. welcome to the programme. we start with president trump because once again he s taken the business world by surprise. the white house has confirmed it has told the leaders of canada and mexico they won t be scrapping the north american free trade agreement. but instead they will seek to renegotiate the terms of it. president trump has repeatedly vowed to pull out of the pact bill clinton signed in 1993. in sept ....
data on saturn after diving through the gap between the planet and its rings. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: maria sharapova is labelled a cheat by fellow player eugenie bouchard, as she returns from her 15 month doping ban with a win in stuttgart. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the foreign secretary has suggested britain could take military action in syria without a vote in the house of commons. borisjohnson said it would be very difficult to say no if president trump asked for british help in punishing the syrian regime for another chemical weapons attack. meanwhile mrjohnson has also waded into the election campaign for the first time, with a highly personal attack on the labour leaderjeremy corbyn. he s called him a mutton headed old mugwump . here s our political correspondent, alex forsyth. smith will strike on a syrian airfield earlier this month, the first direct us action against syrian government forces, he responds to a chemi ....
have got as we watch those forensic officers at the scene is that this arrest was part of a planned operation. there is no sense there was an attack under way but more that police have their eye on this person. and it is safe to assume the security service were doing this. an intelligence led operation would involve them in a joint operation with police. there was a time when mis with police. there was a time when mi5 worked more or less in competition with the police and did not share stuff with them but that changed after the london bombings in 2005. they work closely and share discussions and priorities. it was an intelligence led operation where they were tracking this person. he has been arrested on suspicion of the commission, instigation and preparation of acts of terrorism and knives have been recovered from him. he has not been charged, we do not know if he will be. he is being held ata know if he will be. he is being held at a south london police station and t ....