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major incidents have been declared on the isle of wight and in hampshire. hundreds of schools are closed in southern england in some areas people are being urged to stay indoors. the latest from the south coast in a moment, but first graham satchell on the situation injersey. storm ciaran hit the channel islands with a bang, thunder and lightning and massive hailstones. the power of the storm, remarkable. winds reached more than 100 miles an hour, ripping rooves from buildings. this terrifying moment was caught on a baby monitor. the woman grabs her baby and makes her escape. the emergency services injersey said they responded to hundreds of calls overnight. they worked through horrendous conditions to clear roads and rescue people. there s been a lot of structural damage, a lot of roofs and chimneys down, trees down obviously, a lot of roads are blocked, there is a lot of debris on the roads. at first light, people ventured out to assess the damage. there are trees d ....
own rory cellan jones who will also steer us through the world of flying cars. flying pigs, more like it. and how do you like to read? ebook sales in the uk have fallen 17% as readers bring back the book do you tap or turn? and why? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to the programme. we start in silicon valley where three of the biggest names in technology have been reporting their numbers for the last three months. we are talking about the tech titans google, amazon and microsoft. and it seems they are just getting bigger and bigger. the numbers are jaw dropping, take a look. dominates online advertising. but it s still managing to grow very fast. google‘s parent company alphabet saw revenues jump by almost a quarter on last year. up 22 % to $24.8 billion. remember this isjust 3mths worth of sales. $5.5 billion of that was profit. it s the same story with amazon. it s one of the world s biggest retailers it dominates online shopping and st ....
how one man used his skills combating insurgents in the army can now sell us all sorts of things including the ft. as facebook launches a new video service, we wa nt to launches a new video service, we want to know what would you watch on social networks? what tv shows would you watch? let us know. welcome to the programme. as usual it s action packed. toshiba has reported its much delayed earnings finally reducing the risk it will be de listed from the tokyo stock exchange. the embattled electronics firm posted a loss of $8.8 billion for the last fiscal year. it follows an accounting scandal and massive writedowns. so, what s gone wrong for the “40 year old japanese giant? two years ago an accounting scandal was revealed that led to the resignation of several members of the firm s senior management, including the boss. the company was found to have inflated the previous seven years profits by $1.2 billion. problems came to a head again this year, when toshiba s us ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. spent an entire week at one of his golf course. it should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. more likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. fresh off another round of encouraging election results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. what does that mean? cleaning up corruption. how do you do it? we have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. what we have seen is dark money risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. it is not a matter it is a matter of timing. that sounds like they support in impeaching rod rosenstein but not doing it now. the plot which is to go after rod rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the supreme court justice. do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. the biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83% of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1%. this was not done for the people. that s what we stand for as democrats. it was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. this is corruption happening in plain sight. i would not disagree that is corrupt. but that is every day corruption. that is a system that is shot through with corruption. i don t want to minimize that. we are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. that my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. and the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. the house of representatives doesn t work for donald trump. we work ....