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 trumps 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. Im 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 trumps travel ban. Washington states 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. Fords chief executive, mark fields, has said we
Some of our biggest cities and its busiest right here in birmingham. So what does the state of the Construction Industry tell us about the economy . Ill be finding out. In sport, its the tie they wanted. The lowest ranked side left in the fa cup Sutton United will host the 12 time winners arsenal in the last 16. Tastes like burnt rubber and carol has the weather. A cloudy and wet start to the day with rain or drizzle. Brightening up later in Northern Ireland but for the rest of us what you start with is more or less what youre going to end up with during the day. More in about 13 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Donald trump has sacked the United States top Legal Advisor after she told Government Lawyers not to enforce his travel ban. Sally yates was the latest critic to speak out against his decision to stop refugees and citizens of seven mainly muslim countries from coming to the United States. Meanwhile, barack 0bama has made an unprecedented intervention in the immigra
power here. can theresa may begin on her own or need to get approval from parliament. ruled 8-3 parliament does have to weigh in. lawmakers will vote whether or not article 50 of the lisbon treat y, this kicks off two-year process of negotiating uk s european divorce. now, theresa may wants to do this by march. this morning she said they were sticking to that timetable. it is expected to pass. 52% of the people voted to leave eu in june. the fact public mandate makes it difficult for lawmakers to go against the tide. most of may s conservative party supports leading and opposition labor party said they won t block article 50. might slow a bit but brexit under way. guys, stay tuned on friday when theresa may meets donald trump at the white house. lucy, you believe, lucy you believe it will pass parliament? no one is opposing triggering article 50, including the opposition. what they might try to do is