welcome to bbc newsroom live. a former tesco director has been acquitted over a £250 million fraud and false accounting scandal. carl rogberg, the company s former finance director, was charged along with two other directors who were cleared at a previous trial. the serious fraud office offered no evidence against mr rogberg at southwark crown court. emma simpsonjoins me from outside southwark crown court. tell us what happened this morning. just to remind you, it is four years since that huge black hole was discovered in tesco‘s accounts. wiping more than £1 billion off the value of the company, plunging tesco into crisis. today, we saw the final chapter of the criminal proceedings come to an end when carl rogberg was formally acquitted. it is a complicated tale, though in the first trial when it reached the later stages, carl rogberg suffered a heart attack in that first trial involving the three defendants was abandoned. there was a second trial, featuring chris bush
# ever fallen in love with someone, everfallen in love.# pete shelley, the lead singer of the buzzcocks, has died suddenly at the age of 63. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, is there a change happening in scotland? we take a look at kilmarnock, who are currently leading celtic and rangers in the scottish premiership. good evening. with just days to go before the vote on her brexit deal, the prime minister has tried to persuade mps to support it by indicating that they could be given the power to decide whether the uk enters the controversial backstop arrangement for the irish border, or whether to avoid it by extending the transition period instead. under theresa may s withdrawal agreement, after leaving the eu in march the aim is to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal with the eu by december 2020 the end of the transition period. if a trade deal isn t agreed, the backstop would come into force, meaning northern ireland would keep many eu rules so that no checks are
at the papers with our reviewers tom mctague and rachel cunliffe. stay with us for that. with just days to go before the vote on her brexit deal, the prime minister has tried to persuade mps to support it by indicating that they could be given the power to decide whether the uk enters the controversial backstop arrangement for the irish border or whether to avoid it by extending the transition period instead. under theresa may s withdrawal agreement, after leaving the eu in march, the aim is to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal with the eu by december 2020, the end of the transition period. if a trade deal isn t agreed, the backstop would come into force meaning northern ireland would keep many eu rules so that no checks are needed on the irish border. but the alternative to the backstop would be to extend the transition period beyond 2020. here s our political editor laura kuenssberg, and her report does contain flash photography. is there a compromise coming on the backs
now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. to cut or not to cut? crude feels the pressure as major oil producers continue to wrangle over output production is to boost prices. huawei arrest rocks market, global share markets on a rollercoaster ride. attention of the chinese executive heightens trade war fears. it is friday, almost the weekend. good morning asia, hello world. glad you could join us. we start off with oil prices and they have been under pressure as some of the world ‘s biggest producers continue their crunch meeting, as you can see on the board, they are starting to dip in mid morning trade. ministers from opec and non opec countries, including russia, are discussing whether to cut output in an attempt to stabilise markets and that would d efy to stabilise markets and that would defy calls from donald trump for action to bring down prices. our oil a nalyst told action to bring down prices. our oil analyst told us that the pressures from
it s thursday the 6th of decemeber. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i m joanna gosling. if you ve been experiencing problems with your mobile phone right now then you re not alone, as a massive network failure has hit 02. customers of which there are 32 million have reported being unable to use data or the internet. the outage has also affected transport for london, whose electronic timetable services at bus stops have stopped working. in a statement this morning, 02 said. 02 is the second largest mobile network in the country behind ee, with 25 million direct customers, and millions more via the services it provides for the likes of sky, tesco and giffgaff. some of those customers have been complaining online about the outage. . .. 0ne customer who uses a phone for work said: and a performer said he ll be unable to find his next venue, as he uses his phone s map service to direct him, and doesn t have a paper map in his van. we ve been hearing from adrian barnard, a teleco