Primarily focus on the coronavirus and what another round of stimulation such could look like. This is about one hour. All right. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager here at bloomberg government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of rock biannual hell watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas and, of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as was both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting ts expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker that is senator john thune of south dakota who was shared with us today discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgov want to be sure
Is this another sign that the postpandemic travel boom is running out of gas im melissa lee, this is fast money, were live at the nasdaq ma marketsite we start off with a huge slate of earnings. Apple and amazon headlining the afterhours action. Full Team Coverage on all these names. We start off with steve kovach and apples big quarter. Steve . Yeah, melissa, it is, like you said, the Third Quarter in a row of falling sales, with revenue still beating estimates, but down 1 year on year so, revenues coming in at 81. 8 billion, street was looking for 81 p . 69 billion and the eps was a bigger beat, 1. 26 versus 1. 19 expected. Iphone, slight miss, coming in at 39. 67 billion. Just a couple hundred mill short of expectations there. But the story today is going to be services. Hitting a new record of 8 year on year. Growth accelerating there, booking 21. 21 billion in revenue there. And gross margin, i want to point out the expansion there, also beating expectations, 44. 5 gross margin, a
In the third test in perth. Massive win. Good morning. Its monday 18th december. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A review into building regulations following the Grenfell Tower fire says there should be a culture change to ensure that safety is prioritised over cost. Dame Judith Hackitt, who is carrying the review for the government, makes a series of recommendations to simplify the rules and change the way they are overseen. In her first report out this morning, she also says regulations are confusing and open to interpretation. The interim report tells us that what we have in place today is a system which has evolved over a number of years. It is overly complex and that complexity does not lead to it being as effective as it needs to be. What sort of things specifically are we talking about . Were talking about a system where there is too much prescription, where there is a very heavily layered system of guidance currently, which is not helpful in terms of leading pe
In the last two years. Now the director of Public Prosecutions, alison saunders, has ordered an urgent review of all rape and serious Sexual Assault cases, and conceded its likely a number will be dropped. Its very apparent that in some cases mistakes have been made that simply shouldnt have been. It is important that when you look at that kind of case that the prosecutors and investigators look at social media traffic, look at Text Messages that have passed between the two individuals, because they can put whats happened in a very significant different light. A National Disclosure Improvement Plan has been published. It includes a review of disclosure training, developing a group of specialists in every police force, and all multimedia evidence to be provided to the defence digitally. Yesterday to are a people trafficking case collapsed because prosecutors failed to disclose Critical Evidence to the defence. Thejudge Critical Evidence to the defence. The judge commanded that an urgent
After she beats simona halep in the final of the australian open. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Three teenage boys have been killed after they were hit by a car in west london. It happened last night in hayes. A man aged 28 who was in the vehicle is under arrest in hospital. The police say theyre investigating an altercation that is believed to to be linked. Ben ando reports. Friends, classmates, mourners grieving together an improvised memorialfor a tragedy as shocking as it was unexpected, to mark the deaths of teenagers struck by a speeding car in hayes, middlesex yesterday evening. The teenage boys have not been formally identified, but named locally as george, harry and josh. Two were 16, the other 17. Earlier their families had visited the bus stop where the boys had lost their lives. Jake webb was one of the first on the scene immediately after it happened. I could see the incident in front of me. I had called them at that point. There was a bus driver in front of us. He