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later in the programme we ll get the inside track on a tech company which aims to tackle the worldwide problem of poor eyesight. a new survey has found that online spending in the uk has fallen for the first time since 2013. today we want to know whether your expectations of the future are affecting your spending decisions? do get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. so emmanuel macron has won the french presidency, and now the hard work begins. his first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. the outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. france has had a high unemployment rate for decades: currently around 10% of the workforce or 3 million people. that compares with less than half 4.3% across the border in germany. the problem is worse for young people: 24% of those between the ages of 15 and 2a don t ha ....
on the indian markets, not one we talk about much, i will tell you about that later. and mobile adverts targeting you based on where you are we ll be talking to a firm giving away free wifi but with a catch. three years after it started in sweden, a company becomes the first in the us to microchip its employees. we want to know, would you sign up for it? just use the hashtag #bbcbizlive. the micro chipping, convenient maybe, but lots of privacy issues. we will get into that later. hello and welcome to business live. three of the world s most valuable internet firms release their latest numbers this week. the biggest by far is google‘s parent, alphabet. it has just reported a 21%jump in revenues. that was better than expected, but there was less cheer when it came to earnings. net profit fell 27.7% to $3.5 billion. hitting the bottom line was a $2.7 billion fine by the european commission which ruled the firm abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison ....
south of france and corsica fight huge forest fires banned by high temperatures and strong winds. close to the tourist resort of saint tropez, nearly 2000 fire fighters have been put into action as dozens of homes are evacuated. and britain s adam peaty has broken his own 50 metre breast stroke world record, in the heats of the world swimming championships in hungary. good morning. it s tuesday the 25th ofjuly. i m ben brown. welcome to bbc newsroom live. builders could be banned from selling new houses as leasehold properties in england under proposals put forward by the government today. it comes after it emerged some housing developers have been selling the leasehold on to investment firms without always telling homeowners, leading to extra costs or rising charges. the government says there is a particular problem in the north west of england where houses were being sold on leasehold although it s not clear why. the communities secretary, sajid javid, has said eno ....
anglia. dry too across parts of northern england and northern ireland with spells of sunshine around. northern and eastern scotla nd around. northern and eastern scotland keep a bit more cloud and the odd shower as we had through the course of the afternoon. most of those showers will fade away this evening. some late sunshine but then overnight our attention turns to the west where this band of rain roles in from the atlantic so it will be a wet and windy start to wednesday morning across northern ireland and western parts of england, wales and south west scotland too. this weather front will move gradually from west to east with quite close isobars meaning it will be a blustery day on wednesday. initially the wet weather in the west will arrive towards the south east in the middle part of the day, followed by drier weather with sunshine from the west later but that spell of blustery, damp weather working its way across all of the country. and temperatures nothing grea ....
and justin bieber apologises to his fans after cancelling the rest of his world tour because of unforeseen circumstances . welcome to bbc news. house builders may be banned from selling new houses in england as leasehold under new government proposals. a public consultation has begun on the issue, after it emerged some housing developers have been selling leaseholds onto investment firms, leading to extra costs or rising charges for homeowners. under the proposals, leaseholds on new build houses would be outlawed, while ground rents dramatically reduced. the communities secretary sajid javid said that there were 1.2 million cases of houses on leasehold, and the situation of escalating costs was one example of a broken housing market . jonty bloom reports. newly built houses in the uk used to be almost totally freehold you buy the property and the land it s built on but increasingly house builders have been selling them leasehold, meaning you don t own the land and ....