Scandal will give answers to what the Prime Minister has called the appalling tragedy. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. It isa it is a day of protest for big online companies. Find out why the likes of amazon and netflix are battling us rules on internet use. And china is spending billions on new aircraft but it may face a Pilot Shortage in the years to come. Good morning, asia, hello, world. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. I am rico hizon. Some of the most popular websites may be slower to day. Companies like facebook, netflix and amazon are taking part in a protest against changes being made to us rules which govern Net Neutrality. They claimed the new regulations will give the Cable Companies control over what its users see and do. Our north America Technology correspondent explains. Right now, all Internet Traffic is treated the same, no matter where it has come from, where it is going, or what it is doing. That is
The film review on bbc news. To take us through the cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. What have you been watching this week . A very big week, obviously. We have dunkirk, the new Christopher Nolan film, about which everybody is talking. We have city of ghosts, a very harrowing documentary from the maker of cartel land. And Captain Underpants the epic first movie, which is really funny. Everyone is talking about dunkirk. The scale and ambition of this is remarkable. It is and also the ambition of the release. It is the story of dunkirk told by Christopher Nolan who has made things like dark knight, interstellar and inception, and it is the story of the evacuation told through Three Intertwining Strands that loosely follow land, sea and air. But although the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told over three different timescales, one of the stories lasts one week, one of the stories lasts one day, one lasts one hour and these strands. If you know anything at all about no
This is hardtalk. A quarter of lebanons population are Syrian Refugees, which is putting the countrys infrastructure and resources under increasing strain. The party of my guests, Ghassan Hasbani says he wants to send them home. Some leading politicalfigures there are calling for the refugees to be sent home. But since some in the government have ruled out talking directly to president assad, how can they be sure any returning refugees would be safe . Ghassan hasbani, welcome and thank you for being with us. After one and a half million syrians have sought refuge in your country. About a quarter of your population. How big a threat those that represent . M quarter of your population. How big a threat those that represent . It is a threat those that represent . It is a huge economic and social burden. Lebanon welcomed all these syrians at the beginning, given the humanitarian situation as they were in. After a while, several years on, the numbers have increased significantly and they ha
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. A strong earnings season in the us has helped lift asian stocks, but will that continue . And, why this circus wants to somersault into china by linking up with the Blue Man Group. Its a busy week for us companies, reporting earnings. We will hear from companies, reporting earnings. We will hearfrom some companies, reporting earnings. We will hear from some key firms including google, and their parent company, alphabet. They will release the revenue of youtube for the first time. We will also hearfrom General Motors and mcdonalds during the two day policy meeting. On wednesday, we find out how facebook and nintendo are faring, followed by amazon, twitter and starbucks on thursday. We learnt what to expect. There are going to be several 100 American Companies reporting this week. As far as corporate earnings are concerned, what has been driving the market up to now has been Companies Cutting costs, and using those cuts, a
Them out completely. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington were President Trump has made a Surprise Announcement that he is banning transgender people from serving in the us military in any capacity. He tweeted their risk burdening the military with large medical bills and disruption. Campaigners have called his decision shocking and ignorant. The fate of current transgender military ignorant. The fate of current tra nsgender Military Personnel ignorant. The fate of current transgender Military Personnel has not been made clear. There are thought to be thousands of members of the us military who identify as transgender. Many have spent time in iraq or afghanistan. Today they woke up to a shock from the very president they serve. After consultation with my generals and military experts, he tweeted, please be advised that the United States government will not accept