With me is inga beale, from london first, a not for profit group made up of Business Leaders from across the city. Whats this story in the times . People might say how on earth can people tap into something ahead of it being broadcast . Its very interesting. The official rout forgetting news out from the bank of england is via bloomberg. At the bank of england put in place some time ago a backup in case the video link via bloomberg failed, they put ina backup link via bloomberg failed, they put in a backup audio feed. Its that backup audio feed that people have been managing to hack into, they have been putting microwave pieces of equipment on top of buildings, and theyve been tapping into an audio feed that was designed as a backup. The bank of england as soon as they discovered this or were alerted to it stopped it so it can no longer happen. Thats how they did it. So it is this digital age again, some people make millions out of it by able to do does make being able to do speed trad
In business, a transatlantic battle over privacy. Europes top court to hear whether us tech giants can keep gathering personal data on eu citizens. Good to have you with us. This is thursdays reefing, making sure you are gcioss thursdays reefing, making sure you are across all you need to know in global News Business and sport. Also in the programme in the top three youtube earners are this 8 year old and a 5 year old. A multimillion dollar business is proving lucrative but can be exhausting with pewdiepie announcing he is taking a break. What do you think . Are you tempted 7 get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. After a marathon debate by republican and democratic congressmen and women, donald trump has become only the third president in American History to be impeached by the house of representatives. That sets up a trial in the senate, which has to decide whether he should be removed from office. The house is controlled by his opponents, the democrats. His own party, the
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the programme, british actorjohn boyega has admitted that he left his copy of the closely guarded script for the new star wars movie under his bed and that it ended up for sale on ebay. That was after he moved and it was left behind. So wed like to know have you ever lost anything important or valuable . President trump has signed a bill into law in support of pro democracy protesters in hong kong. Under the new act, the us will have to be satisfied that hong kong retains sufficient autonomy before it agrees favourable trading terms. The Hong Kong Government said the legislation would send a wrong signal to the protesters. China described it as a gross interference in its internal affairs. Our correspondent nick beake is in hong kong. Nick, i would nick, iwould imagined nick, i would imagined that the pro democracy protesters are very happy about this move in the United St
Predicts borisjohnson for the times. Yougov pole. It predicts Boris Johnson could for the times. Yougov pole. It predicts borisjohnson could get a majority. We always have to be a bit cautious about these polls. When i look at the stories that are appearing on the front pages of the media, of course you realise that you have got to be very careful that they are giving a certain view and it is all a bit skewed and slanted. I think it is becoming ever more noticeable that it is sort of moving really extreme, and i think for anybody who really wants to keep abreast of what is going on it is important to read several media sources. Otherwise we are never going to get a balanced view in the lead up to the election. Absolutely, extremely important. This times article which i read earlier, it is looking out the fact that the yougov poll on the 2017 elections was one of the few that are addicted they would be a Hung Parliament outcome, which of course was correct. That predicted there would be
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