Who else but the nba star lebron james has now come out speaking about the recent nba fall out with china, reigniting that controversy that had gone down to a simmer welcome to power lunch. Ive got quite rally reports in eu and uk may be closer to a deal on brexit that s p 500 level thats up, we are less than a percent away from all time record highs and tech nearing a record high they are their best bet into earnings lets go to bob at the new york stock exchange. Its more than just optimism on trade here. Theres several fronts going on. I think the most important is earning. Jp morgan reported strong earnings the consumer side was really good this is a real sign the consumer is holding up and even jamie dimond said that second thing help in the markets, positive comments on the prospect of a brexit deal. They did sicite hard brexit as risk finally a bit of warm and fuzzy feeling from china on the trade talk the global times editor said that fridays meeting did represent a breakthrough
Thousand homes are under mandatory evacuation. Frances biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died after a battle with lung cancer. Good morning. Its wednesday the 6th of december and im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Prime Minister has just been speaking on the phone to the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in northern irealand to try and salvage a deal on the future of the irish border. But Arlene Foster has also said in a newspaper interview her dup party will not be rushed, even though the deadline is looming if the uk wants to move on to crucial trade talks with the eu. Meanwhile, the government has admitted that it has not carried out so called Impact Assessments of how leaving the eu might affect the british economy. Appearing before the Brexit Committee this morning, david davis claimed it would be hard to predict the economic effects of brexit, but said officials would do the work at some stage. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminster.
Of statistics, the specific question youre asking about numbers, actually, we made a very clear choice to try and challenge those numbers, question those numbers, and more than that, we didnt do it in a sort of ad hoc way, we took something called reality check, right, which was our system forfact checking, we really increased the resources, the number of people working on it and weve made that a permanent part of the way in which we cover politics and policy. So, rather than stepping back from analysing statistics and numbers, weve actually stepped into it. With hindsight, should the bbc have done representation of different political views differently . Weve had many complaints from some viewers over the years about, for example, too much nigel farage. So, i think its a really good and important issue, this, and one that we spend an enormous amount of time thinking about. So, if you got into the team, for example, on question time, which would be a good place to start, we are really
And the stairs being perfected. And coming up on newswatch. We are devoting the whole programme to an interview with the outgoing director of news and current affairs,James Harding. Join us tonight at 7 45pm here, on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Eu leaders have agreed to move brexit talks on to the next phase, which will deal with the future relationship between britain and the eu once britain leaves. Theresa may has called it an important step on the road to a smooth and orderly brexit. But the president of the european council, donald tusk, has warned it will be dramatically difficult to reach a final deal by march 2019. Heres our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg. The men with the message. Part one is done. The European Union is ready to grant the Prime Ministers wish and move on. She was a tough, smart, polite and friendly negotiator. And so we were able to conclude that sufficient progress has been made. To get this far on brexit, there has been some conflict an
At some of the 360 cameras which have taken off in 2017. Dan filmed with the new kid on the block, the insta one in berlin. And he came back very pleased with it. Easy to use, lots of features, including this bullet time mode, a bit like the film the matrix, where you can get a picture of yourself from all angles. But what have the more established names in photography got to offer us . Well, with christmas just around the corner, this time we sent dan to a suitably festive place to put two pro sumer 360 cameras through their paces. The ancient city of bath hosts a very traditional christmas market, one that i want to catch in the round. Ive got two cameras for the job. One is from kodak, the other is nikons. They look pretty similar, with two ultra wide angle lenses capturing everything, before the two images are stitched together in camera. But look closer, and you will see the kodak sporting two different lenses, one smaller than the other, superwide 235 degree lens. It also has the