Leaving thousands ofjobs at risk. Ministers have ordered a fast track investigation into its directors. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Us banking giants taking major financial hits from President Trumps new tax reform programme. And australias pokie problem tops the list of the largest gambling losses in the world. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Its a wednesday. Welcome to another edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We start off with the us burning season. Some of americas biggest banks are putting this week. Likely announce large one time charges in the fourth quarter. That will surely erode their profitability. That is a result of President Trumps tax overhaul at the end of last year. I am joined by marika oi. Last weekjp morgan showed better than normal earnings, but are taking a hit. It is a similar story with city, also reporting overnight. If you are wondering, wasnt the tax reform of President Trump supposedly good for big corpo
Becomes, in the next few hours. Showers easing, some coming in and the wind becoming lighter and many areas seeing the afternoon sunshine. Despite that, with the wind, it still feels cold. This is the calm before the storm, i am afraid. A deep area of low pressure across the British Isles later this evening and overnight. Bringing widespread gales. But also perhaps more concerning greek, further snow. Rain, sleet and snow for Northern Ireland into the small hours and a focus for southern scotland and Northern England once again. The met office had issued an amber warning for the weather. Perhaps the worst of it is a way for the morning rush hour. This is six a m. , before many get up and about, still very difficult weather across the north east. Blizzard conditions potentially and drifting snow. Further south, a windy start and a fine start across the south east and east anglia. The south west of east anglia. The southfwestof east anglia. The southfwastof strong east anglia. The southf
Working hours doesnt mean we are more productive, especially when it negatively impacts our health and our ability to do ourjob. Well hearfrom Companies Pioneering new approaches to improve peoples Work Life Balance. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 00am this morning. Clearly this morning we want to know about your Work Life Balance. Do you, have you, worked crazy hours and done something about that . Is it worth it . If you are a boss, how do you work with your staff . Have you been able to come up with a solution. Use the hashtag victorialive, send me an email victoria bbc. Co. Uk or theres facebook too. Our top story today, more nurses left the nhs in england last year thanjoined. The statistics given exclusively to the bbc reveal that more than 33,000 gave up jobs with the service thats 3000 more than signed up. The Royal College of nursing says more must be done to support younger nurses at the start of their careers. Heres our Health Correspondent, Dominic Hugh
And ben stokes is back. Good afternoon. He is. The ecb have cleared him to return to england to just two days after he was charged with affray. He is likely to be playing in their short form series against new zealand ex month. All the details later in the our. Thanks, hugh. Susan powell has the weather, it is in the news. Lying snow and ice causing problems, buti in the news. Lying snow and ice causing problems, but i think this afternoon for many, pictures like this in edinburgh, the sun is out. But it is the calm before the storm, more strong winds to come tonight and another spell of heavy snow for southern scotland and Northern England. Thank you very much. Also coming up could it be a french stitch up . The grand diplomatic gesture by president macron which means the bayeux tapestry could leave france for the first time in nearly a thousand years and be loaned to britain. But why now . Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. If yourjob is dependant on the outcome
But now we didnt even have enough cash for 5 of the bill. This morning im looking at why big businesses can get away with making late payment. The first goal is awarded by the video assistant referee. And as the raf celebrates its 100th anniversary, the last of the dambusters tells us about his life in the skies. Snow and ice are causing Serious Problems on roads across scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England with drivers stranded in long queues. Rescue teams are helping trapped motorists and people in dumb freeze and galloway are being advised not to drive. Problems in Northern Ireland with schools closed entrance port affected. Rescuing the driver trapped in our ca is rescuing the driver trapped in our cars overnight on the main motorway between england and scotland. Heavy snow meant treacherous conditions for the Emergency Services on the m74. The weather kept some motorists in freezing cars for more than eight hours. Very little has been happening, im afraid. With barely mo