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civilians to escape the fighting and to let more aid in. good evening. so now we know number 10 did not sign off home secretary suella braverman s times article in which she criticised the commissioner of the metropolitan police for the way he has handled pro palestinian protests. the prime minister s office suggested amendments to her draught article, but she ignored some of those proposed changes. did she defy the prime minister? downing street appear to have confirmed that that is the case. this is what she wrote. i do not believe that these marches are merely a cry for help for gaza. she claimed aggressive right wing protesters were rightly met with a stern response , while pro palestinian mobs were largely ignored . in an urgent question in the commons this morning, the shadow home secretary, yvette cooper, accused suella braverman of acting in the crudest and most partisan of ways . where is the home secretary? sent the policing minister to come, to refuse to repea ....
us markets have their worst day since the presidential election as turmoil grips the white house. plus alibaba goes west. china s $300 billion e commerce giant looks to america but can it take on its us rivals? welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme, japan s economy grows for the fifth quarter in a row has abenomics finally paid off? we ll be live in tokyo for reaction. but first, we start on wall street where for months optimism about the trump presidency, the markets have been powering to record highs. but late on wednesday the trump bump turned into the trump slump as us stocks and the dollar suffered their worst day since before the election. the cause of the sell off? growing concern that the president s promised tax cuts and pro business reforms may never materialise, as the white house battles one controversy after another. let s show you the numbers. the dow jones industrial average fell 372 points, and both the dow an ....
what is going on in poland? injuly, the european union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. it s threatening to withdraw funding and suspend poland s voting rights in eu. my guest today is the polish foreign minister witold waszczykowski. it is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from liberal democracy? and what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world? foreign minister witold waszczykowski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. 20 months ago, your law and justice party won the elections, now it is facing a lot of criticisms. what has gone wrong? i don t think anything is wrong in poland. we are running the country for the last 21 months. we ve got a very strong democratic mandate from our people in poland. and we are trying still to modernise the country, develop the country, and, of course, to stay ....
north korea s official news agency says the country is considering launching missile strikes near the american airbase on guam, in a sharp rise in rhetoric between the two countries. the report says pyongyang is looking at a plan to fire medium to long range rockets around the american territory in the western pacific where us strategic bombers are based. suzanne kianpour reports from washington. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as i said they will be met with the fire and fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. thank you. unprecedented language from an american president. donald trump officially escalated the stand off with north korea from his perch at a golf course in new jersey. the trigger? a report saying pyongyang produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in its missi ....
now it s time for world business report. the us market rally shows no signs of losing steam. but what does the high valuation tell us about wall street and america s economy? the magic kingdom sets out on its own. disney s announcing it will pull its movies from netflix and set up its own streaming services. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in our business of birth series we focus on stem cell banking in india. it is proving to be quite lucrative. this week the main stock markets in the us have had another record run and london s ftse 100 flirted with breaking into record territory. it s a far cry from ten years ago when the global credit crunch started. on the 9th of august 2007 there was a swift reduction in availability of loans as banks suddenly found they had billions of dollars in toxic debts clients couldn t afford to repay. the ensuing financial crisis cost the british economy up to 7.4 trillion pounds in lost output that s close to $1 ....