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as soon as possible. and with the republicans in control of both houses of congress the democrats will struggle to save any of it. laura trevelyan reports from washington. they swarmed across capitol hill today with rival entourages and duelling missions. one to protect his signature health care law, the other to drive a stake through it. president obama and vice president elect mike pence met with their respective lawmakers to plot their opposing strategies. according to those present, mr obama encouraged democrats to fight republicans hard, nickname their attempts trump care and not rescue them by helping to pass a replacement law. for his part, mr pence confirmed dismantling obamacare is mission number one for the incoming administration. my message to members of congress is that we are going to be in the promise keeping business and the first order of business is to keep our promise to repeal obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care reform that will l ....
begin the trading week. in positive territory. we will talk about what will move them later in the week later in the programme. we are joined by a french entrepreneur described as a rock star in the world of proud funding. she will reveal to us her latest plans shortly. and the winner is. la la land. moonlight? sort out the autocue! what a night. what is your warren beatty moment? get in touch. welcome to the programme. one of europe s biggest mergers looks like it is off. the london stock exchange and its german rival the deutsche boerse say their coming together is unlikely to be approved by the european commission. the merger was supposed to be worth just over $30 billion and would have created a giant trading powerhouse that would better compete against its big us rivals. when they announced the deal last year the two companies said together they should be able to make cost savings of $475 million a year, about 20% of the combined group s operating costs. they had a ....
dedicated to both soldiers and civilians, at a special service in central london. an australian man alleged to have posed as justin bieber online is charged with more than 900 child sex offences. jubilation in the catalan capital as barcelona produced one of the greatest comebacks in football history with a stunning victory over paris saint germain in the champions league. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor philip hammond has defended his plan to raise national insurance contributions for the self employed, saying the government faces new challenges. mr hammond is facing criticism of the budget announcement for apparently going against a 2015 manifesto pledge on tax rises. the change, due to come in next year, will mean 1.6 million self employed people paying on average £240 more every year. learning to solve technical problems at a college in dudley in the west midlands this morning. and after yesterday s budget the chancellor s the one looking f ....
saw fairly recently at the white house when president trump announced judge neil gorsuch would be his pick to replace justice scalia. several people people will be in attendance whose family were killed from undocumented immigrants. at president trump s campaign rallies he d bring people on stage to talk about this with regard to immigration. this will be a discussion of potentially economic security, national security, and possibly immigration as we look ahead later in the week, ali, to the president revealing his revised travel ban. on friday remember, it will be a month that original ban has been tied up in court essentially since the stay was put on it. the president might talk about his budget, too, something a lot of members of congress are particularly interested in hearing. here s what he had to say when it came to what he would do with entitlement reform with cuts to medicaid and social security. listen. you have an omb director finally. he says you have to take an ....
sores more than 300 points that say surge to an all-time record fueled by glowing reviews of president trump s congressional address. he kept a low profile today tweeting nonl all caps, thank you, no bragging or twitter rants just two words from his personal account. 47 million people tuned in to watch the pruz president s address and he put a lot of asks acts on the table, haej healthcare, immigration, tax cuts, on and on and today the rubber met the road. meeting with republican leadership to turn all of those words and promises into actual action. we re just here to start the process. it begins as of now and we think we re going to have tremendous success. david purdue was in that meeting and he s out front tonight i m going to speak with him i want to begin with jim acosta he is at the white house and uncharacteristically to say the least, quiet day for president trump. that s right pu white house officials from the president on down are still slating after last nigh ....