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will raise other taxes. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. thawed relations. japan and china holds direct economic talks for the first time in nearly two years. tea rs first time in nearly two years. tears and disappointment. the impact on indian workers with the new australian visa laws. good morning, asia. hello, world. welcome to another edition of asia business report. it s a monday. it may be may day or labour day were you are, but we know that markets have a lot to digest in the next few days. japan and china are resuming bilateral trade talks after two years starting from today. the federal reserve kicks off its two day meeting. investors will be looking for clues on how many more us rate hikes could be in store this year. that is the same day that tech giant, apple, will give its financial report card. facebook follows the next day. and on thursday, the australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull, meets us president donald trump i ....
a ao year old man handed himself into police in bournemouth. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. facebook‘s revenues beat expectations. now the social media giant is promising to tackle violent content. and find out why this young entrepreneur says rick first is the best and the worst time of his day says it first. good morning. glad you could join us for this thursday edition of asia business report. the social media giant facebook reported an $8 billion in quarterly revenues, fuelled by strong growth in its mobile advertising business. it says 1.94 mobile advertising business. it says 1.91; billion people are now using facebook and that s up 17% from one year ago. facebook has given us a taste of what it might do with some of its earnings. the company promised to hire 3000 new people to monitor and remove violent content. earlier i spoke to our north america technology correspondent and asked what facebook hopes to gain from this mo ....
prices, and what you should do if you still want to book something. and in sport, leicester are given a caning. the outgoing champions are hit for six by tottenham, as harry kane scores four, and is now favourite to finish the season as the premier league s top scorer, and matt goes back to the jurassic period in birmingham for the weather. yes. good morning. my guest may be prehistoric but it is all about the weekend forecast. it contains a little bit more rain and sunshine as well. details in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. brexit dominated the televised leaders‘ debate, which was held last night despite the absence of theresa may and jeremy corbyn. the itv event saw little disagreement between the lib dems, green party, plaid cymru and snp as they repeatedly clashed with ukip s paul nuttall. our political correspondent tom symonds reports. five party leaders took part. four support britain remaining in the eu. and in the absence of theresa may and ....
britain two men in the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time since 2002. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. he s just hours away from becoming the most powerful person in the world. donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the united states at five o clock this afternoon uk time, signalling possibly the most radical change in the us government in modern times. last night in the shadow of the lincoln memorial the billionaire businessman told the crowd that he will unify the country and give a voice to people who have been forgotten. our washington correspondent laura bicker has more. marching band plays. this is a musical warm up act for one of the greatest political shows on earth. and centre stage for this welcome concert is its star. this is a first look at donald trump s inauguration crowds, his chance to address those who put him in office. the polls started going up, up, up, but they didn t want to give us credit, because they forgo ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. we will watch the situation very closely. paula, thank you for the report. jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former trump campaign paul manafort for alleged financial crimes. the first test for special counsel robert mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. we have more from evan perez from washington. reporter: dave and laura, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in virginia on federal tax and bank fraud charges. this is the first trial to come from robert mueller s investigation. don t expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or president trump. prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the government s accusations that manafort used secret foreign bank accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the ukrainian government and fail ....