The disgraced hollywood film producer, Harvey Weinstein, has had one of his Rape Convictions overturned. Judges at new Yorks Top Court said weinstein, who will remain in prison on separate sex offences, did not receive a fair trial in 2020. They said prosecutors were allowed to call witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him. A lawyer who represented some of weinstein s victims said the decision was a tragic step back. The case fuelled the me too movement, which exposed sexual abuse and misconduct at the highest levels in hollywood. Deanna levels in hollywood. Paul is a former reporter which deanna paul is a former reporter which she reported on Law Enforcement and the weinstein case. Can you talk us through this case. Can you talk us through this case on 2020 and the reasons were hearing for this being overturned, saying that he didnt get a fair trial because prosecutors were allowed to call these witnesses which were part of the charges against him . The whi
Offences in 2020. The new York State Court of appeals ruled that the original trial made a mistake by Hearing Evidence from women who claimed they had been assaulted, even though their allegations were not part of the charges being heard. He was jailed for 23 years. The judges have ordered that a new trial be held. He has also been sentenced in california to 16 years in prison for raping an actress in los angeles, and that conviction is not directly affected by this ruling. Lets speak to our North America correspondent nomia iqbal is not going to be walking out of jail because of the other conviction in los angeles, but talk is through the 2020 case that was so huge in terms of the Metoo Movement. The harve terms of the Metoo Movement. Tue Harvey Weinstein terms of the Metoo Movement. Tte Harvey Weinstein conviction case was almost the founding case of the metoo, one of the most important social media movements in modern American History where people spoke out against Sexual Violence a
Julie hyman is in is in. Julie we are seeing a little in today, really a pause market of the moments. The dow is doing the best of the threeday averages. Things may heed up over the course of the week as we get more Economic Data and a dozen S P Properties are still scheduled to report their earnings tomorrow. Well be watching those. In todays session we are watching some of the last companies. Quest diagnostics and Lab Corporation of the americas. Late on friday, we got new information posted, final rates for medicare. They were posted late on friday and so they have implications for these companies. The final rates still suggested 8 . Cut to the revenue in 2018. We are seeing a minute drop today. We are watching a big deal in the retail industry, or at least an investment. Alibaba, 2. 9 million is how much it is paying to buy 2. 9 billion is how much is paying. Walmart is down. It operatesbed, about 400 hypermarkets. Are seeing those companies trade accordingly. Also checking on home
Anna a very warm welcome. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Im anna edwards. Manus im manus cranny. We have one of her last interviews as the ceo of easyjet. Thats at 7 00 a. M. Anna later, we speak with david duffy. He will be joining us later on to talk banking. The world is a strange place. The german elections, very boring for a long time. Challenges and janet yellen plans to step down from the fed. You look at the world, you look at north korea. Its been named a state of terrorism. Where do you put your money . Gold did have its worst loss in two months yesterday, down by 1. 2 yesterday. Where do you hide . Open interest takes a spike. Open interest in gold is at the highest since june. That is at the close of business last week. Increasingly, geopolitical events have reported the tactical use of gold in the short term we have heard this before from a variety of people. Lets see where it goes for the rest of the week. Anna we will show you where we are on the msci asia. Despite t
Their murder the Agency Claims to have confessions from buddhist villagers and testimony implicating soldiers in the killings of. European leaders are welcoming the deal reached by germanys two biggest parties to form a Government European Council president on tuesday meeting chancellor Angela Merkel called the provisional agreement good news the Coalition Deal would see berlin contributing more to e. U. Budgets. Colombia is tightening control over its border as a growing number of venezuelans tried to flee into the neighboring country venezuela is facing a brutal economic crisis which has created major shortages including in medical supplies this comes as president Nicolas Maduro has moved to consolidate his role. Thank you to. Another rough day for stocks europe ends in the red the dow tumbles a thousand points of the u. S. Markets fall over three percent whats behind the new downward trend well get the view from wall street also coming up germany has just reported bumper trade figur