we are breaking down suggestions for congress. netflix shares slipped after fourth-quarter revenue came below wall street estimates. that is a sign that an explosion of programming has not reeled in viewers as quickly as expected. the company faces a crowded field in streaming with new offerings from disney and at&t s warner media. now slower than expected growth will put more of the spotlight on a price increase. here to discuss are analysts. they added a record number of subscribers and investors do not like the results given what we are seeing with revenue. what is your take? it is primarily the guide and not the actual. they sent some false signals, bird box numbers. believingrness into old us into believing so many people were active at the end of december that they would blow away domestic subscriber addition numbers. they went to exactly what their guide was. they raised the price two dollars, coming out to $1.5 billion of higher revenue. they guided the same -$3
so we start in the us, where, as you ve been hearing, the world s biggest entertainment company, walt disney, is axing 7000 jobs as part of a cost cutting drive. it comes as the company revealed the first fall in subscribers to its streaming service, disney+, since it was launched more than three years ago. veteran ceo bob iger has returned to run the company again after its shares lost almost half their value last year, as michelle fleury reports from new york. this is ceo bob iger s first set of results since returning to the company in november, attempting to revive the storied brand and cement his legacy, he said disney was embarking on a significant transformation, putting creativity at the heart of everything it does, while announcing the elimination of 7000 jobs as it seeks to trim costs by $5.5 billion. his comments point to the future, but results showed the mouse house performed better across a number of areas in the last months, compared to the dismal showing that
also in the programme. president zelensky addresses the european parliament saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe s way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a secondary disaster with survivors living on the streets with very little food and water and in freezing temperatures. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in gaziantep the epicentre of the biggest earthquake to hit the region on monday. this heavy machinery is starting to arrive mainly in the big cities like this one, it has to be said, when you think about the rural villages, towns that are as badly affected, it is so much harder to get the equip
we speak to the swedish company aiming to make freight more electric and looking to the uk market. the sacked boss of the cbi has told the bbc that he has been made the fall guy for the crisis engulfing the business lobbying group. tony danker apologised to anyone at the organisation that he had upset or made uncomfortable, but said his reputation has been destroyed as the public have wrongly connected allegations against him of sexual harassment with separate charges of serious misconduct that occurred before he joined the cbi. he has been talking to our business editor simonjack. first, simon, iwant first, simon, i want to apologise to anyone at the cbi and i made upset or uncomfortable. that is on me. that is on me. but i ve had a week of coverage saying that tony danker sacked in rape scandal. these stories have been about rape and sexual assault and cocaine and bullying. none of that was anything to do with me and it was all before my time. so, the first thing that has h
in poland more than thirty years ago, following a bitter and divisive campaign. donald tusk said poland s bad days were over. translation: yesterday people approached me and asked, - will you be able to do it? it wasn t possible for so many years. this is the end of this bad time. of the rule of law and justice. donald tusk, who did work in brussels as the european council chief, has pledged to reposition warsaw on a firm pro european path which could unlock billions of euros in eu funding withheld by the european commission in a spat with the current government over judicial reforms. to talk us through what s at stake i m joined by bert colijn senior eurozone economist at ing bank. a warm welcome to the programme. do you think brussels is breathing a sigh of relief as it looks at how this general election has unfolded? well, i think that if we look at these first pulse and indeed if this is how a coalition is ultimately going to be formed, i think it will make things s