has been held in london. stay with us. has been held in london. stay with us. we will be back with the rest of the news of the date the first year is the business news. news of the day but first year is the business news. as toshiba prepared to give its earnings a day, weaves find out why japan getting crushed. and we ve zoom in on the online market in india. hello and welcome to asia business report. fox climb has reportedly signalled it could launch a $27 billion bid for toshiba chip business. they are due to report their own inflated today after two previous delays. toshiba is currently trying to sell off its prized chip business to cover losses from its troubled us nuclear unit, westinghouse. it is not the only japanese firm to struggle recently. these were the greatest brands in consumer goods for decades. toshiba, panasonic, sony, he tai chi. so how did we end up here? first of all, the chinese and koreans came along and they can make these things just as all but muc
tick tock, we re still waiting. after months of delays, japan s battered toshiba may finally tell us its latest numbers and we re not expecting them to be pretty. we re going to find out if this company will be booted from the tokyo stock exchange. and, alexa, start the car and turn the radio on. yep, she s coming to a ford near you. the american car giant teams up with amazon and guess what? we re taking a test drive. welcome to world business report. if you ve got eight minutes, stay where you are and i will give you an exciting snapshot of the latest in business and money. starting with big troubles at toshiba. the company is expected to publish its result. with the waiting for a long time. the latest numbers will be for the last quarter. this comes after we ve been waiting, because they ve already been postponed twice. the numbers are expected to be disastrous. let s have a look. recently, toshiba announced its losses. these losses would triple after the result of the dif
markets. the looming french election, we will tell you for that is doing to investors. and taking to a road near you? when will driverless cars become a reality and can we trust the technology? i get the inside track from the intel boss heading up the tech giant s new driverless car division. and as aaron said, that united airlines video is going viral around the world, will be an airline ever redeem itself and what do you think the passengers should get? tell us your thoughts. let us know, use the hashtag bbcbizlive. that poor bloke, he should be getting first class for the rest of his life, that s what i say! we start with the troubles at toshiba. the company is expected to publish its results for the last quarter of 2016 today, after postponing them twice. and they are expected to be disastrous. the numbers have already been spilled twice. been postponed. we hope to no mere after a press conference scheduled to start shortly. recently toshiba announced that its losses
the weather. here s chris fawkes. glorious sunshine, high cloud in the sky at twickenham making the sunshine a bit on the hazy side, on the satellite picture you can see the satellite picture you can see the extent, different story further north where in england s northern moorestown berwick upon tweed the skies look like this. weather front going to be bringing wet weather today, this is going to be hardly moving at all, more rain coming across the western isles, into the highlands where it is windy and over the tops of the cairngorms gusts of 85 mph so very blowy with strong winds. england and wales is a different story, breezy, quite a cool and fresh feel in the breeze but in the sunshine i think it feels pretty pleasant. temperatures of the 16 degrees, northern ireland will brighten up, i think there will be an improvement in the weather in shetland, the morning cloud and rain. overnight tonight the weather front stays very slow moving initially but then starts to move so
ta ke guard will hear whether they can take their eight month old son to america for experimental treatment against the wishes of british doctors. a revolutionary new treatment for stroke patients in england, that could help save thousands from lifelong disability. the queen and the duke of edinburgh try their hand at zoo keeping as they feed banana thats to an elephant at whip snaid zoo. whipsnade. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news. g7 foreign ministers have failed to reach agreement on targeted sanctions against russia and syria, at a meeting in italy. the foreign secretary, boris johnson had pushed for sanctions on senior russian and syrian figures following syria s suspected chemical weapons attack which killed more than 70 people. ministers were trying to agree a common position on the syrian conflict before the us secretary of state flies to russia to try to persuade it to abandon its allegiance to bashar al assad. our diplomatic coreesponden