11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. right now in new york city, former president donald trump inside the courtroom at closing arguments in his $250 million civil fraud trial. just hours after police responded to a bomb threat at the judge s home. meanwhile, on the campaign trail, nikki haley and ron desantis traded insults during last night s gop debate in the battle for second place. you re invisible in new hampshire. you re invisible in south carolina. you re in fifth place. she s got this problem with ballistic podiatry, shooting herself in the foot every other day. this as chris christie is caught on a hot mic talking about haley and desantis right before he dropped out of the race. and in california, presidential son hunter biden is due to face tax charges in court this afternoon, a day after his surprise appearance on capitol hill. and we begin with breaking news from new york city, where cloing arguments are under way in former presiden
That the manchester suicide bomber, salman abedi, was a potential threat. This week we get a health check on chinas engine of economic growth, its Manufacturing Sector. An sri lankas government is facing criticism for the sale of valuable Infrastructure Projects to china. Welcome to Asia Business report. From high tech gadgets do Economic Data to defence. They are all on the agenda for investors in asia this week. Tomorrow asias Biggest Technology fair opens in taiwan. And the state of the chinese economy has beenin the state of the chinese economy has been in the news recently with Moody S Downgrading the debt rating, and on wednesday we get another peek into the key Manufacturing Sector with release of the official purchases index. And on friday, top defence chiefs from the region will c0 nve lg e defence chiefs from the region will converge in singapore at a major annual defence caught. Early i spoke and asked what we could expect from the computex conference . And asked what we cou
Persist. And Divide And Rule we get the inside track on the business thats split the world up into 57 trillion three metre squares, each with its own code. Its an innovative approach to mapping thats being taken up by the likes of the red cross and deutsche bahn. Dont forget, we always want to hear from you about anything on the programme its easy to get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme, stay tuned for that inside track, it is fascinating, this three metres square here has its own unique code, we will explain that for you later. The eu and china will attempt to deepen ties at a summit later. There is concern among some about us president Donald Trumps stance on trade and Climate Change. Chinese premier li keqiang will meet European Council president donald tusk and the head of the European Commission jean claude juncker. Chinese premier li keqiang will meet European Council president theyre looking at how they can counter Donald Trumps policy of putti
In charlottesville, virginia and 19 others have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd opposing a far right rally. It follows violent clashes between White Nationalists attending the march and counter protesters. A local State Of Emergency has been declared in two districts. In the last hour the governor of virginia called on the president to put a stop to hate speech in the United States, and lashed out at the White Supremacists who kicked off saturdays rally. I have a message to all the White Supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple, go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. Shame on you. You pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. You think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cost of our country, somewhere around the globe, they are
In charlottesville, virginia and 19 others have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd opposing a far right rally. It follows violent clashes between White Nationalists attending the march and counter protesters. A local State Of Emergency has been declared in two districts. In the last hour the governor of virginia called on the president to put a stop to hate speech in the United States, and lashed out at the White Supremacists who kicked off saturdays rally. I have a message to all the White Supremacists and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple, go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. Shame on you. You pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. You think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cost of our country, somewhere around the globe, they are