Set to get the green light. Well assess the possible impact. And well be getting the inside track on the changing world of cinema. The global audience for traditional theatres is dwindling, so will new ways of watching movies lure us back to the Silver Screen . Today we want to know, are you a fan of the cinema experience or is streaming your movie the only way to go . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Lots to fit in today. The future of the South African retail group, steinhoff, hangs in the balance. Its battling a huge accounting scandal. Today, the retailer is meeting its lenders here in london, to find out whether those that it owes money to will throw them a lifeline. Its origins are in the furniture business in germany in the 60s. But its now a global giant, with brands across europe and the us such as conforama and poundland. Reflecting the global deal making, the company has at least 200 subsidiaries and affiliates and is dutch re
Its tuesday 19th december. Im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The royal navys new £3 billion Aircraft Carrier, hms Queen Elizabeth, is leaking. The navys future flagship, which was commissioned by the queen earlier this month, has a problem with one of its propeller shafts. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. Earlier this month, amid much fanfare, the royal navys largest, most expensive warship was being commissioned into service by the queen. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. Hailed as the most powerful capable warship ever to raise the white ensign. But what the navy did not say at the time was that she was leaking. According to the sun newspaper, a fault with a seal around one of the ships propeller shafts has left her taking on up to 200 litres of water every hour. The problem was first identified during her sea trials earlier this year. A royal Navy Spokesman insisted the fault was now scheduled for repair and that it would not prevent the 65,000 tonne wars
Butchered. America watches. Varney and company open for business this residence day and we are about to begin. Tom another brutal video released with groups tied to isis. Using the term crusaders. Several calls to step up our fight against isis. Listen to what doctor betty carson told fox news earlier today. Use every resource available. You name it. I would not hesitate to put boots on the ground. You heard him. Tom it is a daily event. The president does not seem to be engaged in this struggling. Am i too harsh . We have to understand. This is radical islam. The president will not even call it that. The problem that we have they got it all wrong. It is a much bigger thing than this. Isis is only part of the problem. This is radical jihad. It is the same way we disputed the communists and the nazis. There is an ideological component to it. You guys have to wear a form within. You need to call radical islam out. You see these components in other parts of the world. This is not americas
Nascar superstar kurt busch ordered to stay away from his ex, accused of assaulting the woman he claims is a trained assassin. Hes known as the outlaw. Will he be sidelined for the biggest race of the year . And good morning, america. It is another snowy and cold one for so much of the country. Whole east coast, much of the southeast getting hit hard and take a look at this right now. Live look at the Charles River in boston. Just about frozen over. We also have a look at washington. The capital. The federal government shut down this morning. Our gma extreme weather team all over this latest blast of winter and ginger starting us off again this morning. Good morning, ginger. Right here in the snow globe that is times square. We have a couple of light and fluffy inches, so 2 to 4 around new york city but it is slick this morning. The commute a wreck. Lets go ahead and look at one of the cameras we have on the road. A road cam in queens and its just going to be a slow go. Weve already he
Funded by cbs good morning, im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. This morning a strong winter storm is targeting the south as the northeast prepares for more snow and shivers and dangerous recordbreaking temperatures. There are winter storm warnings stretching from oklahoma to North Carolina. In the northeast subzero air temperatures have triggered windchill warnings. This fountain froze solid in new york where the windchill is expected to 20 degrees below zero today and another round of snow is expected tomorrow. In North Carolina tonights expect snow and ice was preceded by winds that snapped trees. At least one fell on top of a home but no one injured. And the salt trucks are out up to 9 inches of snow forecast for tennessee, arkansas and missouri. Up to 4 inches of snow is possible in georgia. But nothing compares to massachusetts where theres so much snow folks dont know what to do. In boston another foot fell yesterday on top of the six feet thats fallen over the last month