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brexit round one. as eu leaders gather in malta its prime minister calls for a fair deal for britain but warns it will pay a price for leaving. and following the announcement that snapchat will be listing on the us stock market, today we want to know would you buy shares in a company with a limited track record of turning a profit? in fact, it has not made a profit. the value of facebook has tripled since it went public in 2012, but will snapchat be a similar success? do you snapchat? in the last few hours the social networking company has filed documents to float its shares on the new york stock exchange. it s likely to be the biggest ipo in the technology world since facebook floated in 2012. for those of you who don t use it it s kind of the opposite of facebook instead of making a permanent record of your life it lets you send picture messages that then disappear. here are some figures. according to the company 158 million people use snapchat every d ....
newsroom. live in washington as well. get in touch. the contact details arejust here. for the trump presidency it s business as usual today. by that i meana business as usual today. by that i mean a cabinet confirmation, legal battles over its travel ban and defending claims it has made that are demonstrably untrue. we will get to those in a moment. first of all,, later an appeals court will hear arguments for and against the ban. it is suspended at the moment. we know some of the justice department s argument because last night it filed some statements. they say the president is best placed to make decisions about national security. it is incorrect to call it a ban on muslims because the seven countries were identified further terror risk. let s back let s bring the bbc correspondent live from washington. a lot of us are getting confused as to where this appeals court fits into the other legal processes. help us out, please? sure. it started at the district court in ....
he was questioned by house budget committee members related to economic growth and government spending. this is just over two hours. the hearing will come to order. welcome on the congressional hearing on the office s budget and outlook. i want to thank everyone for being here this morning. we re holding this hearing today to discuss the congressional budget office s economic out look which gives us a look at our spending, national debt and how the economy is going to perform over the next decade. it forms the cornerstone of the work we do here at the house budget committee and i want that thank for their hard work and would also like to welcome director hall. i do appreciate you taking the time to testify today and look forward to your insight as we discuss this report. the discussion we will have today is a serious one because as cbo indicate we face economic challenges. deficits are beginning to rise and economic growth continues to be sub par. legacies of the last ....
us. it s newsday. glad you could join us. ait in the morning in singapore, midnight in london and atm in hong kong were injust midnight in london and atm in hong kong were in just a few hours the former chief executive will be sentenced after being found guilty of misconduct. it is looking likely he will go to prison. he is the senior official in the to face a corruption trial. he had faced three charges of misconduct and bribery and found guilty on one of them. our correspondent is following the case andi correspondent is following the case and i asked her what he has been convicted of. last week a jury, one man and ait women founded the chief executive guilty of one charge of misconduct. they essentially all agreed, with one exception, that he deliberately concealed his relationship with a hong kong businessman at the time a company in which it is this the man was a shareholder and had approved certain contracts. he leased a luxury flat in south china and that convict ....
eating up to 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day may help us to live longer. research from imperial college london claims boosting our intake to 800 grams a day could prevent thousands of deaths from heart disease and cancer. an investigation by the bbc has found there are nearly ten thousand drivers across the uk still on the roads despite having 12 or more points currently on their driving licence. good morning. it s thursday the 23rd of february. welcome to bbc newsroom live. parts of the uk are facing travel disruption as storm doris arrives with winds reaching 9amph. there are severe weather warnings for across northern england, east anglia, north wales and the midlands, and there is snow predicted in higher areas in scotland. about 8,000 homes and businesses are without power in northern ireland due to trees falling onto overhead lines. network rail are imposing speed limit of 50 mph on several train lines and the aa is reporting traffic disruption on major ....