Its the sports subscription business, espn, that is driving the profit. Still it is a stunning turn around given complaints levelled at Disney in recent years, that its Media Business was weighing it down. As evidence, investors would point to the decline in its traditional tv business, Box Office flops and, of course, its streaming losses. Only its park and resorts divisions were doing well. It all came to a head this year in a bitter Prox Battle with activist investors who complained that Disney was in decline. Well, Disney won that fight, and itjust scored another hit with its second quarter earnings showing that its Streaming Business is making money ahead of the timeframe that it set itself. But it is not all good news, with Consumer Demand moderating, its parks and resorts businesses are under pressure. And as Subscriber Growth is plateauing for all streaming services, Disney will need to wring more money out of its existing customers as it seeks to maintain this momentum. Tech a
Bringing up to two feet of snow to New York City. Hello, im Laura Trevelyan in new york. Christian fraser is in london. We start our programme with a mix of good news and bad. On the plus side, the number of new covid cases and hospitalisations has been dropping in both the us and the uk. The bad news, though, is that new mutations of the virus could threaten to wipe out those gains. So the race is on to vaccinate as many people as possible, to try and prevent highly contagious variants from spreading and mutating further. The uks Vaccination Efforts are going quite well. Half a Million People were vaccinated just yesterday. In the us, the goal is to get to 1. 5 millionjabs a day. The fear is that as the coronavirus evolves it becomes ever more difficult to fight. The uk variant has now been discovered in at least 55 other countries, and we know it is much more transmissible. The now dominant strain in south africa is more of a worry, because we know the existing vaccines perform less
Rurts declaring one year State Of Emergency. Soeldsiers now surrounding city hall around the largest city in miya myanmar. There have been growing tensions after the kyi party claimed a land slide in the election and mi military claimed irregularities in the vote. U. S. President joe biden has been prbriefed and the white hoe saying the United States will not impede the myanmar democratic transition. It will take action for those responsibility if responsible if the steps are not reverses. Critics say this is a vieolatio of the constitution that the military helped to write and said it would abide by. Whats the latest . Reporter yeah, this is, as my colleague put it, a Textbook Definition of a military coup, a military that suffered a humiliating defeat in novembers election where National League for Democracy Party that the military helped to put into civilian power even though the military retained control of key leaders in the government. The Military Proxy Party got just 33 seats a
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. President biden has set out his plans to try to deal with Climate Change, describing it as an existential threat. He said the us had waited too long to confront the climate crisis, and must lead the global response. Mr biden has signed a raft of Executive Orders, in sharp contrast with the policies of the trump administration. Among them, a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public land and making climate considerations a focus of American Foreign and National Security policy. Our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt reports. If ever america needed a warning of what Climate Change could mean for the country, it got it last year, with record wildfires and an unprecedented series of hurricanes. There is no time to waste, President Biden said today. We cant wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and its time to act. And by appointing one of the countrys most senior poli
Hello to you. President biden has set out his plans to try to deal with Climate Change, describing it as an existential threat. He said the us had waited too long to confront the climate crisis, and must lead the global response. Mr biden has signed a raft of Executive Orders, in sharp contrast with the policies of the trump administration. Among them, a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public land and making Climate Considerations a focus of American Foreign and National Security policy. Our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt reports. If ever america needed a warning of what Climate Change could mean for the country, it got it last year, with record wildfires and an unprecedented series of hurricanes. There is no time to waste, President Biden said today. We cant wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and its time to act. And by appointing one of the countrys most senior politicians, john kerry, as his climate envoy, joe bi