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but there's been widespread condemnation of his immigration policy — that's seen thousands of children separated from their families at the border. england have kicked off their world cup campaign with a last minute, winning goal against tunisia. there was also joy for sweden and belgium in theirfirst games at the tournament in russia. and this video is trending on bbc.com. this man is a forest ranger, trending on bbc.com. called in to help villagers in west bengal deal with a 5.5m—long python. but he was nearly strangled when he decided to pose with the snake around his neck. luckily he managed to escaped. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk. theresa may has confirmed that taxes will have to be increased to pay for the extra £20 billion funding for the nhs in england
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by the year 2023. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. the us senate votes to block president tromp‘s deal with zde. could this cause clashes with the white house? and gateway to china. google invests more than half $1 billion into jd.com. google invests more than half $1 billion intojd.com. good morning. it isa billion intojd.com. good morning. it is a tuesday. lady could join us in this exciting addition of asia business report. we start of the
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programme with the us senate passing and defence spending bill which tries to torpedo the trump administration's deal with chinese giant zte. the tech giant has been on its knees since april when mr trump slapped it with crippling sanctions after accusing it of violating trade arrangements but the government said earlier it would lift the ban on the company's axis to the us market. well, that may now all be injeopardy. our business reporter told me what the reaction has been. what's interesting is that this has been a bipartisan effort. you see not just this has been a bipartisan effort. you see notjust democrats, but also republicans as well. we saw marco rubio, after the bill was passed, saying he welcomed the passage, that it protected american people in the economy from the chinese government's efforts to use
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telecommunications company for espionage. a lot moving on the china us trade front. basically, the trump administration makes its concession and is now shut down by the senate. how will the lower halves vote on this arrangement? that is to be seen. lower house has a different defence bill which will have to be reconciled. reports here say there have —— there has been an effort. that was not successful. it is to try to convince the lower house to block this bill, keeping the deal between the trump administration and the white house and zte alive. it's reported that trump will try to convince republicans to support the zte deal. even if it passes, it
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doesn't mean lights for zte. zte deal. even if it passes, it doesn't mean lights for zt e. while president trump is hoping the deal can still be revived, it also threatened to impose an additional 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of chinese goods. let's get more on this. this raises the tension between united states and china. this. this raises the tension between united states and chinam does feel that way. this comes in addition to up to $50 billion worth of tariffs on chinese goods which we re of tariffs on chinese goods which were announced over the weekend. it only took 12 hours to turn around and slap tariffs that were a mirror image on the us as well. this really does seem like an escalation and it comes on top of tariffs, aluminium
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and steel, washing machines that we had earlier this year. this really does feel like an escalation in the trade tensions between the two countries. it's very difficult to know who it is to hurt. supply chains are very tangled in this day and age. a lot of opponents might come from china. it becomes more complicated. thank you forjoining us. complicated. thank you forjoining us. the recent hostility between beijing and washington is not getting in the way of some of the country's corporate giants who are striking deals. google is injecting $550 million into china's second largest e—commerce companyjd.com to step up investments across asia. 0fficials step up investments across asia. officials say the deal would marry google's market reach and strength of analytics with jd.com's google's market reach and strength of analytics withjd.com's supply chain and logistical expertise. i
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askedif chain and logistical expertise. i asked if strategically this was a good deal. strategically makes perfect sense. great logistical last mile expertise, delivery expertise. great expertise with its ai platforms. google will still be blocked in mainland china.“ platforms. google will still be blocked in mainland china. if you look at the overall relationship between china and india, and you look at the suspicion regarding chinese companies, in australia the recent blocking of huawei, how is google going to handle the data privacy issue, for example, beijing having access to all the data? could
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there be an amendment that eventually, google will be unblocked in china? that seems like it would bea in china? that seems like it would be a logical conclusion. why would google do that? something we don't know about? again, if you look at the relationship between the us and china issues of security, certainly technology rivalry, is going to result in more blockages, more compensation. this is a potential minefield. especially now with this vote that trump has in the senate by making a compromise zd. this could pose a bigger problem in terms of deals going forward. absolutely. i think this is the beginning of more to come in this area. certainly anything to do with chinese
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technology, big brother harbouring in the background, that is going to pose a huge challenge. german authorities have arrested audi chief rupert stadtler. volkswagen had fitted cars with devices designed to cheat emissions tests. it is claimed authorities acted because of the risk that mr stadtler might seek to suppress evidence. growing digitalisation means forming a traditional business to take advantage of all the benefits that technology has to offer, whether thatis technology has to offer, whether that is data analytics, e—commerce or artificial intelligence. it seems like an obvious choice in today's climate. but not all companies get
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it right. we have analysed up to 2000 companies and what we found out is that 77% of these companies have not seen any positive growth or profitability impact through digitalisation. the main reasons are, they have started with the wrong initiatives. those which focus on cost—cutting route takes a long time to see the impact. and the second stake is how they do it. many companies are dedicated to digital teams. and these teams work very often in parallel to the functional teams. they don't work together that they were isolated or separately.
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what do you say to convince them to speak the same language?m what do you say to convince them to speak the same language? it is top management's responsibility to bring these two teams together. much more than delegating it to a digital team. he consults many companies. can you give some other examples? we we re can you give some other examples? we were looking for a restaurant chain, thousands of restaurants, and what they have done so far, they applied one single promotion for all their a few thousand restaurants and the experience was, the impact was, to some, great. for others, it was not some, great. for others, it was not so great. with digitalisation, we came up with ten different promotions for the ten different from targets. in one case, it was the chief cheeseburger and in others, more the family meal because the type of customer groups were different then there was much more
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traffic, much more revenue uptake and these were concrete example is that companies should focus on rather than not seeing any impact shortly. let's have a quick look at the markets. asia is being affected by falling us share prices. thank you so much for investing your time with us. all the world cup action coming up next. the top stories this hour. the trump administration has defended its policy of separating children from their parents when they cross illegally from mexico despite fierce criticism. mr trump again blamed his democratic party rivals for the problem. theresa may has confirmed that taxes will have to be increased to pay for the extra £20 billion funding for the nhs in england by the year 2023.
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she said taxpayers would contribute ‘a bit more'. extra money would also be made available to scotland, wales and northern ireland. a review of what the authorities knew about the man who placed a bomb at parsons green tube station in london has revealed a series of errors in how he was handled. experts considered removing ahmed hassan from a list of extremists days before he planted his device. 51 people were injured in the attack last september as our correspondent dominic casciani reports. that's the carty he sent me for my birthday. penny and ronjones, foster carers were a0 years, looking back at cards from the last teenager, ahmed hassan. like 268 young people before him, they dedicated time and energy to give him a fresh start in life. but they weren't told that the iraqi
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18—year—old had been trained to kill by the islamic state terror group. the bomb he built in the home partially detonated on the london underground. he is serving a life sentence which would they have given him a chance had they known how dangerous he was? no, he wouldn't have come here, no way. i can't put my family at risk. i was told he had been captured at the age of 11 by isis and he witnessed people being killed and then he got away and that he was frightened of them. ahmed hassan buying parts to his bomb. today the government revealed surrey cou nty today the government revealed surrey county council and police delayed acting after hassan told immigration officials about his links to the terror group. the council took six months to put hassan in the national deradicalisation scheme. but despite that referral, he wasn't seen by
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deradicalisation experts. this turbulence mental health wasn't fully examined and police and the council didn't review his progress. back to the main road! ten days before hassan's attack, the council's expert panel considered closing his case. today, thejoneses say they are no —— say they are told they are no longer fit to foster but surrey is still talking to them. they are no longer fit to foster but surrey is still talking to themlj feel betrayed by surrey county council, totally betrayed. we are now ina council, totally betrayed. we are now in a situation that we are getting ourselves into debt because we can't pay our bills. surrey cou nty we can't pay our bills. surrey county council says it is sorry for its mistakes. thejoneses say they have no regrets about their years of providing a loving home for children. dominic casciani, bbc news. hello, i'm holly hamilton and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: harry saves the day for england.
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captain kane scores an injury—time winner against tunisia. belgium are top of group g at the moment, after beating panama. but they took their time to get going. top seed marin cilic gets off to a winning start at queen's club, with victory over fernando verdasco. hello and welcome to the programme where, nearly one week in the 2018 world cup, the drama is still coming. leading off day five, sweden managed to edge south korea, with a little help from var. belgium overcame a stubborn panama side. but it was england's victory over tunisia that kept us on the edge of our seats. with all the latest, our man in moscow — here is 0lly foster.
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