tv The Briefing BBC News December 18, 2018 5:45am-6:00am GMT
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fiffflgfliféifi ffiflflltr” ftuf l%ncw the difficulties facing britain's accountancy industry. the uk's competition watchdog is unveiling reforms following public concern following the collapse of dash of companies and questions of how these companies and questions of how these companies were audited. look at the business paper. it is called city am and leads on the troubles facing the on line retailer asos. pre—christmas p°p5 “ on line retailer asos. pre—christmas pops —— profit warning with a knock—on effect. there are fears the retail sector is facing a gloomy festive season and it's notjust on the high street. finally, the new post, you can see a picture of david berryjunior. he post, you can see a picture of david berry junior. he is post, you can see a picture of david berryjunior. he is a convicted poacher from the us state of missouri. he's been sentenced to a year behind bars for killing under the deer that is part of his punishment to watch the movie bambi once a month. the disney film which made me cry when i was very little. jonathan giles is with us, managing
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director of communications at the bank for reconstruction and development in europe. theresa may intensifies warnings over risks of no deal says the guardian. on every front page of the story about brexit, surprise surprise, after her appearance in the house of commons yesterday. they are running through this position that she is trying to push, there are limits saying that injanuary, push, there are limits saying that in january, she will push, there are limits saying that injanuary, she will bring back her deal, her withdrawal deal. it's injanuary, she will bring back her deal, herwithdrawal deal. it's her way or hide brexit. it is never that simple. a lot of the papers are exploring white is not that simple. a lot of people are saying the only way out is the pupils referendum, putting it back a vote and are not sure that is true. what was interesting was what theresa may didn't say. she was asked by one mp, the mp said can you imagine circumstances in which would extend the article 50 negotiating process? she didn't answer that question. she
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studiously said, while its legislated, we will leave the eu on march 29. i think one possible way forward would be further to either extend this negotiation period beyond march 29 which she would need permission for to unilaterally say, we are withdrawing, and we are going to have a national commission, a national discussion involving all political parties and stakeholders to try and work out what is britain's real position on this and will come back and restart article 50. what is your money on? with all the scenarios and i was looking at it this morning and whatjeremy corbyn has been saying and our political editor, tried to explain all of this, and i think that those not in westminster, it is so complicated. it may be interesting to some but its glare upon layer of
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confusion at the those in this country who are thinking, what is happening in 2019? my money would be on this sequence of events, that we have the vote, she doesn't get her withdrawal of read by parliament in january. we then proceed to the idea which is starting to emerge and we here in cabinet. some indicative vote on the options. a lot of options were put before them. the smart money we are hearing. so we will not live on march 29, or indeed suspend article 50. the european court ofjustice suspend article 50. the european court of justice and suspend article 50. the european court ofjustice and elsewhere, yes, yes, we can do this. have you
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negotiate with someone who doesn't know they want. the united kingdom hasn't been able to negotiate amongst itself. at the moment, she is adamant. but it would be very difficult further to away from that. i city the element, it would be dangerous to go back to a second vote. dangerous because people would think they are being asked to correct their mistakes. dangerous because it would force to 15% of the population towards the right wing. having said that, we are in anything can happen world. withdrawal pours
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the article 50. the new york times. this is incredible, really. african—americans this is incredible, really. african—america ns targeted this is incredible, really. african—americans targeted on social media by russians. there are lots of facets to the story. i found this really fascinating. this is a report commissioned by the senate intelligence committee in the united states. it's been done by a cyber security company. it's the drilling down into the detail that makes all this so interesting. it's very clear, as you say. the russians through this operation targeted african—americans and through this operation targeted african—america ns and sellable source of websites, disguised as african—american in origin. the
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largest share on russian material on youtube cover the black lives matter movement. this was misinformation which caused them to vote him. and african—americans were more disposed toa african—americans were more disposed to a fairly dash of the clinton and they wanted to disrupt that. very real relation tensions and feeling exists in america and have the decades. the russians weren't creating the feelings of racial alienation but they were using them. this is raises issues like facebook, twitter, but having donald trump in the white house as opposed to having hillary clinton there, giving russia, looking back now, think they benefited? probably not. but at the time, they thought that was a better bet than hillary clinton. russia's
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defence would be, we are in a state of conflict and this is a form of safe war. a radical shakeup for kpmg, the wire, deloitte and pwc, they dominate the audience it auditing industry. look at patisserie valerie and other companies. the suggest that if they haven't been taken up in their situation. they make a lot of money selling consultancy services to companies. this way they would have to split of the consultancy —— consultancy and it would force the biggest 350 companies in the uk to have to orders you to check on each other, one of them would be outside the big four. it would be quite a big shakeup. painful for them
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the big four. it would be quite a big shakeup. painfulfor them but what's happened at korean and other organisations is pretty painful, given the fact that the likes of kpmg and others have not been good. we are certainly in an economic slowdown and possibly worse in the uk. that means auditing becomes ever more important because as companies face trouble, they need to be properly audited so there is transparency. indeed, this is it. fashion talks —— fashion stocks take a tumble. asos, as seen on screen. the story of the years has been, on line is doing well, the high street isn't. drivers impacted now. what is this tell us? it's notjust the difference between bricks and clicks. this is about a general slowdown in the uk economy because ofa slowdown in the uk economy because of a whole load of reasons including the fact there is so much brexit uncertainties so, as a result, we are seeing a contagion into the retail sector. i'm bombarded
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everyday with emails telling the sales here, sales there. high street retailers, on line retailers. they are having to slash their prices significantly. they really need to make money this time of years. more companies are going to go bust after the christmas season. secondly, on line retailing, sales are going to continue well into the new year. have you seen bambi? yes, many times. this misery poacher sentenced to watch bambi every month during his sentence because he killed many deer. that is cruel and unusual punishment. it will probably appeal. it isa punishment. it will probably appeal. it is a documentary on the making. does it work? how long have we known each other? that is the briefing, goodbye. we've got some wet and windy weather on the cards across the uk on tuesday.
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the heaviest rain, the strongest winds across the western side of the country at its down to this area of low pressure. it is not one of those fronts that will come along in a dead straight line, there are pulses of energy running along the front and one of these is working to the west of ireland at the moment and it introduces a bit of uncertainty in the exact timing of this weather front as it erratically pushes its way eastwards. nevertheless, if you're heading outside of the next few hours, in the west, the most part, what were the west, the most part, what were the pushing in and will be windy, relatively mild. cooler conditions across eastern scotland and eastern areas of england. some strong winds around on tuesday, particularly across the west of the uk. some tightly packed isoba rs across the west of the uk. some tightly packed isobars and the gusts could reach 65 miles an hour. a wet start to the day these areas with the risk of some localised flooding. the funds will radically push its way slowly eastwards is to go through tuesday. there is some
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uncertainty with the timings of the rank of cream or quit quickly. all other could be an odd shout the south—east england and east anglia, much of the day will be dry and reasonably bright as well. were the wilder southerly winds, it will be a mild day. perhaps feeling a little bit cooler than those numbers suggest, given the strength of the winds. but tuesday evening, we will finally get that radiant. it could be quite slow to clear away but it will do overnight. showers follow in the west on wednesday. wednesday promises to be another fairly blustery day across western areas. showers merging to give some lengthy spells of rain across western and southern areas spells of rain across western and southern areas as spells of rain across western and southern areas as well. the best of any sunshine will be across the north and east of scotland, eastern areas of england, the midlands not too badly. the call of and northern ireland. the win is beginning to go more and to a north—westerly direction. what thursday, the area of low pressure, not quite as windy. we still have those north—westerly
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winds dragging in showers. with the winds dragging in showers. with the wind is coming in through more north—westerly direction, it's here where we will see some of the highest temperatures, storm of cyber around ten or 11 degrees. the bridges near normal across the north. that is your latest weather. goodbye for now. good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: a move to end a "throwaway society". plans to overhaul england's waste systems to make it easier to know what and when to recycle. jeremy corbyn‘s push for a vote of no—confidence in theresa may over brexit is re—buffed, as the government calls it a stunt. christmas deliveries are under scrutiny, as new research suggests more than half of us aren't happy about the way our parcels are handled. one of the worst build—ups to christmas in years for retailers, and they‘ re blaming consumer confience. i'll be looking at why we're spending less. in sport, it's 4 years to the day to the fifa
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