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down really i'm samantha simmonds with bbc news. our top story: president trump signs an executive order declaring a national emergency. it addresses what his administration says are threats to communication networks from some foreign companies. the us commerce department said it's adding huawei technologies to its so—called entity list, which will make it much more difficult for the telecom giant to buy parts and components from us companies. the leaders of france and new zealand have launched an initiative to curb extremism and violence online following the christchurch killings. five of the world's biggest tech companies have already agreed to implement new measures. and this story is getting a lot of attention on bbc.com. two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50—storey building in oklahoma. reports said the crane at the devon tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds. that's all. stay with bbc news.
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and the top story in the uk: pa rents parents relax the welfare of guests on reality tv programmes is to be scrutinised — ollowing the death of a man who appeared on thejeremy kyle show. now on bbc news live to singapore for asia business report. the us declares a national emergency over telecommunications equipment. the move paves the way to china's huawei being banned from the world's biggest economy. pushing up the price of pork, finding out how china is trying to stop a deadly disease threatening one of its most important sources of food. it's thursday, everyone. good morning, asia. hello, world. glad you could join us for asia business report. we start off with the us and president
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trump has taken the widely anticipated move of banning telecoms equipped mint that it deems a national security threat, in particular china's huawei being singled out for restrictions. the us has said huawei in particular is helping beijing to spy on washington and its allies but that is something huawei has denied. and north america technology reporter is in san francisco and has been giving us more details. this is an executive order called securing the information and technology supply chain and that means the us says it is now banning the import of gears and services the white house is saying that it's a country agnostic order, not about any particular place but of course giving the backdrop with the disagreements with china, this is being seen as
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targeted with huawei and to lesser extent, the technology giant zte which means countries won't be able to bring those products into the country, which will have an impact on various networking capabilities in the us and conversely, the commerce department has said american companies can't sell their goods without prior authorisation. they can make things difficult for while away because they do rely on several pieces of american—made technology so an escalation here in the us, attempts to compact —— attem pts the us, attempts to compact —— atte m pts to the us, attempts to compact —— attempts to combat huawei, accompanied says can't be trusted. how will this affect american allies? will it put further pressure on them? it certainly could. the us has been putting pressure on its allies, saying if you use their networking equipment, not going to trust your communications
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infrastructure. it won't be as freely community —— communicative. some countries have taken that others have not been doing that, particularly the uk. what happens now to the 5g rollout in the us and around the world. it will certainly slow down the 5g rollout. huawei is the leader in rolling out the technology needed to set up 5g, particularly in rural areas. as a knock—on effect, that could slow down the rollout of 5g in certain parts of the world so there will be indications to the president's executive order today. we have making news from huawei because over the last few minutes, we had the respond —— response from china's telecommunications ——
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telecommunications —— telecommunications equipment and the factory. in a statement, they said they will engage with the us government and come up with effective measures to ensure product security. restricting huawei i'm doing business in the united states will not make the united states more secure or stronger. that is the latest statement. in a highly unusual move, the head of the us aviation regulator has criticised boeing. speaking to members of congress, they say the company should have told pilots more about anti— stall system on its 737 max eightjudge. it is expected to give an update to the soft where regulator in coming weeks. president
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trump is delaying a decision on whether or not to impose tariffs on ca i’s whether or not to impose tariffs on cars and auto parts. a commerce department review had been looking at whether any national security reasons for such tariffs existed. an initial 90— day window lapses soon but us law allows that to be extended negotiations with trading partners continue. let's have a quick look at the stock price of alibaba, it quick look at the stock price of aliba ba, it has quick look at the stock price of alibaba, it has risen in new york trading and that's after alibaba defied the slowdown in the world's second economy. growth in its core business and diversification into cloud computing and other services helped the firm beat expectations. revenues jumped more than 50% to 13.6 billion us dollars. now to china which is battling to contain a deadly disease affecting one of its most popular foods. african swine
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fever has led to more than 1 million pigs being culled, and prices of pork rising by around 35% since the ra ke pork rising by around 35% since the rake last year. protecting pigs is a very serious business here. this cou nty very serious business here. this county has had one official out break of african swine fever. 100 pigs died. officials won't say how many more nearby were killed to stop the spread. this is the very nervous man who is in charge of this checkpoint. mr tsun did not want to show his face. pigs dying from a rampant, almost always fatal, incurable disease is a big issue here. translation: i have worked in the checkpoint vermont. myjob is to check the vehicles passing by and disinfect an register them.
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check the vehicles passing by and disinfect an register themlj check the vehicles passing by and disinfect an register them. i sat down with a senior local government official but he wouldn't talk on camera either. thank you, thank you. he did say he is very confident there won't be any more cases here. nationally, though, others think the scale of the disease is more serious. translation: the number of cases in existence maybe greater than the number reported by officials but cases that haven't yet been confirmed shouldn't be reported as fact. african swine fever is incurable. there is no vaccination. it can't hurt people but it kills almost every pig is in fact which is almost every pig is in fact which is a major problem in a country that relies on pork as its main meat to feed around 1.4 billion people. this is the kind of place where the impact of the crisis is going to be felt the hardest. people come here every day for the pork but the
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prices they are predicted to pay in the months ahead, it could almost double but this is also being felt way beyond china. china may now need to kill and destroy at least 20% of the pigs it planned to eat this year. that's 20% of around 700 million gone which is driving up the price of pork both here and abroad as china looks to fill the gap. getting farmers to talk to us was difficult. we were followed by a propaganda department officials all the time. this is their black suv. on one day, at least eight people in four cars were on one day, at least eight people in foui’ cars were on our on one day, at least eight people in four cars were on our backs. eventually, though, one woman agreed to talk. translation: i normally don't want to let anyone come into the pig farmers i'm afraid of them bringing in the disease stop even my pa rents, bringing in the disease stop even my parents, my children, they aren't allowed to go anywhere near the pigs. the farm is small, just a few dozen pigs, that she wouldn't let us go in to see them so she took these pictures herself. this government
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propaganda banner we came across calls for winning the war against swine fever. strict quarantine is about to be lifted here but china now has african swine fever in every robbins and the government's ministry of agriculture has admitted the pork market is a concern for everyone. robin brant, bbc news, in chongqing. also, a national initiative has been announced by the us to tackle on line security. the comments come as five of the world's biggest tech companies pledged to tackle extremist material. the christchurch call was launched in response to a deadly terror attack that was live streamed on facebook. the film studio once run by harvey weinstein says it plans to liquidate in bankruptcy as it tries to is resolved civil lawsuits arising from
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sexual misconduct claims against the former hollywood mogul. he fell from grace after more than 70 women accused him of sexual misconduct dating back decades. he's denied all these accusations and said any contact these accusations and said any co nta ct was these accusations and said any contact was consensual. us stocks indices gained overnight after news that president trump planned to delay tariffs and auto imports and parts by up to six months and this is helping of course carmakers in the us and in asia but the japanese index down by 128 points. thank you for investing your time with us. goodbye for now. president trump declares a national emergency to stop us companies using any telecoms equipment from foreign companies seen as a threat. a call to action from new zealand and france to stamp out violence and extremism online — following the christchurch shootings.
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this is bbc news — the top stories this hour. the inquest into the london bridge terror attacks in 2017, has heard that the only british victim, was helping a woman who'd fallen in the panic, when they were both stabbed to death. james mcmullan's last heroic actions were captured on cctv. from the old bailey, here's our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. james mcmullan, the young entrepreneur who, extraordinarily, was the only british person killed in the attack on london bridge. he'd been in the barrowboy and banker pub with friends, watching the champions league final. after the match, he went out for a cigarette and the bouncers wouldn't let him back in, so he got out his mobile to arrange the next stage of the evening. the last cctv image ofjames mcmullan shows him standing here, apparently on the phone to his friends, just before the attack started. soon after the van crashed, a witness saw him helping a young
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woman who'd fallen over in the road in the panic, and then one of the attackers stabbing him as he did so. there's no footage of him after that, but he seems to have made his way down to the boro bistro. a witness saw him running along the wall at the back of the bar. andrius vorobjovas was drinking with friends in the bistro and saw one of the attackers methodically stabbing customers. "the man was moving with purpose and looked as though he wanted to hurt as many people as possible," he told the coroner. andrius said he ran for the corner of the courtyard where, "i nearly stepped on a person who was laying on his belly. i was very shocked and amazed to see someone there." it was james mcmullan, already unconscious and fading fast. his gallant action, helping the young woman who'd fallen, had led to his death at the age of 32. how long it took ambulance staff to get to some of the casualties round the boro bistro has become a key concern this week. police officer mia kerr was trying to keep sebastien belanger alive. her body—worn cameras recorded multiple radio transmissions by her and other officers asking
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for help, including: but senior ambulance staff less than 100 metres away were completely unaware of the boro bistro casualties. daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. now on bbc news, sport today. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: ajax wipe away their champions league disappointment, winning their 34th eredivisie title and first since 2014.
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tiger woods is ready to roar as the year's second major, the uspga championship, heads out in new york on thursday. and in terrible conditions pascal ackermann wins stage 5 of the giro d'italia — his second stage win of the year's first grand tour. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the footballing news that ajax have won the dutch eredivisie for the 34th time. confirmation came on the last day of the season and helps wipe away the disappointment of losing out in the champions league semi—final last week. colm harrison has more. ajax went into the final round knowing that only a freak set of results would deny them the title and while it took a while to get going, the outcome was never in doubt after lasse schone scored after 37 minutes. the first of three
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