it brings bt sport toa other‘s channels.iewers fast. thank you. much more on the bbc website and much more online so had their for more. thank you, theo leggett. you're watching business live. our top story — apple has reported record sales figures for the latest quarter. the company sold slightly fewer iphones compared to the same time last year, yet apple was still able to post a 12% increase in revenue. earlier we spoke about apple and amazon, but earlier in the week facebook also reported its latest set of financial results. and elsewhere in the world of tech, it's been an eventful week for cryptocurrency investors. 0ne one of which joins us one of whichjoins us in one of which joins us in the studio! here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. idid buy i did buy a tiny amount about 18 months ago when i did a story about bitcoin, forgot about it, then found out it was worth more than $1500, and sold a chunk of it, i have to say, and i have been watching it obviously very closely over recent weeks. the big sto

. —— bt sport. decemberjust it up astonishingly. —— bt sport.it up astonishingly. —— bt sport. decemberjust gone, sky and bt sport formed a truce and we are wondering what it would do to prices and it has had the reaction we thought it would which is that prices have come down for the first time. they are still i watering, the amounts the premier league clubs will get from selling their tv rights but it is the first time they have ever gone down. interestingly not all of the auctions have happened yet and sky can only bid on one more but it will be interesting to see what impact it might have on the future of the premier league. the other thing is, they are still amazing money and i think the rest of the british economy could learn lessons from how these clubs revive their own fortunes and actually create a lot of money within the economy and i think the wider lessons should be learned. anything to add? it's a sign of how competitive sport is, given there are other outlets that you can watch it online and media outlets like that so this is the s

sky and bt are the powerhouse is within us. and bt are the powerhouse is within us.lous sums of money to show this football. —— powerhouses. it is incredible amounts of money that we start seeing bandied around. this is television and sport, it is one thing that has always been a bit of an issue together and which one comes first. is it the actual sport thatis comes first. is it the actual sport that is the important thing or is making money out of it and showing it on the television the most important thing? it is massive, massive business. what knock—on effect will there be for those watching it on television and those buying football tickets and spending an enormous amount is in many cases? what football clubs want is that they want people to continue to go to the matches and create atmosphere. an issue this obviously causes, which is good forfans, and battle clubs, is it makes it more readily available on the television. these are paid for under subscription. sky and bt will make the general public pay to watch this. what we have not seen, and there was the talk

in all, the bt and sky have paid £4.5 billion over three years.erseas deals. fans, they will want that dialogue over fair ticket policies to continue. they will want to know what is happening with grass—roots money as well. the big money remains in english football, but the broadcasters appear, for now at least, to have reached a limit on what they are prepared to pay. richard thank the again for latest on that. richard conway there for us. in the champions league, tottenham hotspur made a remarkable comeback in italy againstjuventus after going two goals down. after harry kane scored, christian eriksen equalised from a free kick to give spurs two away goals to take back to wembley for the second leg. in the other tie, manchester city cruised to a 4—0 win in basel, all but securing them a place in the quarter—finals of the competition. hopes of a first medal for britain at the winter olympics, in south korea, were dashed today when the speed skater, elise christie, crashed on the last lap of the women‘s 500 metres final and finished last. 0ur corr

off the pitch, broadcasters sky and bt sport have agreed to pay almost £45 billion to televise premierven live packages have been awarded with bidding for the two remaining still ongoing. sports correspondent richard conway reports. the premier league are saying tonight that five of the seven packages available to broadcasters have been sold, one to bt sport which already shows premier league games, the other four to sky sports. the two existing broadcasters managing to secure five of the seven packages for a fee ofjust under £45 billion. another huge amount of money on those five packages. two packages remain and the premier league is a multiple bidders are involved in the auction for the remaining two packages of tv games. those packages are respectively 20 bank holiday and midweek games and thatis bank holiday and midweek games and that is what is under consideration now. multiple bidders and could they include the likes of amazon, netflix, facebook, apple, all of the tech giants that were rumoured to be interested in live rights to the premier league, are they now involved? no prem

been: bt and sky have awarded the premier league broadcasting rights.are joined by paul sweeney. so, this is a theme we have seen before, the rice are split you -- bt and sky in the the u.k.. walk us through. --l: it used to be all sky they had the soccer and football rights, and that drove subscriber growth. they changed it up. they wanted a second bidder. bt came in and created a second bidder. they are sharing their rights. now with new rights that will start next year, it will be sky and bt, but there are still two other packages that have not been allocated. the expectation is that we don't know who they are going to, but the expectation is it might be one or more of the digital players, whether it is amazon one of the other digital players that could present a new potential partner out there to disturb this program -- which is what a lot of the sports leagues around the world are moving toward. they want to put some of the products on digital services because that is where the audience is going. julia: the hopi here -- the hope here is it bids up

sky and bt have agreed to pay {11.5 billion to broadcast premier league games for three seasons fromould end up paying hundreds of millions of pounds less than in 2015, with lower prices per game. the winning bidder for two other packages of tv rights hasn't yet been announced, leading to speculation that the price is too high. japan's economy has seen its longest continuous expansion since the 1980s boom as growth in the fourth quarter of the year rose by 0.5%. the rise will be welcome news to prime minister shinzo abe, whose economic policies have been criticised in the past. armed police in south africa have f raided the home of a family business that has close ties to president jacob zuma. it comes as the nation awaits to see whether the president will step down as ordered by his party, the anc. chinese search engine baidu has seen a rapid turnaround in its fortunes, with revenues up 29% at the end of 2017. it's partly due to the success of its netflix—like video streaming service, which baidu is now planning to list in the us. monica miller is in singapore to tell us what's goin

at the great firewall of china continues to grow beijing begins its crackdown on bt and its state censorship or a clever way to nurture homegrown technology. and been fizzle and let's do business . dimas just had its most successful year ever the german comic is sold more cars than ever before and choked up its highest profit close to eleven billion euros the road ahead doesn't look as good stagnating profits with the financial burden of developing new technologies and it's got another scandal on its hands those tests on monkeys and humans. the boss of dai miller. had some reason to smile twenty seventeen was the best year in the company's history with sales of three point three million cars but this week's revelations of exhaust gas testing on humans and monkeys cast a shadow over the shining figures from the start of the press conference tried to clear the air so much for such testing goes against our values a time where we're going to find out exactly how this happened. based automaker together with other german car makers finance the now disbanded e.u. g.t. research institute. tried to m

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shares of bt down 2.8% today. in the wake ofrt liam fox uses the u.k.ust not enter into a new customs union with e.u. after it leaves the block, a new redline for theresa may's negotiations with russell and her own party on brexit. this shows what percent of total trait the u.k. does with the eu. u.s., 10.9%,eu and with china at 7.9%. close, for that gap to that is what liam fox and theresa may are hoping in their three-day trip comes to an end. 90 minutes into the u.s. session. >> it is looking ugly for the bulls, and ugly week for the bulls. first of all, the stronger than estimated jobs report. that is leading investors to the conjecture that perhaps we will see higher rates at the fed meeting next month. that is pushing rates higher and causing consternation in the market. some big earnings reports missing estimates. that leading to the downdraft in stocks today. and what has been a weak week for the stock market. s&p 500 over the past week is down more than 2.5%, on track for the worst week all the way back to february of 2016. about two years sinc

. >>> bt reported q3 profits close to to expectations. bt said it was confident about the year ahead and would maintain its outlook >>> switching tact, president trump has urged republicans to back his plan for immigration reform which includes increased funding on a border wall and a limit on family-based migration. it would also provide citizenship to the 1.8 million people brought to the united states as children the president also praised republicans 2017 performance suggesting the year was unprecedented in the party's history. >> the republican party certainly hasn't qui hasn't quit if we did, we wouldn't be sitting here, we would be sitting home saying this is one of the huffetoughest years. i don't think it's been done certainly not by much. we had a year that was almost, i would think, unlike any. >> nbc's blayne alexander has more on the story. >> reporter: in west virginia, president trump rallying republicans at their annual retreat. >> we have to get help from the other side, or we have to elect many more republicans. that's a

bt secured a smaller package analysts said sky received better value for money than bt for the deal providing a boost to sky's value as fox eyes buying out the part of the broadcaster it doesn't already own. >>> u.s. snow border shaun white made history in pyeongchang as he took the gold in the halfpipe finals it's his third ever olympic gold and the 100th gold the united states has won in winter olympic history. five w high winds have continued to cause havoc on the slopes. the latest event to fall victim is the woman's slalom event, which is being pushed until friday it's the third time in four days that an alpine event has been postponed. if we look at the medal table, that gold medal from shaun white has not moved the u.s. up too much germany has five golds norway, the netherlands and canada continue to make up the chasing pack i have to say as a dutchman, that makes me happy. >>> the winter olympics has seen a north korean visit, high winds and stunning routines but also the on-demand economy in full action with homes being rented out. head online to cnbc.com to look at details we're joi

and british telecom, on broadband, on content are fighting sky as well so interesting to look at bt,ompany with a whole host of issues as well, but they've been bidding up the rights, trying to fight the likes of sky as well while sky is an important asset, it has 23 million customers, its churn is higher than it wants to be churn is a key performance indicator. 11% of its customers leave every day. they want to get that churn down it's a little too high for the ceo of sky yes, sky is in a very interesting asset. the price has gone up today. look at other assets in the uk and how they're reacting the likes of bt and itv which was the subject to a lot of speculation about whether other big u.s. media players were interested in itv, another broadcaster here in the united kingdom. >> if this acquisition were to go through, it would lessen murdoch's influence in the uk. is that one reason to think regulators may be more receptive to this deal >> i don't see how the regulators -- it's a great question it's one of the key points that everyone will be poring over i don't see how the regulat

v 485.s g#bt this chart that we wanted to look at with wheat is a longer-term chart of wheat and it showswheat is breaking up and out of range, suggesting that we could see wheat climbed to above -- climb to above five dollars per bushel. wheat is climbing into a bull market of of its september low. how do you trade that bullis chart of wheat? here is the contract table of the wheat futures contract. there are a few interesting things to take a look at. we are going to see a few interesting factors. for we are taking a look at is the fact that the best volume is actually in the second month of wheat. typically, it is in the first month, the march month. the curve is rising. that does not necessarily mean that futures trader thing -- traders think the price is going to go higher. relative to some other trading factors, one contract is equal to 5000 bushels of wheat. alittle more than $24,000, value of a one point move is about $50. for a 25 point move, that equals $1250, so a pretty decent return. relative to the chart, wheat is going back above five dollars a bushel, even six dollars a bu

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more broadly with bt.tax reform has taken place in the us. with a more advantageous tax rate, investors like that. but amazon is ina investors like that. but amazon is in a heavy investment mode. they will continue investing. thank you. let's have a look at the markets. everything is down. we haven't got amazon which was up 6%. there is a slight fall in the price of oil. the pound against the euro is looking a bit weak. earlier we saw the pound bowing up bit weak. earlier we saw the pound popping up against the euro but it has sunk back down again. the ftse is down by half of 1%. the ftse has had a bad week. when we look back over the last few months, this is the worst week we have had for quite awhile. many thanks. let's bring you some breaking news coming in from washington. we were talking earlier at that the controversial republican memo on the fbi. president trump, we are hearing, this is according to various us media, has authorised the release, the declassification of the controversial republican me

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who are also transgendered and while there may be concerns from people of other countries where lg btto do in this culture is alleviate those concerns and i this culture is alleviate those concerns and i run a this culture is alleviate those concerns and i run a charity which supports lg bt young concerns and i run a charity which supports lgbt young people of faith. many young people are coming out earlier and earlier as transgendered to the point where they could have been out as a transgendered person from their early teens and spent their whole lives being nose as the gender that they are. in their 20s and 30s, they may wish to help others who have been victims of violence and oppression. it is a real step forward that women's aid wa nt to real step forward that women's aid want to help with this issue. i'm not a happy with the times. for now, sally, thank you. on sunday morning, there is always a smidgen. andrew marr is on bbc one. i have the home secretary amber rudd. discussing all those brexit stories. i've got the retiring president of sinn fein, gerry adams, looking back ove

one of them to bt sport which of course already shows premier league games.broadcasters managing to secure five river severn packages for a fee ofjust under £4.5 billion. another huge amount of money on those five packages. two packages remain and the premier league said that multiple bidders are involved in that auction for the remaining two packages of tv games. those games, those packages are respectively 20 bank holiday and midweek games and that is what is under consideration now. so the premier league will be hoping that they can beat the existing figure of £5.1 billion, that is the current deal. £4.5 billion for those five packages but multiple bidders and they could include the likes of amazon, netflix, facebook, orapple. all the big tech giants rumoured to be interested in live premier league rights. they could now be involved. no confirmation from the primary colour identities and we will have to see in the coming days and will win the battle for those last two packages. a dream scenario in many ways for the premier league, driving up ways for the p

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we hear a lot about the journey that athletes take to compete at the w olympics, bt about their parents? one was couple decided that instead of compete, they would travel almost all the distance by bicycle. the end of an olympic-sized journey. he and his wife arrived in the olympic village in pyeongchang. they are traveled 12,000 kilometers to be reunited with their son. >> he has always been a crazy one and has done lots of crazy things. i wasn't too rprised to learn about the trip. reporter: they started their bike tour in march of last year in switzerland. the journey took them through 20 countries, from the balkans to central asia. eir toughest challenge was awa hithat traverses mountains from afghanistan to kyrgyzstan. >> we were totally exhausted. after 2.5 kilometers on gravel road, 4.5 meters altitude it was very cold and we had very average, limited food. reporter: the pair planned to ke the entire journey bu because of these issues ended up -- vias issues ended up flying over china to korea's capital, seoul. from here they braved freezing temperatures on bike. >> the past two

. >>> happening today the future of row bts on the streets of mountain view. a nine-month pilot program to allow personal delivery bots on city streets and sidewalks. the latest city on the peninsula to test the technology. we caught up with this one in san carlos last year. redwood city tested the bots in 2016. the city council will take up the issue at 6:30. one of the goals is to see if the robots can ease traffic congestion and pollution. >>> it's 4:44. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. here is mike nicco. >>> let's talk about what's going on outside. we'll take a look at the richmond/san rafael bridge. there are some damp spots this morning. we'll have mostly sunny conditions, breezy and warmer. partly cloudy, warmer and dry tonight. here is a look, the counterclockwise spin. you can see the snow and rain all the way down to around san all the way down to around san diego. as far as us, we're going to be mostly sunny. we have a few clouds this morning. as we head into the afternoon the driest air we've had all seaso

sky and bt sport have agreed to pay almost £4.5 billion to broadcast premier league football games forhe premier league are saying tonight is that five of the seven packages that were available to broadcasters have been sold, one to bt sport which of course already shows premier league games. the other four to sky. they are securing four of those existing seven packages for a fee ofjust under £4.5 billion, saw another huge amount of money of those packages. two of the packages, therefore, remain, and the premier league is a multiple bidders are involved in that auction for the remaining two packages of tv games. those packages are respectively 20 anke holliday and midweek games, and that is what is under consideration now —— 20 bank holiday. multiple bidders. could they include the likes of amazon, netflix, facebook, apple? all those big tech giants rumoured to be interested in premier league live rights. no confirmation from the premier league on their identities, but we will have to see in the coming days who wins the battle for those two remaining companies. the premier league hopin

has vowed to continue fighting for the rights of the lgbt continue fighting for the rights of the lg bte —— malaysia's decision. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we meet the south korean rescue team battling one of the highest suicide rates in the world. also on the programme: is speed breeding the future? scientists try to bring nasa's efforts to grow crops in space back down to earth. nine years and 15,000 deaths after going in to afghanistan, the last soviet troops were finally coming home. the withdrawal completed in good order, but the army defeated in the task it had been sent to perform. malcolm was murdered. that has a terrible effect on the morale of the people. i'm terrified of the repercussions in the streets. one wonders who is next. as the airlift got underway, there was no let—up in the eruption itself. lava streams from a vent low in the crater flow down to the sea on the east of the island, away from the town for the time being, but it could start flowing again at any time. the russians heralded their new generation space station with a

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sky and bt have agreed to pay £a.5 billion to show premier league games from 2019 to 2020.. the south east is still driving the second—hand car market. just over 8 million use cars change hands last year, some 1.2 million of those transactions taking place in the south—east. the eu economy is on the rise. last year it grew by 2.5%. that's the fastest growth since 2007. the french and german economies have done especially well, but there was also rapid growth in eastern europe as well. joining us now is the economist vicky pryce. thank you forjoining us. what is driving this growth? to an extent it's the fact that world trade is increasing very substantially. what we are seeing right now is a synchronised expansion in growth. the developing world is rising fast. we have seen china doing better than anyone expected. asia are doing really well and europe has benefited hugely exporting to those countries. in addition we have had years of monetary easing in the eurozone with huge quantities of liquidity going into the market. that has helped businesses and consumers borrowing ch

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