our technology reporter dave lee has been following the story and brings us been following the story brings us this update. well, i think a lot of people were certainly worried about facebook coming in well below expectations yesterday that it might be something of a trend, the amazon, which is obviously huge technology company here, it obviously follow suit. that does not seem to have happened but overall, there is pretty healthy ownership,

dave lee has been to the driver school forflying cars.le. in business briefing, you can see the report, coming up injust a moment. he sat inside, this is it, in a simulated environment. is thisjust inside, this is it, in a simulated environment. is this just an accident waiting to happen or would you get one? and robinson says you might be able to learn the controls in an hour but, of course, you will need knowledge of conditions and turbulence. shirley says this is a ridiculous accident waiting to happen. keith says, i would get him one but not somebody with one hours training, perhaps after a year of flying a might consider it. another, my plan could not take off because of lack of airspace over europe, where will they all fit? enjoy the noise over your house and just one more, bill says something else for russia to hack! i will be back with the business briefing injust a moment. see you soon. hello there. well, surprise, surprise, there's going to be more hot sunshine over the next few days across the country but what many of you would

that was dave lee reporting.h britain's top golfers aiming to break the us's grip on the sport's majors — the last five have all been won by americans. after the recent heatwave, the competition has begun in conditions not usually expected on a scottish links course. katherine downes is at carnoustie. hi catherine. hi, yes, these are the gold fairways of khanty, hi, yes, these are the gold fairways of kha nty, baked hi, yes, these are the gold fairways of khanty, baked hard by the sun. play got under wayjust after 6.30 with barely a breath of wind in the airand under with barely a breath of wind in the air and under these conditions, it is precision rather than power that will which the claretjug. ice—cream, and suncream. it is t—shirt and shorts weather in scotland. the defending champion went with a body warmer, waiting perhaps for his game to heat up over the opening holes. by the second it was shirt sleeves for spieth. the course itself looks more like the serengetti than scotland. there are some benefits to

it's taking pre—orders for its model — and our north america techonology reporter dave lee has been tolas vegas. so here it is, the kitty hawk flyer. i'm sitting in it right now. it's very very simple in here, just two controls — one for altitude, one for the direction of where this thing can go. around me you'll see there are ten propellers, ten motors that keep this thing in the air. essentially, i guess you could say it's just basically a big drone that a human being can fit in. right now, they limit the speed, to around six miles an hour. the battery life will keep it going for around 20 minutes. all of that will improve in time, they certainly make it go faster right now, butjust to be cautious they are keeping it around six miles an hour. in terms of when you can get one of these, the company is taking preorders right now. they won't tell us exactly how much it's going to cost, but they say it's going to be comparable to a high end electric car, so the tens of thousands of dollars, i guess you could say. but what we're sitting in, many people think is a glimpse of the future. the

dave lee is our technology reporter who has been following the story.s isa has been following the story. this is a company that typically doesn't do bad. reports that this is a blip. it could be a downturn long—term for netflix. they have told investors to expect 6.2 million new subscribers to netflix worldwide and instead they only managed 5.2 million subscribers. one that flicks is on the one hand celebrating creative success “— the one hand celebrating creative success —— netflix. they had more than 100 any nominations last week —— emmy nominations. the only metric that investors ca re —— emmy nominations. the only metric that investors care about is growth. when it is not as good as netflix anticipates then this is why we have seen the reaction from the markets today. for investors, critical acclaim is worthless unless it translates into a booming business. have the numbers already peaked ? a booming business. have the numbers already peaked? analysts are saying, come down, be cautious. the analysts i spoke to say this is just a blip. there is still

as our north american tech correspondent dave lee reports.e when amazon was just an online store, but now it is more accurate to call it an empire. some estimates suggest half of all sales online in the us go via amazon. any physical world, they make $4.3 billion, thanks mostly to its ownership of whole foods. but if there is one thing is that —— if there is one thing is that —— if there is one thing that can stop it, it is washington. some have raised concerns about its thomas —— dominance and power. —— whole foods. donald trump has asked for enquiries. but some have suggested this could be because the beatles also owes the washington buys. —— steve bezos. hedley aylott is ceo of online retail consultants summit —— summit. they competing services seems to be where they do pretty well. yes, very clever. in 2006, they entered into the market before anyone thought of it. they now own 50% of that market. the important part is that it is highly profitable for them with massive margins. very sticky. at i.i would like to make is that many of their

our technology reporter dave lee has been following the story and brings us been following the story this update. well, i think a lot of people were certainly worried about facebook coming in well below expectations yesterday that it might be something of a trend, the amazon, which is obviously huge technology company here, it obviously follow suit. that does not seem to have happened but overall, there is pretty healthy ownership, particularly how high the revenues have gone up since this time last year and those profits, gosh, they we re year and those profits, gosh, they were well above what analysts had been predicting. so pretty good all round, i say, been predicting. so pretty good all round, isay, and i think been predicting. so pretty good all round, i say, and i think what we're looking at here, although we compare these companies as being technology companies, facebook and amazon are in very different businesses really. amazon sells things to people, physical objects, and eventually healthcare is what they are working on next. and facebook city days the economy, it people s

our technology reporter dave lee reports.pany that exceeds the expectations of its investors. indeed, before these earnings were announced, the stock price facebook was at all—time high. but then it became clear that for the first time since 2015, facebook was going to fall short on revenue growth and user growth compared to what a nalysts growth and user growth compared to what analysts had expected. 0n growth and user growth compared to what analysts had expected. on a conference call with investors, mark zuckerberg warned them to it raced themselves. this could be a partner could last until the end of year. mark zuckerberg planes data privacy concerns, complies with new homes in regulation, and movement from passive enjoyment of the platform to a more engaged nature of use, which could affect advertising. it seems that people are not leaving the services in droves as some have suggested. facebook could find it more difficult to make quite as much money from them as it has up until 110w. now let's brief you on some other bu

dave fleet reporting from san francisco. —— dave lee.ft behind early on rarely catch up as adults. he‘s called on parents to read and learn new words with their children. here‘s our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. it might be summer, but they‘re still coming to school. in one of london‘s poorest boroughs, a council—run scheme to help families keep learning, to give these children a love of words. some of my favourite words are "like" and "that" and "and". lovable, valuable, and empathy. when you read or write, you get good gcses and then you get a good job. the school already runs classes for parents. they told me more advice can only help. if children learn what language is, and the sort of foundation blocks of it before they go to school, it gives them a head start. it doesn't take that long to read, five or ten minutes, you know. even if it is a nursery rhyme. reading to your child is one of the most important things that you can do with them. some parents will really welcome extra tips and advice. language skills are a basic buil

that was dave lee reporting. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening.earlier. cloud amounts have slowly been increasing from the north—west and on the satellite picture, you can see this. an area of cloud, and atlantic weather system which will bring some outbreaks of rain. the rain starting to set in through the evening in scotla nd to set in through the evening in scotland and parts of northern ireland, the odd heavy burst, of it will be light and patchy as it sinks further south and east. for scotland into england and wales, it stays dry through the night and muddy in the south—east corner. tomorrow, much of england and wales seeing dry weather with spells of sunshine but the rain will live out of northern ireland and scotla nd live out of northern ireland and scotland eventually sinking into the north of england, parts of wales and the midlands, patchy rain into the south west. a few lady showers possible in the south—east corner but here in the sunshine, 27 degrees. 19 is the temperature you can expect. as we go through the late afternoon into the

jane: dave lee, thanks for joining us. the jury has been chosen in the trial of fmer trump campaign manager paul manafort it is the first by the legal team of special counsel robert mueller. manafortresult in mr. spending the rest of his life in prison. rajini vaidyanathan explains how we got here. rajini: paul manafort held a coveted place in donaldrump's inner circle as his campaign manager. r weeks after he was here e republican national convention in 2016, his political career began to unravel, forced to quit after questions were raised after his ties to foreign governments. today he is in jail, facing charges related to his work before the joint the trump campaign. arriving at court in virginia, manafort is accused of laundering millions of dollars in cash while he worked as a political consultant in ukraine. s clients included the country's former pro russian president. prosecutors say he fund the money through offshore accounts into exotic locations with lavish purchases, buying multimillion dollar properties in new

because this week, there was another big announcement from his fleet — this time in las vegas — and dave leeeing the kitty hawk flyer in all its glory. so many people think this thing is the first step in a dream that we as humans have had for a long time — the dream of flying around in a flying car. this test flight flown by brittney lasted about nine minutes. right now, battery capacity allows for around 20 minutes, but the speed is limited to six mph. not exactly fast travel, but you can cut them some slack — this is a flying car, after all. i really don't have to think about a lot, other than letting the aircraft do its thing, and then putting it where i want to go. it's, like, that simple. it's — that's the beauty of it, because you're out there, you're flying, beautiful scenery, and ijust tell it where i want to go and i don't have to overthink anything, overthink the controls, um, so it's like, all you've got to think about is how awesome it is to fly. kitty hawk has created this small hangout at the edge of a lake near las vegas. the location is important. it rarely rains, but it doe

let's speak to our north american rechnology reporte dave lee. he's in san francisco. facebook wants to have this scene is significant, that they are taking this seriously because there are big investments on handling this information. they were rampant in the past. in terms of this habit, they say that 32 pages and accounts they say that 32 pages and accounts they removed, were 10,000 posts they made. they brought 150 pieces of advertising which cost them around $10,000 and in terms of family people they reached, facebook said there were around 290,000 facebook users interacting somehow with these pages and accounts. the most dramatic interaction and event set to ta ke dramatic interaction and event set to take place next month on august ten whereby people on facebook were planning to demonstrate in washington and antifascist rally. that rally was being organised by one of these groups, facebook says. it just shows you one of these groups, facebook says. itjust shows you the impact that some of these groups potentially could have had. but they are not making an explic

dave lee reports from san francisco.ew to a journalist, a technology news website when he said this. i am jewish and there is a set of people who deny that the holocaust happened. i find that deeply offensive. but at the end of the day, i do not believe that our platform should take that down because i think that there are things that different people get wrong, either, i do not think that they are intentionally getting it wrong. he was talking about his website's policy of not deleting posts that contain the misinformation. but when the pod cast was published on wednesday, the condemnation of his comments was immediate. what is at stake here is that holocaust denial, at its core, whether it is on facebook or any social media platform, is one of the most pernicious and sinister forms of hate speech that exist today. faced with growing criticism, mr zuckerberg later followed up with an e—mail. he said he absolutely did not intend to defend the intent of people who denied the holocaust had occurred. this was meant to be an

of google, but not everyone s so excited about the two—wheeled boom. 0ur north america reporter, dave leeoter trend is going global, thanks to more than $1 billion of investment from companies like google and uber. while you'll find hundreds of these things in oakland, in the city over the bay, san francisco, you won't find any. that's because regulators have ordered them off the streets. the scooters have provoked intense anger here, even being used as part of a protest against the wider tech industry. some residents have felt the scooters were making the streets a mess. but they will be back soon. tom maguire's team will control how many scooters can be put out around san francisco. well, we have said we will permit up to 1250 for six months and, if the first six months go well, we will double it to 2500. like so many new tech fads, this is one idea that might ride out—of—town as quickly as it rode in. james is back to look through the papers. we're going to start with the ft. the main headliners about the us rejecting europe's sub relief on sanctions in iran. it is not too much about i

they invited our technology reporter dave lee to their test site outside las vegas. now. it's very, very simple in here — just two controls, one for altitude and one for the direction of where this thing can go. around me, you'll see there are ten propellers, ten motors that keep this thing in the air. essentially, i guess you could say it's just basically a big drone that a human being can fit in. right now, they limit the speed to around six miles an hour. the battery life will keep it going for around 20 minutes. all of that will improve in time. they certainly can go faster right now butjust to be cautious, they're keeping at around six miles an hour. in terms of when you can get one of these, the company is taking pre—orders right now. they won't tell us how much it's going to cost, but they say it is going to be comparable to a high—end electrical car, so the tens of thousands of dollars i guess you could say. but what we are sitting in, many people think is a glimpse of the future. they say their goal is to eliminate traffic, and that's a goal i think many of

almost 10,000 facebook posts and 150 pieces of advertising. 0ur north america technology reporter dave leeacebook released a bunch of information about this issue earlier. they say they removed 32 different pages and accounts which does not seem like much but between them these sites posted around 10,000 items and purchased 150 pieces of advertising and around $10,000. facebook say they were able to reach as many as a quarter of a million people who were following the activities of these ages and accounts. facebook is trying to show that it accounts. facebook is trying to show thatitis accounts. facebook is trying to show that it is investing in this area and that it is working. they used outside help to assess some of the patterns are used in order to track down this was happening. ahead of the mid—term elections in the us, facebook hopes that this shows they are taking action early to make sure they do not see a repeat of what happened in 2016 when russian influence was a huge problem on facebook and, perhaps, meddled in the election. that allegation is ongoing. what we do not know is wh

our technology reporter dave lee reports.ime high. but then it was announced that facebook would full short on revenue and user groups compared to what a nalysts and user groups compared to what a na lysts ha d and user groups compared to what analysts had expected. mark zuckerberg warned them to brace themselves. this could be a pattern that lasted until at least the end of the year. he blames data privacy concerns, compliance with new data regulations and positive engagement that may make it harder to sell advertising. he also made a figure for the first time of the total number of users across all products, 2.5 billion. so people are not leaving be services in droves as some had suggested. facebook may find it more difficult to make as much money from them as they have up until now, though. todayis today is called super thursday. there are talks about a takeover bid from corn past —— comcast and 21st century fox. royal dutch, shall issued a strong set of results but not as good as expected. back throughout the afternoon. l

dave lee, the bbc‘s north america technology reporter, says this issue is a signicant problem for markerview with a very well respected tech journalist here in silicon valley, a woman named kara swisher. and the intent of this interview was a chance for mark zuckerberg to go into the various messages and views he has on dealing with problems facing the site, which as we know, this year, have become a real issue for the network. instead, mark zuckerberg has managed to talk himself into another controversy. speaking about holocaust deniers on facebook, of which there are a significant amount. he said he found it deeply offensive, but crucially, he said i don't think they are intentionally getting it wrong. and those words, "intentionally," many have taken serious issue with, condemning that as a view and thinking holocaust deniers simply have no place on the network, and that they should be covered by facebook‘s hate speech policy, which isn't allowed on the network. and so while mark zuckerberg, himselfjewish, is saying that he finds the comments offensive, he doesn't think the policy s

let's go now to the bbc‘s north america tech reporter dave lee in san francisco.icularly painful for mark zuckerberg i have to say. this was an interview with a well respected tech journalist in silicon valley named cara swisher and it was so valley named cara swisher and it was so that he could go into the various m essa 9 es so that he could go into the various messages and views it has on dealing with problems facing the site which as we know this year have become a real issue for the network. instead mark zuckerberg has managed to talk himself into another controversy, speaking about holocaust deniers on facebook, of which there are a significant amount. he said he found it deeply offensive, but that he saidi it deeply offensive, but that he said i don't think they are intentionally getting it wrong and those words many have taken serious issue with, condemning that as of view and thinking holocaust deniers simply have no phase on the network and that they should be covered by facebook‘s hate speech policy which isn't allowed on the network. while mark zuckerb

that was dave lee reporting. raab, promises to increase the pace of negotiations with the eu. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. no world cup boost for retail sales as they dropped 0.5% injune compared to may. the markets reacted with the pound falling to its lowest level against the dollar since september. comcast pulls out of the bidding process for 21st century fox — leaving the door open for disney to seal the deal. however, the two giants are still both in the hunt for sky. royal mail‘s shareholders have rejected a rise in pay packages for the firm‘s executives. over 70% voted against the resolution at the company‘s agm, however the vote was non—binding. and burberry turns up the heat — the fashion label burned millions of pounds worth of products in the last financial year, to protect its brand. they destroyed unsold clothes, accessories and perfume worth £28.6m to prevent them being stolen or sold cheaply — that was 6% higher than the value of products the company disposed of in the previous

let's go live to dave lee in san francisco — what exactly have facebook been revealing?nk is significant for two reasons. you have facebook hoping it is taking this problem seriously and methods for detecting this type of behaviour on facebook have improved. it is also significant to say this problem is ongoing. it did not again and end with the 2016 presidential election campaign. it is now very much running into the midterm election. just to get a bit of context, the action that was taken, you mentioned 32 pages and accounts have been taken down but between that, they managed as many as 10,000 posts and placed 150 different pieces of advertising and that reached around a quarter of a million people, and it was only a few a ccou nts million people, and it was only a few accounts but the impact from what this group, which literally they say are the russians, facebook are hedging their bets on that one, saying they cannot be absolutely sure but from where ever it has come from, the impact has been pretty big, but facebook are pleased that they seem to have gotten on top o

let's speak to our north american technology reporter, dave lee. he's in san francisco.so can you tell us any more? facebook have put out a lot of information about what they call in authentic activity on their platform. as you mention, they have removed 32 pages and accounts from facebook and it may not seem like many but they did have over 1000 posts and 150 pieces of advertising and they did so using methods more sophisticated than what facebook have seen in the past. facebook said they have used a better system to hide their tracks and they bought advertising using third party so it looked like they were being bought from within the us or canada. 0ne looked like they were being bought from within the us or canada. one of the interesting things about what this group was trying to do is they arranged 30 events in the real world, most of which was taken place and one was to happen in august, but facebook says it has shut that down. there are some links to the kremlin. facebook said these new accounts they found were operating fairly closely with accounts they knew to be

this time in las vegas, and dave lee travelled there in a boring old normal plane to check out the kitty lasted around nine minutes. right now, battery capacity allows for around 20 minutes, but the speed is limited to six miles per hour. not exactly fast travel but you can cut them some slack. this is a flying car, after all. i really don‘t have to think about a lot other than letting the aircraft due its thing and i am putting it where i wanted to go. it‘s that simple. that is the beauty of it because you are out there, you‘re flying, beautiful scenery and i just tell it where i want to go. i don‘t have to overthink anything, overthink the controls, so it‘s like all you get to think about is how awesome it is to fly. kitty hawk has created this small hangar at the edge of a lake near las vegas. the location is important. it rarely rains. but it does get incredibly hot and sometimes too windy to fly. the vehicle itself weighs less than £25a, which is important, because it means the us aviation authority does not require a rider to have a pilot‘s licence. instead, kitty hawk puts them th

dave lee reports from san francisco.day, i don't believe that our platform should take that down because i think that there are things that different people get wrong, either — i don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong... he was talking about his site's policy of not deleting posts that contained misinformation. but when the podcast was published on wednesday, the condemnation of his comments was immediate. what's at stake here is that holocaust denial, at its core, whether it is on facebook or any social media platform, is one of the most pernicious and sinister forms of hate speech that exist today. faced with growing criticism, mr zuckerberg later followed up with an e—mail. he said he absolutely "didn't intend to defend the intent of people who denied the holocaust had occurred." this was meant to be an interview for facebook to explain some of the ways it's hoping to tackle its various problems. instead, it has becomejust another controversy. the question is being asked — can mark zuckerberg fix face

dave lee went to their test site outside las vegas (tx next) here it is, the kitty hawk flyer. hour. the battery life will keep it going for around 20 minutes. all of that will improve in time. they can make it go faster right now, butjust to be cautious, they are keeping it at six miles an hour. in terms of when you can get one of these, the company is taking pre—orders right now. they went tell us exactly how much it is going to cost, but they say it is going to be comparable to a high end electric car. so tens of thousands of dollars, i guess you could say. what we are sitting in, many people would think is a glimpse of the future. they say their goal is to eliminate traffic and that is a goal many of us can get behind, whether it will be in one of these, that remains to be seen, but it is certainly a very interesting, futuristic concept. in a moment it's time for the one o'clock news with jane hill but first it's time for a look at the weather at the weather with chris fawkes. the last two months have been incredibly dry weather wise, but we do have some welcome rain in the

because this week, there was another big announcement from his fleet — this time in las vegas — and dave leek this thing is the first step in a dream that we as humans have had for a long time — the dream of flying around in a flying car. this test flight flown by brittney lasted about nine minutes. right now, battery capacity allows for around 20 minutes, but the speed is limited to six mph. not exactly fast travel, but you can cut them some slack — this is a flying car, after all. i really don't have to think about a lot, other than letting the aircraft do its thing, and then putting it where i want to go. it's, like, that simple. it's — that's the beauty of it, because you're out there, you're flying, beautiful scenery, and ijust tell it where i want to go and i don't have to overthink anything, overthink the controls, um, so it's like, all you've got to think about is how awesome it is to fly. kitty hawk has created this small hangout at the edge of a lake near las vegas. the location is important. it rarely rains, but it does get incredibly hot, and sometimes too windy to fly. the vehic

a my thanks nda seyfried, daveed diggs wiz khalifa. [ cheers and applause swae lee and the roots rightrom 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers. tonight -- christine baranski star of "claws", actress niecy nash music from miranda lambert featuring the 8g band with emmanuelle caplette. ♪[ eers and applause ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. oo >> seth:evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause that is great to hear. in that nese, let's get to the during a cabinet meeting today, president trump repeated his n claim thpresident has ever been as tough on russia as he has. [ light laughter

lee cowell. >>> good morning, on this wednesday july 25th. i'm dave clark. steve knows how hot it will be later today. big difference, 60s to 100's. thick morning fog, 90s to near 100. this might be the one time this month believe it or not where we actually get 100-degree highs. warmest day would be concord and livermore. they have not had a 100-degree temperature officially. only gilroy has. it's close for others. napa at 92. livermore to 99 and san jose to 88 degrees. no problem clear lake and also ukiah. the heat advisory is out. water temperatures cooling a bit. that helps but strong high pressure putting a cap on things. 50s and 60s on your temperatures. to the south 59.

susan lee, ashley webster, dave dietz and christina park. to start with ge because david is with us, longtime supporter. that turn around's got a hong way to go. [laughter] >> i think it has, but we look at key divisions, aviation, health care, power continues to be the anchor, but i think flannery's got a plan. guess what, stuart? if given the $120 billion in sales which is more than microsofthad, they'd be up eightfold. stuart: are you sorry you recommended it? are you sorry you bought it? yes. [laughter] >> absolutely not. you've got to stay diversified. if everything's going up on the same day, there'll be a day when everything's going down. >> it's a fire sale. they have been trying to separate health care, sell ising off baker hughes, and they are going to curt their dividend -- cut their dividend once again. what's the point? >> they're keeping expectations low, but they reaffirmed their full year earnings estimates. stuart: all right, enough. >> i don't know if that's encouraging. stuart: turn around's got a long way to go. here's a

senators and palm and mike lee were the only two to vote against that motion. >> world news editor, davegood morning to you. thank you for joining us early. president trump, as you know at this point, starting out with the much anticipated nato summit on a contentious note going back and forth with the secretary general there, what kind of outcome from your perspective is the president hoping to gain from this? >> well, it's unclear about the particular comments about germany. it seems she flipping the script. everybody is saying he is too close to vladimir putin in russia. he is saying it is germany who is signing this big energy deal with russia. in terms of pressuring allie, he does want to see them increase their defense spending. the way he characterizies is no quite right. it is true a lot of members are not leaving their 2% of gdp commitment. >> let's talk more about german and the allies. we saw the back and forth between the president and the nato secretary general. what else do allies feel might happen? you heard from bob corker a moment ago, talking about his hope that we have