with me is james hughes, chief market analyst at gkfx, a brokerage firm. good morning.the bbc in the spotlight. yes, later they will publish the annual report.

with me is james hughes, chief market analyst at gkfx, a brokerage firm. good morning.s get the pain out of the way first, the bbc in the spotlight. yes, later they will publish the annual report. what is interesting is it is only this year where the list of 96 employees paid over £150,000 a year will be released. it won't be released every year. this year it will be. the focus is on the gender pay gap. it is notjust in broadcasting, it is right across the world, really. 0ne of the issues is one third of the 96 people paid over £150,000 a year are women. the bbc within the article have said this isn't good enough and things need to be done and things will change along those lines. for years and years so many different organisations have said that we must change the way the gender pay gap is growing. and for years and years maybe that isn't moving in the right direction as quickly as we need it to be. it seems to be moving in the right direction. not as quickly as necessary. i wonder what you think as the top line of the story. most people just want to see what these peo

hugh hewitt. my only guest this morning, admiral james stavridis, head of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university and author of "sea power: the history of geopolitics of the world's oceans." my sincere desire is all the senators considering the nda, spend time unwinding from the obamacare debacle by taking up "sea power." it will be a much better and enlightening debate next week on defense than we saw on obamacare last week if they read "sea power." admiral, let's focus on russia. on page 157, russia will never give up crimea. you go on to write about the black sea. in light of that, russian sanctions bill is going to the president's desk. you say he's going to sign it. how do we deal with russia going long-term when you admit in "sea power" they're never going to give us crimea back. >> i think crimea is gone. we don't need to accept that overtly, but in our strategic thinking, we should simply recognize it. that means we continue to put pressure on russia, around the periphery of russia. we use our nato allies. we don't have to do this all ourselves in terms of russia. we k

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hugh jackman. >> seth: yeah. well, there's the wonderful james mcavoy who plays young xavier. >> tch, yeah. [ laughter and applause you don't -- you don't seem to hold him in the same esteem that i do. >> i have enormous respect for james mcavoy. he's a brilliant actor. >> seth: he played -- he was the young poop emoji in that clip as well, right? [ laughter ] >> yeah, that's right. yeah, yeah, yeah. only, in his case, that was perfect casting. [ laughter ] when he -- when it was announced that he was going to play the young charles xavier, he was on a red carpet somewhere and he said, "so tell me, how does -- how does it feel to be going into the shoes albeit the younger shoes of patrick stewart?" and james said, "i'll bury him." [ laughter ] good man, yes. i'd vote for that. he's outstanding. and they're already -- i was in shooting in montreal the last few -- five weeks and the next "x-men" movie is in the works. >> seth: yeah, it's very exciting. now i will say, one thing about "logan," not a film for children. it was a very violent. very -- it was "r" rated. you got to curse a bit, which must have been fun fo

world's largest publicly traded oil producer, baker hughes, the second largest oil fields services provider. goodyear and american airlines. joining us is james you for coming in. let's pick up thank you for coming in. let's pick up talking about us gdp. we had that 1. 496 up talking about us gdp. we had that 1. 4% figure for the first three months. president trump and his advisors hoping for 3% for the second three months of the year. we have had strong data, some strong corporate earnings out, do you think they might do it? absolutely not. it's great to hope but that is not a number that i can get to. i think if you stretch all the numbers and say let's be optimistic, you could say we get to 2. 9 but actually if you think about the lower case numbers we have also seen, could be as low as 2. we have also seen, could be as low as2.2 we have also seen, could be as low as 2. 2 buti we have also seen, could be as low as 2. 2 but i don't think we are going to see three. the run rate for the us economy is much lower and i think this is going to be a year that looks like 2014, 2015, 2016, no real change, bad luck, mrtrump. some analysts saying that

hugh pym, bbc news. in the last hour, james brokenshire has made a statement to the commons on restoring power—sharing athris?m has not been here at stormont, where the northern ireland parties are based. the tour continued over the weekend but no sign of a breakthrough deal that would restore the devolved government here in northern ireland, which collapsed almost six months ago. in the last half an hour or almost six months ago. in the last halfan hourorso, almost six months ago. in the last half an hour or so, james brokenshire has been speaking in the house of commons about where he sees things going. he is encouraging the parties to talk some more and says he is prepared to put in place new legislation, the legal deadline for an agreement having passed on thursday. if the parties reach a deal this week, he says he can do it that quickly. he acknowledges that there are pressures resulting from there are pressures resulting from the fact that there is no power—sharing executive in place, treasures in particular on health and education, the two areas he spoke about the most, and he said there was no re

hughes, abc 7 news, washington. >>> happening today, a special white house ceremony will get under way in an hour to honor han army medic who risked his life to save his vietnam war comrades. james mcclellan will be first person to receive a medal of honor from president trump. the 71-year-old from michigan will be given the nation's highest military honor at a noon ceremony. he repeatedly braved enemy gunfire to rescue ten soldiers during a 1969 battle. normally the medal of honor is awarded within five years of the recipient's heroic actions, but congress waived the time limiting mcclellan's case. >>> a tropical storm bears down on the gulf coast. a look at the wild weather forcing a state of emergency in florida, and then a manhunt under way after an american tour sift shot in turks and caicos. the warning now for anyone with plans to travel there. >>> and relief for residents living along san francisco international's flight path. the ideas bei >>> you're in thedriver's seat. >> this is simply a scouting run. >> dang. >> next right this minute. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be har

hugh dalzell of the royal irish fusiliers. identified by a photograph he was carrying of his mother. missing in action on the 16th of august 1917, aged 20. private albert jamesout or on the firestep, my thoughts went out to you, the only one i ever loved, the one that made a man of me." killed in action on the 26th of october 1917. private ernest gays, x corps cyclist battalion, army cyclist corps. killed in action aged 19. dear friend, i am addressing you as friend as any friend of my boys is my friend. i thank you for sending us word of how our dear ernest died. it is dreadful, though, to lose our dear boy in this way. we would not believe it till we had the letter from someone who saw him. did you see my boy after he died, could you tell us how he was? i should like to know what time of the day or night it happened or thereabouts. i am sure we are all the while thinking of you dear lads, hoping and praying for you to be kept safe, and then when these awful tidings are sent us, it shakes our faith. but then again when we get calm we know that god is still in his heaven and he orders all things for the best. i sent ernie a parcel off on 21st august. if you