and poison apple for investors as the tech giant slashes forecasts, saying the slowdown in china is worsehan it thought. we will be live to the region as those companies that supply apple their shares are falling in asian trading time. good to have you with us. a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. also, we'd like to hear from you about the surprise announcement from apple. have you got tech fatigue? is the next smartphone just not exciting enough for you to part with the big bucks? tell us what you think — just use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. today marks a dramatic shift in washington dc, and yet more of the same. specifically, democrats will take over control of the house of representatives following their victories in last year's mid—term elections. and a partial government shutdown enters its 13th day with no end in sight. the bbc‘s laura trevelyan has been looking at where things stand with the government gridlock and the democratic leader in the centre of it all. nearly two weeks into the partial us government shut

poison apple for investors as the tech giant slashes forecasts, saying the slowdown in china is worse than it thought. plus, the us budget deadlock continues — is this the start of tough times for the president as the democrats take control of the house? and on the markets, that warning from apple coming too late to hit us shares, but in asia, the tech giants suppliers are all being sold off. we will see reaction on wall street today. the nick cave has actually closed again today for a public holiday, but elsewhere we are seeing stocks down —— nikkei. we'll be live to the region shortly. we start in california, where tech giant apple has rattled global investors with its first warning about its financial results in more than a decade. in a letter to shareholders, ceo tim cook said he expects revenues of $81; billion this quarter — as much as 10% lower than he was predicting earlier. apple has never had to downgrade forecasts like this since the iphone was launched back in 2007, and the news sent its shares plunging in after hours trade. the reasons? people aren't upgrading to newer ph

and poison apple for investors as the tech giant slashes forecasts, saying the slowdown in china is worseas those companies that supply apple

poison apple for investors, as the tech giant takes the rare step of slashing its forecasts. live from london, that's our top story on thursday 3rd january. at the core of apple's problems — slowing sales in china and fewer people updating their iphones. also in the programme: as democrats take control of the house of representatives, what will be the implications be for president trump's economic policies? the market are opening in europe and it is not looking particularly good. and — what covers you up, can give you control, but can sometimes ladder and roll? we are talking about tights. we have the boss of an underwear company, which has tapped into the multi—billion dollar hosiery market, with brand—new tech. they believe it will change how you dress. today, we want to know... as apple lowers its revenue outlook for the first time in two decades, we want to know, have you got tech fatigue? is the next smartphone just not exciting enough? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and a very warm welcome to business live. we start with a question. is the phenomena

poison apple for investors, as the tech giant takes the rare step of slashing its forecasts.

let's talk about this -- the new apple products that may detect some dangers including poisonous gas.patent that could detect poisonouses like monoxide, we could see appearing in smartphone devices by apple, we know carbon monoxide deadly, it can kill people, odorless and might help people to tell them if they are in any sort of danger with the poisonous gas around. heather: that's a good idea. i'm still on my fit bit. tracee: maybe one day. heather: thank you so much, tracee. have a good day. >> you too. heather: immigration taking center stager on capitol hill as the white house budgets to build the wall, the wall can get built without congress, tens of thousands of noncitizens may have voted over the last several years but how big of a problem could this big nationwide, constitutional lawyer here to weigh in up next. >> congratulations on winning the 2019 probowl, let me present you guys with the trophy here. heather: probowl moment turns into an oh-no, moment the mishap that's going viral this morning . 12 hours? 20 dogs? where's your belly rubs? after a day of chasing dogs you sh

somebody who likes a good prank and likes to do them, it's sad that a few bad apples had to ruin eating poisonousetergent packets for everyone. before you do something, how do you know what's dangerous and what's not? we've done some things that could go in a dangerous situation. soy we so i went over there and ransom ideas by their content executive. hi there, how are you? thanks for having me. >> of cose. >> jimmy: so i was reading about these new rules that you have with the youtube challenges, and i'm a little bit concerned about it because we do a lot of that kind of stuff on the show. >> well, i mine, we truean we t you do, that's a different situation. >> jimmy: so i can do anything? >> well, not anything. >> jimmy: let me run some things by you, there's things we're working on. >> sure. >> jimmy: the, i bet you can't eat all the knives challenge. >> well, no, i would say not that one. >> jimmy: that's a no? the setting my brother on fire challenge. >> that sounds dangerous, no. >> jimmy: dad, i boiled the toaster challenge while it's plugged in. the ghost pepper up the butt challenge? >>

poison today. weak economic data worries about trade and then of course apple >> and it's a con fluns of events what i worry most about is apple. this is a canary in a coal mine. we are likely to tell us they are impacting their businesses now, the u.s. is saying this is great. it is a sign that the u.s. is winning trade wars these are u.s. companies that are feeling this pain. >> yeah. it's a good point. i feel like you have two problems now you have the fed that the market seems to not trust and really the point, i think the administration may have miscalculated what this trade war would do to u.s. companies kevin was out saying it is not going to be just apple you'll hear from a whole host of companies and as larry always says, corporate profits, stocks are likely to go lower >> well, i don't know. a thousand dollars phone, china, the iphone is a fairly saturated market there's a lot of competitors i do think that the micro issues of apple figure in a majority of the occurrences that are going on it's impossible to handicap the politics and on the politics it's messy it certainly doesn't mean tha

poisonous nema toads. and that's not encouraging it makes us want to -- >> sell sell sell sell >> and that's exactly what we did. so let's start with apple and try, for a moment, to be dispassionate about it, okay apple expects to set all-time records in the united states, italy, germany, canada, spain, netherlands, korea who cares? i do, but not today. the blast zone heat was too great to process the good with the bad. the focus is on china. we saw opposing catches mps on went down here one camp said the issue was china itself, and we aren't sure why. could be anything from a weaker chinese economy to their government encouraging consumers to buy products made in china by chinese companies. it's the same way here people prefer to buy american it doesn't matter if apple is making iphones in china or not if you lived in the prc with the communist party watching everything you do, you would have to be crazy not to buy a domestic phone over a foreign apple phone, even if it is a piece of junk versus apple the narrative is that the long knives are out for apple because cheaper phones are in vogue. i think it's more complicated than that, or

poisoning hearts and souls with his rhetoric against immigrants. and what i just heard and what you just played right now, it doesn't make sense. he's talking about apples and oranges. yes, it's true that people risk their lives to come here, and we have to imagine, we have to be a little bit more compassionate and imagine how desperate a family must be and what danger they are in in their own country to take that very treacherous trip and risk their lives to come here and look for asylum. now, if anybody is breaking the law, it's the trump administration, because our law clearly says that we are obliged to listen to their case, listen to them, and if it's not true, if we do not believe them, if they're not credible, when they probably have to be sent back, but that's why the courts have stopped this. so, trump is basically breaking the law with some of his executive orders saying we will not listen, we will not listen to these asylum cases and we will not accept these people, when we are not obliged to accept them, but we are obliged to listen. >> to listen, yeah. let me ask you. the president brought up a number of incidents involving illegal immigran