i think that the referendum was, of course, an incredibly polarising time, as you say, samira.e, we've had complaints from both sides and what we try to do, and i think when you look back and you look at the coverage, what we actually did do, was set about trying to explain what the choice was, trying to report out what the choice was. if you look back over the last few years, there have been an extraordinary number of democratic moments, two referendums, two general elections, a host of others around the world. i think one of the real lessons of the last few years is you can't predict what's going to happen. you can't rely on either political predictions or polls, and that means for us we have to do what we're here for, we've got to make sure that people get a sense of what the choice is. you mention the need for the bbc to provide informed news about that issue, and there was a big accusation from many viewers that the bbc was in fact, during the referendum, too timid in calling out things, notably statistical claims

samira hussain there in new york.d markets. and currency is where we seem to be seeing a lot of the reaction to the politics going on in brussels and this breakthrough? absolutely. this week we have seen extreme levels of volatility, we‘ve seen the market react volatility, we‘ve seen the market rea ct tea m volatility, we‘ve seen the market react team to twitter rumours all week as we‘ve seen this debate about whether there was going to be an agreement or not. now that we‘ve seen this move towards the next phase, we have seen sterling benefiting, which has taken us back to the kind of levels we were trading at at the beginning of the week, when we thought there would be an agreement. and notably, as the parity rallies, that‘s why the ftse-100 is parity rallies, that‘s why the ftse—100 is less robust than its cou nterpa rts ftse—100 is less robust than its counterparts in europe, because as sterling goes up, that impacts the foreign earnings. what about the us, what should we be looking for in the jobs report which sam

hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up... the news at ten can't tell the difference between three bollywood actors in reporting the death of film star usher kapoor. and how the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fake news. first, how the death of the renowned indian actor shashi kapoor was covered on the news at ten this week. the bbc chose to play on the very brief footage as huw edwards announced the star had died aged 79. but neither of the actors show work shashi kapoor. the veteran indian actor shashi kapoor has died in hospital in mumbai at the age of 79. one of india's greatest acting families, he appeared in more than 150 films, including a dozen in english. he starred in some of the biggest hollywood blockbusters of the 1970s and 80s. biggest hollywood blockbusters of the 19705 and 805. many viewers noticed and complained on social media, and the programme's editor paul royal college on twitter shortly after. —— apologised on twitter. and on the following night, on the news at ten, the word is apologis

that was samira, of course.om stevenson, investment director at fidelity international. we have talked about markets and what's going on. from your point of view, is it one game in town and that's the fed? it is one game in town and that's central banks. lots of central banks getting their final meetings of the year out of the way before the holidays start. i mean, here in the uk, we've got an interesting meeting tomorrow, you mentioned it, ben, we've had inflation figures which were pretty high. today we're going to get unemployment data which will show a 40 unemployment data which will show a a0 year low for unemployment, but the important thing is that wage growth is not there. so i think that's what the bank will be looking at. it will say, well, inflation is high, wage growth is low. it will stifle the economy. there is no incentive for us to raise interest rates in the uk unlike will the us. i think that gap is going to widen between the us and the uk. how concerned are you as far as the uk economy is conc

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some send samira direct messages no one else can see — clearly trying to groom her.round the world. most are men, some expose themselves. ijust said, "hi." he said, "may i show it?" i said, "what?" he has got it out. pretty much as soon as i started, all i'd said was — hi, i think, i'm 1a and a girl, and then i was just inundated. here's a guy going on cam. what's he doing? he was naked. oh, he was naked? and you told him you were 14? can you imagine if you had been a 14—year—old girl? my first reaction would be to be confused. for a second, it's nice having the attention of the hearts, and then it gets quite dark, quite quickly. and it's happening to real children right now. look at this broadcast on periscope. two girls we can't identify, around 11 years old. 2,000 people are watching, some dare them to lift their shirts. read the comments, as men ask them to go further. for those girls, it may have seemed like fun, but it can be devastating. i found her inconsolable. this is an actress, but the words are true. those of a mother whose 10—year—old daughter tried out

turns out there's a difference of opinion — as samira hussain reports now from new york.her campaign style event, us president donald trump took to the stage to talk about his accomplishments. among them, us markets. the stock market is hitting an all—time high record for another, and think of this, 86 times since election day. 86 times. it hit a record. 86 times. cheering and applsause. and we will keep it going. in a tweet after tweet after tweet, he has been pressing the high market and taking credit. but how much can this be executed to the president? 0ne economist said it has more to do with the federal reserve and its programme of quantitative easing when the us central bank was buying up bonds to support the us economy after the financial crisis. there is a massive amount of cash floating around the world. that is what is driving this up. 0riginally, it was 0 d and then there was the rest of the world funds coming into the us. some of the credit needs to go to the woman who has been guiding the ship. current chair of the us federal reserve, janet yellin. donald tru

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.es a wedding but did bbc news go into overdrive with harry and meghan? and... my congratulations to harry and meghan. i wish them well. jeremy corbyn congratulates the happy couple. what could possibly go wrong with bbc subtitling 7 first, a row involving donald trump's twitter account is not a new thing. but this week was the first time that theresa may got involved so directly. the us president had retweeted three videos from the far right group, britain first, alleging to show violent acts by muslims. roger watts felt the wide coverage given to the story was unhelpful, e—mailing: at the start of the week, the government handed over an 850—page document, detailing how it thought the uk's departure from the european union would affect 58 sectors of the economy. but, some sections of the so—called brexit impact studies were blacked out to the fury of opposition parties. there was little about this on bbc news on monday or tuesday, which prompted chris hill to write... well, one reason

now it's time for newswatch, with samira ahmed.w the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fake news. first, how the death of the renowned indian actor shashi kapoor was covered on the news at ten this week. the bbc chose to play only very brief footage as huw edwards announced the star had died aged 79. but neither of the actors shown work shashi kapoor. the veteran indian actor shashi kapoor has died in hospital in mumbai at the age of 79. from one of india's greatest acting families, he appeared in more than 150 films, including a dozen in english. he starred in some of the biggest hollywood blockbusters of the 19705 and 1980s. many viewers noticed and complained on social media and the programme's editor paul royal apologised on twitter shortly after. and on the following night's news at ten, huw edwards apologised over photographs of shashi kapoor. they confirmed that mistakes were due to human error. last night we showed the wrong images, which we apologised for. the actor appeared in more than 150 films, includin

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hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. difference between three bollywood actors in reporting the death of film star usher kapoor. and how the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fake news. first, how the death of the renowned indian actor shashi kapoor was covered on the news at ten this week. the bbc chose to play only very brief footage as huw edwards announced the star had died aged 79. but neither of the actors shown work shashi kapoor. the veteran indian actor shashi kapoor has died in hospital in mumbai at the age of 79. from one of india's greatest acting families, he appeared in more than 150 films, including a dozen in english. he starred in some of the biggest hollywood blockbusters of the 1970s and 1980s. many viewers noticed and complained on social media and the programme's editor paul royal apologised on twitter shortly after. and on the following night's news at ten, huw edwards apologised over photographs of shashi kapoor. they confirmed that mistakes were due to human error. last night we sh

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i think that the referendum was, of course, an incredibly polarising time, as you say, samira. but actually what's interesting is, of course, we've had complaints from both sides and what we try to do, and i think when you look back and you look at the coverage, what we actually did do, was set about trying to explain what the choice was, trying to report out what the choice was. if you look back over the last few years, there have been an extraordinary number of democratic moments, two referendums, two general elections, a host of others around the world. i think one of the real lessons of the last few years is you can't predict what's going to happen. you can't rely on either political predictions or polls, and that means for us we have to do what we're here for, we've got to make sure that people get a sense of what the choice is. you mention the need for the bbc to provide informed news about that issue, and there was a big accusation from many viewers that the bbc was in fact, during the referendum, too timid in calling out things, notably statistical claims being made by

i think that the referendum was, of course, an incredibly polarising time, as you say, samira. the coverage, what we actually did do, was set about trying to explain what the choice was, trying to report out what the choice was. if you look back over the last few years, there have been an extraordinary number of democratic moments, two referendums, two general elections, a host of others around the world. i think one of the real lessons of the last few years is you can't predict what's going to happen. you can't rely on either political predictions or polls, and that means for us we have to do what we're here for, we've got to make sure that people get a sense of what the choice is. you mention the need for the bbc to provide informed news about that issue, and there was a big accusation from many viewers that the bbc was in fact, during the referendum, too timid in calling out things, notably statistical claims being made by one side or another that just weren't true. there's no question at all, the bbc and, as a news organisation, a group of journalists, what we set out to do

i think that the referendum was, of course, an incredibly polarising time, as you say, samira.e coverage, what we actually did do, was set about trying to explain what the choice was, trying to report out what the choice was. if you look back over the last few years, there have been an extraordinary number of democratic moments, two referendums, two general elections, a host of others around the world. i think one of the real lessons of the last few years is you can't predict what's going to happen. you can't rely on either political predictions or polls, and that means for us we have to do what we're here for, we've got to make sure that people get a sense of what the choice is. you mention the need for the bbc to provide informed news about that issue, and there was a big accusation from many viewers that the bbc was in fact, during the referendum, too timid in calling out things, notably statistical claims being made by one side or another that just weren't true. there's no question at all, the bbc and, as a news organisation, a group of journalists, what we set out to do is

now it's time for newswatch with samira ahmed.n. i wish them well. jeremy corbyn congratulates the happy couple. what could possibly go wrong with bbc subtitling ? first, a row involving donald trump's twitter account is not a new thing. but this week was the first time that theresa may got involved so directly. the us president had re—tweeted three videos from the far right group, britain first, alleging to show violent acts by muslims. roger watts felt the wide coverage given to the story was unhelpful, e—mailing. .. at the start of the week, the government handed over an 850—page document, detailing how it thought the uk's departure from the european union would affect 58 sectors of the economy. but, some sections of the so—called brexit impact studies were blacked out to the fury of opposition parties. there was little about this on bbc news on monday or tuesday, which prompted chris hill to write: well, one reason why that story received less attention than it have done was a certain engagement announced this week, which we t

and samira hussain has the details about what's ahead on wall street today.day is likely to report extended credit rose to 17.50 billion dollars in 0ctober. rose to 17.50 billion dollars in october. in earnings news, discount store dollar general will be reporting. the company has been cutting prices more aggressively as it looks to try to better compete in the grocery industry. amazon's purchase of whole foods is heating up purchase of whole foods is heating up grocery purchase of whole foods is heating up grocery wars. purchase of whole foods is heating up grocery wars. companies like walmart are ramping up grocery offerings to compete against the online retailing giant. and we will continue to watch lawmakers in washington try to get a spending deal in place to avert a government shutdown. congress has until midnight on friday to come up with a short—term spending bill. without any legislation in place, the government will begin shutting down on saturday. interesting. perhaps another fiscal cliff. we remember that! joining us is maike currie, investment di

and samira hussain has the details about what's ahead on wall street today.ould be a very busy end to the week. the dow jones industrial average crossed a milestone on thursday, 24,000 points for the first time. us markets are just downright euphoric at the prospect of major tax reform, so we'll continue to watch what happens in washington and how us markets react. in other business news, we see that light vehicle sales will have fallen ever so slightly compared to the month before. we're seeing that construction spending is going to be up by about 0.5% for the month of october. 0verall factory spending will have dropped ever so slightly from the previous month. joining us is lucy macdonald from allianz global investor. thanks forjoining us. after everything we have seen coming from new york, asia playing it very cool, waiting, presumably, for this tax reform bill to pass or not? yes, and there is certainly some anticipation of this bill. we have been waiting 110w of this bill. we have been waiting now for months, and it looks very, very close. it is better p

and samira has the details about what's ahead on wall street today.ington and the republican tax plan. on wednesday, the house and senate republican leaders said they had reached an agreement on a merged version of their tax bill. republicans plan to unveil the final bill on friday, with the aim of voting on the legislation early next week and delivering it to president trump for signing before christmas. also happening on friday, the federal reserve's report on industrial production is likely to show a gain of 0.3% in november, after surging 0.9% the prior month. joining us is lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief of investment week. good morning to you. let's talk about what's happening on the market at the moment, because traditionally at the moment, because traditionally at this time of year, we used to seeing something called a santa rally. what is that? in the run-up to christmas, a lot of the major stock markets bounce quite strongly. it's about 2.5% on average. 18 out of the last 25 years, the ftse has gone up of the last 25 years, the ftse has go

and samira hussain has the details about what‘s ahead on wall street today.emand for housing in the us and that could mean luxury home—builder will see a rise in revenue and profit. but the lack of skilled labour continues to have an impact on the supply of homes so investors will be looking for forecasts for the next fiscal year. finally, the global airline industry body the international air transport association is expected to give an update on airline profitability for 2017, and a look ahead to next year. joining us is nandini ramakrishnan, global market strategist atjp morgan asset management. let‘s talk about the pound initially, no surprise to see the reaction to what we thought was a done deal being no deal by lunchtime yesterday and the pound reacting. yes, some weakness there. as we‘ve seen since the referendum, the pound sterling rate against the dollar is very reactive so not a huge surprise we have seen weakness and on the flip side of that, we could see the 100 million because of the inverse relationship. that‘s what we are seeing on the screens

samira hussain has the details about what's ahead on wall street today. later. compared with a gain of 235,000 jobs in the previous month. the report could give us clues on what we can expect on friday when the labour department releases the latestjobs report. broadcom will be reporting later this week. finally, also reporting is discount store dollarama, they are likely to have boosted prophets. investors will be eager to hear about forecasts for the rest of the year and how the company will drive sales to counter competition from online sales. joining us is jane sydenham, investment director at rathbones investment management. what are you watching this week? well, we are looking ahead to see what is going to happen next year. as you just said, you know, it's very much a case of investors looking forward. it has been a good year overall and i think to some extent the retreat in asia is that worry about is china's growth going to continue at a reasonable rate, high levels of debt, are they going to have to re—position and slow down. as you rightly say, w

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hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up...ilm star usher kapoor. and how the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fake news. first, how the death of the renowned indian actor shashi kapoor was covered on the news at ten this week. the bbc chose to play on the very brief footage as huw edwards announced the star had

this week samira ahmed hears reaction to the coverage of a certain royal announcement.harry and meghan... jeremy corbyn congratulates the happy couple. what could possibly go wrong with bbc subtitling? could possibly go wrong with bbc subtitling ? first could possibly go wrong with bbc subtitling? first row involving donald trump's twitter account is not a new thing, but this week was the first time theresa may got involved so directly. the us president had retweeted three videos from the far right group britain first, alleging to show violent acts by muslims. they shall felt the wide coverage given to the story was unhelpful. e—mailing. .. at coverage given to the story was unhelpful. e—mailing... at the start of the week the government handed over a document detailing how it felt the uk's departure from the european union would affect 58 sectors of the economy. but some sections of the so—called brexit impact studies were blacked out to the fury of opposition parties. there was little about this and bbc news on monday or tuesday, which prompted chris hill to write...

samira hussain, whojoins us from the new york stock exchange.being received over there? so, if i look up over to the big board, we see that it is all green, a sign that of course this is really good news for the us economy. they added more jobs than expected. they added more jobs than expected. they were only expecting some 200,000 jobs, and today we are hearing reports that they're adding some 228,000 jobs. the other weather rate is going to stay the same at 4.196, rate is going to stay the same at 4.1%, but there is still one problem that continues to persist, and that is the problem of wage growth. we're not seeing wages going up fast enough, and so that is something which certainly people at the federal reserve are going to be looking at. if! canjust federal reserve are going to be looking at. if i can just speak to you with out that guy getting in the way! in terms of interest rates, what are we thinking? jobs growth and yet week wages growth — what are we thinking in terms of interest rates ? we thinking in terms of interest rates? the fed

samira wiley is amazing in it.given the themes of the moment, given what we're talking about now with sexual harassment and assault, it's an amazing story about how women are pushing back against a patriarchy that takes over america. >> brown: jen, do you have another one? >> "the good place" which is an nbc comedy, and i think it is great because it's both light but also really intellectually rigorous in that it deals with philosophy. it's about a woman who ends up in what she thinks is heaven but has not been a very nice person on earth but is trying to keep maintaining the fact that she should be there. and there's a big twist at the end of the first season that it won't reveal for people who haven't seen it but changes your entire understanding of what "the good place" is but in the second season surprises over and over again. >> you pervert! >> brown: one thing that got attention is late night and the coverage of politics, right, bringing politics into television. you told us before we started about the jimmy

samira, we will be watching that news with you live from new york.n your phone, go to the app store and in a few seconds, you will have access from all the latest information from here in the bbc newsroom. see you in a couple of minutes. good evening. snow and ice have of course been the big weather concerns here at home over the last couple of days but of concern across the south—west usa is the ongoing situation with wildfires. now, the weather rarely is the direct cause of wildfires, but what it can do is exacerbate the fires and make it harder to control and that is exactly what has been happening. high pressure firmly in charge, gusty winds blowing out of the desert bringing very dry air which has only helped to fan the flames. in fact, the thomas fire, burning in sa nta in fact, the thomas fire, burning in santa barbara county, has reportedly burned through an area greater than that of new york city and tuesday will be another dry day across california, nothing really to ease that situation. talking of new york city, here, we are actually likel

one of the stars of "the handmaid's tale," please welcome samira wiley. [ applause ] >> on a spring daye end she and her doctors made the decision to amputate below the knee. before the surgery, mona searched for answers to some hard questions. can i be a mom? can i care for my babies? soon after the surgery mona started a support group so other amputees could find answers to their most personal questions, too. it's now grown into the san antonio amputee foundation which offers peer support to as many as 60 people a month, helps pay for prosthetics, home and car modifications and even offers athletic and recreational experiences that transform their lives. now, mona shows young and old how to conquer both big and personal mountains, and that anyone, anyone can walk among the clouds. [ applause ] >> day one is going to be about four miles. we had nine amputees on the team. >> i'll be all right. >> i bit off a big project. >> my shoulders are burning so bad. you'll all have to roll me back down the hill. >> it will test you to your core. >> set your crutch and step. >> the morning of day

here to talk us through it is samira hussain.nd goods, some of the names include rimle and —— rimmeland markjacob, what coty was arguing is that it really sort of devalues their brand, if you can get it on third party sites, well, the ecj ruled in favourite of coty, saying it is not an unreasonable question. they said these third party sellers shouldn‘t be able to sell their goods. what we re be able to sell their goods. what were the arguments from the online retailers ? were the arguments from the online retailers? they were saying this is anti—competitive, that banning online sales of these goods isn‘t good for in terms of trying to get products out to the customers, there isa products out to the customers, there is a school of thought that believes that perhaps the european court of justice may not be looking at the internet in terms ofjust what kind of impact it has in today‘s society. that some of the rulings may be sort of anti—internet but it is not going along with really what is happening an what is happening within the

currently it's only availibe in the states so let's go to samira hussain who is in new york.ng, there is a lot of pa re ntal this new thing, there is a lot of parental control involved. for example, if two friends want to become friends on this facebook messenger app, a parent become friends on this facebook messengerapp, a parent is become friends on this facebook messenger app, a parent is to allow that to happen. what facebook is saying is, we are trying to get more pa re ntal saying is, we are trying to get more parental involvement in this, that way this can be a lot more safe and as he pointed out, they will not be using that information to collect data. there won't be any advertising on this. but there are a lot of detractors saying this isjust facebook's way of trying to market itself to younger and younger people, get them hooked on facebook young and then they can open a facebook account after they turned 13. but also much earlier. it is aimed at kids from 13 down to age six, have people been saying it is too young? it has been a topic of conversation. i was watchin

thanks very much, samira hussain. and a look at the markets?t start. it is sunny for some, cloudy for others, and as we head on through tonight's very little will change. large areas of cloud reducing the odd spot of rain in the west, developing across northern scotland where it will turn increasingly windy and for most of us, temperatures holding several degrees above freezing. any holes in the cloud could allow things to turn chilly and some fog patches. that should clear tomorrow, then a quieter day. some brightness across the south, east wales, eastern scotland, and persistent rain in the north of scotland. temperatures are not bad at all for this time of year. on wednesday, the winds pick up, significantly. gales developed in parts of the west, rain in western areas too and a mild day wherever you are. heavy rain on wednesday and into thursday, that will clear and at the end of the week it looks dramatically colder with some wintry showers... hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 3pm: a huge day in the history of