in a sense, you would not expect this of a company as famous as samsun.othing through various takeovers, and about the generation passing on the business to the third generation of the family. this is one of the problems that westerners criticise south korean companies for. this sort of cronyism. which means the big companies... the conglomerates. the family run. this is not what is expected in us or europe of these sorts of companies, these days. and this is part of the broader tide against corruption and creditors and within government. we see this all around the world. in south korea, as well, we had a keep this in perspective. these sorts of cabals of which samsung is the biggest, they have an enormous impact on the economy. samsun accounts for something like pretty % of gdp growth in south korea. in the relationship between countries like samsun and the government, is on another level to what we'd expect in the united states or the uk. —— samsun is now facing criminal charges. and yet business as usual. we are still going out there and byproducts, ar

also, samsun faces shareholders at its annual meeting. i'd like to be a fly on the wall there. our we start in the us — where president trump is battling to deliver on one of his biggest election promises — and to hang on to his credibility with investors. late on thursday republicans were forced to delay a vote in the house of representatives on scrapping and replacing obamacare as they struggled to drum up enough support across their own party. on wall street it's being seen as a key test of the trump administration. the concern is if he can't deliver on scrapping obamacare, his other plans for massive tax cuts and spending hikes may not get through congress either. let's just show you the scale of the expectation that has built up. $2.2 trillion has been added to the value of us shares since trump was elected in a rally of historic proportions. if you take a look at the dow jones industrial average, it has soared since the election in november. as of the start of this week, it had gone up 14% since the us election. the financial sector has been the biggest winner — it's done

late on wednesday, samsun unveiled its latest flagship model at an event in new york.lligence and the largest wrap—around screens ever made. they are the first major product launch since samsung had to recall, and then scrap, its note 7, last autumn, because of exploding batteries. will the s8 help it win back customers and regain the market leadership it has since lost to apple? we will be getting an expert view on that offering. and the other business to us. i will see you then. let's roundups of the other main stories. 13 people have died in south—western texas after a head—on collection between a pickup truck and a van. two others were injured. police said the van was carrying 1a senior members of a local church returning from a retreat. a federal judge in the us state of hawaii has extended the suspension of present donald trump 0zmen travel ban for it and indefinite period. the ruling means that donald trump will be barred from reintroducing is travel ban while it is still in court. the case could take months or years. severe weather is continuing to wreak havoc

next, we're about to talk about samsun. its latest smartphone range is coming out.d and ditched after a battery fault caused some devices to catch fire. the bbc has seen one of the new ones. i had new ones. ihada new ones. i had a hands—on with it earlier. i can tell you that it's not a different from the other high—end smartphones out there. there are interesting features. it has taken all of the furniture out of the front of the phone, so literally most of the front of it now is the screen. there is a hidden home button. they have got rid of the branding and the stuff that goes around the top, and they have curved the edges. when you watch a video, all you feel like —— you feel like you are the big screen. there are other cosmetic changes. one of the things that samsung is really excited about is its new digital assistants, which it is calling bixby. what it does that is slightly different from syria is it uses the camera as a pair of eyes. you can activate it with your voice and pointed at something in the room. i tried a bottle of wine. you pointed out the bottl

from the large, corruption, that she instigated corruption by trying to get a bribe, basically, from samsuner best friend, in return for influencing samsun‘s affairs. down to the relatively minor, like where was she for eight hours when the say while ferry went down? so the eight justices will decide in an hour's time, or publish their verdict in an hour's time. but it will notjust be a verdict about whether they think she is guilty or not. it will also bea she is guilty or not. it will also be a verdict, and this is more important, on whether even if she was guilty of the crime "broke the constitution". so they may decide, for example, that president park's best friend had too much influence, one of the allegations. but actually, that isn't against the constitution. so there are two steps the justices have to make. constitution. so there are two steps thejustices have to make. 0ne, did she do something wrong? and two? was it so wrong that she broke the constitution and she should be stripped of power and kicked out of power pretty well immediately? so it isa power pretty well immediately?

how do you ensignavision samsun making money off of all this software you're bringing forward. >> software is important because of not only what the phone can do but what you can do with the phone. what the phone can do is amazing, but what you can do with the phone search more important and amazing. we have, for example, developed a software capability together with a piece of hardware, samsung dex, you can transform this beautiful piece of technology the s8 is, to a laptop application, you can run it on a big screen with a mouse and keyboard. that is thanks to optimized software. >> we'll have to leave it here. thank you very much. best of success with this model. let's get back out to wille willem marx in malta. take it , we're joined by forme head of the state, the swedish prime minister carl bilt, also former eu member of the balkans. i wanted to ask about russia and europe. we're talking about a range of issues in maltmalta. but what about the noise coming out of the balkans now. >> that's an added concern. the primary concern with russia is ukraine. there's virtually no movement, no