unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair and lovely skin lightening products marketed across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial there are types to control this he's with me and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. after apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though unilever probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platform money

unilever isa decision on headquarters. unilever is a massive company.s is a brexit story though? it is not necessarily a brexit story. at the moment unilever has a headquarters in the uk and one in holland and they are deciding to have one single headquarters. i think that pressure has come more from shareholders, there was a takeover attempt by kraft heinz last year, and i think this is more about cost pressure than about brexit. they have to choose a headquarters. it happens to come at a time when brexit is in full flow although i think this is as much about cost is about brexit. it would have happened anyway? the decision is to go to one place with one capital. and another story claims the antidepressants actually do work. music to the years of the pharmaceutical industry? yes, and also to the ears of people who need these treatments. it's a big issue and hopefully this study has put to bed a question of whether they work or not. presumably they will be more widely prescribed, which will be more costly to the nhs. the study was pretty in—depth. more

unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair lovely skin lightening products market across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial stereotypes to control the seas with missile journey and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. officer apologising unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platfo

after apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though unilever probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising prop forms money talks but the story probably has generated some good p.r. that beautifully ever as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders too to turn a profit and sometimes p.r. initiatives like this are part of it there are just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes consumer products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the center rock through the whole story facebook platform has shown commitment to the battle against. fake news and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened under pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to try to filte

unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair and lovely skin lightening products marketed across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial stereotypes to control the seas with missile journey and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. militarizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platfor

unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair and lovely skin lightening products marketed across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial stereotypes to control the seas with massage me and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. after apologising unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released a new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platf

to improve news transparency and tackling stream is among their platforms consumer products giant unilever which makes some of the biggest brands in food and cleaning products made the threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dutch firm's already been caught out itself in the past with its own misjudged marketing as daniel organs and explained same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time it's global giant you need me for leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and contro

now talking about pulling its ads from both facebook and google why so unilever is trying to succeed with its advertising muscle where governments have failed with a regulator e palace facebook in particular is facing criticism for failing to remove hate speech misinformation fake news and extremist content and the company's founder months up about it began the year by nothing that the site had tweaked its news feed algorithm to prioritize what it calls meaningful social interactions is by no means clear though that that will solve those problems and unilever which owns brands like vaseline and ben and jerry's ice cream has announced it will pull out of tithing from facebook and google unless those companies clean up their act and one unit leader executive actually put some of these but phones a little better than a swan so how do you read this move is it about principles or is it about profits i think it's clearly aimed at protecting that brand unilever doesn't want to see its ads alongside content from white supremacists for example and it's become increasingly clear how little lev

unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever's own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair and lovely skin lightening products marketed across asia spawning allegations of perpetuating racist colonial there are types to control this he's with me and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinists that marketing. officer apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though unilever probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platforms mon

fail to improve news transparency and tackle extremism on their platforms consumer products giant unilever and make some of the biggest brands in food including products made a threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dirt firm has been caught out itself in the past with its own misjudged marketing has done a whole can explain it same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time its global joint universe leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of

fail to improve news transparency and tackle extremism on their platforms consumer products giant unilever which makes some of the biggest brands in food and cleaning products made the threat at a tech conference on monday but the anglo dutch firms being caught out in the past itself with its own misjudged marketing as daniel hawking to explained same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time its global joint union leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if the things they don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and

for unilever it is not an easy time.did rebuff an unsolicited takeover offer last year from kraft heinz. so, they have got to show the shareholders that they can do well. so far, from these results, it is doing a pretty good job. matt: the maker of the most important tea int he world. , thank you.chko it all the latest stock stories by going to first on your bloomberg. it's also available to subscribers via the mobile app. so, check it out on your iphone or android phone. still to come, we speak with novo nordisk ceo, as the drugmaker's cfo and chairman step aside. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to the european open. you are looking at a shot of our new headquarters in the city of london. 10 minutes into the market open. let's look at all the stock stories we have to deal with this morning. so much in terms of earnings out. for that we go over to nejra cehic. nejra: the enthusiasm for the unilever stock was short-lived. we saw a gain at the open, but free now trading much flat. this is after the company say

they fail to improve news transparency in tackle extremism on their platforms consumer products joe unilever which makes some of the biggest brands in food including products made the threat the tech conference on monday but the anglo dutch firm has been caught out in the past with its own misjudged marketing don't know hawkins reports same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time it's global joy uniquely leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if they don't improve unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity

fourth quarter in the bag, unilever sales beat estimates.he review of the share structure is expected to end soon. in the fast lane, aston martin plans a five-year trade and investment drive in china worth over 600 million pounds. we will speak to the ceo, next. we are less than a half-hour from the start of european trading.

unilever. >>> welcome to "street signs." i'm willem marx. these are your headlines profits double, but shares slide. shell trades at the bottom of the ftse despite fum-yell-year earnings above $60 billion. >>> shares in spain's second largest bank, bbva, get a boost as mexico helps offset a writedown. >>> roche expects 2018 profit to grow faster than sales as it gets a boost from u.s. taxes and new drugs in the pipeline. the ceo says china is a major focus. >> china is getting much, much more important for us. in diagnostics it's already the second most important market for us it's still smaller on the farm suite cal side, there's no doubt the market is strongly growing. >>> we scream for ice scream unilever sales beat expectations as the ice cream business returns to growth but the ceo says a mix of flavors from m&a is needed to keep expansion from softening. >> we have a good cadence of developing our own brands. at the same time we compliment our portfolio. we are moving these businesses premium on a combination of organic, new brand laun

and consumer goods giant unilever is. a mission to clean up the internet with threats to pull lucrative ads from facebook and google they don't act on fake news and hate being. all over me in the news team here with out here q this tuesday the thirteenth of february to eleven am here in moscow five pm in south korea which is where we started day four of the winter olympics and athletes from russia on the medal board two bronze and one silver that's despite a reduced number of competitors from russia following decisions by the international olympic committee and the court of arbitration for sport over doping allegations in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that's an anti-doping rule violation it was committed actually it's concerned house a decision is a extremely disappointing. decision of the urgent need. for reform. in the internal structure of the cars today the division of the court of arbitration for sport dismissed the application filed by thirty two russian athletes

consumer foods giant unilever is on a mission to clean up the internet with threats to pull lucrative ads from facebook and google if they don't act on fake news and hate speech. well i just turned three in the afternoon here in moscow my name is kevin owen thanks for tuning to us international for your world news through the after moscow times means that it's not of the evening in south korea and indeed that's where the big news is not so we're starting this hour it's day four of the winter olympics and athletes from russia are on the medal board with two bronze and one silver we can tell you that's of course despite a reduced number of competitors from russia following decisions by the international olympic committee and the court of arbitration for sport over doping allegations in twenty cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that. violation it was committed concerned. decision this streamlet disappointing. decision shows the urchin the need. for reform. in the internal structure of the class. division of the court of arbitration for sport. missed th

you've got unilever.r reporting numbers, and we have not got news on where they plan to put their headquarters. they've been reviewing their structure with the united kingdom and the netherlands, and there was some talk about whether we get a result of that deliberation today. we expect to conclude it shortly , is the headline from them. in terms of the underlying performance, sales up by 4%. theestimate does seem to for 3.8%. we will get some clarity. we are getting some information on how they performed in the fourth quarter. a lot of focus on how they are performing in emerging markets, what they're planning is looking like. they appointed headhunters. he's put social impact at the heart of unilever's strategy. ceo, that is at 7:50 a.m. u.k. time. talking of companies that have a lot of business in the u.k. and netherlands -- shell royal dutch delivered on their numbers. today, they deliver fourth-quarter adjusted profit of $4.3 billion. 4.12 billions dollars. the adjusted downstream profit, the upstre

emily: unilever wants to make what do you make of unilever?unilever wants to make sure they are in well lit environments. they want credibility to their products. they want to have those clear programs and forms of articles it just makes sense for them. emily: is it realistic, or just a threat? of course, this is where billions and billions of seat -- businesses are. >> one ceo yesterday was talking about setting those policies and procedures and getting people into reviewing as much content as possible. there are trying to do a good job. it is not realistic to have every piece of content reviewed by a human. we have to do some combination of machines as well as humans in order to review that content. do you think of these -- right now it is just a threat -- but this kind of concern of the content on facebook or youtube will actually hit the bottom line of facebook? ben: sure, until they get systems and processes and procedures clearly in place, or -- and may be a small hit. but they will work hard in making these good environments for adverti

. >> unilever says it may pull marketing unless those sites and others get rid of what it calls toxic content. the company says the sites have become a swamp of racism, fake news, and extremism. unilever which includes brands like dove soap and lipton tea spent nearly $2.5 billion on ads last year. >>> amazon is in the midst of corporate job cuts. >> hundreds of layoffs are under way mainly at the retail giant's seattle headquarters. the company's fast growth reportedly left some units overstaffed. >>> and a robotic dog is learning new tricks. >> the new version of spot mini can open a door. an arm reaches out and grabs the door handle. it even holds the door for a friend. >> what a gentleman. >> absolutely. civilry is not dead. those are your "tech bytes." >>> are you still recovering? >> why are we not much more panicked about this terrifying dog robot? >> everything is going to be not okay. >>> let the party begin, where you can celebrate carnival before lunch begins. >> a little hollywood to this year's chinese new year's parade in san francisco. >>> plus, the >>> welcome back at

consumer product maker unilever makes dove soap and others says it may pull ads because of toxic content, racism and fake news. >> unintended consequences that now need addressing. we're going to prioritize our investment to help focus that. >> reporter: facebook which made $40 billion on ads last year responded saying we fully support unilever's commitments and are working closely with them. the hit comes amid growing criticism of facebook, a new wired magazine investigation digs into the company's troubled two years since the 2016 election. >> the company has a whole lot of threats. zuckerberg thinks of all of these dangers and they started to weigh on him. >> reporter: last month we were told he warned the platform could be manipulated by bad actors in 2012. >> a lot of people were trying to take some kind of malicious activity using facebook's platform. >> reporter: is what you're telling me, then, mark zuckerberg is not doing enough? >> facebook is not doing enough. they're not doing anywhere near enough. >> reporter: in recent months zuckerberg deployed 14,000 people and artificial

unilever is calling on companies like facebook and google to do more to combat the spread of hate andive content. the company says it will only invest in responsible platforms that are committed to creating a positive impact on society. unilever, which owns brands like dove and lipton as well as ben & jerry's has an annual marketing budget of about $9.5 billion. >>> the housing market may be in for another surprise perspective. homeowners are already dealing with a low number of homes er sale. now mortgage rates are rising. some say it can reach 5% in the not too distant future. diana olick has more. >> mortgage rates are at the highest level and poised to move eyeven higher. oosely follow the yield on the ten-year treasury which is up again today. the timing couldn't be worse. the spring market really jt started early this year because of strong competition for a record low supply of homes for saleat the average on the popular 30-year fixed is now right around 4.5%, still low historically, but buyers over the past six yea have gotten more used to rates in the 3% range. mortge rates h

francine: that was the chief executive officer of unilever.gest that republicans secretly altered the memo on russian meddling in the election. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ economics, finance, politics, this is "bloomberg surveillance." we just had some figures out of the u.k. manufacturing expanded the least in seven months in january. is another twist in the story of a controversial congressional memo about how the fbi investigated russian meddling in the presidential election. democrats now charge that house republicans secretly altered the memo and never told them. the white house is deciding whether the document will be released. let's go straight to new york. joining me now is michael mckee, who is filling in for tom mckean. what we do -- do we know about the memo being released? >> all we know is what president trump told members of congress on the floor when he gave the state of the union address. that he wants to release it, 100%. david lynch was the director of peaks," and everybody said the show got so weird that they could not watch it a

unilever says fake news, racism, messages of extremism as well are a big concern on social media and digital platforms particularly when seen by children and talks are under way with several of those companies to reduce that kind of content. unilever which includes brands like dove soap and lipton tea spent $2.5 billion on digital ads last year. >>> strangers are helping to bail out a florida couple's dream. the pair sold almost everything they owned to pay for a round the world cruise and their boat sank on the second day. well, now they have no place to live and they have to pay thousands to have the wreckage of the boat salvaged but thanks to the generosity of strangers the gofundme page is now coming to the rescue. it's already raised $14,000, 4,000 more than their goal. >>> a former major league all-star pitcher is in custody in southern california on drug charges. esteban loaiza played for eight teams during his 14-year career in the big leagues. now, police say they found sophisticated compartments in his car during a traffic stop which led to a search of the house that he was

unilever spent $2.4 billion on digital sales last year so they may want to listen to them.don. thanks so much. >>> going overseas now. north korean leader kim jong-un met with high level delegation which included his sister upon their arrival back in the north. according to north korea state media he expressed his satisfaction over their visit adding that south korea's efforts to prioritize them was, quote, very impressive. kim jong-un also said that it is quote important that the north and south continue, quote, livening up the arm climate of reconciliation and die lg. moon jae-in has been involved to pyongyang for a summit with kim jong-un at an early date and although he is not formally accepted the offer, a spokesman said moon wants to create conditions to make it happen. >>> the white house is hitting back at reports out of israel that the two countries were discussing the possibility of annexing jewish sentiments in the contentious west bank. it all started after prime minister netanyahu told a closed door meeting of his party's lettingers of possibly annexing. i can

fail to improve news transparency and tackling stream isn't on their platforms consumer products unilever and make some of the biggest brands in food and cleaning products made a threat that attacks conference on monday but the anglo firm has been caught out itself in the past with its own misjudged marketing has done a whole can explain it same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time it's global joint unity for leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things don't improve euna lee.

and consumer goods giant unilever is on a mission to clean up the internet with threats to pull lucrative ads from facebook and google if they don't act on fake news and hate speech. from in the news team here at r.t. h.q. this tuesday the thirteenth all fabrice ten am here in moscow. four pm in south korea where it's four days into the winter olympics and athletes from russia are on the medals board with two bronze and one silver that's despite a reduced number of competitors from russia following decisions by the international olympic committee and the court of arbitration for sport over doping allegations in twenty cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed concerned couse a decision is a extremely disappointing. decision of the church and the need for reform. in the interludes structure of couse. not demonstrates that the manner in which two special commission system by the i.o.c. was carried out in a discriminatory arbitrary or unfair manner and there are plenty of questions left over those conflicting decis

we'd said quote we cannot have an environment where our consumers don't trust what they see online unilever spent nine point four billion dollars on advertising just last year. while many larger financial institutions are staying away from digital currencies some smaller european banks are actually taking the opposite approach and allowing their access to customers swiss bank von tobel and falcon bank and german banks theodore bank and the liechtenstein bank are now offering their customers access to general currency products some of the banks are even advising clients on unusual coin offerings the i suppose with larger institutions taking a pass on digital currency the door has been open and smaller banks seem to be taking advantage of that opening. today the white house unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan the proposal includes billions of dollars in federal infrastructure spending to be used to repair and rebuild the nation however some including democrats in republican soil that say the proposal fall short here's our two correspondent ashley banks with more. barnow and today th

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> the world's largest hedge fund led by ray dalio has disclosed a $682 million short bet against unileverock has dropped after the disclosure of these wagers. >> we had these that's against an italian banks that seemed very specific. as you said, we have been seeing this large buildup quietly building up against european companies, unilever, adidas, total, across industries, but one thing to keep in mind is that when you look at these shorts, at least at the very largest companies, this is a re-creation of the european index. these positions are built on the larger the company, the bigger the weight in the index, the larger short position they are expressing. >> u.s. consumer prices rising more than estimated in january, adding fuel potentially to the fed's fire. >> it is clear inflation is moving higher, especially the last six months. inflation is moving at 2.6% per year. january is a month where you get upside surprises at the discounts we saw. i would not read too much into one print, but there is a clear acceleration in inflation, and people should start rethinking traditional relati

consumer product company unilever may pull ads because of complaints. facebook deployed 14,000 people and artificial intelligence to stop false news and offensive behavior. >>> let's turn now to your first alert weather. it is dry out there. not too cold looking down broad street in center street. let's bring in chief meteorologist tammie souza. no umbrellas needed. >> tomorrow grab the sunglasses. yes, you will need a jacket. probably top out in the low 40s. that is cool but not cold. not as warm as we saw it with all of those soggy conditions over the weekend. clear skies tonight. 61 with our highs today. after that we fell into the 40s and that is where we remained. really nothing to report today. at this hour, looking at three search in philadelphia. 23 in pittsburgh. in the neighborhoods, temperatures comparable. 34 in coatesville. 32 in atlantic city, and 33 in trenton. one in allen town. 24 in atlantic city. philadelphia wake up to 25 degrees tomorrow morning with plenty of sunshine. this is what you need to know. warm and wet this week. valentin

we have also seen, of course, that unilever, looking to move to rotterdam, probably where they have beenin they have been in the uk as well as amsterdam, because, of course, takeovers are much more difficult there than they are here. very interesting how all of the pawns are being moved, the chess pieces, prior to march 2019. thank you very much for coming in and giving is your take on that story. we would love to hear your views, the hash tag is my credit you wa nt to views, the hash tag is my credit you want to get in touch. —— the hash tag is #bbcthebriefing, if you want to get in touch. now let's brief you some other business stories. the uk's minister for international trade is set to argue that any form of customs union with the eu after brexit would be a complete sell out. liam fox is expected to say having eu limits on doing other deals would make the uk less attractive. the labour party argues such an outcome would help business by securing tariff—free trade. the us will overtake russia as the world's biggest oil producer by 2019 at the latest. that's according to the internationa

we talked about unilever threatening to pull advertising from facebook and google.ll it a swamp. do you think facebook's loss could be twitter's gain, or is this something all platforms will have to reckon with? what will be the consequences? dick: i think the biggest consequence for twitter was the statement coming out of facebook a couple of fridays ago that they were going to rethink the way the newsfeed works to be much more about social sharing and what your friends are up to and less about news and publishers and media. that to me is a big move to to twitter. twitter has always been about that, what is going on in the world, the pulse of the planet, working closely with media companies and publishers. to the extent they can feel that we are the place for publishers again, we are the source, the single disillusion vehicle we for them to work closely with on real-time events and was going on while an event is happening. that is a giant boon to twitter and its relationship with content providers and advertisers. emily: we will be watching over the next year. form

the financial times claims unilever could move its hq from britain to the netherlands.ng for the uk. so, the worboys case, and pills for depression share the headlines

> the world's largest hedge fund led by ray dalio has disclosed a $682 million short bet against unilever. the stock has dropped in a final disclosure. it is part of new and larger wagers against shares of european companies. >> when this first started, we had bets against italian banks that seemed very specific. as you said, we have been seeing this really large buildup quietly building up against european companies, some of the largest. unilever, adidas, across industries, but one thing to keep in mind is that when you look at these company shorts, at least at the very largest companies, this is a re-creation of the european index. these short positions are built based on the larger the company, the bigger the weight in the index, the larger short position they are expressing. ♪ >> inflation making a comeback. u.s. consumer prices rising more than estimated in january, adding more fuel potentially to the fed's fire. >> it is clear that inflation is moving higher, especially the last six months. on a six-month basis, inflation is now moving at 2.6% per year. that said, january is a month

the financial times claims unilever could move its hq from britain to the netherlands.and finally, the express says an arctic storm is heading for the uk. so, the worboys case, and pills for depression share the headlines on many of the front pages, so let's look at them in more detail. let's start with the warboys case, in the metro, the headline, the met must pay for the failure to nail warboys. this is the case of the black cab driver, john warboys, won, the two victims of his have won a law case against the metropolitan police after officers failed to take action after they reported what happened to them. laura, if you can kick as off, according to the metro, landmark ruling opens doorfor kick as off, according to the metro, landmark ruling opens door for other crime victims to sue the police. what are the implications? they could be significant, but i don't think there will be a huge rush of cases to begin with. it is a very big case, the supreme court upholding a decision by the high court that the police could be liable under article three of the human rights act

david: unilever. a big report out, unilever thinking about console consolidating.considering leaving london. >> and going to rotterdam. a city that we don't hear people fleeing to. it is really a symbolic loss. a well-known property. we on wall street obsess over the banks and financial institutions, but the big employers, but they also play into the zeitgeist of how a city feels. alix: jpmorgan building a whole new headquarters here. jason: putting on my new york bureau chief hat, it is great for midtown manhattan. park avenue is such a central thoroughfare. but those buildings -- we walk up and down them every day -- some of those buildings are a little bit in need of an upgrade. david: i think they were built in 1961. i thought they were going to tear that one down and build a high-rise in the same location. alix: one goldman went into their place right along the river, they did a whole clean energy thing. they did a revamp of how they were supplying electricity. as you look around new york, you look at what's happening with commercial real estate, hudson yards,

after apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising platforms money talks but the story probably has generated some good p.r. that you believe or as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders too to turn a profit and sometimes p.r. initiatives like this are part of that they're just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes consumer products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the central character in the whole story. spoke the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fate can use and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened on the pressure left right and center to moderate to send such a sanitized and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to t