But in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, the dinner seems like a piece of the worst of the 1980s or 50s even crashing into the modern era. Is this the night that unreconstructed attitudes in the city and at the top level of business are exposed . Our business editor, helen thomas, reports. A 5 star london location. The guest list scattered with big names and big wallets. And innocuous billing, the president s club charity dinner. This was a Charity Auction like no other. Last week, according to the financial times, 360 men from British Business, politics and finance came to a black tie event here. 360 men but no women except they were joined by 130 hostesses. Young women, reportedly chosen for their looks, who are given short, tight dresses to wear. The women, who were paid £150, were paraded in and distributed around the table. Later in the evening, the paper says, hostesses according to the charitable trusts last set of accounts for 2016, ll; flllillll xl l 2 22; and it
Underfunding social care. This is a government that recognises the priorities of the british people. Priority is to remain the nhs remainsa priority is to remain the nhs remains a world class Healthcare System. Indeed, the best Healthcare System in the world also on this programme david davis makes his first appearance of the year in front of the Brexit Committee and rejects the accusation that britain is to become a vassal state in europe. And theres fury in the commons over the allegations of harassment and groping at the president s club charity dinner. Organisers chose to make this a men only event. They chose to treat the hostesses in this way, to make them parade across the stage in front of men, to make them wear black, skimpy, outfits. And they specify the colour of their underwear. But first there was a rare standing ovation in the house of lords on thursday when the labour former minister, tessa now lady jowell called for greater Global Cooperation and the use of more innovat
Fighting over chocolate spread 7 the nutella promotion in french supermarkets which left some shoppers injured. We will bring you the story. Good morning and welcome to the programme, its friday, we live until 11am. Loss to talk about this morning with you, including the fact that five male bbc presenters including jeremy vine and huw edwards have agreed formally, or in principle, to pay cut after the row over unequal pay between some men and women doing the same kind of jobs. Also were going to talk about the extraordinary warning from the defence secretary who says that russia could cause thoussands and thousands and thousands of deaths in britian. Thats in an interview with the daily telgrpah. Meanwhile, hes told the daily mail about a dreadful mistake he made in his personal life where he had a brief Office Romance with a fellow worker back in 200a. He said having to explain to his wife what had happened was one of the most difficult things he had ever done. Kevin williams is toute
Collea g u es out and i support my female colleagues who have rightly said that they should be paid the same when they are doing the same job. It is just when they are doing the same job. It isjust a when they are doing the same job. It is just a no brainer. When they are doing the same job. It isjust a no brainer. So it wasnt when they are doing the same job. It is just a no brainer. So it wasnt a problem for me. So it wasnt a problem for me. And new guidance for a sore throat an nhs watchdog tells doctors to prescribe painkillers not precious antibiotics to patients. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. President trump has offered to apologise for sharing anti Muslim Videos posted online by the far right group, britain first. Speaking to itvs good morning britain, mrtrump said he hadnt known about the organisation when he shared their content and has described the videos as a depiction of radical islamic terrorism saying he was a big believer in f
Miserable out there. Its a picture from leicestershire, from one of our weather watchers. Look at this one from york. The river has burst its banks. Its very windy across other parts of the country. Really unpleasant weather across the uk right now. This is quite an interesting one from london, the effect of raindrops on the window. Gales and heavy rain are the story of the day across northern parts of the uk. This is spawned georgina which has been sweeping to the north west of scotland storm georgina. Even over the hills of scotla nd georgina. Even over the hills of scotland we had gusts well in excess of 100 mph. Quite scotland we had gusts well in excess of100 mph. Quite a potent scotland we had gusts well in excess of 100 mph. Quite a potent storm sweeping the far north of the country. To the south of that we are feeling the effects of the storm in terms of a breeze, really gusty weather. Many of us have experienced a short lived downpour. There have been hailstorms around as well