Boss. Also in the programme how much can one tweet cost you . If you run a Us Basketball Team and tweet about hong kong, the answer is a lot. Well explain all a little later. And what is this . Its a Mcdonalds Mcrib barbecue sandwich. Well tell you what its early seasonal appearance in the us this year has to do with the us china trade war. Well be getting the inside track on juggling work and family life with the co founder of amazing if, a company that coaches staff at some of the uks Biggest Companies on career development. Today we want to know as National Work life week begins in the uk, could your Work Life Balance be better . What are your tips or frustrations . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Very warm welcome. This is our new business show, worklife. We focus on theissues business show, worklife. We focus on the issues affecting your work and the issues affecting your work and the you lead. And we start with the Global Consumer products giant unilever whose brand
robert wood, chief uk economist, pantheon macroeconomics. itjoins me now. no change expected today, why not? it joins me now. no change expected today, why not? good mornin: expected today, why not? good morning why expected today, why not? good morning why not? expected today, why not? good morning why not? inflation - expected today, why not? good morning why not? inflation is i morning why not? inflation is just back to the bank of england 2% target for top within that headline inflation, inflation with services, eating out, restaurants, all sorts of household services, going to out to the cinema and so on prices of these things are rising still really quickly. so yesterday we saw they were up 5.7% year on year. with that rate of increase headline inflation is not going to stay at 2% very long. at 296 very long. the next decision at 296 very long. the next decision by at 296 very long. the next decision by the at 296 very long. the next decision by the bank- at
Vj toss to eileen se washington eileen toss to Julie Julie Julie toss to johnny in Calvert County right now the Winter Weather right now the Winter Weather travellers. Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed across the country. And dozens of School Districts closed in our area just in Fairfax County, now closed. Melanie hastings is at the live desk in the newsroom with more first up delays and cancellations on amtrak. Northeast Regional Service between dc and newport news and norfolk is completely cancelled today amtrak is also operating a modified schedule between new york and boston. As for flights the board at Reagan National is showing more and more red. Its a similar story up and down the east coast. About 35hundred flights are canceled today, according to flightaware dot com. If you do have a trip scheduled the airlines are being all the major carriers have travel alerts in place. That means you can change or cancel your ticket at no cost. Dozens of schools are closed or delaye
Snooker championship 2015 to today being banned for six months for betting breaches. It is estimated he spent £35,000 in the past seven yea rs spent £35,000 in the past seven years betting on matches. More on that later. And the weather with chris. Cloudy and mild here, but i will be casting my mind to the alps with the Early Arrival of winter. More from me in the next half hour. Also coming up, a string and a prayer the moment 2115 people simultaneously bungee jumped off a 30 foot high bridge in brazil. Well tell you why. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. The European Council president , donald tusk, has urged members of the European Parliament to stick together or face defeat. Brexit, he said, was the eus toughest stress test, and it must not be divided at any costs. Mr tusk also said the outcome of the brexit talks is up to london, and that abandoning the decision to leave the eu is still an option for the uk. 0ur europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas repo
Flat. The ftse is down by 0. 1 in italy. Crude was the big story yesterday. Wpi this morning is up once again by 1. 6 . Gain of 77 cents to 48. 10. This comes after it looks like additional countries from opec are standing with saudi arabia saying those production cuts need to be expanded and also we saw a surprise decline in the supplies here in the United States. Now lets talk about todays corporate story. Shares of snap plunging after the Company Released its first report since going public. Snap missed on the top and bottom lines. The company struggled to keep up with user growth validating a lot of concerns about its ability to take on facebooks insta fwram and tgram and the s feature. Heres what evan spiegel had to say about competition on that call. People will copy your product if you make great stuff. When google came along, everybody felt they need a search strategy. When facebook came along, everybody felt they needed a social strategy. With snap, we believe everybody will d