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Major currencies this morning. Iain conn, the chief executive of centrica, which owns british gas, announces hes stepping down after a challenging period for the company. Poorer pupils trail 18 months behind the rest of the class once they take their gcses, according to new research. Coming up in sport, gareth bale pulls out of real madrids pre season trip to munich after his big money move to china was blocked by the club. Greg and amber and, as the winners of this years love island are crowned...

Rights, it means we all have. And scientists discover the oldest modern human fossil ever found outside africa. Three days after the contents of his scathing diplomatic cables about donald trump were published in a sunday newspaper, and a day after the president said he would no longer have anything to do with him, the uk ambassador to the United States has resigned. Sir kim darroch said in a letter to the Foreign Office the Current Situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role a...

Broadband be a polluted night sky . We will take a look at a looming debris problem. Facebook plans to create its own crypto currency is not getting love from u. S. Lawmakers area you can now add jay powell to that list. Project libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, Money Laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed. Facebook has a few billion users. You are looking at the possibility of a very broad ...

Facebook and apple grilled by lawmakers. How these last few days have shaped Silicon Valleys future. Moon choose to go to the and these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Emily and we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. I speak with the captain for moonshot on nasas legacy and why we should not be going to mars. First, to our top story, what else but big tech earnings . Shares of microsoft jumping after strong fourthquarter results thursday. The t...

We choose to go to the moon and these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Emily and we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. I speak with the captain for moonshot on nasas legacy and why we should not be going to mars. First, to our top story, what else but big tech earnings . Shares of microsoft jumping after strong fourthquarter results thursday. The tech giant has benefited from ongoing strength in the Cloud Computing as your business. And microso...

Broadband be a polluted night sky . We will take a look at an emerging debris problem. To our top story, facebook plans to create its own crypto muchncy, libra not getting love from u. S. Lawmakers, in fact, getting skewered. You can now add fed chair Jerome Powell to that list. Take a listen to what he told the Financial Committee earlier. While the project libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, Money Laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns tha...

European equities. , bit of a down day to end though it does not seen anybody is taking a huge position ahead of that jobs data. We have stock and bond markets close in the u. S. Yesterday as treasuries get going again. ,e saw a bit of a basis Point Holding at 1. 95 on the 10 year yield. Bund yields are just above that level. The euro is weaker am a down. 2 , 1. 1265 f disappointing german factory data. Coming up, we speak to larry kudlow. Lets get bloomberg first word news. Thousands packing th...

Event, and thanks sponsoring, i should say, and thanks to all the folks at urban who helped to put this on. As you can imagine, an event of this size is neither inexpensive nor easy to pull off, so thanks, everybody, for the help. Tonight well have two panels that will run until roughly 7 45 and then well have another reception until about 8 15, plus or minus. Ill say a few words to sort of tie the thinking behind the two panels together, and then well wade right in to the first panel. But again...

Between us a memoir. Rk russell is the author. You think your publisher in this book as well. This is the first book by this publisher. Rk i am on the first lead of imprints. You will see a little more of him a little later live at the National Book festival but right now, here is an author discussion on environmental activism. Doug brinkleyi am kevin butterf. Im one of the sponsors of this years conference. The quinn be association helps us do our work. Waukomis live on cspan. History is heatin...

And said that europe should approach and diplomacy ahead sarkozy also emphasized that washingtons interests are in prolonging the crisis in ukraine, and europes interests in this field are not the same as those of the americans. Emmanuel macron, the current president of france , said during his visit to china a few months ago that europe should resist the pressure to follow the ways of the United States and have accompanied the nato policies in support of gif since the beginning of the war in uk...