The company sold 34,000 phones an hour every hour for the quarter. Caroline hyde has more. The growth is absolutely immense. It is insane numbers. 18 billion. That is 200 million a day. I the time i finished speaking apple will have made half 1 million. This is a phenomenal company. They beat analyst estimates. They wanted record smashed amalie have smashed them. Look at these figures. Bigger than yemens entire gdp. Bigger than icelands annual economy. Adding up microsoft and google it is more than that. They are dominating the competition. In fact, in one quarter they managed to provide as much profit as General Motors makes in a year. The growth is so phenomenal. 18 billion is 30 more than last year. The new product, the innovation is shining through. Iphone 6, the bigger screens are winning out across not only android wooing over more people from android, but also asia. The bigger screens are amazing. Steve jobs, four years ago, said they would never sell. Who would buy a bigger pho
Apparent interest in allowing him to explain any of his answers. And that is by any objective assessment. You did answer this question. You said under penalty of perjury, i want to answer the question. You have to let him answer. Im reclaiming my time. At least let him answer the question and the accusations made against him. Can we take a fiveminute break mr. Chairman . No. Martha and i would turn to the Vice President who has led the response to the covid19 pandemic. Welcome Vice President. I want to get your reaction to what happened today. You spent many years on the hill and what did you think about that Committee Hearing today with attorney general barr. It was clear that the democrats on the committee wanted to be heard more than they wanted to listen. The bar is leading the Justice Department in this country with great integrity and brings a lifetime commitment to the rule of law. But to see it today and the little bit that i was able to watch, it was clear that the democrats w
Then the announcement about the posts 2014 engagement in afghanistan was somewhat preceded by the other views that came out about the business that took lace. Were going to see all of that in the context of relations in the week forward. We are happy to have a ofmidable panel here individuals who are not only expert but who have worked as petitioners as well to share as their views. There is news from afghanistan that eats popping a, i watched this morning Suicide Attack on one of the brothers. Thankfully, it failed. Are dead andians many injured. I would like to start by panelists first. Then we will have each one of them give their presentation for a few minutes. Afterward we will have an opportunity to have a discussion amongst ourselves if anyone feels the need to do so. We will turn it over to you for questions and answers. Please, turn off your cell phones if you have not already. Live in america and by cspan1 i believe. Everything that you say is on the record. [laughter] let me
To protect against it. But how far are we from developing them . Tim muffett visited a Coronavirus Testing Lab to find out more. In this quarantine unit in east london, a doctor monitors people in fact it where the respiratory virus. They have got the virus through choice, they are paid volunteers on him vaccines and drugs are being tested. The plan is to other volu nteers tested. The plan is to other volunteers here to soon be given a mild strain of coronavirus. We will take Healthy Volunteers and we will inoculate them with a version of the human coronavirus, follow their disease time course and then return them to healthy. It is known as a controlled human infection model. It will deepen Scientific Understanding of the virus. Volunteers will be paid around £3000 and will have to stay in a room like this for two weeks. So this is the room where our volunteers will be staying. This isnt a big room, how hard to some people find it to stay in a room the size of two weeks . For some peo
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. When italy first quarantined 11 northern towns over fears of a potential coronavirus outbreak in mid february it was a small part of a global story that still largely centered on china. Today one month on europe finds itself at the heart of the worlds coronavirus pandemic, ramping up restrictions on its citizens whilst straining to cope with the explosion in infections. Thousands of Army Reservists have been called up in switzerland to relieve hospitals under pressure as the number of people testing positive for coronavirus jumped by fifteen percent in twenty four hours; it is now more than eight and a half thousand. Spain has again registered its highest daily death toll of people from the virus, four hundred and sixty two have died in the past day. The deputy Prime Minister, carmen calvo, is being tested in hospital. In italy there is some good news, the rate of infection has dropped for the second day in a row but its still europes worst affected