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trump s tax cuts and those french elections. riding the wave of the foodie revolution. celebrity chef mark hix will be with us to talk, food, fads and investment. today, we want to know is cash your king? a survey says a third of us would rather pay digitally, do you still carry cash or is contactless the future? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. cash, rachel. always carry that with you. i shouldn t say that. i don t have any cash on me! shaking up the tax system has been a major theme of the trump administration. today he s promising what he describes as a big announcement on his planned reforms. in fact, mr trump has already said he s planning what he s called maybe the biggest tax cut we ve ever had . during the campaign he talked about cutting the top individual tax rate from 36.9% to 25%. in terms of business, he wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. mr trump has also proposed charging american firms a one off tax ofjust 10% on money t ....
terrorist attack. downing street says an emergency meeting of the cabinet office is expected to take place at around nine in the morning. that is local time. ed thomas is close to the scene of the incident in manchester and joins us now. it has been a few hours since the event. manchester police are treating it as a terrorist incident. they have confirmed that. give us an update. let it has been five hours now. several ambulances are still leaving. they are packed with injured people making their way down here and spreading them to hospitals gci’oss here and spreading them to hospitals across greater manchester. this is a sense of where i am. we have moved to the north of the city. the whole area is cordoned off. there is no getting in or out. this is as close as we can get to it. you can see the kew park. to the back is where the arena is. most people have made their way out. you can see people just wanting to get out of the city now and leave and get home and get to ....
i heard a big explosion, and ijust saw my partner and my daughter running towards me. and my daughter was screaming, crying, and my partner said, quickly, let s go. quickly, there s been an explosion, let s go, quick as you can. and i just couldn t get out of there quick enough. and just all these people come running down the stairs, screaming, pushing each other, screaming, crying, and it wasjust it were manic. but i only heard one explosion. that s all i heard, one explosion. so imran, your partner and your daughter had literally been seconds out of the building when it went off. yeah, it was literally well, she was at the top of the stairs when the explosion went off, and grabbed my daughter and literally ran down the stairs with her. and fortunately my car s quite distinctive, so she saw me straightaway. and there were just people running out in front of me, screaming, and ijust assumed that they d seen a celebrity or seen, you know. because minutes before, a co ....
after a global computer system failure. ba says it hopes to get passengers onto the next available flights over the weekend. as you can see behind me there is a huge queue waiting for any information. my main concern is that i don t want my 80 year old grandma spending the night on heathrow floor. the terror threat level in the uk which was increased to the highest status of critical following the manchester bombing has been reduced to severe . there will be more arrests and more searches, but there s greater clarity and progress has led jtac, the independent body that assesses threat, to come to the judgment that an attack is no longer imminent. police and army bomb disposal experts evacuate an area of moss side as part of an ongoing search linked to the manchester arena bombing. there are new revelations about president trump s son in law, jared kushner, and his alleged involvement in secret dealings with russia. us media is reporting that the fbi is investigating ....
fallen sharply after fears that the conservatives might not get the majority in the general election that many are thinking may happen. hi claire castle may be better known as the filming location for down to gnabry but it s also home to europe s most successful horse racing ownership company. we ll get the inside track with harry herbert. and it s been revealed the bank of england s staff have been studying dr seuss to brush up on communication skills because he has been described as a master of using simple language. with like to know what business language you think would benefit from the dr seuss treatment. we promise no jargon here on business live. india has retained its crown as the fastest growing major economy in the world. economists are predicting indian economy grew by 7.1%, that s in the first three months of this year. but would be faster than china which is currently at 6.9%. the resilience of the indian economy will be welcome news for prime minister nar ....