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The uk has recorded its second hottest day ever, with temperatures reaching over 38 degrees in cambridge. Forecasters are warning the heat could lead to heavy rain in some areas. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Prime push heads and was on. It shares fall as earnings disappoint. And amazon and getting paid to play video games. We start with amazon as shares have fallen after its earnings disappointed investors. Revenues for the three month to the end ofjune came in at 63. 1; billion dollars. Up about 20 from a year ago, just over 2. 6 billion dollars was actually pro...

We start with amazon, because the Online Retail giant has revealed another set of mind boggling sales figures. Ceo jeff bezos says efforts to make one day delivery the norm for prime customers are paying off with accelerating sales growth. Shares have fallen though as investors were disappointed with how little profit amazon is making on all that business. Lets show you the details. Amazon made revenues of 63. 4 billion in the three months to the end ofjune. That was up 20 on the same period last year. But only around 2. 6 billion of that was profit less than investors were hoping. And its for...

Democrats prepare a resolution condemning Donald Trumps racist attacks of four members of congress. Republicans will have to decide how to vote. Also on the programme germanys defence minister, ursula von der leyen has been confirmed as the new European Commission president. And the medical team from great ormond street hospital in london who have separated, with some extraordinary skill, the conjoined twins marwa and safa, we will speak to one of the surgeons. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington, and Christian Fraser is in london. On this day 50 years ago, three men got into a rocke...

Weather, perhaps cloud. Temperatures reach closer to average values. For many that probably will come as somewhat of a relief. Were still talking about the low 20s across the northern half of the uk, up to 26, 27 further south. On into the weekend, some uncertainty. This area of low pressure looks like it could bring pretty heavy rain. El pais it bushes remains to be seen. But for the south west of england and south wales it could be a very wet day on saturday. Sunday at the moment looks as though and sijsling settling. Temperatures lifting up. Into next week it is a bit of a battle. Low press...

With sarah montague. Welcome to hardtalk. Im sarah montague. My guest today has a reputation for telling uncomfortable economic truths. He famously predicted the Global Financial crisis of 2008. Now Raghuram Rajan says capitalism is under threat and if World Leaders want to save liberal democracies from a surge in populism they need to give more power to local communities and take it away from big governments and big businesses. When he left his job as governor of Indias Central Bank he said that it was better to be a doer than an advisor. Now the superstar central banker is being talked of as...