staying with the ft, a story on their website about netflix announces that the streaming site's subscriber figures have far exceeded wall street estimations with the number of base subscribers reaching 104 million. an interesting uk story on the front page of the guardian says that "sexist stereotypes" are going to be banned in adverts here. it's the latest in a crackdown on adverts that critics say promote unhealthy gender expectations. and finally, there on every page of the uk newspapers, prince william, kate and their two children george and charlotte, snapped on their royal tour in poland. of course, many talking of the royals renewed role in post—brexit diplomacy, but most photos like this one focusing on the young prince george. so let's begin. with me is maike currie, investment director at fidelity personal investing thank you for coming in. let's begin with that story in the washington post. us and russian officials meeting as the kremlin accuses

washington of robbery of those diplomatic properties. just the latest in this ongoing saga between russia and the us. what is interesting, something this article points out is that relations between the us and russia are at a post—cold war low. this all relates back to the allegations that moscow interfered in the 2016 us presidential election. i suspect this is not the last we will hear about skirmishes between the two countries. this particular issue between these two properties, russia saying there could be a tit for tat response if it is not resolved. what could happen? what they say is that they could seize us owned properties in moscow. it is getting quite childish, really. where it will end, we don't know. they have been meetings between president trump and putin and diplomats, and one of the issues has been these diplomatic

compounds. it is interesting that when this first happened, 0bama was in power, and putin held off taking any sort of action to see what the result was. we can read between the lines that there is probably a bit more going on here. let's move on. let's ta ke more going on here. let's move on. let's take a look at china's railways, apparently beset eye cancellations and delays. the whole idea behind this was that china was going to export its expertise in high—speed railways right across the globe. and that this would be china's golden business ticket. but it all seems to be going horribly wrong. in lots of countries, there have been delays. countries like libya, mexico, venezuela. some factors are beyond china's control, like the civil war in libya. then there are other factors around project management in these countries taking on high levels of debt. it reiterates the fact that china needs to move its focus from infrastructure to really focus on the domestic economy. it is

interesting, what works in china is not necessarily going to work elsewhere. the size of china means they can invest huge amounts of money in these railways and they can run with lots of debt, but lots of the countries they were trying to export this to cannot cope those levels of debt. exactly. debt is central to the problems here. also, lots of suspicions from the local populations, suspicions about china's intentions with investing in the country. it is quite interesting. it is a blow to china's reputation as an engineering and project management expert. reputation as an engineering and project management expertlj reputation as an engineering and project management expert. i wanted to ask you about those second—quarterfigures to ask you about those second—quarter figures from china yesterday, 6.9% growth as expected. there is always a hint of civil suspicion over china's economic figures. what was your take on yesterday? the figures are in line with what china wants to achieve. they have said they want 6.5 cent growth. it is i watering growth for the rest of the world, but it is really about the quality of growth.

—— eye really about the quality of growth. — — eye watering. really about the quality of growth. —— eye watering. if it is all about infrastructure projects like roads and railways to nowhere, that is not the kind of growth china wants to see. it really wants to see the middle—class rise in growth coming from a rising domestic consumer. let's talk about netflix. are you signed up? i am, i am a big netflix van. i'm not, i believe in traditional analogue television. i'm interested in what this means for traditional television. interested in what this means for traditional televisionlj interested in what this means for traditional television. i think the competition isjust traditional television. i think the competition is just hotting traditional television. i think the competition isjust hotting up. it is all about original content. netflix's real selling point is the fa ct netflix's real selling point is the fact it is creating its own content. with serious like house of cards and oranges to new black. it is really pulling in subscribers. netflix makes up that group of technology companies known as fang, so facebook, alphabet, netflix and

google. netflix has said it does not see itself as a disruptive technology company. it sees itself asa technology company. it sees itself as a curator of content. it is all about creating its own content. it is really doing very well. it is interesting. we were discussing it on world business report and our guest was talking about the threat they pose to hollywood, because in many ways netflix is helping to fund the creation of a lot of new hollywood movies. but they released a movie last month with brad pitt which they released in a theatre and netflix some of any slip. so it is this sort of friend and me —— frenemy situation, supporting hollywood at also rivalling them. the share prices up of over 20% this year alone. what's of people don't switch on toward merry television any more. it will be interesting for companies like itv, whojust got a new chief executive. how are they going to faces competition from companies like netflix? it is a really worrying time for traditional

analogue television, because their advertising model is about getting a certain number of viewers, and they make money from advertising. definitely. this is moving towards the subscriber model, which is a completely different way of thinking about business. it seems to be working. we have a headline in the guardian. watch talk to ban ads pandering to gender stereotypes. —— watchdog. it is about time. if you think about those gender specific ads, they are ads that should be in the 1950s or 1960s. if you look critically, lots of advertisers, whether on television or in print, there is still lots of gender stereotyping. i think this is a good thing. i am interested as to how they will police something like this and argue that a particular rat might bend towards a particular stereotype. —— particular advert might bend. yes, it would have to be subjective. it will not be a blanket ban. women will still be allowed to go into the kitchen and men will still be allowed to do diy tasks. it is something that —— something to

look at quite critically. in this day and age we should not have this reinforcement of gender stereotypes. it does plan to people's subconscious. they were talking about an subconscious. they were talking aboutan ad subconscious. they were talking about an ad campaign that is gap did which they didn't have to pull them up which they didn't have to pull them up on, because when it was pointed out to them they would do it. they had a boy dressed as a little scholar and the girl was a social butterfly and it said "your future begins here". it is quite categorising com isn't it? it is extraordinary in 2017 that we see advertisements, when there are cleaning products, you do not see many in the kitchen. you do not see men in the house. it is appalling. i have a real bugbear about this. 0k, let's talk about prince george and princess charlotte. the uk papers we have here are covered in pictures. whether they are royal or not royal, they are just very cute toddlers. they are. it does seem that, you can

see prince william here, trying to convince the young prince to take a walk on the red carpet, so what is interesting, or maybe not that interesting, or maybe not that interesting, is that even though they are royal is they still have they are royal is they still have the same challenges that all parents are. but the royals are seeming to ta ke are. but the royals are seeming to take this central place in continuing to connect region and europe in the context of brexit. —— connects britain and europe. absolutely. the diplomatic role that the royals need to play at this time of great uncertainty, and we have —— and when we have all this infighting in the cabinet and brexit is not moving very fast, there is lots of uncertainty, we cannot underestimate how important a part they play as diplomats. do you think this will make any difference? then going on these trips with their cue children. do you think it will make any difference to brexit negotiations or trade negotiations? well, it is arguable. i think it doesn't hurt, let's put it that way. it might hurt george. he doesn't like it on the red carpet. they like to get william

and kate in boats, don't they? they are doing a boat race in heidelberg, the twin city to cambridge. they will be de kock science. —— the coxswa i ns. will be de kock science. —— the coxswains. one thing that is clearly still true, royal pictures sell papers. george looks quite shy. charlotte is the confident one, stealing the show. that is mean. don't pit them against each other. sibling rivalry, they have to deal with it. and that is all from us with the papers. reg in a mart will have the rest of the headlines through the day and i will be back with business. —— reged ahmad. hello there, good morning. yesterday, we saw 27 degrees in the london area, with increasing amounts of medium and upper—level cloud, but the sky stayed pretty much clear in northern scotland. and, through the day today,

we're going to see those temperatures creeping up a notch or two. 29 degrees somewhere in england and wales. then midweek, big changes on the way, some thunderstorms heading our way, and then by the end of the week, it is going to be a good deal cooler, 27 degrees. as the cloud goes to the southern half of the uk, clearer skies further north to end the day on monday. and, with those clearer skies, we see temperatures dipping down to 11—12 degrees in major cities, and rural areas could be single figures. but not so further south — it is a warm night here. today, a south—easterly breeze striking in some hot and humid air from the near continent. that breeze will be quite a noticeable breeze, in the south—east in particular. but a decent day for many places. some sunshine for much of scotland. maybe a shower or two developing as we get on into the afternoon, but a lot of sunshine, and it is going to be quite warm as well. 25 in glasgow and 22 in inverness. northern ireland should have a decent afternoon, 22 degrees or so, similar in northern england. always a bit fresh along that north sea coast. but get away from that, 25 or so in the manchester area. southern england and wales

gets to 28—29 degrees. but, as we get down towards the south—west, we start to see some thunderstorms developing. they will be in the channel islands early on, and drift ever northwards. hit and miss, but if you get one, you will know all about it. and those thunderstorms continuing to drift their way north through the small hours of wednesday. there will be some hail, some gusty winds to go with that. wednesday itself, thunderstorms continuing to drift north. dry in large parts of england and wales. but then we see more rain coming in from the west, and some of that could be quite heavy. temperatures coming down a little bit across the west side, norwich 29 degrees, but generally temperatures are beginning to come back down on wednesday. and that process continues on into thursday. as this weather front goes from west to east, it will bring some rain with it, and also some fresher air. for the golfers at royal birkdale, quite strong winds making it challenging. early rain and then sunshine and showers into the afternoon, and temperatures in the upper teens.

so on thursday, yes, some rain spreads from west to east. it will be an unsettled end to the week, with some more general rain across quite a large area. hello, this is breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. increases in life expectancy in england are levelling off for the first time in a century. dementia and lifestyle could be to blame — experts behind the study say it's deeply concerning. good morning, it's tuesday the 18th ofjuly also this morning: just a handful of survivors have received any of the money these are some of the donations made to g re nfell these are some of the donations made to grenfell tower. just a handful of survivors have received any of the money