how do those of you who sufferfrom back pain feel about lifting heavy objects? that's apparently what many people need to help the condition. it's about using tissue for it to get stronger. so let's begin. back with me isjeremy cook, the chief economist of the payments company ‘world first‘. iam not i am not sure if you are a back pain sufferer. talking about the huffington post, an interesting article because it gives you a synopsis of the weirdest twists in the whole scandal over the poisoning of the skripals. first of all it says that russia used a twitter poll as evidence. the russian ambassador, when giving a press conference yesterday in response to the accusations of russia, that they are complacent, complicit of this

poisoning in salisbury, —— complicit. he was saying that there was a lack of evidence and was also citing a twitter poll. that well—known scientific... citing a twitter poll. that well-known scientific... as the huffington post said with delicious irony, it is not clear whether the twitter accounts can be viewed outside of the uk itself. we have heard a lot about russian interference on social media and how that has been projected to elections and referendums, this is maybe another example of that. there was a phone call which was apparently between them. there is a transcript. they call it dodgy, or say it is a strange phone calls. it seems, certainly to read it. it seems rather stilted. maybe that is just the russian language translated? they call it a dubious phone call between victoria skripal and her

cousin yulia. certain diminutive frazier ‘s —— phrases known, are used in it, it seems rather strange. acra one and did offer an official statement and was released by the police while the russian ambassador was speaking. it is all very much a game of stage. apparently they have never had the nerve agent, it has been denied that they have a stomach never produced novichok. russia didn't but the soviet union did. let's talk about semantics and turn of the economy. —— in terms of. what does he mean by the risk is —— the us economy is at risk of overheating. it might be going too fast because as much as it needs to be not too slow without what it to

be not too slow without what it to be too fast. would donald trump agree with that? fast is his middle name and especially going into the mid—term elections he want it howard up mid—term elections he want it howard up as mid—term elections he want it howard up as soon as mid—term elections he want it howard up as soon as possible. the head of jp morgan chase coming out and saying that reserve bank had to raise interest rates little bit faster than housing markets have expected if the tax plans start to really filter through into the us economy a little bit quicker. inflation running higher, growth running high and therefore interest rates possibly running higher, maybe stamping down on growth. he is not saying that there will be another crisis because banks have money in the bank and are in a better position. the banking sector in the uk, the us and in europe are a lot that had capitalised and better regulated as well. a much better position. who is the talking to? president trump or the central banks? central banks and also people within markets to make sure this is

understood by most people within wall street. also talking to the us consumer as well, to sit there and say in —— sit there and say if you are not oral and four cars and mortgages, they are going to go at. this is something you would expect from the us treasury secretary. maybe this is a job application. from the us treasury secretary. maybe this is a job applicationm might be opening quite soon. i thought that when we hit puberty our brain cells stopped reproducing and growing and we basically end up becoming dumb and dumber. ifelt the slow decline. i certainly have. this study, i am always quite contentious, the study claims that humans continue to produce new neurons in part of brain involved in learning memory and throughout adulthood. this is the hippocampus. sounds like a big university. as you

said, this is another study. there have been studies, a lot of previous studies that suggested that once we get a certain point of our life, brain stops producing these new cells which are part of the process of building new memories and this is one study that is going against that. as an economist, you look at that. as an economist, you look at that and say that could be an outlier, something which needs to be further reform to. we cannot hang of this too much at the moment but obviously with the world population living longer and therefore our brains have been exposed to more degenerative illnesses as we get older, this will be the new forefront of medical technology moving forward, we can treat cancer, heart disease rates are falling, diabetes rates are falling, but the degenerative illnesses that we

sustain as we get older are still rising. whether this is the new battlefront... rising. whether this is the new battlefront. . . this rising. whether this is the new battlefront... this is close to my heart because my dad suffers from dementia and you hope with all the medical research going into this they might find some sort of way to help people suffering from these illnesses because they are brutal. help people suffering from these illnesses because they are brutallj do think we will see a change in the charity funding methods over the course of the next ten years. the advertisements we see on tv around the world for cancer and heart disease will change to dementia and owls on this topic are you rich? in the grand scheme of things, i am above the average. are you happy? it is early in the morning, but i am, yes. the relation between money and happiness. can money by you happiness. can money by you happiness is the question we all ask. my cancer is it wouldn't buy you happiness, but it makes

unhappiness more bearable. this is the age—old question and is a study done by the world economic forum at this —— to show which countries are happier and which countries are more miserable and obviously the correlation it has. is there a correlation? there is for most countries, looking at places like germany, the netherlands, sweden, all of the countries... normally tied to a standard of living grasping being right at the top. it is or is more interesting to look at the outlay is an interesting to see people who are overly happy without being reached. rich countries like hong kong, they are rich and not happy. luxembourg, much richerthan a lot of the nordic nations and a lot less happy. botswana, one of the richest african nations and is one of the least happy. why is that? richest african nations and is one of the least happy. why is that7m

seems to be that there is a scale of happiness competitor rich you are. let's say you are a multi billionaire and i am on the average wage. if both our networks are doubled, then who is going to marginally more happy? the stats say me because i am therefore able to send my kids to a private school, why a different house whereas you are simply... what if you start off with more money, not if you double your money? that is different. the uk here is pretty average on this map. around the same level of happening as spain, germany, sweden and russia. for the poorer countries, where you are looking at, sorry, for the richer countries, one thing i was looking at is the availability of land. people building houses and in those particular countries it is not available. we don't have a lot of

time. talking about back pain. i pull you avoided lifting heavy things in this article suggests that you need to start lifting heavy things because it helps. another oxymoron. it is all about being supple and strong as opposed to just easing up and resting, as we spoke about, a lot of us sit at desks four hours. wants to buy is of a new seat or chair. i will get him to lift me up or chair. i will get him to lift me up and down then, that will help. jeremy, thank you so much indeed. thanks for watching the briefing. hello. thursday always was set to be one of the best days of this week and so it proved and our weather watchers were very much out in force, probably encouraged

by the fact that it was such a glorious day all the way from scotland to the south coast and across the irish sea and into northern ireland, but that's really rather cruel to use that particular picture to bring you the message that it will be on friday another glorious day for many parts of the british isles because, i'm afraid to say, that belfast and indeed much of northern ireland, it won't be that way for you, and the seeds of the destruction of your glorious friday were there being sown on thursday with this veil of cloud moving in from the atlantic and as we get into the first part of friday, well, the rain will already be there, and how, across northern ireland, and it may already be flirting with the western side of scotland as well. but at least underneath that veil of cloud, it won't be such a cold start to friday in the west as it will be in the east because your skies will be that bit clearer. and it's still that sort of time

of the year where if the skies are clear, the heat will dribble away and you'll start off with a pretty cool start to your day. there, the bigger picture, one of the benefits of having that low pressure out towards our west, is that on its eastern flank, we're sucking up all this mild air from the western part of the mediterranean and from iberia. so eventually, as you will see, our temperatures really will respond to that. but, i'm afraid, out towards the west, there is no disguising the fact that once the rain has set in, it will probably keep on coming across northern and western parts of scotland. certainly for the greater part of the day for northern ireland and for the western fringes of wales. here, the temperatures may struggle, just about getting into double figures. but further towards the east, somebody is going to see 16 or 17 degrees somewhere across the south—eastern quarter. from friday into saturday, we'll push that initial pulse of rain away. but we've still got a linkage, actually, that frontal system bringing the prospect of yet more

rain, somewhere across central and eastern parts of the british isles in the first part of the day. i think northern ireland, central and southern parts of scotland, maybe the western fringes of wales and the south—west, could get away with a dry day. there is some uncertainty, but i think one of the things that we can say about the weekend is that the temperatures for many of us, because of that essentially southerly flow, will stay in double figures and again, there isjust this prospect on sunday of a little bit of rain for some, but many could well stay dry. and, as i say, on the mild side. hello, this is breakfast, withjon kay and naga munchetty. a new tax on sugary drinks comes into force across the uk. the sweetest drinks will be taxed at up to 24p a litre in an attempt to tackle obesity and tooth decay. but how much will it cost us? some companies have already changed their recipes to avoid the charge. i'll look at what difference it could make to prices. good morning, it's

friday the 6th of april. also this morning: russia accuses the uk of playing with fire over the salisbury spy poisoning in a bad—tempered meeting at the un security council.