next we have the financial times. the paper looks at uber and its plan to develop flying taxis. it reports on the ride—hailing giant's plans to invest 20 million euros in france over the next five years to create a research and development centre for the project. the website politico has a story on the british foreign secretary boris johnson being pranked by russian pranksters pretending to be the armenian prime minister. the article says that the topics of the salisbury poisoning, and president putin were discussed in the conversation. and finally, we have an article from the independent about a study that's found that graphic health warnings on cans of sugary drinks could deter people from buying them. with me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates and a former director of communications at africa development bank. welcome back to you. let's start with the straits times then and the big news that president trump has called off this historic summit. well, it was going to be a stoic, it

is certainly no more for the moment. what is your take on this? in other words, it is not a complete surprise. only two days ago, americanjournalist surprise. only two days ago, american journalist quoted as saying that they have all been advised by flexible tickets, ones that could be cancelled. yeah. and do the same for anyone else. what it does show really is that negotiating world peaceis really is that negotiating world peace is not as easy as a business deal. i think most of us probably knew that. it is in the paper before we had the response from north korea, which is amazingly conciliatory in its tone, isn't it? they are saying they are willing to continue dialogue with the united states at any time, in any place.|j think that will surprise a lot of us, the tone coming from north korea. the key thing is that these things take months to negotiate. you can't say because president trump

says that i will have a meeting of the north korean leader, it doesn't mean that things are in place. so what i think this tells us is that people need to go back to the drawing board and say right, what is that we want to achieve? because that we want to achieve? because that was not clear from the us side, they had different interpretations to what removing nuclear weapons actually means. so what you do need is to go back to the drawing board and say right, this is exactly what we need. the leaders usually come in at the end to put their signatures to the agreement. that has happened this time. yes, there were visits by mike pompeo, the us secretary of state, but that does not mean all the preparation work had gone in and until that is done, nothing can happen. president trump has responded, he said nobody should be anxious, we have to get it right. as he said, they have kind of left into this. we've had in the past high—profile summits, months and

months of negotiations, and as you say this has not happened here and they are not trying to catch up with themselves. are you still optimistic that this could happen?” themselves. are you still optimistic that this could happen? i think is going to be working hard, there is talk that it could lead to a nobel peace prize. i sometimes wonder if that was not his motivation rather than actually securing a deal. i think it may happen but you do need a good five to six months of detailed negotiation as to what would be at the summit, so that everybody is clear. let's move on to the guardian now and this is the ongoing saga of the non—brexit deal that the british government is embroiled in, and it is a fairly damning interview they have with an unnamed tough eu official, saying that the uk is chasing a fantasy. nearly two years on from that referendum, we still seem the most of the big areas no closer to agreement. that is right. i think

this will continue for the next period at least, even beyond 2019, when the united kingdom is supposed to leave the eu. i frankly look forward to a time we will not be talking about brexit. does that mean you think we will have a high brexit than? do you think we will not reach a deal by 2019? i do think if you look at the history of eu deals, they always go down to the wire and in the wee small hours, at around aam, 3am, finally do is cut and i actually think that is what is going to happen this time. so you think this is posturing? i do not think it is posturing, i think it is the fact that both sides are not really getting to grips, i mean the key thing here is the northern ireland water. you have hard border, you have what is sometimes called a soft border, where you are using electronics to monitor the moving of goods across the border. so once thatis goods across the border. so once that is solved, i think they can go

on to other things. in this case, it is about the satellite project, and there are still quibbles, there is going to acquittals quibbles at every stage. but i think at the end, we shall get something that shall be agreed. still a long road ahead, as you say. let's move on to the story here about uber giving emmanuel macron a lift with flying taxi investment. this is the financial times. $20 million to create flying taxi is, it does not sound like an awful lot of money really?” taxi is, it does not sound like an awful lot of money really? ijust loved it, this has come out of the uber publicity machine. you do remember that the company is facing some challenges, not least in the city of london in terms of its licensors and how it operates. and of course, president macron has been really trying to woo companies to paris and france in general. tech

companies. tech companies in particular. i am companies. tech companies in particular. iam not companies. tech companies in particular. i am not sure what we're going to do with flying uber planes, just that mean if i need to go sort of five kilometres, i will get into an aeroplane? where will the land? it isa an aeroplane? where will the land? it is a rather confusing story on there is not much detail. not much detail, we have seen the same thing with self driving cars. rather a long way off. i think they are saying by 2023. eight 2023. this is going to be a commercial operation. let's look at this story now, this is about boris johnson let's look at this story now, this is about borisjohnson being cranked and having a so—called long chat with the new armenian prime minister. this is an amazing one because a lot of times, you have your civil servants verify who is going to speak to somebody over the —— of the stature of the foreign secretary. my question is how did it

get to this? how to get the level of speaking to a prime minister? these are discussions between two countries, so... yeah. well, it didn't. perhaps amazingly. some would say, but you would, not me. i think it really speaks to the fact that someone is not reputable on this. before something like this happens, they really should be some preparation on this done. absolutely, you would imagine. let's have a look at this story in the independent, this is about how sugary drinks should be advertised and whether or not horrible pictures of rotten teeth should appear on the labelling. what do you think of this? i think this is actually a very serious story and i think it is something actually, i actually think we'll be moving this way. this story talks about the form and in the way

that we have on cigarette packets, and actually by having a graphic in the form of rotting teeth that shows what should we can actually do to you, and they say that warnings about things like diabetes should be mentioned on these packets, this study shows that when such things are mentioned on a packet and displayed, there is an effect and there is actually a drop in people consuming these particular drinks or foods or whatever. obesity has been a big issue, but now i'll we must look at things like the rotting teeth that can result from some of these products. i actually think thatis these products. i actually think that is the direction things are going to be moving. yeah. and i am afraid i think those warnings are coming. do you think it has to be a top—down approach than because there area top—down approach than because there are a lot of accusations that the food industry is just not meeting its sugar reduction targets, so some are arguing there needs to be

government regulation here? are arguing there needs to be government regulation here ?m are arguing there needs to be government regulation here? if you remember, there was a long campaign to get to the sugar tax introduction stage. now that that has been done, campaigners are moving to the next age. that's hope that something is done because we all have far too much sugar, don't we?” done because we all have far too much sugar, don't we? i am as guilty as anybody‘s. much sugar, don't we? i am as guilty as anybody's. i would be interested to know, and that is something that we actually don't know, how well those graphic teachers work. if you actually smoke, i do not know whether it has put you off. thank you so much for taking us through those stories and thank you to you for watching the briefing. from me, samantha simmonds, and the rest of the team, goodbye. hello. the forecast for the bank holiday weekend is a somewhat messy one. yes, there'll be a lot of warmth.

there'll be some rather muggy conditions as well and some spells of spring sunshine but also some thundery downpours, and predicting exactly where and when the worst of those will turn up is going to prove quite tricky. you can see the way these thunderclouds have been spreading quite eratically northwards across the western side of europe, and that's the sort of weather pattern that is going to continue through the weekend. here's one clump of heavy thunderstorms and downpours drifting across the midlands, wales and up into northern england. a lot of cloud in the south as we start off the day, but that cloud should break up into some spells of sunshine. still a small chance of one or two showers and thunderstorms. the main wet weather will be in wales and northern england. for northern ireland and scotland here, the best of the sunshine, although for some north—eastern coastal parts of scotland, there'll be some mist and murk, and low cloud hanging around at times.

as far as temperatures go, a bit disappointing if you get stuck under cloud. in the sunshine, highs around 22 or 23 degrees. during friday night, we'll see these showers and storms start to drift further west, they will start to fizzle as they go. a lot of cloud left behind. some rather misty and murky conditions to take us into saturday. temperatures around 12 to 1a degrees. saturday starts off with a lot of cloud, that should break up to some sunshine, particularly across the northern half of the british isles. across the south, the increasing chance that we will see some really vicious thunderstorms breaking up. they will be quite hit and miss. the best of the sunshine, those temperatures creeping up 21 to 2a or 25 degrees, because we're going to be importing this very warm air from the new continent. what we're also going to be bringing up from the south is clusters of heavy, thundery downpours.

you can see the way these frontal systems will continue to drift in. it looks likely that on sunday, we could see particularly intense downpours and thunderstorms, especially down towards the south—west. here, a quieter weather story with some spells of sunshine and some pleasant warmth at 18 to 2a degrees. further south, there will be some spells of sunshine but quite a muggy feel and the threat of some really intense downpours and thunderstorms, particularly on sunday. hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and steph mcgovern. north korea hits back at donald trump. they insist they're willing to talk "whenever, however" after the us president cancelled next month's summit. a spectacular show for the world as the north appears to destroy its only known nuclear testing site. good morning, it's friday 25th may.

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