with me is cornelia meyer, chief executive of mrl corporation, a business consultancy. you are an economist and you love to talk economics. we have the best brea kfast. talk economics. we have the best breakfast. the yellow vest. it is true, your previous guest said the same thing. it was initially against fuel tax, minimal wage. same thing. it was initially against fuel tax, minimalwage. there are same thing. it was initially against fuel tax, minimal wage. there are a lot of people feeling disenfranchised because they work may be three jobs and they can't make ends meet and that ripples throughout europe. you see it in germany... you see it in the uk. i think that was one of the reason

they voted for brexit, against the ruling classes in westminster. there area ruling classes in westminster. there are a few up protesters and eduard phillippe, the prime minister make a concession in his speech, as did president macron. they have upped the minimum wage, with a nice stand—off, not like the italians with the eu. but will it do the trick of satisfying the discontented? thomas was saying you have the big major cities in france doing extremely well, and then you have the rural small town... you're shaking your head but before i finish, i was listening to what he was saying and he was describing spain, at italy... eastern germany... it is a problem

developing the many decades and will become more acute with automation and everything. the reason i was shaking my head, the right of the professionals in the cities but you go to the outskirts and you have people who have not been in work for generations, essentially... people who have not been in work for generations, essentially. . m people who have not been in work for generations, essentially... if you are president macron or angela merkel, theresa may, how do you resolve this problem when you have limited resources and also you have quite a tricky political situation ina quite a tricky political situation in a sense that a approval ratings are in a sense that a approval ratings a re pretty low. in a sense that a approval ratings are pretty low. there is something else that comes into the french scenario, he has come in with their new move it and basically displaced all be existing parties so basically there is no real opposition in parliament... and that spells out

onto the street... exactly. that gives the more legitimacy because other people that might have fought some things in parliament, let's say the socialists, they may be more enticed tojoin in the socialists, they may be more enticed to join in the thought process of the guys on the street. in order to resolve the kind of issues we are discussing, you have to have very long—term thinking. politicians do not do that. they have to get re—elected. politicians do not do that. they have to get re-elected. one good example, the german chancellor who had this reform which set germany up to succeed. it got him out of office but he had far reaching reforms that set up the country is to succeed. most politicians will not do that. they either won't or they can't

because they will not get it...|j would say that president macron is ina very would say that president macron is in a very good space in parliament because that is why he attempted the reforms because he essentially does not have an opposition in parliament but the opposition of them went on the street. and he has had to change his policies. in italy, wolfsburg reporting that the italians have come to some sort of deal, something that may be palatable to brussels. it is and it is not. it reduces the budget deficit to 2.0 from 2.4%. the issue here is that, according to the eu, you are allowed to have a gdp to over rolled debts of 60%. its only

is ata over rolled debts of 60%. its only is at a whopping 132%. the only one thatis is at a whopping 132%. the only one that is worse is a grease. they would need to do more to reduce the budget but then you have the worse of both worlds, the lego, and chink was still at, the right and the left. the right wings have pushed in the tax reforms and the left push through minimum wage so it all went off kilter. let's hope that they can come to a resolution but it is going to bea come to a resolution but it is going to be a tough one and in ourfront is following on their heels. the economists who hired interviewed about italy, it has been going on for a couple of months of the story, most say that the budget as it was looking like at that point was putting them in a direct confrontation with russell ‘s, that

there could be fined etc etc, but all of them seem to think it is on the table were not going to help the italian economy anyway. they will not necessarily boost the italian economy. if you look at the forecasts of several economist ‘s income is that it 0.7% and it puts it out of kilter in terms of the eu and the same time it does not do anything for you but that is what happens when you have... it was on about the budget but it is about how the la liga and five stars combined. —— lega. the la liga and five stars combined. -- lega. a ceasefire in hudaydah, the main port in yemen. talk us through this article. this is a saudi backed paper, the arab news.

are we hopeful we will see the ceasefire tomorrow? i hope so, i hope so but there are many things that can get it off kilter. we may see a ceasefire for a short time and then, one of the two parties does something stupid and we are back into full—fledged war. but we have to hope because if you look at the port of hudaydah, that is where the un help gets in and people are starving so you need to get the help him. the saudi backed coalition has also appointed a lot of the arms for iran's for the houthi rebels. let's hope it happens and stays but i am not that optimistic. we shall keep a close eye. the globe and mail, at the end of the trudeau government

china delusion. a strong editorial. it is but we like those. what are they saying? they are saying, if you think you need to understand that china is a police state and not a democracy and they are showing their true colours now. what happened is that meng wanzhou, the cfo and daughter of huawei was detained because of an extradition order from the us and trump or no—trump, we are a lwa ys the us and trump or no—trump, we are always close to that us and they are right. we are little bit delusional, china is not a western democracy. they are doing a lot of the right things on the environment but in democracy not. billie jean king, are you afan? democracy not. billie jean king, are you a fan? she got a lifetime award.

the woman on 39 grand slams. a trailblazer. she founded the women's tennis association and her epic match with bobby riggs which was about equal pay. she was way ahead of her time. she paid quite a big prize as well, personally it was not easy to be a trailblazer. no, but it never is. thank you for your company today. i hope you have a good day and a good week and i will see it very soon. and a good week and i will see it very soon. bye—bye. hello there. we're seeing a significant change in weather type as we're heading towards christmas. the weather this week looks very different to last week. the weather didn't move an awful lot last week, a big blocking area of high pressure and we were drawing in some cold air from continental europe.

but earlier in the weekend, storm deirdre blew away that really cold air and since then we have seen our weather coming in from the atlantic. that cloud will bring some rain, that cloud has already brought some rain. that's moving away and with clearing skies and light winds, it's going to be cold enough come the morning for maybe a touch of frost and perhaps some icy patches as well. but a lovely looking day for many central and eastern parts of the uk. it should be dry on monday. there'll be a fair but of sunshine around, the winds will be lighter but further west, the winds are going to be strengthening, the cloud increasing and we see some outbreaks of rain and drizzle arriving, especially in the afternoon. later in the day, winds could be touching gale force across some western coasts. but it's a southerly wind, so it's a mild wind. 12 degrees in northern ireland and a milder day across the board than it was on sunday. now, eventually that area of low pressure is going to bring us some showers, but at the moment it's playing second fiddle to that weather front there which is bringing wet and windy weather in from the west overnight and continuing on tuesday. gales for a while. the rain moving very slowly eastwards, there'll be some

outbreaks of heavy rain and with snowmelt in scotland there's likely to be some localised flooding. the weather should improve later in northern ireland, and it takes all day for the rain to arrive in east anglia. it will be another mild one, those temperatures up to ii or 12 celsius. eventually that rain should push its way eastwards out of the way on tuesday night into wednesday morning, and then that area of low pressure starts to get a bit closer and that'll be a focus for some showers. there'll still be some spells of sunshine on wednesday, a lot of places in the east will be dry, although the south—east corner catching a few showers here. most of the showers or even longer spells of rain coming into northern ireland across western scotland over the irish sea into western parts of england and wales. temperature won't be as high on wednesday, 7—10 degrees. still not bad, though. that area of low pressure is going to sit around during wednesday and into thursday as well. but it's a filling area of low pressure, that means pressure is rising across it, so it's weakening, the winds becoming lighter, the showers becoming fewer, but there will still be some spells of sunshine. there are showers around out in the west and through the english channel as well, and the temperatures

on thursday much like those on wednesday. it could turn quite chilly overnight on thursday night, some mist and fog around as well. and then we look again to the atlantic to see another change, milder air bringing cloud and some rain up from the south—west. good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and steph mcgovern. our headlines today: theresa may warns another eu referendum would cause irreparable damage to british politics. but supporters of the vote insist it could be the only way of breaking the brexit deadlock. a father fights for his life after a house fire that killed his wife and two children in nottinghamshire. good morning. gearing up for the getaway. it is set to be the busiest winter wheat for britain's airports, so how are they making sure it all

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