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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  January 18, 2019 5:45am-6:00am GMT

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with me is bev shah, co—founder and chief executive of city hive. thank you very much. shall we start with this story here? the duke of edinburgh, the daily mail saying how did he walk away? it seems extraordinary, looking at this image. this is a 2.5 ton car. yes, and he is a 97—year—old man who is extremely frail, from what we have heard about his health reports. i was actually shocked that he still drove himself, i know a few years ago he famously drove the obama is somewhere but i always thought that was a slight publicity stunt and it was a slight publicity stunt and it was a slight publicity stunt and it was a local drive, not a kind of long—distance journey that he was doing —— obamas. i think this obviously brings up issues to do with safety of people on the roads, and there is a lot of debate now, i am sure, about the age of people and when you should test and drive. i
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know that some commentators have been concerned about prince philip's independents, so it will be interesting to see whether they manage to curb that strong character that he has, the independence he so fights for, and it is testament to who he is, if he can walk away from that it who he is, if he can walk away from thatitis who he is, if he can walk away from that it is just incredible. it also shows what a great vehicle it is, land rover obviously making steady enough cars. it does appear to be a pretty good advert for the land rover, less so for the kia, the car in the background, which was also involved in the collision. the two women we understand are in hospital with minor injuries. well, there is no competition, kia is a lot smaller and against land rover, you haven't got a chance. what are your thoughts on 97—year—old people driving, just
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out of interest? i am a40 -year-old who has a licence and doesn't drive, so who has a licence and doesn't drive, soi who has a licence and doesn't drive, so i think... i think it is not about age, it is about ability, but you have to question, he is 97, and if you have other health issues, it should all be about the safety of people on the roads. it shouldn't be about who you are, and it would be interesting if this story wasn't about prince philip, but another 97—year—old having done this, what the headlines would be, and would it be more... a lot of the headlines are all about how resilient and how amazing that he walked away from this, but if it was someone else, a regular member of the public, would it have been about whether it was... what is the right word? a sensible thing to do. that is what is the debate. 0k, thing to do. that is what is the debate. ok, let's talk about something that has been moving the markets, as my colleague over in
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singapore, rico hizon, was talking about, these reports from the wall streetjournal that about, these reports from the wall street journal that perhaps there might be some discussion of lifting some or all of the tariffs which the us has imposed on chinese imports, the treasury very swift to deny this, yet market is still rising. well, it is kind of counter to what mrtrump has said well, it is kind of counter to what mr trump has said he wants to do, so ican imagine mr trump has said he wants to do, so i can imagine there is lots of discussions of this sort, to do with what would be best for the economy, which is counter to what mr trump says, and that is probably why they are distancing themselves. it would be interesting to know what happens to the people named here once this headline hits, because again, there isa headline hits, because again, there is a slight revolving door for those who do not please the president. is a slight revolving door for those who do not please the presidentlj am who do not please the president.” am not sure it could go any faster, could it? it would be going off its wheels if it goes any faster over washington. but yes, you are right. it is very difficult to know, to
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separate fact from fiction when it comes to washington these days. and with the shutdown, and the wall debate going on, we can see that mr trump is very keen to stick to the promises he made during his campaign. andi promises he made during his campaign. and i suppose one of them was, you know, making america great again and putting up tariffs and protecting us business. so it would be interesting to see, because this was not our policy... this is a policy that does impact one of his election pledges. let's talk about the financial times. they have a story here, we have a sort of fog, don't we, surrounding politics in britain at the moment, and every once ina britain at the moment, and every once in a while that fog lifts just for a moment and we perhaps get a sense of what is going on behind closed doors. here, an internal memo from civil servants on the progress of contingent be planning for brexit in the event of no deal has been leaked. and it doesn't make for good
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reading. i don't think anyone expected that we would be able to negotiate all these trade deals, partly because we don't have negotiators, we haven't had to have them because we have been in the eu. except the issue is you have liam fox leading up trade saying we are going to replicate the 40 eu trade agreements that exist before we leave the european union so we've got no disruption of trade, and he said that shortly after article 50 was triggered. who are you supposed to believe? when he said that, shortly after it was triggered, again there was talk about the fact that we don't have the skills to do that. we haven't had to negotiate oui’ that. we haven't had to negotiate our own trade deals because we were pa rt our own trade deals because we were part of a bigger trading bloc. the interesting thing in this story i found was that we have managed to do some. we have got one in place with switzerland, but other than that we don't. and we all know that. we know there is no deal, we know there are no...i there is no deal, we know there are no... ican't there is no deal, we know there are no... i can't see how you could negotiate with some of the 40 before
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g a trade deal in qlace or you've got a trade deal in place, or a deal or no deal in you've got a trade deal in place, or a deal or no deal mg with a deal or no deal in place with brexit. no—one is going to want to negotiate terms with us because we don't know what's going on on our side before we actually leave the eu. but the clock is ticking, it is 70 days. . who knows what is going to happen next week when mrs may comes back on monday with whatever she has surmised after her talks with the few party leaders she has managed to speak to. as we have seen this week, no—one knows what's happening and no—one will know until the 70 days and beyond. so this is troubling news, buti the 70 days and beyond. so this is troubling news, but i don't think anyone finds it unexpected. well, thatis anyone finds it unexpected. well, that is a depressing state of affairs, isn't it? let's talk about this story that is in bloomberg, and three years after the vw commissioned scandal, i remember breaking it on world news, we are
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getting four audi officials being indicted by the us for emissions cheating, audi being the luxury marque of vw. too little, too late, do you think? i think it is an important lesson to send the chief executives and people who run big companies, especially when they have got shareholders who have given them their money, this is about corporate responsibility. so for me this is less so a story about what these four people have actually done, and it's more about showing that if you are ina it's more about showing that if you are in a position of responsibility, you have to act responsibly. you can't rake the law. and that is what they have done. they have not only did it for their company, but i think this article suggests they also did it to line their own pockets. and the companies do have a social... some form of social responsibility not to behave in this manner. so i'm not going to say i wa nt manner. so i'm not going to say i want them to throw the book at them,
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because i think that's not what it's about. it is about sending a message, though. there is a strong message, though. there is a strong message sent by the fact that the us has already indicted eight individuals for their role in this, including the former chief executive, yet almost all of them remain in germany, and germany don't extradite their citizens. so they are sitting in germany. well, we have seen how mr trump likes to negotiate this sort of thing, so it would be interesting if you ever got to the point where you need to extradite them what would happen, how the us would deal with audi, volkswagen and other german companies that trade with the us. and very quickly, if we can, let's talk about netflix again. we heard a big boost to their subscriber numbers, but it seems they are caught in this endless cycle and the shine seems to have come off from wall street. i think that is only temporarily, though, because against its competitors, and you highlighted
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some of the names earlier, they are top of the pack. their content is a lot clearer. they even appear in top of the pack. their content is a lot clea vernacular, en appear in top of the pack. their content is a lot clea vernacular, in appear in top of the pack. their content is a lot clea vernacular, in netflix in top of the pack. their content is a lot clea vernacular, in netflix and popular vernacular, in netflixrand— chill is a common saying among young people. you can look that up on the internet if you don't know what that means. we won't give you the meaning here. sorry, i am going to get in trouble for that one. but it has entered our vocabulary. and you don't talk about amazon prime in the same way, it is about netflix, and then you might watch something else. stay with us here on bbc news. so much more to come. hello there, good morning. the cold weather has arrived, and it looks like it's going to stick around for quite some time. and it's really cold and frosty in many places right now. not everywhere, because we've got a weather front coming in, bringing in more cloud, bringing some rain. but it's moving into the cold air, so there will be a bit of sleet and snow, mainly over the hills.
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but ahead of that, still some icy patches, following those earlier showers on the northerly wind. widespread frost, and we could be down as low as minus seven celsius. but there's more cloud coming into northern ireland, into wales and the south—west, bringing with it some rain, a bit of sleet and snow over the welsh hills, then over the cumbrian fells, the pennines, the southern uplands as well. but there may be even a little bit of sleet and snow at lower levels through the midlands, the west country too. temperatures in the west will recover a bit later on, but for the eastern side of the uk, where it's going to be dry but nowhere near as sunny as it was on thursday, it's another cold day. but at least we don't have the northerly wind, and it's not set to return this weekend either. it will stay cold, mind you, although a lot of places will be dry, particularly on sunday. now, this area of low pressure is bringing in that band of cloud and patchy wet weather, and it tends to weaken and stall as. we head, ififtfi §§§ufe§;§;.§fifi,ihjfi§§, now, it won't be as cold and frosty in the morning, because there'll be more cloud around.
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there'll be some showers, as well, mostly of rain, but a bit of sleet and snow in those, particularly if they head a bit further north across england towards northern ireland, as well. it's probably going to be a dull day for the most part. the best of the sunshine across northern parts of scotland, but temperatures struggling — four, five, six degrees generally across the uk. now, as we move into sunday, pressure starts to rise a bit more. so that will tend to push away the showers, break up the cloud a little bit, and into that, we've got a weak weather front arriving from the north—west. but there's probably going to be more frost ahead of that. not as cold as it is right now, minus one or minus two, but some more sunshine across the uk on sunday. we've got that weak weather front bringing a little bit of rain, maybe some sleet and snow over the hills, nothing very much, and behind it, a north—westerly wind pushing in the sunshine back into scotland and northern ireland. but again, it's quite a cold day, with temperatures about six degrees or so. let's look ahead into the beginning of next week, and another frost to come as we move into monday morning. then we get these weather fronts coming in from the atlantic, and at some point they're
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going to stop, and that means we run the risk of some sleet and some snow, particularly in the west for a while. but an easterly wind may pick up as the week goes on, and therefore it is staying cold. good morning, welcome to breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: the duke of edinburgh is recovering at sandringham after being involved in a car crash. he was said to be shaken but unhurt. we'll be live at sandringham with the latest. patients complain of delays in getting painkillers and anti—depressants, as pharmacists warn of a shortage of medicines. a new streaming record. the tv and movie firm, netflix, signs up another 9 million users injust three months. that takes its total to 140 million customers around the world. it's good night to british hopes at the australian open,
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