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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  April 23, 2019 5:45am-6:00am BST

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it's prince louis who is celebrating his first birthday with photographs taken by his mum. he is looking extremely gorgeous, thereat 1—year—old. back with me is independent analyst stephanie hare. we start with this very dramatic front page but it does do the job, doesn't it? the daily mirror which is one of the few papers in sri la nka is one of the few papers in sri lanka in english and itjust says in remembrance of all those who lost their life. the number is going up. it is going up. the casualties are around 319 and over 500 wounded and in hospital so we can expect that number to rise over the next few days. there is also the political
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fallout within sri lanka, that the cabinet and the prime minister were not made aware of the security alert on the warnings that had been passed on the warnings that had been passed on by foreign intelligence. on the warnings that had been passed on by foreign intelligencem on the warnings that had been passed on by foreign intelligence. it is absolutely horrific, the more we learn about this and what happened in the various churches, in the hotels, in the various places and there is concern. as you look inside there is concern. as you look inside the daily mirror there are so many different articles where things happened and why, what the questions are, the investigation, the terrorist group thought to be behind this. the concern is, however, if parts of the government are not talking to each other there is concern about intelligence not being shared and what could happen in the future. yes, is there the risk of copycat attacks, was there foreign influence or is this purely domestic. these are all questions that will be raised. a difficult and a horrific time for sri lanka and
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yet this is a country that really relies on tourism and foreigners going there on holiday. and we are hearing about some of those who lost their lives from different parts of their lives from different parts of the world who were doing just that over the easter break. exactly. this is an island that has only recently come out of its own civil strife in the past few years so it is a terrible blow. it absolutely is. there is so much more on our website as well with different stories on those touched by this. looking now on the inside of the times, looking at the latest move on the part of the white house saying that from may one anyone who purchases oil from iran will be in violation of sanctions against iran. this is something that came into force awhile ago because they pulled out of the treaty that the former president obama had brokered with
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iran, and historic treaty. but since then countries like japan and others who purchase oil from then countries like japan and others who purchase oilfrom iran have been able to carry on with a special waiver that.. it. and that causes to political friction. japan and china as well as korea do not take lightly being ordered about by the us. turkey are highly independent on oil from iran. and then there is also how will it run respond? if it restarts its nuclear programme, will that encouraged saudi arabia to get started with its nuclear programme? in the meantime, saudi arabia are shoring everybody that they will plug the gap in the oil supply but the prices at a six—month high. what
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about the implications in all of this with the focus of the white house on a run but when you look at saudi arabia and what has been happening there and that scandal involving jamal khashoggi yet saudi arabia is telling the world not to worry. what that demonstrates is the cold ruthless calculation of oil and energy and how we decouple from so many other social and political considerations will there was that washington post reporter who was murdered but in the us that is separate and what we are seeing here is oil and separate and what we are seeing here is oiland iran separate and what we are seeing here is oil and iran and the treatment of iran is an international actor as its own phenomenon. so we will need to see how this unfolds and what it means a look at the countries that currently purchase oil from iran. japan and others, what they will do in the near future. japan and others, what they will do in the nearfuture. may japan and others, what they will do in the near future. may one japan and others, what they will do in the nearfuture. may one is not far away at all. talking of dates
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and things not far away, let's move onto the daily telegraph and its assessment of the weeks ahead for theresa may. she is told to name her departure date or faced and ousting onjune 12. departure date or faced and ousting on june 12. i guess our peaceful holiday is over and we are back with brexit. it felt like a beautiful dream, that exit either but it is over and reality crushes back in. it may be confusing is that theresa may already defeated a leadership challenge in december last year. under tory party rules she cannot be challenged again for another year. we thought we were safe from this. the grassroots movement within her party are fractures and restive and the 1922 committee will rewrite the rules and make it so she is either out byjune 12 or they will find a way to oust her. she is a formidable
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politician with her own way of moving but what is complicated is that trump supposed to be visiting the united kingdom around june six. so you could have a us uk state visit and then the prime minister ousted within the week. which would be an interesting scenario but everything is unprecedented and we have not been here before. it is all new territory, what could possibly go wrong?! but one thing she did say to her party during that day when she was facing a no—confidence vote from within the party, she did promise them that she would step down and would not run in the next election. she just wants to see the brexit process through, she wants to see the deal done. and that is her commitment. but her condition was that she will step down if she passes —— they passed the deal in parliament and they do not like the deal. not all of them. it is a mixed
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bag and that is the problem. some supported and some do not. quickly with the financial times, berkeley ‘s cracking down on bonuses. this is an activist investor who has been getting more and more of a stake in berkeley is and he is now the third biggest shareholder in berkeley ‘s. through morning investment vehicle but he is basically trying to not time on the investment bankers but kurt aylett again. berkeley ‘s is going through a phase where it is linked to investment banking and thenit linked to investment banking and then it scales it back and those through a crisis of confidence. where are we now? this investor would like to see bonuses link to performances which sounds logical but unfortunately logic does not a lwa ys but unfortunately logic does not always play in these things and ba rclay‘s has always play in these things and barclay's has continued to pay
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bonuses even though its investment banking unit had been underperforming. this is a case of him, the activist, wanting better return on investment. bonuses only in return for performance. the current boss is very much into investment banking as well. we had an interim period of another ceo who was into the retail side. the idea is that if you want to track the top traders, you have to have a bonus package that will attract them. yes. and, again, that is something that can be reconfigured, it is the line of performance. so top traders trying to going to get that prize needs to be matched to results. we will see how that unfolds. there will see how that unfolds. there will be a meeting coming up shortly where it will all be discussed. now let's enjoy these pictures, official photographs of prince louis at the age of one full i do like his royal cuteness. they do a lot of royal
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cuteness, this family. all three children are absolutely gorgeous but at the age of one, very much celebrating prince louis and he could have a new cousin any time. half american cousin. taking us back to the special relationship across the atlantic. and of course president trump is due to arrive on june six. another big baby. thank you so much, stephanie. so nice to see you. thank you for your company andi see you. thank you for your company and i hope that whatever you are up to you have a lovely day. ijust wa nt to to you have a lovely day. ijust want to mention a few comments because i did prominence that we will talk about early adopters. one viewer says that any individual who is hyped up to buy a device for $2000 that is flawed is actually rather silly and not an early adopter. keep the debate going and i will see you soon.
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well, there is some good news on the weather front if you have been enjoying the fine weather in the last few days. we have one more day of decent weather on tuesday, a lot of sunshine around and temperatures still into the 20s. after that it really will be all change. in fact, it will cool off dramatically and we have showers and thunderstorms potentially on the way. on the satellite already, the picture is looking very u nsettled. you can see clouds swirling around here. weather fronts as well, patterns actually, but these weather fronts are heading in our direction and in around 24—36 hours time they will arrive and we will see downpours. first in the country's south—west and then in other parts of the uk as well. for the time being, tuesday looks relatively quiet, notjust in the uk but in much of western, north—western europe into scandinavia as well. morning temperatures are between six and 12 celsius though not as chilly as it was yesterday morning. and then in the afternoon
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it is business as usual. a lot of sunshine around, warm south south—easterly wind, not quite as warm. we had temperatures around 25 degrees in the last few days and i think around 22 or 23 across southern and central areas. still making around 20 in the lowlands of scotland and just shy of 20 for belfast but another fine day on the way. here is tuesday night into wednesday and the high pressure that has been bringing us the fine weather slips away towards the east and this big area of messy weather with its weather fronts, this big area of low pressure is starting to push in. from the early hours of wednesday we will start to see rain moving into cornwall, devon, parts of wales as well, central and southern england and the midlands as well some could be downpours with thunderstorms and watch what happens through the day on wednesday. difficult to say which towns and cities will get the downpours at what time but suffice to say it will be a lot more unsettled on wednesday compared to the last few days. scotland is still looking fine but the north sea coast may be a little on the cool side there.
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some cloud as well. that is midweek — towards the end of the week it really will be a big change because we even say goodbye to the mild air. the warm air is long gone but colder currents of air from the north atlantic arrive, breezy conditions as well, showers possible. so the outlook says it all, really — a lot of shower symbols here with temperatures dropping to below average for some of us and towards the weekend even struggling to make double figures across northern areas.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: a national day of mourning in sri lanka, remembering the 310 people killed in easter sunday's bombings — including eight britons. police say there's been a "massive response" to the killing ofjournalist lyra mckee — as a group, called the real ira admits responsibility for her death. it's back to westminster for mps, with senior labour members due to meet ministers to try to break the deadlock over brexit. holding back the folding phone, broken screens mean samsung are delaying the roll—out of its latest innovation.

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