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with isjonathan charles, managing director of communications at the european bank for reconstruction and development. i'm away. it just i'm away. itjust realise it needs to concentrate. you go back to what they were saying at the beginning of all of this, long time ago, they had this in ambition to be a real investment bank. they wanted to take on goldman sacks. clearly that doesn't work. this is devastating news. you're talking about the workforce living over the next few yea rs. workforce living over the next few years. you have 8000 people primarily here in london and
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birmingham as well. they will be very badly hit because deutsche bank are making it clear that one of the big areas of their radical overhaul will be in the trading unit, investment banking, exactly the sort of things that are done here in london and new york as well so a lot of the hit is going to be outside germany but even within germany, radical restructuring. it is going back to the sort of bank it was when i first moved to think that in the mid— 90s, slightly sleepy, a bank which focuses on retail and on bankrolling european corporate so moving away from the global stage. is that going to work? it hasn't got much choice and is just too difficult to do these days the world of great regulation, increased regulations and financial crisis and quite low incomes. margins have been low in many banks since the financial crisis. they had to take quite radical action. when you look
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here that they are going to cut their operating costs, the means taking billion dollars out of their operating costs. things are very serious. they now embarking on a strategy which they believe will guarantee their survival stop in the metro, this is fascinating stuff. we say surely in emails what would never same public. if you are the uk ambassador, you are paid to give pretty good analysis, very candid analysis. because you are worried things are going to be leaked, in the end, kim darroch, who is an excellent ambassador, he is first—rate and knows what he's doing, he was doing hisjob.
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first—rate and knows what he's doing, he was doing his job. what is interesting about this, the headline in the metro, the hunt for the mole at the foreign office, this model, why have they done it? what's in it for them to try and discredit the uk ambassador to washington. there are all sorts of theories doing the rounds. even the financial times says it is maybe to discredit kim darroch, plus also the cabinet secretary is rumoured to be washington bound to take up thatjob because some people in boris johnson's campaign for prime minister, some of them want nigel farage to be the uk ambassador to washington because they believe he will get on better with donald trump. we don't know whether there are political overtones of what the motivation is but really it's not good at these private emails, how on earth are uk government ministers meant to stay abreast of what is
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happening in the united states if they cannot read these things? the point is, you can't blame someone for having opinion. in the end, they are not doing theirjob if they are not giving candid advice. i can only imagine what the us ambassador to the unite kingdom is writing about in uk politics. clearly, they are there to give that candid advice to there to give that candid advice to the us foreign service. all ambassadors do that no matter where they are from. let's move onto arab news. we kind of knew that iran was going to be pushing on this point in oui’ going to be pushing on this point in our faces going to be pushing on this point in ourfaces a going to be pushing on this point in ourfacesa i— going to be pushing on this point in our faces a 1— week deadlines and its loop we have lacked mail. nuclear blackmail is what the arab news are quoting. tehran feels it's being pushed by everyone else. they've been very painful for the
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uranian economy. there is no doubt ordinary people are suffering in the government is feeling the pain of those very tight sanctions which have come onto iran. they are pushing back in one way they had to pushing back in one way they had to push back is to say we are ramping up push back is to say we are ramping up the nuclear programme. they talking about going up from quite a low level to just above 3.67% enriched uranium. that is a long way short of what we need to develop a nuclear device. even if they got back to 20% which is where they were back to 20% which is where they were backin back to 20% which is where they were back in 20 ten, it is still a long haul. to get to 90% is a long way down the road. i don't think we should be too concerned yet that they are close to developing a nuclear device, that is clearly many months or years down, even if they manage to get that far. there is definitely an escalation going on, a deep discontent and of course if they don't feel this is working, what is the rain? iran's name is to
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get the europeans to compensate for us sanctions, to say to the europeans, we got an agreement, the us is toughening the stance, you compensate this. i don't get that, we will see a further escalation. he saw that last night when resident macron reached out to the iranian authorities could be, to kick the can down the road and say we don't wa nt can down the road and say we don't wantan can down the road and say we don't want an escalation. everyone is worried what that could mean. the israelis have said, we won't allow iran to have a nuclear device so if they feel iran is stepping up the enrichment, there is always the worry that israeli military action, but apart from that, washington. are you watching the world cup? it's been a fantastic month for women role. they are multi— winners. very good. what's this told me? i can
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guess over the past month, it's very different to previous world cup involving women. we are moving onto a much more commercial basis. quite commercially viable women's teams playing on a national level. we are seeing this translated to the international arena. people shouting out, equal pay, equal pay. it's different for women's football. should it be? it's commercially driven. i don't think you can divorce, i know the point you are making about being international but you can't divorce it from what is going on in the national game. there is not enough money in the national game compared to men's football. 0ne day there might be. i agreed should be more equal. you can do that. there is more money in international
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men's world cup for more than there is an women's world cup football. that is bound to translate. they get the us women are saying, look how successful we a re. the us women are saying, look how successful we are. the other thing i would say is, look at the audiences that have been generated on television and indeed the interest generated in this world cup. it will eventually lead to more money in the next world cup, women's world cup, so next world cup, women's world cup, so equal pay may be some way off but the trajectory is in the right way. let's talk about this summer dilemma. i'm checking your footwear. you are not wearing the plots. dilemma. i'm checking your footwear. you are not wearing the plotslj dilemma. i'm checking your footwear. you are not wearing the plots. i am wearing nude heels. i would wear them to work. journalists are a little bit more laid—back. an investment back all the ebrd, maybe not. if i was a beach bum and selling chairs on the beach, i would be wearing flip—flops every single day. sadly i'm not. after work in
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the financial district. i do think it is right that you have to wear clothes that are appropriate for your workplace. it is interesting, they make a point that even investment banks are beginning to relax dress codes. the saying you can still dress appropriately. surely if you feel like you addressed oddly, you're more productive stop you have to feel co mforta ble productive stop you have to feel comfortable in what you're wearing and it's clear that younger workers do not want to wear ties and suits, they regard that is construed in old theft if employers are to attract younger workers, they have to be more relaxed about the dress code. 0therwise younger workers will say i will go to a trendier industry. heaven forbid. i like my tires. where else? good to see you. you stay with us. so much more to come but from me and the team, thank you for watching.
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well, after a fine end to the weekend, the forecast for monday is looking pretty decent across most of the uk. a lot of sunshine in the forecast. however, the week ahead is going to be quite changeable. i think many of us at one point or another will get at least a little bit of rainfall. now, here's the latest satellite picture, and clouds are gathering just to the north—west of the uk, in fact, streaming in into ireland right now, so that means that the skies will be pretty hazy across some western parts of the uk. and the high pressure is moving away and giving way to these weather fronts here in the atlantic. but the high pressure will be back later on, once these weather fronts push through. so the forecast on monday morning, then — a lot of hazy weather there first thing across many western parts of the uk, but i think it'll start off clear across much of scotland, eastern and southern parts of the uk. in fact, pretty chilly very early
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in the morning there in eastern scotland and north—east england. temperatures could be as low as two or three degrees above freezing, a real nip in the air. now, here's monday morning itself, so pretty cloudy across ireland. northern ireland there getting rainfall for sure. belfast probably by late morning, early afternoon getting some spots of rain. nothing too heavy, but it will be very damp, and then eventually that rainfall will reach south—western scotland, later in the day or come evening. the vast majority of the uk, a bright day. bar a few showers there, maybe in the south, the weather is looking sunny. beautiful around the english channel coasts. how about the championships, then, at wimbledon? beautiful weather — temperatures of around 20 degrees celsius, light winds as well. now, here's tuesday's weather forecast. it looks as though we'll see high pressure developing across the south once again, but weather fronts moving through northern parts of the uk, so there is going to be a definite split between the north and the south. we'll call it the northern two thirds of the country pretty cloudy,
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with a few glimmers of brightness from time to time. some rain for belfast, glasgow, probably many western and northern parts of scotland too. a few spots of rain possible around the lake district and yorkshire. southwards of that, it should just about stay dry, but pretty cloudy. the south coast itself on tuesday looking mostly on the sunny side. not cold — temperatures even in belfast getting up to around 21 degrees celsius, and if anything they could be peaking, those temperatures, at around 25 in the south, in london, come wednesday. but, on the whole, quite a bit of cloud around there. you can see these weather symbols showing some rainfall from time to time, too. bye— bye.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: donald trump hits back at the uk's ambassador to washington after leaked e—mails described his presidency as inept and dysfunctional. families who have lost loved ones to dangerous drivers say they have been let down by broken promises to introduce tougher sentences. 0therfamilies other families have suffered 0therfamilies have suffered before violette's death, and we have all been insulted by the current system in place, and that is why it needs to change —— violet. thousands of jobs in the city at risk.
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