many of you have been in touch about that from all over the world. with me still is rebecca harding, ceo and founder of coriolis tech and author of the book the weaponization of trade. let's start with golf news and it is focusing on president putin's visit to the region and says it reflects the strength of russia uae relations —— gulf. the strength of russia uae relations -- gulf. this isn't about trade at all, but trade is proxy in a bigger battle going on between china and russia and the united states or control of effectively financial networks at the moment. this is in an environment where russia and the united states are less likely to put boots on the ground and have military conflict and we have seen that. this is actually banks on the ground. it is effectively how trade is being used as a proxy for this

bigger battle. we are seeing waning us power or desired influence in the middle east, a greater role for the us in oil terms as well, the whole area is actually being increasingly influenced by russia. and this is key with regards to what is happening in northern syria at the moment, and of course the turkish incursion into northern syria, what they are describing is trying to create a peaceful area where they can push back syrian refugees, et cetera, you have got the kurds teaming up with the president of syria and there is a lot happening, a lot is changing and president putin is arriving on the scene just at this time and russia's influence is seen as key. exactly. i think what you are seeing in the middle east is actually a lot of conflicting networks and a lot of these are playing out in trade. so,

for a very long time actually trade has been visibly shifting to the east and there has been more trade between the uae and russia i think over the last five years, it has grown at about 4% on an annual basis and that is very fast. also shifting with chinese, the road initiative coming through. the uae and saudi arabia are very heavily involved in —— involved in yemen which is against the russian interest in the extent that russia is a bossy run. have russia, iran, saudi arabia, uae and now russia, uae and the turkey problem. it is actually becoming both an economic and political battle. you have also got huge influence from china coming through, the amount of money they have invested in the uae and in saudi arabia, it is also very closely linked with networks to avoid sanctions on iran, financial networks so there is a lot going on in this space that this is just scratching the surface.

and the gulf news looking at the impressive high level meetings that we re impressive high level meetings that were taking place, discussions of trade, environment sustainability, et cetera. it is something we have to keep an eye on. absolutely. we can't — like we can't not watch what is going on. it is actually a fault line at the moment. we used to talk about north— north, south— south trade. the way in which the emerging economies were regenerating themselves. now what we are seeing is quite a big shift between trade actually going on s — west, east— east lines, and it is enabled, through the us military withdrawal to some extent, but also through the fact that the region is looking to sell its oil to russia and china. in the meantime, europe has its eyes on one thing right now and the guardian has got their take on how negotiations are going on between the uk and europe. we have talked about this already but it is

interesting how the guardian talks and says that actually there is going to be a customs border down the irish sea. that is what the guardian is predicting it will be in this draft agreement, that maybe published today if downing street gets the green light on that. it is a similar arrangement that was rejected by theresa may as a deal that no british prime minister could accept. that is what the guardian is saying. therefore it is pretty thing that westminster will does not agree to this. the guardian is running with this story yesterday, broke the story yesterday that actuallyjohnson had had to pull back on a lot of his terms and conditions. we are still not sure exactly what is happening. to be clear, it is not clear what is happening in europe and in brussels at the moment with the negotiations. but this is actually a redline. this was theresa may's redline, that she could never conceive of an idea that there was a board in the middle of there was a board in the middle of the irish sea. you have the cultural unionists who are not likely to want to a cce pt unionists who are not likely to want to accept that and they are being very vague about what they think

about everything going on at the moment —— ultra unionists. it brings it back and we are running out of time, this is a problem, but it brings it back to a parliamentary decision and the numbers we are still not clear on. we are not clear at all and they are having a special session on saturday. also they think, rhys mott was saying it might not be tabled. —— rhys—mogg. let's move on now to bloomberg, which is looking at china threatens to retaliate if the us and acts in hong kong bill. this is the lower house of congress which has said that they wish to have a law that requires the us to assess every year how pro—democracy activists and how they are being treated from a human rights perspective. an annual assessment by the us. you know how

that will go down in china. it will not go down at all well in china. chinese foreign policy is interesting because it is all about economic power and influence and it is about not interfering in the affairs of other countries, and they see any influence or attempt to influence what is happening with hong kong as actually some kind of incursion on their own policies. china has said that they are going to retaliate, but this is probably going to happen through the trade talks, so there is already the case that hong kong was on the agenda for the trade talks. there was a loose agreement last week, but this is becoming politicised as well so it will be part and parcel of the types of agreements it will reach between the two powers. as ever, the financial markets don't know which way to turn right now. they have no clue as to what might happen during those talks between the us and china. delete facebook friends after his look a talks about

the time this article was written. it was the most trending # and it is all of the back of politico saying he has had meetings with conservative leaders, right—wing leaders in the united states lunch, et cetera. in his defence, he says, iam et cetera. in his defence, he says, i am eating all sorts of people all the time from all sorts of different areas of political ideology. first and foremost, markers or burgers the ceo of a very large and very influential organisation. —— zuckerberg. that is not the story. that is not news. no, but the story is the fact that this is obviously a social media platform, people have used it and it is whether or not those views are coming onto the social media platform, in the end it is all about facebook‘s reputation, which has become a little tarnished since the cambridge analytic scandal and data

being sold —— analytica. it will affect a crypto currency as well. this is a story about reputation. and it won't go away. it is about trust as well. we trust facebook and going ahead with libra? do we trust them with spending? we haven't got time to talk about it but we will talk about it another time. air pollution takes a decade off memory, study suggests. you live by the ocean on the south coast. you track into london in the early hours of the morning to be on this programme. did you ever live in london? no, i have never lived in london. i lived here for a short period of time on the sort of three days a week basis. what do you make of this study? i think it is really interesting. i think we have known for a long time that things like lead particles actually damage intelligence in younger people, and i think it is one of those stories where you know that we have got to do something

about the environment. everybody knows that and we are talking about trade wars and talking about digital currencies and all these types of things. actually, have we have seen with the climate protests and climate movement over the last few weeks, this is actually where we need to be focusing our effort. it is the air we breathe. thank you very much indeed for being on the programme. thank you for all your comments. we have had two from india saying, i live in calcutta, which is a second or third most polluted city in india. there is nothing wrong with my mental or physical health. if there has been something wrong with my health, ijust can't remember. thank you for all your comments! keep them coming. have a really good day and i will see you very soon. bye. hello. well, we've got some fine

weather heading our way. wednesday's expected to be a sunny, fresh day, clean air coming off the atlantic. but in the short term, we have the overnight rain, so actually, early in the morning, it could be cloudy, wet and quite windy as well. now, this is the big picture, the satellite, you can see, and the weather front here approaching ireland earlier on moving into western parts of the uk, all linked to this big low pressure that's sitting out there in the atlantic. and this low pressure is actually going to be right on top of us during the course of thursday, friday and saturday and sunday, and that means that the outlook‘s looking pretty showery and blustery. but in the short term, it's the weather front that's bringing the rainfall, also quite breezy conditions as well. this's the rain through the early hours of the morning, pretty much through the centre of the british isles. at times, the rain will be heavy. not a particularly cold night, around i! in the south, maybe 8 degrees in the north. and that weather front

will eventually reach eastern parts of the uk early in the morning, so you're most likely to catch the rainfall say from east anglia, lincolnshire, the north—east of england and eastern scotland early in the morning, and then it's out of the way in the afternoon. you can see it's clear, some very pleasant conditions on the way. a little on the nippy side in scotland and northern ireland, around 13 degrees, but the winds will be light, so i think not a bad day overall. and with the fine end to wednesday on the way as well. now, here's thursday's weather map, so the big low pressure i showed you from earlier on edging closer. starting to roll into ireland, a lot of isobars there, and the wind will be strong as well. early on wednesday, there will be a lot of sunshine around, particularly across central and eastern areas, but particularly out towards the west, the winds will strengthen, the showers will rattle in. some of them will be heavy, so steady with the brolly. also hail and thunder is a possibility as well, so it will feel chilly, particularly

across the western areas where the wind will strengthen. winds will then get stronger as we had through friday. the low pressure here has not moved an awful lot. with these showers churning around it, the overall weather pattern will not change. again, showers are expected, most frequent across western and southern areas, and along that south coast of england, winds could be in excess of 50mph in gusts, so a really, really blustery end to the week on the way. through the weekend, the winds will ease but the showers will continue. i don't want to write the weekend off, because there will be sunshine around as well. it'll be just changeable.

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