companies, as their disputes intensify over human rights in hong kong and xinjiang. the financial times carries a front page picture of what it says was a tense exchange between president trump and his french counterpart at the nato summit. it's all to do with new european tech levies that mr trump claimed unfairly discriminated against us companies such as google, apple and facebook. and singapore's straits times has that study into educational standards across the world, with the city state's students ranking second behind china in mathematics, science and reading. with me is mark davies, ceo strategy consultancy, camberton. the guardian looking at corbyn upping the pressure over the nhs, what do you make of this headline? it is on quite a few front pages. is

the nhs about to be snapped up by the nhs about to be snapped up by the evil entrepreneurs in the united states ? the evil entrepreneurs in the united states? i think the answer to that question is almost certainly no, and it isa question is almost certainly no, and it is a very good line that corbyn has been running very successfully throughout the course of his campaign. is the proper evidence to show that it was on the table? no, it was raised by the americans and not responded to by the british, so i don't think it puts it on the table, but he has played it extremely well because he knows that this is his safest ground and he knows that it is the alberta party's list safe ground and he has kept it on the agenda throughout the campaign. and it has changed the headlines about him. this is the way labour has presented it was all about anti—semitism inside the labour party. by keeping this front and centre, he has managed to get poll ratings which have slowly been

improving. yesterday, donald trump said we don't want the nhs even if it is ona said we don't want the nhs even if it is on a silver platter, and yet despite that, corbyn has succeeded in saying i am still using this as a line, and he is going to come back and say, you just shouldn't believe anything that you ever say on this, they can't be trusted, and that is a line that he knows resonates.“ they can't be trusted, and that is a line that he knows resonates. if you look at all different pages on the desk in front of me, deadly gamble on our health, express trump, i wouldn't want nhs on a silver platter, it is dominating the media agenda to a degree. but the other papers have gone with trump says this isn't a story, and as a say, andi this isn't a story, and as a say, and i think that this has definitely been corbin‘s most successful line of the campaign, whether it is enough for him, i think the poles suggest it won't, but it is still the case that it is the best that he has run at any point during this campaign. it is probably the most

emotive and politically sensitive subject in an election, it is either the nhs or the economy, and we have bricks this time as well. the conservative party has always had difficulty with the nhs in terms of public perception, but because it was a labor government that brought in the nhs it has always been difficult round for the conservatives and the labour party knows it and place it accordingly. the financial times, johnson defies trump threats with sales tax, and the picture is of trump and emmanuel macron, because of course just a few days ago we heard the us was considering pretty punitive tariffs on french goods like champagne, handbags, cheese, as a reaction to france's moved to introduce a digital sales tax. france going alone in the end because europe couldn't come up with a europewide

response. there has been a tit—for—tat hair with a number of different things we know it is a digital sales tax, early in the year it was a air bus tax, so there is a little fight here going on which you perhaps wouldn't expect to be having in 2019. it's quite interesting though, because the relationship between these two leaders have com pletely between these two leaders have completely changed. i don't know if you remember, not long after president trump was elected, emmanuel macron and his wife went over there and there was this massive bromance going on, so much physical padding on the back and handshaking, and it's interesting to see how that has all changed. and on the occasion it is compounded by the comments that macron has been making, saying that it is brain—dead. the nato summit that is

happening in london at the moment, it isa happening in london at the moment, it is a very interesting question as to whether nato has ever really worked as effectively as people like to talk about it working. the only time it has ever invoked article five, which is the one where people say they have to come to each other‘s aid, even if you look back over history with things like when the berlin wall went up, actually would we have gone to war as nato in that situation? probably not, so i think emmanuel macron when he talks about nato being brain—dead... think emmanuel macron when he talks about nato being brain-dead... you are saying he's got a point! he is raising an interesting point. let's move on, we have touched on the digital sales tax, the borisjohnson are saying that is something we are considering despite what it might mean in terms of us and british trade relations going forward the japan times looks at beijing backing us firms, and it would seem, this is the headline. the relationship between china and us is not getting

better. this is partly because of what is going on underneath the trade. in the trade issue has been muted since about may since the issue with huawei, but now it has come to the fore with that marco rubio bill that looks to put sanctions on chinese officials who are responsible for abuses of uighur muslims and also what has been happening in hong kong. as well as just the trade story, there is a political story that is taking place underneath it, and that is impacting what the trade relationship as. underneath it, and that is impacting what the trade relationship asm is having a huge impact, because many would argue that this is something that china absolutely box at. and with hong kong and what is happening with uighur muslims where they are calling them reformation educational facilities, they are calling them reformation educationalfacilities, seen they are calling them reformation educational facilities, seen as something completely differently

elsewhere. so what it means though, for trade in the global economy in 2020 is a big question. yes, the markets are waiting to see whether the trade talks between china and america get any better because there are more tariffs that are due to come in on the 15th of december and the markets are hoping that those ta riffs the markets are hoping that those tariffs won't come in but with this underlying story and the problems with this bell that has gone through the house of representatives, it has gone through the senate unanimously and now it just gone through the senate unanimously and now itjust needs to be signed off, and if it is, china will probably retaliate. phase one will not get signed in december, probably. it is the expectation, which is why we are seeing financial markets paul. the new york times, cybercrime and eastern europe rises, so cybercrime and eastern europe rises, so cybercrime is happening and eastern europe impacting consumers in the united states. this is a very interesting piece, because it appears on the front page and it looks on the face of it that it is a new story, in fact it is an opinion

piece. they have hung it on the new story that macy's has been hacked by cyber criminals, but actually within the opinion piece there is a interesting little bit of study that talks about the fact that effectively, this is because people in eastern europe who came from a very strong background of having maths and science within the education, don't have the opportunities to build businesses as we have in the west, and therefore they turned their mathematical and computer ability to doing nefarious activities and hacking people, so it is quite interesting the basis on which the writer here says that the cybercrime is happening. of course we are very aware of it because we have got black friday deals and cyber monday deals, so we are doing a lot more activity online and therefore we are more vulnerable, and macy's customers have just found out exactly what the impact of that can be, but the thinking behind it is the interesting piece of this

article, i think, is the interesting piece of this article, ithink, because is the interesting piece of this article, i think, because they think people wouldn't have thought about the education system having an impact, but the writer believes that it does. and we haven't got time to talk about education in terms of who is the best in the world. the singapore straits times celebrate the fact that they come second in terms of the 15 —year—olds among the world's top performers. china coming first but many are looking at the chinese data and the schools they highlighted and saying they are skewing the data. are they putting their stem abilities to good use or are they doing that cybercrime and eastern europe? we may not get to the bottom of that this morning! thank you for being with us, and thank you to you as well. whatever you are doing, i hope you have a very good day.

hello there. we've got quite a mixture of weather coming our way for wednesday. now, the satellite picture shows a stripe of cloud approaching the west. this is a weather front that's going to be bringing us some rain. further east, though, we're under the influence of high pressure across much of england and wales, so the skies relatively clearer. now, if you're heading outside over the next few hours, we've got cloud and rain encroaching across western scotland and northern ireland. further south and eastwards across england and wales, there are some patches of cloud, but we've also got some clear spells. so contrasts in temperatures — it's mildest towards the north—west of the uk. with the clearer skies across england and wales, it's cold, and indeed, cold enough for some patches of frost. could even be the odd fog patch to start the day on wednesday, as well. for many, though, it's a bright start across england and wales, eastern areas of scotland. the rain in the north—west will continue slowly pushing its way eastwards, reaching parts of northern england and north wales through the course of the afternoon. still bright to the south and east, but it's chilly still. highs of around 6—8 degrees. the mildest weather towards the north—west, with blustery showers following into western scotland,

and some fairly gusty winds too. then, through thursday and friday, we're going to see weather fronts really target western scotland, bringing large amounts of rain here. now, we could see around 70—80 mm, maybe more than that over the high ground. that's enough to cause some flooding impacts, but it's not the only place that will see rain. on thursday, we'll also see some wet weather pushing in across northern ireland. the rain getting into northern england and north wales, too. further south and eastwards, probably a bit more cloud around, but it should be bright enough. it's turning milder as south—westerly winds spread in across more of the country. high for most between 9—12 degrees. what follows thursday night will be a very mild night. now, that might come as something of a surprise, especially when you consider recent nights have seen some very sharp frosts. as we head into friday morning, these are the kind of temperatures —11—12 degrees. now, the reason it's so mild is it's cloudy, it's wet and it's windy, and initially we have the winds coming in from a south—westerly direction. later in the day we'll start to get north—westerly winds following in across the northern

half of the country, and so temperatures will be dropping away. highs of seven degrees in stornoway. mild day for the midlands, east anglia and southern england, temperatures here around 12—13 degrees. now, the weekend looks like this. a ridge of high pressure to start things, but sunday sees a weather front move in across the uk. so saturday looks at the moment to be the better of the two days of the weekend, where it should be largely dry and bright. perhaps a bit of rain, though, getting into northern ireland later in the day. sunday looks like it will turn more widely unsettled, with rain at times. that's your weather.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: it is 6am, wednesday morning. borisjohnson will tell nato's world leaders it is "one for all, and all for one" in the quest to keep their people safe. it comes as a bitter row overshadows the meeting with donald trump criticising president macron of france for describing nato as "brain—dead". the porter who fought off the london bridge attacker says he "acted instinctively" by grabbing a pole to try to stop the convicted terrorist who killed two people. manchester city are back to winning ways.