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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  December 17, 2019 5:45am-6:01am GMT

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the new york times questions the cost of adventure, asking how the eruption of the volcano on white island will affect tourism in new zealand going forward. the industry represents nearly 6% of the country's economic output, and employs more than 14% of the workforce. the financial times has the story of the class action against tech giants apple, google, microsoft, dell and tesla being brought on behalf of families of children killed or injured while mining cobalt in the decmocratic republic of congo. the metal is critical for smartphones and electric vehicles, and the ft says human rights groups claim the companies are aiding and abetting supply chains that force children to work in dangerous conditions. and finally, the times reports that petrol and diesel cars will be completely barred from one road in the city of london. drivers of pure combustion engine cars will face fines
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of 130 pounds, that's around $170, if they enter beech street, where levels of toxic air regularly exceed the legal limit. with me is oliver cornock, editor—in—chief of the oxford business group. lets get stuck in. the viewers have beenin lets get stuck in. the viewers have been in touch about that last story, so we been in touch about that last story, so we will try to get them of their responses, but if we start with the telegraph, the business section, at the so—called morris balance on financial markets? we have seen trading upa financial markets? we have seen trading up a 2.5%, all the figures in the telegraph, this would be a newspaper that would be broadly sympathetic to boris johnson and newspaper that would be broadly sympathetic to borisjohnson and the conservative government, but there is another angle has to be the story probably broke before the news that the no deal was back on the table, i think this honeymoon period might be
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quite short lived, because the office of budget responsibility, the body within the uk civil services keeps the government and check and the government has said that the figures are going to be really tight now stopping the election has given borisjohnson a much bigger mandate but he also has to keep all of those people who, in his word, are enfranchised. the great attack on the conservative party is austerity gone on for too long. that needs to be turned around if you are a tory and there is a lot of pressure stopping the mood music is changing quite quickly, so this is potentially slightly a misleading headline. absolutely. mark carney possibly making those comments way before the news came through, which is in our next story stopping the independent quoting reckless pm puts no—deal brexit back on the table, and as you say this could be a
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reason why we and as you say this could be a reason why we see a and as you say this could be a reason why we see a bit of drop—off on trading in london where investors, traders return to their desks. we saw overnight, the 0.596 reduction of the pound value, in overnight trading it will be one... it will be interesting to see what happens there. it will be interesting to see that. the independent has been broadly pro— remain, in order to position this and its political context. as we said we we discussed this on the hour, this is really very much a political move designed to speak to the people who voted for boris johnson that big 80 plus majority now, and very much to get brexit not only back on the table but accept done, andi only back on the table but accept done, and i think this is him trying to speak to them, trying to meet that promise made on so many doorsteps. it will be interesting to see how it plays out in parliament over the next couple of days. is a
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lot to do that stopping the timetable is pretty tight. there is no budget, that was supposed to happen in september, but it was delayed because of the general election. he will have his budget, no doubt. there is a lot to do, 100 new conservative mps to become a pa rt new conservative mps to become a part of parliament. the timeframe is very tight and yet there is a lot to do between now and the end of 2020. absolutely, and that momentum to keep driving this through is something that boris johnson keep driving this through is something that borisjohnson has been very keen to campaign on. something that borisjohnson has been very keen to campaign onfl something that borisjohnson has been very keen to campaign on. 81 to ——ido been very keen to campaign on. 81 to —— i do wonder how brussels reacts to this. how does this go down? —— i do wonder how brussels reacts to this. how does this go down7m was interesting, because there was talk last week about if this scenario happened, that brussels itself might put forward an extension to try to soften things. that hasn't happened, it seems to me that they are keeping their powder
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dry at the moment. and it's a new guard in brussels, too. exactly, a new set of negotiators there. interesting times, let's move on to the front page of the new york times that has got a feature on the price of adventure. looking and focusing in particular on the volcanic eruption that took place on white island last week. all those there on the island, many rescued but they are still fighting for their lives and hospital. i think this is a really interesting one. we at oxford business group talk about tourism as pa rt business group talk about tourism as part of the economy and one of the great trends recently has been the experiential tourism. new zealand has really set its store by adventure tourism. the advertising is all about white water rafting, helicopter ring and diving with dolphins, nature really being for.
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and has set itself out as being very much, minimising the nanny state. kiwis are quite keen to keep that in the story speaks to that. however, the story speaks to that. however, the power of nature has really been seen on white island, and i suppose it is speaking about not only the price of that in terms of human cost, but also if you are the new zealand government, it is a significant part of your gdp, it employs an awful lot of people so there needs to be a balance met stopping the other thing here, the island was privately owned. it's a really difficult one and it also speaks to those who love those adventure holidays but actually you've got to make your own decisions about whether something is safe a good idea or not. you can't just go from local advice necessarily about whether something is ok to go and visit. i think that is ok to go and visit. i think that is the whole thing of this experiential travel. we all have a yearning to get out of our comfort zone. indeed. tech giants sued over
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cobalt debts. i've read this this morning and i was horrified by this. it was news to me! we were just talking about getting out of your comfort zone, this is a net dickensian situation of children being forced to work. this is a class action, this is a group of, an ngo, bringing forward an action on behalf of the families of children who have died on behalf of these tech giants. but we all have these gadgets, we all have them... and this is the thing! many people are driving tesla cars, and yet we are unaware of this story, and yet you assume that apple and tesla and others will check their supply chain. you assume that takes place
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in this day and age, don't you?m many of these rare earths are coming from china where there is questionable standards, and this is about upholding and implementing policies that these companies say they do. we will see how the class action lawsuit progresses. now, onto the times. zero emission street will introduce total ban on petrol and diesel cars. beech street, it's an enclosed tunnel, it can get pretty toxic in there. the barbican, for those who don't know, is this brutalist structure, tilt postwar, very big, very heavy, and there is a tunnel underneath it. in the middle of summer it is pretty grim going underneath there, so i've personally think this is great, and the point of this story is, will it be a success , of this story is, will it be a success, and more importantly, is this the beginning of further closures. we have seen in cities around the world, alternative
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numberplate. .. they are experimenting with all of these different ideas to try to tackle emissions. the health figures here are astonishing. an estimated 40,000 premature deaths coming from air pollution, something we must be thinking about. thank you very much, it has been great to have you on the programme. just to mention a couple of your views on this, richard and canada says please can we have more of this! cities should ban, fine, or charge diesel vehicles, allow free parking for e vehicles, run electric ca bs parking for e vehicles, run electric cabs and trams. others think it is a goodidea cabs and trams. others think it is a good idea but others, political advisers think it is a stupid idea stopping just a revenue generator for cities. thanks for all your thoughts, able will see you soon! — mackay will see
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it has been pretty cold across northern scotland in the past few hours, temperatures have been down to —6, there has been some snow around too, but the main message in the forecast is that it is going to be mild this week, some wet and windy weather on the way, gale force winds, not surprising for this time of year. but it is already starting to happen out there in the atlantic. low pressures are forming, weather fronts will be heading our way, we have a fair bit of cloud and some light rain affecting the south and south—east at the moment. we have got one weather front here keeping things a little bit milder. we have got clear skies, but also mist and fog across northern england and scotland, and that's where we've had the colder air. temperatures have been down to —6 degrees but actually rising a little bit through the early hours of tuesday morning. tuesday starts off grey, cloudy, and drizzly in the south, mist and murk across the midlands and parts of northern england, and still a little bit of winteryness left over from the night across scotland. four degrees in aberdeen, five in newcastle, eight or nine
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in the south, and east anglia and london probably staying quite cloudy and damp across the course of tuesday. tuesday night into wednesday we are actually in between weather systems, one moving away towards the east and this next big low pressure is dominating a huge chunk of the atlantic, that is going to be a real dominating part of our weather as we go through the course of the second half of the week. on wednesday, it starts off really foggy across parts of the midlands and northern england but then the winds will freshen and we start to see the arrival of this weather front with very strong winds, in fact winds around coast of south—western england, wales, a little bit further north, could be approaching 70 miles an hour. that is around the coast — inland windy enough, too. look what happens across the course of wednesday and into thursday: that weather front sweeps across the uk, strong winds as well, potential for some wintryness, across the high ground there, scotland and then that takes us into thursday, quite a blustery day with showers as well.
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towards the end of the week, that big low pressure with lots of weather fronts circling in. it is dominating a huge chunk of europe. we are not the only ones getting the bad weather, there will be spells of wind and rain and other parts of europe as well. unsurprising really, for the time of year. but the temperatures really will be rising in southerlies by the end of thursday. we could be approaching 13 degrees celsius in london and there will be some rain around, too. bye bye.
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good morning — welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and dan walker. our headlines today: on the day parliament returns to business, the government promises a new deadline for brexit. borisjohnson says he'll make it illegal for to extend the next stage of negotiations with the eu beyond the end of 2020. boeing suspends production of its troubled 737 max airliner — it's been grounded for nine months after two deadly crashes. london fire brigade is criticised by the watchdog for its poor management and staff training, just months after similar concerns were raised at the grenfell tower inquiry.
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