next, we head to australia, where uk foreign secretary. dominic raab, is making his first foreign trip since brexit. the port macquarie news says britain is looking for a free—trade deal following its departure from the european union. the financial times reports on a potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer. scientists say they can now map the development of the disease which could lead to personalised treatment and a potential drop in mortality rates. germany's frankfurter allgemeine leads on the political upheaval in the eastern state of thuringia fter the far—right afd party helped removed the local state premier. there have been calls for fresh elections in the region. finally, the daily telegraph says social media bosses may be held personally responsible for harm online. the paper reports that ministers will propose a new ‘duty of care‘ law, requiring tech giants like facebook and google to protect children using the internet.

with me, is jane foley, head of foreign exchange strategy at rabobank. you have been looking through all the papers and of course the main story in most of the papers of the fact that donald trump has been acquitted of both articles in the senate impeachment trial. this is quite expected, but what was not expected that was that meet romney would vote really, to see donald trump found guilty. that was slightly unexpected but generally, really divided along party lines. indeed, as you would expect most people are of course have expected this result all the time because republicans lead the senate. so, what is quite interesting though and i think we knew this over the last week oi’ we knew this over the last week or $0 we knew this over the last week or so is that the republicans refused to call witnesses into the trial and i think at that point it was known that donald trump would really be

acquitted. it has never really been much of a market event because of the assumption that he would be acquitted and what is interesting also is that donald trump ‘s popularity ratings, his approval ratings, i really strong amongst republicans at this point. 49% is republicans at this point. 4996 is the highest point he has achieved. yes. since he has beenin achieved. yes. since he has been in power. meaning what it has done is it has pushed republicans behind him instead of dividing them so now he will stay strong i think ahead of the election campaign, which is the election campaign, which is the november. of course, there is upset amongst the democrats and the front runnerjoe biden dropping to fourth place? indeed and we saw that in the iowa caucus result. again, quite split among the democrats, not really clear who that candidate will be, come november and quite confusing i think for many democrats. trade is really on the agenda in the us and on the agenda for the uk

as well. we have the foreign secretary heading to australia for the crunchy trade talks, the first key trade talks since britain left the european union and certainly seems that australia to some extent is welcoming him with open arms because many businesses want to get a real foothold because many businesses want to get a realfoothold back because many businesses want to get a real foothold back in the uk again? they do when one of those industries is the redmeat association and they are talking about when the uk join the eu back in the 19705 and suddenly their market share of their export5 into the uk shrunk so they are looking for a biggerfoothold in the uk industry to sell their product. that is something uk farmers need to be wary of and something we have to watch is that australians are incidentally negotiating with the eu with a trade deal in these talks are been going on since 2008 and they will start again next week and the eu have again next week and the eu have a couple of sticking point5 with australia and one is dirty petrol. they say that australia needs to clean up their act and

it will be interesting to see if the uk takes a similar line. it was interesting, we were talking to a correspondent in canberra about how climate has already been raised during pre55 already been raised during p ress c0 nfe re nce5 already been raised during press conferences with dominic raabe and making the point is has to be family on the agenda a5 has to be family on the agenda as far as the uk is concerned a5 as far as the uk is concerned as well? it does, australia doe5 as well? it does, australia does not have a good record in term5 does not have a good record in terms of the amount of fossil fuel5 it burns, it is very pro— coal and the government got elected in because it was very pro— coal, you could argue. again, ithink pro— coal, you could argue. again, i think there is a lot of pressure since the bushfire5 that perhaps that australia has to ta ke that perhaps that australia has to take a stance on that. another important story in the financial times and this is really groundbreaking, a groundbreaking study looking at the potential treatments for cancer. 1300 5cienti5ts the potential treatments for cancer. 1300 scientists were involved in this and it's all about personalised treatment, isn't it? very innovative? the

good news, 1300 5cienti5ts involved in the study over a decade and what they have effectively done is they have tried to read dna sequences of different types of cancers and then for the same patients, they have been looking at the healthy tissue and the health e.g. and means that they are able to work out why different patients differently to different treatments and drugs and once i can understand that —— genomes, and once i can understand that —— genome5, then they can personalise treatments for different patients and they say that these personalised treatments may be available in a few yea r5. treatments may be available in a few years. a wonderful piece of news and hopefully that will go on to save many people 5leep ‘5 lives! go on to save many people 5leep 's lives! what i find interesting is that one in eight cases are thought to be caused by a virus and they have di5covered caused by a virus and they have discovered this through this decade—long study —— peoples'. they are able to go to the beginning of where the cancer cells are started to grow and again this could help with the

prevention of cancers further down the line as well. moving on to what has been considered a political earthquake in germany. real outrage as the far right afd party for the first time, it has aligned with a mainstream party and the result has been in this one state is that the state premier has been effectively been ousted and it has sent shockwaves through the political establishment? this is the far right aligning with angela merkel ‘5 democratic party and putting in a different politician but what is core shockwaves is that a major party has used those boats and aligned itself with a far right party. and that is new and shocking and they have been calls for new elections and whether or not that would change the make up will obviously remain to be seen and what we have seen in germany and also in sweden, austria, really since 2015, when we saw

a huge amount of immigrants into europe, there has been a lot of pushback in these countries against that, perhaps there were too many immigrants, too fast, issues with integration of the communities and asa integration of the communities and as a consequence, we have seen the far right grow again, support for the far right grow again. moving onto the final a really quite fascinating, and the uk government says it is actually going to hold tech bosses to account who run the big social media platforms. and they are going to do this by getting the regulator that usually regulates broadcasters to become involved. this is a real change in the way that social media is viewed? that's right because social media will argue that they are platforms not publishers and they are not responsible in that way for the content that goes on the site. 0ther

content that goes on the site. other people, third parties write the content. the uk government ‘5 argument —— arguing that they need to take responsibility for the content and it is about the protection of children. what children should and have been exposed to. what isn't interesting is that the culture secretary makes the argument —— what is interesting is that the culture secretary makes the argument that in the financial industry there is a director personally responsible say something goes wrong, that director has to ta ke wrong, that director has to take personal responsibility. why perhaps should we be protecting money more than children? the argument is that the social media platforms need to ta ke the social media platforms need to take the same degree of responsibility to protect our children. some people would say why don't they already? and find it absolutely shocking it does not actually happen and indeed some of the heads of social media giants did not appear before parliamentary committees scrutinising and do you think this would mean they would be more likely to attend those hearings? i think they would have to. certainly they

have that degree of responsibility but of course it is not law yet. the bill is likely to come before parliament in the summer and it may take 18 months to come to fruition and no doubt these big and very wealthy companies, tech companies, will be fighting it all the way. 0bviously, thank you very. there will be concerns by privacy campaigners who say they do not want to for example, the end of encryption, which is one of the elements thatis which is one of the elements that is going to be up for discussion i understand under this new regulation. we will just have to wait and see what it brings. thank you very, jane, senior strategist at rabobank. stay with us, so much more to come on bbc news.

hello there, the weather is expected to morph into something wild this weekend but in the meantime still have high pressure to bring finance settled weather, and you could call the next few days the calm before the storm. these are the areas of high pressure slowly retreating back towards the continent as we head through thursday and friday but it will be strong enough to influence the weather, light winds across central and southern areas could mean we could start with mist and fog patches, some of the quite dense and stubborn to clear. some areas may hold onto it all day but for most it will lift, seeing burial amounts of cloud but sunny stealth spells as well. —— variable, temperatures peaking at eight degrees and cold where it is foggy. thursday night, it will stay dry again, more of a breeze picking up out west and generally more of a breeze and looks like it will not be quite as cold on friday as we have seen the last few mornings.

friday, but more of a breeze but sunshine, meaning less likely to see mist and fog. some good spells of sunshine through the day but the breeze will be picking up from the south, particularly across western areas but the first of weather fronts pushing western areas but the first of weatherfronts pushing into outbreaks of rain and temperatures lifting to 10 degrees. the first weather front spread through during friday night, quite a breezy night and windy in the north—west. the rain eventually clears away from the east early on saturday morning and then we have a window of fine weather. this sunny weather could be the best weather of the weekend for most of us that it will be turning windy particularly in the west, currowan developing late in the day and the next frontal move in with heavy rain -- rain. frontal move in with heavy rain —— rain. much windy out during saturday night but particularly across western areas with widespread gales and outbreaks of heavy and persistent rain. sunday, the storm, will go back to united states with the low

pressure is developing, bringing troublesome weather too much of the south and east of the united states, and get picked up by a strong jetstream across the northern atlantic as it hurtles towards our shores. likely to bring damaging winds, look at all the isobars along the charts associated with this storm and many models are agreeing with this, which is why the met office have named the storm early on and some concerns about storm kirra arriving saturday, bringing damaging winds and likely to have disruption so please stay tuned to the weather forecast.

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