hello and welcome to business today. office in the country's pivotal elections, with their leader friedrich merz set to take control of europe's largest economy. merz will now begin coalition talks and says as investors continue to monitor election results. this election comes at a very uncertain time globally. germany's economy is so important to the european union but relations between the bloc and beijing have been strained the make—up of the coalition that is eventually formed will be very important to economies

and trading partners in china but also here germany's biggest trading partner is the us, but since coming into office, trump has threatened to slap tariffs on european imports — among them german vehicles. now friedrich merz has a strong connection with america and europe exports three times as much to the us compared to china, so he may want to invest in that relationship. but is there an opportunity for china here? with the trump administration being hostile to the eu, from local brands. in which he lumped china with russia, north korea and iran as "axes of

autocracies" moving to the united states now and five weeks into his second global economy. despite looming uncertainties, investment management giant vanguard have not altered their outlook for growth in the us, or the global economy. their asia pacific chief economist qian wang — when we are talking about tariffs, it is actually an active supply shock to the us economy and also the rest of the world. economic growth and higher inflation, technology innovation, ai, government so that is going to help

offset the drag from tighter tariffs and policies and immigration lucky — they do not have this kind of strong productivity growth. so in that case growth elsewhere is likely we are only expecting about 0.5% growth in europe, 0.7% in the uk, to 4.5% from 5% last year. britain and india will restart trade talks in new delhi on monday, with the uk's business and trade secretaryjonathan reynolds travelling to the indian capital. — but a deal couldn't be finalised ahead of the indian election. for more on this, let's cross to mumbai and join the bbc�*s archa na shukla.

can be agreed this time do think? m be agreed this time do think? . around, do you think? that would be — around, do you think? that would be the _ around, do you think? that would be the hope - around, do you think? that would be the hope . we | around, do you think? twat would be the hope we know would be the hope but we know trade take years to trade talks take years to finalise and even for india and uk this is the 15 round of the uk this is the 15 round of but negotiations. but both countries to agree that the world dynamic is changing, world dynamic is fast changing, especially with donald trump and the shifting global supply chains, and hence of them chains, and hence both of them would be for would be pushing for. .. in some of the resolutions in some of the sticking this time around when the uk trade secretary it meets india's commerce minister both have traded elli countries have traded £41 billion and it is rising at the uk hopes its flatlining economy . i211 could gain from india's consumption which growing at consumption which is growing at faster pace and the rest of a faster pace and the rest of the world. the uk is asking for lower import on lower import duties on whiskeys, cars, including electric, and also faster

and to eleotrio, and also fastar and to the msssmsflt sss stts== ts tbs market for its services, indian market for its services, especially insurance and services sector. in india has ' " vilndiaihasbeenm ' " india has been asking for turn, india has been asking for more visas this has a more visas and this has been a sticking point in the more visas for conversation. more visas for indian professionals, especially from it and health into the uk and care, into the uk market, and these could be some of the that the countries would to sort out what they need to sort out what they would hope to do soon. would hope to do that soon. you, archana to indonesia, and thousands of students took to the streets last week to protest against budget the ex—military chief is hoping to free up around $19 billion

trying to achieve. a vat tax rate was expected to be increased this year, but has been put on hold. able to add to the state coffers. which means the re—prioritisation of spending, and usually when this kind of programme is undertaken, there

exercise, i think the intention was correct, but i think it needs to be balanced and perhaps a bit more on the year, adding to their list of woes ahead of a possible ipo. according to the financial times, the newspaper reported that the retailer's exemption that has previously benefited the company. higher than its total spending on al and cloud computing alibaba has gained more

than $100 billion of market value in 2025 — although shares are down over 2% in monday's trading session. study has showed that more than half of companies that adopted generative ai have seen a jump in revenue by at least 10% over the last two years. that's the finding from professional networking platform linkedin. aneesh raman has more on theirfindings. it's going to push us into a new economy. these five cs — curiosity, compassion, creativity, courage communication — that is how we have always innovated and adapted as a species and it will now be core.

and one of the big concerns amongst humans is job security and what ai means for that. we have seen in the us, big ai advocate elon musk trying to slashjobs with his organisation, doge. where you get pick up is half full view how that will play full view on how that will play out the workplace? i start with the cup is half empty when humans were in an that is the wrong question. the question to ask

is, what is possible? of our consciousness i am bullish because i'm pro—human of humans, let alone all humans bringing all of their capabilities to bear. that said, humans using ai are we are all going to to get on board that artificial intelligence train. that's it for now, i will be back intelligence train. that's it for now, i goodbye. k

league to 11 points.

and france run riot in rome, scoring 11 tries as they put in a record—breaking performance against italy in the six nations. hello, there. liverpool took a step closer to a second premier league mohamed salah opened the scoring for the visitors in the 14th minute. that's his 25th goal in the premier league this season. his 16th assist in the league, setting up dominik szoboszlai. liverpool did think they had added a third after the break,

but curtisjones was denied by var.