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mark wilson is cfo of aston martin. hejoins us from our birmingham studio.port to japan over the next five years as part of our plan to redevelop the product range at aston martin. we see japan as a big opportunity for us in terms of the products we sell and export terms, so products we sell and export terms, so the vast bulk of that is car exports. we are also investing in the japanese suppliers and in a larger presence in japan. the japanese suppliers and in a larger presence injapan. we have talked about being a luxury accelerator business which is all to do in simple terms with understanding more about what the consumer wants. when you say it is all about exports, how can you guarantee japanese customers will buy your cars, because that seems to be what you're saying? japanese customers have bought our cars for a long time and they will be in the top five of the biggest market in the world as we move forward. there is nothing really changing but what we are doing is investing injapan because we see it as a huge growth market for and technology markets. h

as part of the visit, the chief executive of aston martin has announced a £500 million deal between thet in the areas of security, defence and trade, and look to the arrangements we can put in place when we‘ve left the eu. as regards the details of our aims for the eu and our relationship with them in the future, we‘ve been publishing a series of papers over the summer, there will be more papers to come, where we are setting out the key issues that both sides need to address. and the ideas we have of how to deal with those. it‘s the united kingdom that‘s been coming forward with the ideas and with the clarity about the future. it‘s clearjapan doesn‘t want britain to crash out of the eu in march 2019. over the summer your chancellor and trade secretary both said britain needs a transitional arrangement. do you still think no deal is better than a bad deal, we could still walk away? yes, i think that is right. but if you talk about the point at which we leave the eu, we want to ensure that at that point we do have a deal that is the right dealfor the uk. i said back injanuary in my speech

theresa may welcomes a multi—million pound trade deal for the luxury car maker aston martin on her first to japan as prime minister. kezia dugdale resigns as leader of scottish labour. she says she's leaving the party in a better state than she found it — but it's time to "pass the baton" to someone else. prince william and prince harry visit a memorial garden for their mother on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death. the duchess of cambridge joined the princes on a tour of the white garden at kensington palace, planted to mark two decades since princess diana died. a hard drive containing unfinished works by terry pratchett has been crushed by a six—and—a—half tonne steamroller — as per his wishes. the fantasy novelist died in march 2015 after battling alzheimer's disease. welcome to houston, a city where so many neighbourhoods are underwater. i'm ina many neighbourhoods are underwater. i'm in a suburb to the west of houston, the storm has passed, but look at the impact. we have cars submerged, home completely flooded, rescue boats going door to door this morning. i've seen at le

this aston martin d-b-r-one sold at auctionfor 22-point-five million dollars.e most a british- made car has ever got on an auction block. only five of these aston martin cars were built...and this is the first time one has gone on sale to the public. the model competed in more than a dozen races in the late 1950's...and james bond drove the similar d-b-five model in several films. the sale was made at the r-m sotheby's classic car auction in monterey... no word on who called in the winning bid. (jr stone) next at 11. the excitement is building here in the bay area and across the nation. ahead of tomorrow's solar eclipse.(justine) the safiest way you can experience the phenomena... coming up next... keep it right here for kron 4 news at eleven.all the day's big stories, and your forecastin 15 minutes (jr stone) our top story tonight... we are now less than 24 hours away from the total solar eclipse.... and this will be the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast-to-coast across the u-s in 99 years.(jr stone) thanks for joining us on kron4 news at 11... i'm jr-

may arrive with a fifteen member business delegation visit comes as british luxury car maker aston martin has just announced a five hundred million pound investment deal. that would seek it expanding its exports and offices pan. may said such deals are good vital has britain prepares to leave the team you. the third round of britain initiations currently underway in brussels with e. u. officials painting a fairly grim picture of the uk's preparedness. prime minister says the uk's already looking ahead to a post breaks it bilateral deal with japan. what we want to ensure is that we get the right deal for the united kingdom in terms of our deep and special partnership for the future? with the european union that that's a good deal in relations to our business you che trade with the remaining member states of the european union. but we also want to be negotiating and setting in place trade arrangements with other countries around the world. up i'm here in japan i'll be talking about that trade deal with the european union which we have been promoting. up but also all future relationship. tim

according to people familiar with the matter, aston martin could explore an ipo as soon as next year.d car. ok, that is your latest bloomberg business flash. hurricane is bearing down on the texas coast. and, the heart of the u.s. energy sector. check out this chart, g #btv faced 3. -- 3357. if not aautiful chart, beautiful hurricane. there are a number of those refineries located near corpus christi, in a direct path of harvey. for more on the potential impact, i want to bring in bloomberg's managing editor for energy and commodities in the americas. when will we know how much damage has been done? >> i think we will have to wait until daylight in houston tomorrow. the storm is currently forecast to hit sometime around midnight or after midnight houston time. there will be the direct hit, as you said, it will be a category 3, which to put it in context, katrina was a category 3. we are going to have to look not only at the impact, than at the fact that it looks like it's going to be a slow-moving storm, so it may linger for several days over the gulf coast and that's why they're talk

for a mayo's to a bentley to an aston martin and a ladder over new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation to neither justified a need for a luxury item of bills nor verified that the use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and c.c. admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping out of good records of didn't work. now also highlighted by this audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously we'll update if we hear back now we have to keep in mind that this particular audit focuses on the year

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as part of the visit here today, £500 million aston martin deal.ar, the this is the main shelter here in downtown houston. for the past few days, it had been running at double the capacity, but this morning, as the weather conditions in houston improve, we are seeing more shelters opening here in this region, including at nrg stadium, where one of the nfl teams plays here, a new shelter that has been opened up and can host 10,000 people. even as the recovery gets under way here, in the houston area, a very dire situation is unfolding just to the east of us, where harvey continues to dump incredible amounts of rain on the city of beaumont and port arthur. 0vernight, 15 inches of rain fell on that part of the state, and this morning we are getting reports of flooding of at least one shelter there, and also people are taking to social media, pleading for help, saying that water is rising in their homes, and the sheriff in that region saying that he‘s just overwhelmed and just does not have the resources right now to get to some of these stranded resid

fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porsches to all for males to a bentley to an aston martin and a lender over new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation to neither justified a need for a luxury item of bills nor verified to use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and c.c. admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping out of good records of didn't work use now also highlighted by this audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously we'll update if we hear back now we have to

important trade partner to the uk, both as a place for uk goods to be exported to and, today, aston martin£500 million investment here. crucially, japan's investment in the uk over decades. the big car plants, other manufacturers in the city, japanese banks. theresa may, while she is here, will be wanting to reassure japanese politicians and businesses that brexit is not going to jeopardise their investments in the uk. they have, for many years, seen the uk, in part, as a gateway into the uk, in part, as a gateway into the eu, into the single market. i think she is going to have lots of questions thrown at her about how exactly questions thrown at her about how exa ctly 5 he questions thrown at her about how exactly she sees the next 18 months, two or three years unfolding through the transition and beyond. she will also want to be starting to do some preparatory work for a future uk and japan trade deal, although formal negotiations cannot begin until we are out of the eu. tropical storm harvey, which caused devastating flooding in texas before drifting back out to sea, has begun to move

as the uk prime minister meets her japanese counterpart, aston martin has announced a £500 million traded japan. the luxury car brand aims to increase exports to japan, open a number of new offices next year, and expand its dealer network. theresa may, called the investment "vital" as britain prepares to leave the eu. brexit could mean gaps on shop shelves — that's the warning from the british retail consortium. they say crucial details are still missing from the uk's vision for future customs arrangements — and delays at ports could mean higher prices and empty shelves. but brexit campaigners said technology means there's "no need for hold—ups at borders". soaring levels of consumer debt are worrying the bank of england and unsecured borrowing, on credit cards and loans, is up 10% on last year. today a new report suggests that people struggling with long term credit card debt are more likely to have their limit raised than those who aren't. the research by citizens advice found that 18% of struggling credit card users were offered more opportunity to borrow without requesting it, compar

fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porsches to all for males to a bentley to an aston martin and a ladder over new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation to neither justified a need for a luxury item of bills nor verified that the use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and c.c. admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping out of good records of down work use now also highlighted by this audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously we'll update if we hear back now we hav

theresa may welcomes a multi—million pound trade deal for the luxury car maker aston martin on her first a memorial garden for their mother on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death. now, time for the sport. liverpool are in talks this afternoon to bring alex 0xlade—chamberlain to anfield, just a day after arsenal agreed a fee with chelsea for the england winger. 0ur sports reporter david 0rnstein explains more. alex 0xlade—chamberlain had been the subject of an agreed deal between arsenal and chelsea. £40 million was the fee settled on. but he rejected it. he was of the understanding that he was going to leave arsenal where he's playing at right wingback, to join chelsea. he said i don't want to do that, i actually want to join liverpool, his boyhood club. at the time they hadn't put in an offer. they have now, that's been rejected. he'll either go to liverpool and play centrally or stay at arsenal and see out his contract. chelsea have had a bit rejected by everton for ross barkley. chelsea's offer clearly way below everton's original £50 million valuation. barkley will be availa

dbr1 that's being sold by sotheby's aston martin only made six of these.s are just massive in the mythology of racing and british car history. that car could sell for well over $20 million now supercars, these are fairly modern, recent cars built in the last ten years, they're becoming much bigger in the auction, and the ultimate super car, mclaren f-1, that's going to sell for somewhere between $10 million and $14 million. but the celebrity of the week, the literal movie star of the week, is steve mcqueen's racing porsche. now this car was in the movie le mans, famous movie, sort of become a cult classic among car collectors that car could sell for between $10 million and $16 million over its bidding. and that would be the most expensive porsche ever sold and probably the most expensive movie car ever sold. but still the real top sellers here this week remain the ferraris this is a $2.2 million ferrari that's going to sell here at meek up. and then race cars, especially a car like this which was driven by the legendary sterling, the jaguar nobli that coul

aston martin, doing product development, which would be within manufacturing, working on their cars. experience. how much pressure do you feel under at the moment? there is a lot of pressure because there is a big change in life. you arejust coming into the adult world. if i fail anything i would have to retake them. dinkas crossed. -- fingers crossed. laurie's be love his cricket. i have been involved since an early age and i have always just loved playing. what do you hope to do when you get the results?|j loved playing. what do you hope to do when you get the results? i would like to do sports coaching, so i can do something i really like to do. a—levels give you a better prospect for the future. i am not really sure. # asi for the future. i am not really sure. # as i wake up this bright morning. i am excited, nervous, but ijust want morning. i am excited, nervous, but i just want to morning. i am excited, nervous, but ijust want to get the results so i can get into sixth form and i can possibly pursue a career in music. yash was born partially sighted. this trip to an indoor ski

it's for aston martin, doing product development, which would be within manufacturing, working on theirf i fail anything i would have to retake them. fingers crossed. # tell them i'm no fool... laurie's big love is cricket. i've been involved since a young age and i havejust always just loved playing. what do you hope to do when you get the results? i quite like the idea of doing a sports coaching apprenticeship, so i can do something i really like doing. but do a—levels give you a better prospect for the future? i am not really sure. # as i wake up this bright morning... i'm excited, nervous, but i just want to get the results so i can get into my sixth form and i can possibly pursue a career in music. yash was born partially sighted. this trip to an indoor ski slope has been arranged by the royal society for blind children. growing up with partial sight, it can be hard to come to terms with your condition. now i use it as a strength, but not a weakness. if i do get the grades, i'm hoping for five grades that are above b, i will get my sixth form place and all my needs are catered for.

as part of the visit here today, £500 billion aston martin deal.sions this week, what more will you be able to say about britain's possible role in resolving this crisis? i want to work with prime minister abe and other international partners to do what we all want to do, which is to stop north korea from conducting these illegal activities. these are illegal activities. these are illegal tests and it is outrageous, it is provocation, and they should be stopping them. there's been a discussion in the united nations security council and i'm pleased there was a united condemnation of north korea from the united nations security council. we want to work with international partners to see what further pressure can be brought on north korea, and particularly look at what china can do to bring pressure on north korea. theresa may talking injapan. staying with brexit — and as the latest round of negotiations continues in brussels — today there's a stark warning from one of europe's top diplomats that britain needs to make clear what the uk will look like