without britain, jean claude juncker wants more european integration not less.thing. also on the programme: where northern ireland meets europe — we hear concerns about a post—brexit irish border and the potential impact on day—to—day lives.

what jean—claude juncker has said, not meant free movement.been said in parliament by many people, we need to solve the illegal immigration problem by making it legal. they want to have more legal writs to migration. if you allow more people in, they are not actually illegal, so it is not a problem in their view. so i think there is some conflict there. five out of seven in parliament agreed withjean—claude out of seven in parliament agreed with jean—claude juncker. it was only ukip, the efdd group, sorry, that had a problem with us. this has been proposed many times over the yea rs, been proposed many times over the years, and these things generally happen. they take years, but they are in lamented eventually. vince cable makes a good point. who knew that you would agree? laughter. all the things jean—claude juncker has said here have been useful. particularly for those petitioning for a second eu referendum. particularly for those petitioning fora second eu referendum. if particularly for those petitioning for a second eu referendum. if ther

jean—claude juncker took centrestage in strasbourg with his state of the union speech this week.ussed diesel gate, the volkswagen emission scandal, debating new testing regimes in germany and austria introduced earlier this month after a parliamentary enquiry made recommendations. 1.2 billion euros in eu aid was given to italy to help repair damaged caused by recent earthquakes. the massive pay—out is the biggest ever under the eu solidarity fund. and meps approved a motion calling on norway, a member of the european economic area, to give up commercial whaling off its coast. away from the european parliament, protests took place across france on tuesday against president macron‘s controversial changes to the country's labour laws. and with german elections just over a week away, polls show that chancellor angela merkel is 15% ahead of her social democratic rival martin schulz. her party, the christian democratic union, should remain the largest, but is likely to fall short of a majority. let's talk more now about those coming elections in germany. voters go to the polls next sun

yes, not me, jean—claude juncker does. you, because it's a rather neat quote, der spiegel, a respected german news organisation, they editorialised saying, "have we not learned from the lesson of greece? there is no convergence of europe, economic reform and efficiencies haven't closed the productivity gap between north and south and the euro precludes the weakest southern economies devaluing to gain competitiveness. " there is still this fundamental lack of convergence inside the european union that all this talk of new fiscal integration ignores. why are the greeks, in spite of many problems, which by the way largely generated through decades of bad government in greece, not by the euro. the euro was the litmus test of all the misconduct in their economy, the greeks have in their public opinion a high favour for europe. you aren't really addressing my point. you said yourself in a recent statement, you said year after year the eu countries of north and south mistrust each other more and more. yes, absolutely. i do not se

another case of the brexit blues — european commission president jean—claude juncker says britain, willn regret its decision to leave the eu. back from the dead — this tortoise thought to be extinct for a hundred and fifty years, creeps back out of its shell. eight residents of a florida nursing home have died after hurricane irma knocked out its power and air conditioning, when it hit the state on sunday. 115 other residents of the home were evacuated, a number of them were in critical condition. police are now conducting a criminal investigation into the deaths. sarah corker reports. a state of emergency at a nursing home in florida. without air—conditioning since hurricane irma hit, police say the deaths at the home may be related to high temperatures inside the building. the tragedy described by a senator is inexcusable. 115 elderly and vulnerable residents under severe distress were taken to vulnerable residents under severe distress were ta ken to safety on wednesday. at this time we have other patients in critical care. right now the building has been sealed off and we are conduc

european commission president, john claude junker. —— jean—claude juncker.nd rising prices, meaning a cut in pay for many workers. apple has revealed its high—end smartphone, the iphone x. it has no physical home button, and uses a facial recognition system to identify its owner rather than a fingerprint. it's due to hit uk shelves on november third with a hefty price tag of £1000. uk airline easyjet is to let customers use its website to book long—haul flights with other carriers. it says it is the first global airline connections service by a european no frills carrier. easyjet is teaming up with norwegian and westjet to offer flights to north and south america, as well as singapore, from gatwick. to the us now, and lawmakers say ‘somebody needs to go to jail‘ in the ongoing row about the equifax security breach. 36 us senators have called on federal authorities to investigate the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of credit bureau equifax by company executives after a massive data breach. samira hussain is at the new york stock exchange. samira, explaine

meanwhile it emerged that the european commission presidentjean—claude juncker had questioned the accountabilityf david davis, westminter‘s main man in the negotiations, and his political mandate to conduct talks. steve, how do you assess progress this week? it has been all about brexit as part of the westminster watchers. what is your assessment of how it's been going and what we have been hearing from both sides? virtually every day there is another twist which conveys first of all, the sheer complexity of what is being undertaken here. the sense that time is running out fast, to meet this two—year deadline, march 2019. and there fast, to meet this two—year deadline, march 20 19. and there are so many oddities to this whole situation. labour's position in the

young kurt seals eu integration with a kiss. —— jean—claude juncker.opean union over the next 12 months also. they believe they have the financial crisis out the way and the economy is doing well. he is prepared to dole out a few kisses as a result. it's quite an exciting picture, given the story. we are not used to seeing those kinds of pictures coming from the chamber. no snogging in the chamber! the crux of the story is quite exciting, depending on where you stand on the european issue. no doubting that juncker is stand on the european issue. no doubting thatjuncker is setting out his stall for closer integration of the countries that remain within the eu. he's talking about extending the schengen area to the countries that don't fall under that regime, and also extending the euro, making it

the head of the eu's powerful executive, commission president jean—claude juncker, is to give his annualtate of the european union address in strasbourg in a few hours‘ time. now it's time for world business report. ten generations on, apple releases its anniversary iphone. it has better cameras, can do augmented reality and it recognises your face. but is it worth the wait? and is it worth the cost? and we're at the frankfurt auto motor show, where more weird and wonderful cars are unveiled as the world's leading makers race to plug in. welcome to world business report, i'm sally bundock. also in the programme: toshiba shares dive again in tokyo. we'll be live to the region to find out why. but first... this year is the tenth anniversary of the iphone and the latest version has a new screen, new camera, no home button, and a big price tag of $1000. but will it be enough to drive growth at the world's biggest listed company? the firm's share price has soared over the past few months. since december last year it's climbed more than 50% and is nowjust over $160 a share. but not everything

without britain, jean claude juncker wants more european integration not less.teers say he hasn't learnt anything. also on the programme: where northern ireland meets europe — we hear concerns about a post—brexit irish border and the potential impact on day—to—day lives. younger members of the family go to the school across the border, the play park, we buy diesel, ice—cream even. and hillary clinton has plenty to say about bernie sanders in her new book — does his brother agree? we'll be finding out when larry sanders joins us here on beyond 100 days. hello, i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. donald trump has a new game plan — forget republicans, make friends with democrats instead. tonight, the two top democrats in congress will have dinner with the president. last week, they made a deal with him over debt, tonight they'll go further. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer want to get trump to protect young illegal immigrants and help shore up obamacare. while mr trump wants the favourable headlines that come with making deals and getting thin

guy: we have jean-claude juncker on his feet. delivering a state of the it,n, i guess you can call for the european union. let us take a listen to what the commission president is saying. >> thank you for that. ank the 27t to th leaders of our member states. agenda.come my in doing so, they chose unity. they chose to unite around common ground. slowlynce, we have been but surely gathering momentum. it helps that the economic outlook swung in our favor. we are in the fifth year of an reallyc recovery that reaches every single member state. union hasthe european rivaled that of the united states over the last two years. it now stands above 2% for the forn as a whole and at 2.2% the monetary -- unemployment is at a nine year low. jobs have beenn created during this mandate so far with 235 million people at high more people with employment in the european union than ever before. european union, european commission, cannot take the credit for this alone. 8 millionm sure had jobs been lost, we would have taken the blame. few institutio

the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, has told the european parliament thatritain will soon regret its decision to leave the eu. in his annual speech on the state of the european union, mrjuncker also outlined his plans for a more integrated eu. now on bbc news, click. this week, the women fighting for tech recognition. berlin in the round. and attack of the swarm. it's going to be monstrous. this week, we've been to ifa, the massive tech show in berlin. we'll be looking at the big launches and the cool new devices from the fair in a few minutes, and we'll also hear from the people behind them, who, we've noticed, once again are mostly men. the lack of women in tech has been well documented and it's something that we run up against every single day working on click and it's so frustrating — it's extremely rare for us to turn up at a tech company and for any of the available spokespeople to be female. it's been suggested that the lack of women in tech starts developing early on. kids are going back to school this week hot on the heels of stats from the latest

the day after the uk leads on the 29th of march 2019, jean—claude juncker has said leads on the 29thjean—claudejuncker has said there should be a summit for the remaining members in romania to celebrate their shared future. as adam said, jean claudejuncker was also optimistic about solving europe's migrant crisis — saying the eu had "drastically reduced the loss of life in the mediterranean". here's mrjuncker on that. translation: we managed to better control the central mediterranean roots, arrivals down 81% in august compared to the same time last year. in this way, we have considerably reduce the number of human lives lost in the mediterranean. how accurate is that? chris morris from bbc‘s reality check has been looking at that claim. the overall numbers have certainly gone down. in 2015, the number of people reported dead or missing crossing the mediterranean was 3700. that jumped to over 5000. crossing the mediterranean was 3700. thatjumped to over 5000. so far this year that number is 2500. still shockingly high, but a significant reduction. you have to look at those figures in

the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, has told the european parliament thatritain will soon regret its decision to leave the eu. in his annual speech on the state of the european union, mrjuncker also outlined his plans for a more integrated eu. now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to wednesday in parliament. the news from westminster: the labour leader accuses the government of neglecting ordinary people. a conservative prime minister once told britain, you've never had it so good. now tory mps tell each other, we've never had it so good. but the prime minister says voters can't trust labour. he promised voters he would deliver on brexit. and he's let them down. what people know is that it's only the conservatives that deliver a better britain. also in the programme, mps back a labour motion calling for an end to the pay cap for nhs workers. myself and my colleagues are minded to support the motion that he has put before the house this evening. but it would be appropriate if true sincerity was shown by all members of this house and the

that's the message from european commission president jean-claude juncker as he strikes a bullish tone in his state of the union address. >> the wind is back in the sails. we have now a window of opportunity, but it will not stay open forever. >>> welcome, everyone. let's look at the energy complex. the oil market has coped well with the busy hurricane season that's the message from the international energy agency. in its new report, the iea said crude prices were settling after recent severe weather. it added that investor sentiment pointed towards tightening markets and an expectation that oil prices will rise modestly. let's bring in neil atkinson, head of the oil industry and markets division at the iea. lovely to see you. hurricanes harvey and uirma, thy will hit oil demand in the u.s. in third quarter how bad will that hit be >> it won't be taking over the quarter as a whole it won't be a huge hit what we have noticed in previous hurricanes back in 2005 with katrina and gustav is that there is a very, very sharp, fast rebound because for one thing oil is used in some of the recov

when jean claude—juncker, from the european commission, talked about david davis being a very poor negotiatorut june. there have been some papers written over the summer. a lot of papers over the summer. so there was progress but each time, disappointment. in october we are supposed to move from the withdrawal issue, the divorce bill or settlement and the status of eu citizens in the uk, to the actual discussion about the trade relationship between britain and the eu. this is not going to happen in a few weeks. so probably it will be pushed to christmas to another summit. isn't this why the uk is saying, we'd like to have continual discussions? it's meant to be one week per month and someone has realised that we need a little bit more talking than that. yes, but you also have to prepare between meetings. it's bewildering because i'm not sure brexit is going to happen, but how long will it take for britain to come to its senses and for the british parliament to regain some power? but it looks as if... people will be wondering what you mean by regain senses. in ten seconds, can i say, the briti

the head of the eu's powerful executive, commission president jean—claude juncker, is to give his annualss in strasbourg in a few hours' time. mrjuncker is expected to call for member states to decide the future direction they want the eu to take, after britain leaves the world's largest trading bloc. the venezuelan opposition has refused to take part in direct talks with president nicolas maduro's government in the dominican republic later on wednesday. the opposition coalition said it wouldn't enter talks until the government agreed to meet a number of demands, including addressing the country's humanitarian crisis and releasing all political prisoners. hope hicks has now officially been named as the trump administration's communications director. she'd been filling the post for the past few weeks and her confirmation makes her the third person to get the job on a permanent basis since president trump took office. at 28 years of age, old she's taken on what is widely seen as one of the most powerful positions in washington, shaping the administration's public messages. now to one of th

the graciousness of it and the generosity of makes it difficult for michel barnier and jean—claude junckerme back with their usual response. although it did not released at michel barnier. he was there pretty much three hours after her speech. of course, it was short on detail. what the eu means by more detail is more money. what british politicians and public want by more detail is what is this really going to mean. we still don't really going to mean. we still don't really know. the most critical issues for people who voted leave and the brexit kevin barron party, the european court ofjustice, it is critical, taking back our own law and taking back control of our borders. she made gestures in both of those directions. she said rulings no longer have force in britain, but we will take into account their views, whatever that means. and she also said after we leave, there will be still at mission —— admission for eu citizens, but they would have to register. it were still pretty clear. the eu was going to hold out on the serious negotiation until they get more cash on the table. this is rid

will there be enoughin jean—claude juncker.n this speech to move the european negotiators to that crucial next phrase, the future trading relationship? ben wright has been taking a look. the time to negotiate britain's exit from the eu is disappearing fast. we will be out by march 2019, and talks seem stuck. that's why theresa may is here in florence, to set out in more detail her view of how britain and the eu will work together and trade together after brexit. the government is impatient for the talks to move on. what we think is necessary is for the talks do not only encompassed the things that have been discussed so far, like the rights of citizens, the irish border, but if we're going to address all of the detailed issues around even those things we've 0re been talking about, we've actually got to resolve what the future trading relationship is going to be, what our future trading relationship is going to be and what theresa may is going to be and what theresa may is doing today is setting out her ambition for that relatio

what is striking, listening to the whole speech, is that that is the only reference jean—claude juncker rest of it has all been about the eu without the uk, setting out his vision for the future and he wa nts far out his vision for the future and he wants far reaching change, an eu that grows bigger and integrates more in many ways. his plan includes creating a single eu president to head the institutions, and an eu finance minister to promote economic reforms. he wants more countries to join the eu, particularly balkan states, or tojoin the borderless schengen area and more to join the single currency as well. we now have a window of opportunity, but it will not stay open for ever. let us make the most of the momentum, catch the wind in our sales. he wants eu trade deals done with mexico, south american states, australia and new zealand. some listening called for even more eu integration, but not those who backed brexit. all i can integration, but not those who backed brexit. alll can say integration, but not those who backed brexit. all i can say is, thank god we are leaving. if you h

jean—claude juncker made the remark ahead of a summit of european leaders in estonia, which is being speaking as she arrived, the prime minister insisted that "very good progress" had been made in the first phase of talks. 0ur correspondent gavin lee is in tallin. gavin, different signals coming from the leaders? what do you read into that? yes, on the face of it, theresa may is a bit part player, the leaders are meeting in the culture centre behind me, the digital future culture centre behind me, the digitalfuture of europe culture centre behind me, the digital future of europe and crafting out very early on, dry to carve out a new vision for europe without exit. it's the second time the leaders have met, in bratislava last year, when she arrived, theresa may was told politely not to mention the b word, she arrived here today and some of the leaders gave their thoughts on it. in three weeks' time ultimately given week she's had, florence speech breaking some kind ofa florence speech breaking some kind of a deadlock, momentum perhaps on the talks with david davis and michel barnier,

jean—claude juncker, the president of the european commission, has told meps in brussels that britainthat the eu should now see britain's exit — which he also called sad and tragic — as an opportunity for the remaining countries to move towards a closer union. damian grammaticas reports. this was a striking shift from the eu. its leaders oozing optimism, because they believe the worst crisis of recent years are behind them. europe's economy is growing faster than america's. the migrant surge is receding and brexit hasn't proved fatal to their union. translation: on the 29th of march 2019, the united kingdom will leave the european union. it will be a sad and tragic moment. we will always regret it and you will come to regret it soon. what's striking, listening to this speech, that is the only reference mrjunker has made to brexit in an hour of talking. the rest has all been about the eu without the uk, setting out his vision for the future. he wants far—reaching change, and an eu that grows bigger and integrates even more in many ways. his plan includes an eu president to head all its

i managed to have a word with jean—claude juncker.ncker. it is worth saying this is a man who was a conduit for these talks, he's the boss of michel barnier, involved in every round of these talks. he also has a pinball machine, known as an amateur pinball player, which comes to this reference — this is what he had to say on progress so far. there will be no sufficient progress from now until october unless a miracle happens. do you feel it is going in the right direction? we are making progress. so i think even know these talks are about something else today, it is a good point — is it being overshadowed? in three weeks they will meet again in brussels with the lithuanian president. negotiations are behind schedule and we are already facing the necessity of transitional or additional period for brexit and this is the message, we need to be openly acknowledging to each other that the brexit negotiations are out of shape.“ there anything else you want to see that's not quite there yet for you? for lithuania we don't have individual int

another case of the brexit blues — european commission president jean—claude juncker says britain, willve the eu. back from the dead — this tortoise thought to be extinct for a hundred and fifty years, creeps back out of its shell.

framing european union presidentjean—claude juncker on the front page of the telegraph following hise on the bank of england's dilemma

applause the future of europe asjean—claude juncker sees it is all sorts of deeper integration.gen borders, combining hisjob with the president of the council who chairs the summits, he wants to have new agencies do ensure workers' rights. the action summed up in the words up to meps i spoke to. one centre—right from finland said it was great, just what we need, more integration so every euro being spent more wisely. a eurosceptic fromjimmy said it spent more wisely. a eurosceptic from jimmy said it was spent more wisely. a eurosceptic fromjimmy said it was a spent more wisely. a eurosceptic from jimmy said it was a horrifying pathway to united europe. basically the two views you will get in the building to the state of the union speech. more than 1000 people are still without power after the first named storm of the season. gusts as high as 70 miles per hour hit south west england and south wales overnight, but no serious damage has been reported yet. the highest gust of wind 83 miles an hour, the needles at the isle of wight. now some sport. good morning. celtic boss mike wors

. —— jean—claude juncker.tty bullish assessment of the prospects of the european union over the next 12 months also. they believe they have the financial crisis out the way and the economy is doing well. he is prepared to dole out a few kisses as a result. it's quite an exciting picture, given the story. we are not used to seeing those kinds of pictures coming from the chamber. no snogging in the chamber! the crux of the story is quite exciting, depending on where you stand on the european issue. no doubting that juncker is stand on the european issue. no doubting thatjuncker is setting out his stall for closer integration of the countries that remain within the eu. he's talking about extending the schengen area to the countries that don't fall under that regime, and also extending the euro, making it essential for those countries that sit outside the euro at the moment. if you are on the sceptical side of the european argument, his speech will have confirmed that we are on the right track in leaving. chain, t

and i don't know about you, but i believe that the arrogance of jean—claude juncker and michel barnierlain rude. so, prime minister, where is your strong as stable leadership because ido strong as stable leadership because i do not see it. and s dwelling on it if we may on the prime minister 's it if we may on the prime minister '5 speech in florence. what did she actually say? —— let us dwell. many of you will be saying, not a lot. i am going to agree with you. but i am going to go off my speech. she said, we are moving through a critical period in history. the british people have decided to leave the european union. we may be leaving the eu but we are not leaving europe. the uk's departure is inevitably a difficult process. the uk is leaving the eu. well, very good, sherlock. very clever. good lord. what a startlingly clever prime minister we have. lord. what a startlingly clever prime ministerwe have. i lord. what a startlingly clever prime minister we have. i suspect donald tusk may have been better off saying should try harder. but did she actually to be fair suggest anything conc

framing european union presidentjean—claude juncker on the front page of the telegraph following histate of the union address yesterday promising an ever—more powerful eu. the financial times has a piece on the bank of england's dilemma as jobless rates fall to lowest level in 42 years. but of course inflation is climbing. an energy story now in bloomberg as the saudi state—oil company ipo has been delayed. when it eventually happens, it could eclipse ali baba's 2014 ipo to become the biggest public offering in history. a few markets clamouring to get hold of that. 0n the front page of the guardian, a story in the continued football sex abuse scandal — former england coach graham taylor "failed to report paedophile." and finally, gymwear everywhere? not quite everywhere. i cannot remember the last time i wore very much. the new trend in wearing your lycras and trainers to work or even on a night out. the huffington post has an article on the rise of athleisure. so let's begin. with me is amrita sen, chief 0il analyst at energy aspects. let's start with how he was sticking his head of

meanwhile, jean—claude juncker, the president of the european commission, has told meps in brussels that will soon regret its decision to leave the eu. he used his annual state of the european union speech to argue that the eu should now see britain's exit — which he also called sad and tragic — as an opportunity for the remaining countries to move towards a closer union. translation: march 29, 2019 will be the date where the united kingdom will leave the european union. this will leave the european union. this will be a very sad and tragic moment in our history. we will always regret this but... and i think that you will regret it soon, if i may say. nonetheless we must respect the will of the british people. we're going to make progress. we will keep moving. we will move on because brexit is not everything. it is not the future of europe, it is not the be all and end all. a £37 million fund has been set up, for victims of the breast surgeon ian paterson, who duped patients into unnecessary operations, including mastectomies. he's now serving 20 years in jail. the bulk of the fund will

the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, says miracles are needed, if the brexitove onto the next stage, any time soon. speaking at a summit of eu leaders in estonia, he said he didn't think there'd been enough progress, to allow talks on trade to begin, before the end of october. but theresa may says she's pleased, with what's been achieved so far. 0ur europe correspondent kevin connelly reports, from estonian capital, tallinn. at a military base in estonia, the prime minister on a mission. theresa may's signal, that britain will remain an important player in european defence and security far beyond brexit. the problem, well, getting beyond brexit isn't easy. at the very least, there's a difference of emphasis about how the first rounds of talks are going. i'm pleased that the negotiations have been making progress and i look forward to developing that deep and special partnership with the eu, because i think it's not only in the interests of the uk, it's in the interests of the eu as well. the eccentric staging invited the thought that the remaining eu 27 are si

will jean-claude juncker deliver his annual state of the union speech.e a more upbeat tone than year ago when brexit.as facing his expected to push for a free trade -- he is expected to push for a free trade pact australia. let's bring in eric monaghan. -- eric lonergan. we are going to get a tone from younger a little more -- from juncker a little more upbeat. we focusing in on the german election still. eric: the core problems in europe have not gone away, to fight by the extreme greece which is fundamentally the system has a problem with policy. in germany, different tensions outside of germany, there is a anti--- there's a sentiment centered around populism. macron is correct that there needs to be institutional reform. that is the crux of these political issues. anna: you don't see enough institutional reform. one of thing jean-claude juncker is saying is trying to get the banking back on track. this is something that is being seen as a nod to macron. eric: they are trying their best but it is trivial in the context of what the real issues are. what

about for example angle america all have not gone down well and they were made mention of by claude juncker when he said stop insulting our member states by comparing their leaders to fascists and nazis europe is a continent of mature democracies he also said that the way that turkey had been imprisoning journalists basically ruled out e.u. membership for the future foreseeable future for turkey he said journalists belong in newsrooms not in prisons they belong where freedom of expression reigns he pulled no punches as far as he goes and what about this is comments on stronger migrant policy and ensuring that those who don't warrant refugee protection sent back to where they came from. yeah it's taken a couple of years for the european union members to get a grip on the migration issue obviously in two thousand and fifteen for example the u.n. said that more than a million regulated migrants or irregular migrants entered europe coming across from the mediterranean in various routes. so far this year it's down to one hundred twenty five thousand according to the u.n. so you can see there's b

given what we heard today from jean—claude juncker other progress as far as he sees it and the fact heobably be true if we go down the wto root. if we do, as i think we should do, if we transition and use the eea as a bridge we would have secured trading terms and it is a much more economic revival solution for brexit. it depends on the final negotiation. solution for brexit. it depends on the final negotiationlj solution for brexit. it depends on the final negotiation. i mentioned you were working for the leave campaign. the fact you have adjusted your views and your perspective by now, how widely shared is that among those people you are working with? not widely shared at all. we all went our separate ways and have our own opinions and i don‘t want to bring any personal views into it, but for me personally i am in quite a unique and niche category now in that i am a former hard brexiteer who worked for the leave campaign and base my ideas around flexit and advocate in norway option so i‘m in advocate in norway option so i‘m in a unique category of leave voters so i wouldn‘t say my vi

jean-claude juncker's with a state of the union address, not sure how many people are waiting for that of england rate decision on thursday. and economic data, retail, sales and inflation from the u.s. on the same day. discuss, robert tipp of pgim, eric stein of eaton vance, and trey parker of highland capital. trey, when are we going to get a read on the u.s. economy considering the events of the weeks, the of natural disasters, etc.? is it going to be a couple of months for this to come through? trey: i think there is definitely going to be a few months of pause in economic activity, a lot of it depending on the extent of which irma hits florida. but certainly, harvey will cause some noise in the numbers. you already saw it in some of the employment data earlier this week. there will be a two to three month lag in economic activity , which should catch up from the economic data. robert: obviously, you will have a drawdown and then some stimulus. economic losses don't get factored into the gdp data, but rebuilding does. in the quarters ahead is that , going to be a few tenths of gdp t

again, we heard from jean—claude juncker, the european commission president, in his state of union addressentralist, integrated europe that he would like to see and a more integrated foreign policy. with the background of the russian military exercises that have been taking place, involving belarus and so on, do you see greater unity on european union foreign policy vis—a—vis russia ? we are a small central european country and we have a very clear understanding of history. this is that whenever there was conflict between the east and west, regardless when, regardless of the countries, whenever there was conflict between east and west central europe always lost. that's what we know from history, a simple historic lesson. so what we know for the future is we don't want to be losers any more. that's why we cross fingers. we can't do anything more than that because we are a small country. we cross fingers and we cannot really influence global issues. so we cross fingers for better cooperation between east and west in the future because that can help central europe as such. and we do hope that

the charm offensive has begun, the prime minister told jean—claude juncker some of the detail of the i'm told it was still being written last night. she also spoke to the irish taoiseach. the british know they need to carry key allies within the british council. some of the ex—pats in florence are out. these are people who didn't get a vote in the referendum and they feel they were denied their vote. not a particularly large group, but quite noisy. our correspondent ben wright has been looking at the speech. the time to negotiate britain's exit from the eu is disappearing fast. we will be out by march 2019, and talks seem stuck. that's why theresa may is here in florence, to set out in more detail her view of how britain and the eu will work together and trade together after brexit. the government is impatient for the talks to move on. what we think is necessary is for the talks to not only encompassed the things that have been discussed so far, like the rights of citizens, the irish border, but if we're going to things we've already been talking about, we've actually got to resolve

in his annual address to the european parliament, jean—claude juncker says there is a window of opportunityild a stronger, more united union. and the robot making its debut as the conductor of an orchestra in italy. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. private healthcare firm spire has agreed to pay over £27 million to help victims of a rogue breast surgeon, who carried out unnecessary operations. ian paterson was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent, relating to nine women and one man in april. spire has agreed to pay £27.2 million in all, with £10 million coming from paterson's insurers and the heart of england trust. the money will be transferred into a fund for around 750 victims. we can go live to phil mackie, who is in our birmingham newsroom with the latest. the criminal trial dealt with victims of ian paterson who had had surgery unnecessary. there was nothing wrong with them, they had breast removed or other surgery. the civil case involved many more of those but also a lot of people who underwent something called a cleavage sparing technique, which only paterson as

jean—claude juncker believes it would take a miracle though for britain to move onto the next age of its staff to leave the american embassy in cuba. it comes after what‘s been described as a series of mystery sonic attacks. in recent weeks a number of embassy staff have complained of a range of health problems including hearing loss, nausea and dizziness. the cuban government has denied any involvement. the embassy will stop processing visas and will issue a new travel warning on friday saying that some attacks occurred in cuban hotels and us tourists could be exposed if they travel to cuba. barbara is in washington, what more can you tell us about this? actually this has been going on for about six months, these mysterious symptoms which included hearing loss, balance problems but also even cognitive problems but also even cognitive problems so the fbi has been trying to figure out what‘s going on. the symptoms continue, the most recent meeting in august so the state department have decided it is not safe for us embassy staff to be there. it‘s pulling out almost half of them. not c