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the first uk prime minister tojoin an eu leaders' meeting since brexit. his biographer tells hte bbc the tesla boss will go too far, with huge conflicts of interest in government office. live from london this is business today, are reacting to the flurry of tariffs announced by president trump over the weekend. hit its lowest level since 2003. the mexican peso has also sunk. asian share markets are falling and the price trading partners. let's hear the latest from president trump who was asked by bbc whether we would rule out tariffs against the uk. in his crosshairs. we'll see how things work out, it might happen with that but it will definitely happen with the european union, products, they take almost nothing, and we take is really out of line, the uk is out of line but i'm sure that one, is, it's an atrocity. from canada and mexico, except oilfrom canada both countries have already hit back, saying they will impose organization. today about the tariffs he is imposing, due to come into effect at midnight on tuesday. consumers to choose canadian. action

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the uk—eu reset.r starmer will be the first uk leader to attend a european council meeting since brexit. hello, i m lucy hockings. said he would impose tariffs on the eu — overnight, asian markets also fell, just days after import taxes were imposed on goods into the us from from china, canada and mexico. meanwhile, the us dollar and oil prices have rallied on president trump's announcement. so — what exactly are tariffs? essentially, tarrifs are a tax on imported goods, in theory, this can encourage citizens to buy our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has been following events and sent us this update. and showed no signs of let—up, saying the uk could be in sight. would you consider taxing the uk for example? it will happen. it will definitely happen with the european union, i can tell you that, because they've really taken advantage of us and it's an atrocity, what they've done. and we'll see whether or not we can balance out our budget. in the discussions that i've had with president trump,

of eu laws into uk law, becoming known as retained eu law.e uk from not paying into the eu budget is closer eu leaders on monday. so the impact of brexit is a subject that promises to be a continuing source of debate and analysis for many years to come. around the world and across the uk. murdered have been named. sara was killed by her father and stepmother, and public reaction to the case was so strong that the judges' herfather, urfan sharif, confessed to killing her. no comment. her stepmother, beinash batool, was found guilty of murder too. in 2013, beforejudge alison raeside, social workers and her siblings into care. the children had unexplained injuries and sara's mother, these were not tested in court. by social workers. stayed in her parents' care, except for november 2014, into foster care, as did judge williams injuly 2015. by the local authority. the next hearing was injuly 2019, more than three years approved that as a permanent arrangement. olga had agreed with that and a social worker supported it. president trump's decision t

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under this system, eu and non—eu citizens alike need work visas, especially for health and care, ands of non—eu overseas students what else? a new electronic entry and exit the travel sector have warned could add to border queues. fourth, laws, after brexit the uk does not have as retained eu law. freedom to impose vat on private school fees. finally, money, the uk's gross contribution to the eu budget around £352 million per week. since 2021, the uk has not made these contributions. partially recycled to the uk, through payments to british regions of the nation. these payments have been largely covered by uk to around £15 billion. and looking forward, well, labour is seeking a reset in eu leaders on monday. to be a continuing source of debate and analysis for many years to come. but first to the ukrainian capital kyiv, and the bbc�*s james waterhouse. the pausing of this american money for ukraine is bad news, the level of american military support isn't affected for now, engineers continually try to bring power back after russia strikes power stations and thermal power plants acros

first of all, the eu itself is a very tough negotiator.y're pressing for early agreement on all kinds of things. on defence and security. and then we have this really quite hysterical "we've got to go further, faster and rejoin the customs union," and the isolationist camp, who want to maintain that brexit was a good idea. who are accusing keir starmer of backsliding on brexit or even wanting to rejoin the eu. so it's very difficult for starmer to make but i think, really, the fact that the meeting that the uk is serious about working sides to pool resources, to pool aid to ukraine, to try and maximise the bang is really running out of money and weapons. and if we can support ukraine substantively, parents and teachers in england are being asked by the schools inspector ofsted for their views on new—style reports. the changes follow the scrapping of one or two—word overalljudgments in september — following the suicide of the primary headteacher ruth perry. how well you achieve. once a headteacher, now he visits schools. special educational

if the eu targets european imports.his ecb colleague klaus konate took a stronger stance, saying that europe will not be pushed around. and speaking to cnbc, mario centeno, governor of the bank of portugal and fellow ecb policymaker, said europe must be stronger. >> europe must take a much more forceful position in the upcoming months. it is also true and i have been quite a critique on the position that europe takes on, on, on these discussions. we are probably used a little bit too much to be sitting in the passenger seat. i think we need to take the steering wheel. we have the means to do that. >> now, as we enter the second half of the show, here are four things to get you up to speed ahead of the wall street open. on the economic side, we'll get manufacturing pmi data. stateside, it's relatively quiet on the earnings front today, with palantir technologies and clorox among those reporting. we will hear from two more members of the magnificent, magnificent seven, though later in the week. we'll also hear from severa

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and again, the eu isn't the same eu from 20 or 30 years ago.orming economies across the globe. i talked about germany. you can say the same thing about france. italy. it makes no sense for us to build closer ties when the majority of this country don't want it. it doesn't make economic sense. we talk about customs union and free these free single markets, free these free single markets, free trade deals. and this doesn't always work. we've seen so many examples where a lot of these free trade deals, they tend to benefit one bloc more than the other. we can see that in terms of tax revenues, we don't always get the tax revenues. it creates unfair working conditions. there's so much more to than just agreeing a deal with the european union. and i think what we should be doing when we're talking about energy and defence is the first, most important thing is we need to be energy independent. it's a lot easier for big countries like america to share land size, but if we're going to be able to disagree with what's going on in russia, ukraine, whateve

mexico, china and the eu? these are the questions that are being searched online tens of the us and americas programme at chatham house. lovely to have you both with us. i'm going to start with dharshini david, and some questions. 7 questions. to of the us and americas programme at chatham house. lovely to have you both with us. i'm going to start with you, dharshini david, and some basic questions. to my question is, how do terrace work and do terrace work? fix, is, how do terrace work and do terrace work?— is, how do terrace work and do terrace work? a really good one to start with. _ terrace work? a really good one to start with. tariffs _ terrace work? a really good one to start with. tariffs are - to start with. tariffs are basically those taxes on imports. they are paid for by the firm or the person we import the goods into the country. why are they there? they are meant to protect home—grown businesses from overseas competition, but what they also do is make things more expensive, if they are passed on i

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we asked the eu to tell the ukrainians to restore the gas transit.t's closed has to be reopened. it's not a matter for ukraine. it's an issue for europe, for central europe. and if the ukrainians want help — for example, sanctioning the russians — then let's reopen the gas transit routes and allow the central european countries, including hungary, to receive the gas we need through ukraine. meanwhile, on saturday, ukraine's president zelensky said his country was prepared to transit gas from azerbaijan to europe. he has offered that as a solution to countries such as hungary and other landlocked countries such as slovakia. it's an issue that's exercising governments across europe and the subject tops the agenda of eu foreign ministers who meet today in brussels to discuss gas transit through ukraine. just a few days ago in davos, poland's president duda said ukraine should stand firm against russian gas and told the bbc�*s economics editor faisal islam that the nord stream gas pipelines, unused since 2022, should be put beyond use so that germany, fo

goods. the eu was strong enough to react to any us trade levies, although the goal he said should beonight to begin talks on a reset with the eu. the headquarters of the european union, with america uppermost in mind, too. you can imagine how talk of tariffs has gone down here. i think that you have to do everything to avoid this totally unnecessary and stupid tariff wars or trade wars. if the united states, the us starts the trade war, the one laughing on the side is china. president trump had landed in washington, describing the eu as an "atrocity" and saying it would face taxes they take almost nothing. and we take everything - from them — millions of cars, tremendous amounts of food and farm products. _ the uk is out oiline e but the european union is - an atrocity, what they've done. we're getting along very well. china, mexico and canada having them imposed so far. booing in toronto as the american national anthem plays. back in brussels, a city of flags and international politics, you might ask why all of this matters nato defence alliance is based here as well. early days, an

. —— agreement between the eu. —— two.r starmer is in brussels we'll bring you all the winners — and best red carpet looks — home album of the year. sparked by donald trump, which led to stock markets it started with an announcement of tariffs on goods imported to the us from canada, mexico and china — in a bid to encourage americans to buy items made he has been a consistent critic over decades of america's these are the latest goods deficit numbers — have a long—standing imbalance — look at the bars in red here "ripping off" america. now, the us also has a large deficit with the eu, think of german car exports. in fact, a small surplus for the us. about services? and look — that is true of almost all these jurisdictions. of the world, though it doesn't make up for the goods. now, if we take seriously this chart as the main reason for the trump tariffs, the answer to this problem many of these countries are coming up with is to persuade like gas and oil, or arms. reason for all this — simply to raise money for his governm

there is the eu-mercosur trade agreement. so i need to i think we need to work on all of these fronts. still, companies are worried and they are not very optimistic regarding trade. but i mean, there may be positive surprises. let's wait and see. >> let's see what will happen in the end. but i also want to get your thoughts on fiscal policy. a lot of conversations around whether we're going to see germany reforming the debt brake. tell us how businesses are feeling about this upcoming election from a fiscal policy perspective, what would they like to see from the new government? >> i think what they would like to see from the new government is above all structural reforms. it's not so much about fiscal policy. fiscal policy does play a role. and indeed there will be some elements of more debt financing. as a matter of fact, we've also seen that in recent years we have the debt brake. but at the same time, we have a special fund for defense of 100 billion completely debt financed. so debt financing is not so low in germany, bu

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just in the last couple of minutes, he's been in the oval office saying, "hello, eu, we're coming forto pay the price on this one. yes, but i do think, you know, the one thing we've learned is that you can't... there's going to be some of these back channel and so, you know, tomorrow will be a big reveal, people, for the countries involved, and their economies and our economy. but i think we still don't entirely know what exactly of classic donald trump. and then, that's kind of like his classic negotiating so, like courtney said, i don't think we know having that message out there, in his eyes is, you know, perhaps giving him leverage. i also think — i mean, if this does happen tomorrow, i think that'll be one of the first major tests let's say, if prices of certain goods goes up — they didn't really offer much in terms of answers, people and businesses. so i think if it happens, i think that'll be the first tit—for—tat, particularly with the eu, where it and the eu responded. this week of howard lutnick, the commerce secretary pick, trump doesn't favour singular—product tariffs, tha

is it in germany and the eu. house wants, for example, the border crisis to be solved? that is a different set of f fitinff responses. it if, infact, the at :.= zn: 7_— it is a to raise word it is a need to raise hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars of as he said to the revenue, as he said to the world economic forum, it is a different kettle of fish and will a different he has also said he will speak to canada and mexico on monday and this comes after the he has ordered, 25% on oods from goods from those countries, the goods from those countries, a move met with fierce response from the us neighbours mexico has already threaded tariffs suggesting retaliatory tariffs suggesting it will impose similar on us and canada has done the goods and canada has done the with president trudeau same—with president trodead consumers to choose urging consumers to choose canadian. it canadian. china warned it will take countermeasures - canadian. china warned it willi take countermeasures . well trump ordered an afte

trade proposal to avoid further tariffs and the euro slides as donald trump says the eu is next . so the clock is going down to those tariffs kicking in tuesday. this is the market reaction. futures set for a battering, pointing lower. we look at the automakers and minors and the impact on europe and the pledge that european terrorists are coming next. keep an eye on the metals and on copper. that's falling. s&p futures stateside looking to drop. let's flip the board and ebola cross asset. yields down at the back end of the treasury curve, reacting to the re-imposition. euro-dollar at 1.02. the two year of the front end. it's a different picture and crude diverging and that is significant. you are looking at an increase. bitcoin and ether also taking a hammering. it's a safe haven. that argument has been trashed today. let's check in on the canadian dollar falling to the lowest level since 2003. the mexican peso the chinese yuan. the canadian dollar down 1.3%. canada and mexico say they will retaliate. china working on a proposal to try to appease donald trump. let's cross over to

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this entails also that the eu reduce excessive redtape and regulation. the european commission promised that and we are going to demand the new commission to pursue this key task. let me give you one example. mobility is the future and anyone who suggests otherwise harms our industry. it is also harmful when european car manufacturers have to pay fines to brussels instead of being able to invest the money as clean mobility. this is not helpful to anyone, least the climate. we need pragmatic solutions, not ideological once. this is why i am delighted to the commission president has taken up my proposal to introduce europewide harmonized purchase premiums for e vehicles. our aspiration for europe has to be we make ourselves better and it is crucial that germany as largest economy of the european union massively invest in its future. i am thinking on private companies, small and large. i want to support them with an un-bureaucratic made in germany bonus for investments. quick, simple, and pragmatic. a 10% tax credit without elaborate applications without bu

so that is point one. to the eu budget. out, but we don't send money to brussels any more sets its own to record levels and then did start to come down. priti patel, who's now the shadow foreign secretary but of course was the home secretary as the uk left with the fact that migration has gone up an awful lot. is at risk of losing or indeed already has lost to reform on their right. is basically the question of whether the conservative party theresa may had voted remain was that the reason the uk had voted to leave and immigration needed to come down. interesting in and of itself. i didn't know that. i think i mean, i don't know about you, laura. it almost never comes up when. you don't want to talk about it. i think immigration does come up. but yeah, brexit doesn't. but partly you have to you can't forget that i cannot begin to tell you the level of drama right. and i don't mean drama like, oh, it was fun and it was amazing. like people, you'd see them crying, shouting at each other, screaming at each other, and years or... political party, plotting against each other, they just don'

we will ask the man who served as president trump as my ambassador to the eu in president trump is mye on bbc news, bbc two and iplayer. that is in about a quarter of an hour. see you then. thanks, victoria. to some news now. according to the united nations, some 1a,000 people need medical habiba, two years and four months old, a week ago, we flew into the gaza strip withjordanian forces delivering aid. but thejordanians had also hoped to bring out wounded people, including habiba. three of her limbs are infected and can't be used, blackened now by a form of gangrene. we are really pushing to try and get her medivaced out of gaza as soon as possible in order to save her life, and to try if i hand it over to her, she gives me a look. habiba had been cleared for evacuation. we've all got our fingers crossed that that's going to happen. the disappointment and the worry of her mother. the mother to travel with her child. if her 11—year—old son suhyab could go with them. the stress of so much confusion, of lives where they have no control. but then clarity. being taken to the helicopter al

market from the eu. obviously a lot of tequila, a lot of canadian whiskey, and the american distilled spirits industry wants to be able to export these products. so we're going to work hard to try to get these issues resolved. >> is there any way this trade war happens, this for tat or anything like it? and customers do not pay for it. >> it's it's going to have an impact. it's going to have an impact on american consumers, canadian consumers, mexican consumers of in in the success story of the distilled spirits industry is when there's zero for zero tariffs and zero trade barriers. so we're going to work hard between the u.s. and the eu. in 1997, it called off all tariffs right. and the industry grew by 450% on the american side. and on the eu side. and the same applied for canadian canada and mexico as well, and the u.s. so we are the picture perfect example of fair trade and how a in a sector like ours can thrive as a result. >> chris walker, thank you so much for coming in, john. >> thank you. >> all

administration tariffs could mean for the uk. to navigate, as it tries to forge closer ties to the eunship with the united states. of putting tariffs on the eu, the pressure to pick and already, opposition parties here are trying to nudge the government into one direction or the other. are realistic propositions. he's also said today that the matter of brexit it alone, or, in this global tit—for—tat, does it end up helen catt there. for comments he made within hours of the disaster. mr trump suggested — without evidence — diverse aviation workforce. initiatives in safety roles. here's some of what he said. "the faa's diversity push includes focus on hiring people that is amazing. and they want them in, and they want them — they can be air traffic controllers. i don't think so. policies in the government. i asked him what he made of trump saying that when he made those comments, no—one had found any evidence responsible for the crash. because i think he probably understood that the media was going to focus on this in the immediate aftermath of the crash and then would move on to other

christian whiten and they're dealing with the eu. liz: deal with the eu. come back to panama and the panama president did confirm audit of two chinese ports and back end of either side of the panama canal and around three quarters of all vessels that travel through pabma canal are coming or going to u.s. port and taking back more control of the terror threat and going to be that it's not used in panama and going to travel like 8,000 to 10,000 miles around the horn of south america. >> it's by the family and hong kong tycoon and mildly one system to two systems and xi jinping the chinese strong man dictator has done away with that and there's no difference between hong kong and chinese companies and very easy to sabotage the canal and easy if you're running the port to get a lot of data out of there and there's a two ocean navy and if there were a conflict to move a lot of naval power and other military power through the canal, do anything except aircraft carriers and we need to take over security of the canal. unless panama getting more serious and this is

prime minister starmer wants a closer relation with the eu.me minister starmer has been very nice. getting along well. with the european union, it is $350 billion deficit. ahead for americans, after ordering 25% tariffs quote, �*ripping off�* america. the price." suggesting it will impose similar import duties of 25% on us goods. canada is also set to bring in retaliatory tariffs, to "choose canadian. " ordered an additional 10% beginning in canada. canada outlined how it would hit back, like the american tariffs, our response will also be items such as american beer, wine and bourbon, the us tariff is 25% on all products i think it's a crazy idea and i'm surprised he is turning on canada like this. because we were always such good neighbours. but i also think it's going to hurt the us economy because here in ontario we make a lot of auto parts we sell to the us, they make cars. paid by the importer, not the exporter. $12,500. that cost can be passed on to the customer through higher through lower profits orforeign exporters might need to lowe

the television this morning, he said, trying to trying to make love to the us who's a rhino and the eus a sloth at the same time. is that the metaphor? that was the metaphor he chose. operate and do business with an increasingly sort of gung ho, deregulating america under donald trump, in all sorts of new rules and regulations on digital and we asked yvette cooper this morning what the threat is. well, tariff increases really right across the world can but the focus forjonny reynolds, our business and trade secretary, is on building trade we want to reduce the barriers to trade, make it the uk does feel a bit like a bystander. historically, that is a very powerful role to be it as, we have the best of both worlds, actually. but inevitably he's going to be triangulated because quite a lot of businesses have written to, warning that the eu that even they've said they might have to delay some side of the atlantic. so we say, thank you. and goodbye. goodbye. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello there. like one of two halves. we will start the week off fairly unsettled, returning overnigh

i mean, the eu. you think i'm joking? the eu military chief. just for your viewers to be aware of this, the european union's military chief said about a week ago. maybe we should put eu troops on greenland for the russians. no. for us, for the americans. that's insane. right? and you said allies canada sacrificed 165 people in afghanistan to fight alongside the us after nine over 11. you're picking fights with canada and mexico. this is a great moment for china, the country that trump thinks is the big enemy. and he's going to crack down. if i'm the chinese. i'm loving this moment. i'm calling up the colombians where he just picked a 24 hour trade war. i'm calling up all these countries in latin america and asia and africa and saying, can you really trust the united states? >> yeah, no. and that's this is this is an important point to get to ravi, because there is opportunity for other people. if you always thought america was the solid ally, if you didn't doubt that your treaty, i mean, the usmca, the treaty between canada and mexico and canad