and that ride over dubai's ancient landscape marks the end of my trippier.te. i have witnessed again first—hand how the limitless desire to press and amaze the world has not diminished, with expo twenty20 a big incentive for yet more development. this is still a relatively young destination, almost an ongoing experiment that continues to grab headlines and polarised reaction in equal measure. but i sense that dubai is developing into a complex and intriguing mix of cultures and attitudes, of experiences old and new and forging its own unique personality. that is not to say its reputation as a haven of luxury and access is going to disappear any time soon. let's go! —— xs. disappear any time soon. let's go! __ xs_ __ disappear any time soon. let's go! —— xs. —— excess. hello, there. it's going to be cold this weekend, that's for sure, but many places will stay dry and see plenty of sunshine, so if you wrap up it won't be that bad. plenty of showers though in the north and west. certainly overnight plenty of showers across the north—west of the uk, with wintri

xi jinping talking about these deals that have been announced in conjunction with donald trump's trippierm, a lot of these, they are just these so—called memorandums of understanding. it is ha rd to memorandums of understanding. it is hard to see whether that will rip isn't a genuine contract. you know, we are going to buy this many units from you and you are going to deliver them to us. instead, it is like, we think we might do this in the future, sort of thing. so it is not necessarily as major a breakthrough as it would suggest. nevertheless, you cannot be too cynical about these things, and better to have those memorandums of understanding than not have them. as for donald trump, i think it was interesting, we didn't hear much from xijinping on north korea. i'm not sure i heard him refer to north korea at all. but donald trump spoke a lot about it. earlier, at a business gathering, he said china could quickly and easily fix the problem of north korea. i don't know if you use that language when he went face—to—face with xijinping. that is how language when he went face—to—face with xi