We will get all the latest from the Financial Markets, so much to talk about. And its been a week of high drama for brexit well get the inside track on all that, and look at whether the uk and germany risk going into recession. Today we want to know, are fold out phones the future . Samsung launches its latest gadget, but is 2000 too high a price to pay for flexibility . Just let us know using the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The former president of zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has died in singapore, where hed been receiving medical treatment. He was 95. Mr mugabe was zimbabwes first leader after the country gained independence from the uk and was widely praised at first for his reforms. However in 2000, facing serious political opposition for the first time, he seized white owned farms to resettle black farmers on causing economic disruption but boosting his popularity among his supporters. Milton nkosi is our south africa correspondent, and hejoins me now from johannesburg. Hello, milton. Lets talk about his legacy. Mr mcgarvey was a very controversial leader. What political legacy will he leave . Robert mugabe was a very controversial leader. A mixed political legacy. Many people would call him a dictator. 0thers many people would call him a dictator. Others would call him a liberator. Remember that Robert Mugabe fought for the liberation of black people in zimbabwe when they we re black people in zimbabwe when they were under white minority rule and the country was still called rhodesia. He was locked up for ten yea rs, rhodesia. He was locked up for ten years, not even allowed to go and bury his son. When he came out he became the first democratically elected leader of zimbabwe. He improved on education and health ca re system improved on education and Health Care System of the country, started almost like nelson mandela, had a government of National Unity with some from ian smiths old government in parliament. But then soon after that, things went south. He began his land redistribution programme, invading farms owned by white zimbabweans. President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the news on twitter. He is attending the World Economic forum at this present time. What did he say in tribute to former president mugabe . He said he was saddened by the passing and he was a liberator. The south african gathering African National ics said they convey their condolences to the people of zimbabwe and said their loss is our loss. The spokesperson for the African National said that Robert Mugabe was a great african statesman but many are going on social media on the opposite direction, saying Robert Mugabe was a dictator and should not be loaded. But there are also so many people who remember Robert Mugabes pan african ideology and respected for that. Nobody in that group to the sound bite that he gave when he was ina sound bite that he gave when he was in a conference here in 2002, when he chastised the former Prime Minister of the united kingdom, tony blair. He said, tony blair, keep your england and let me keep my zimbabwe, to great applause. Milton, thank you so much for talking to us. Hudheifa aden is our Africa Business reporter and joins me now from nairobi. Thank you very much forjoining us. What kind of country, economically speaking, judge Robert Mugabe leave behind . Of course, as many people have mentioned, he leaves a chequered history, a chequered past. Really, the economic legacy of Robert Mugabe cannot be forgotten. A number of things happened under his regime, the first one being in 2000 popular stance of reclaiming white owned farms in zimbabwe, which led toa number of owned farms in zimbabwe, which led to a number of things including sanctions imposed by western powers including the United States and the European Union which lead to hyperinflation in the country, leading to a loss of employment in the country, meaning the Agricultural Land was not productive enough because the country was earning so much foreign revenue from agricultural exports. It led to a number of people fleeing the country to neighbouring south africa, which was the home, quote on quote, of the people who fled the economic crisis in zimbabwe. Also, really, we cannot speak about mcgarveys legacy without mentioning the hyperinflation that started in 2008, all the way to 2009. Also, really, we cannot speak about mugabes legacy. We need to abandon the use of zimbabwe in dollars, some people said, and they moved recently to what they call the real time gross payment settlement form. Zimbabwe was a really productive country from a farming perspective, and from an unemployment perspective, i hear people say it went to the dogs after the us and western powers imposed sanctions. The country is very much suffering from inflation, there has been a sensation of the publication of all inflation figures for months. In a country once one of africas most industrialised, electricity only flickers for a url is a day, mostly at night, factories and bakeries are standing idle. Can the country ever recover from its standing idle. Can the country ever recoverfrom its political standing idle. Can the country ever recover from its political and economic ghosts . That is an ongoing conversation, the country undertaking a number of reforms that include political reforms under president Emmerson Mnangagwa since he came to power in 2017 after Robert Mugabe was removed. The finance minister, for the first time, is inviting the imf to look at the countrys economy, they are coming up with their own currency, but they banned the official publication of statistics. It hit 176 , people could not buy bread, cooking oil and even medicine. People suffering from hiv. Much more than anything else, the reforms undertaken by the current regime would not impact the economy if the us sanctions are not removed, that statement is coming from the zimbabwean government but also the Southern AfricanDevelopment Community which had its last meeting in tanzania last month and according to the international community, to remove these sanctions, they say they are hurting the economy. Until these sanctions are removed, the reforms will not really help the economy. Thank you very much for your time. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news. Iran said on friday it had taken a step to further downgrade its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with the worlds most powerful nations, according to iranian media, in retaliation to us sanctions reimposed on tehran. Magistrates in france have dropped manslaughter charges against air france and airbus over a mid atlantic plane crash in 2009 that killed all 228 people on board. The airbus 330 aircraft flying from rio dejaneiro to paris stalled in a storm and plunged into the ocean. Representatives of the victims families called the decision an insult and said they will appeal. British airways has rejected a last ditch proposalfrom Pilots Union Balpa to restart negotiations aimed at averting strike action. Ba pilots are due to strike on monday and tuesday over a pay offer of 11. 5 over three years that they say is too low. Unions representing cabin crew and engineers have accepted the offer. Now, elsewhere in the news, samsungs folding phone is finally on sale after months of delay. And tech watchers say it could change the face of the industry. The galaxy fold is available from today in south korea. It will hit shops across europe and elsewhere in asia in the coming weeks. The price tag for early adopters . Almost 2000. So what do you get for that . The phones flexible screen opens out like a book to a huge 7. 3 inch display and it has six cameras do you even need all that . samsung revealed the gadget back in april but its release was shelved as early reviewers quickly broke the display models. Samsung says those problems are now sorted. Amit pau is co founder at empaua ventures, and hejoins me now. Given what happened before with those early reviewers breaking this phone, how well do you think the launch will go . This is feature enhancement, sands and have a great leadership position but also a track record of false lunches. When they launched the number seven, the batteries exploded and caused fire. Samson assured the market that the project works. It will be very attractive for people who like using their mobile for media streaming, their mobile for media streaming, the key question is whether the consumer will pay 2000. M the key question is whether the consumer will pay 2000. It is insane. It is a huge amount of money. In terms of money, the delay has been costly. They need this to work for them and, in the meantime, many competitors have caught up . Their innovative position is in danger, huawei and others are launching foldable phones. As the Smartphone Market is sluggish, in ten yea rs Smartphone Market is sluggish, in ten years we have gone from zero smartphones to 1. 5 billion, a huge market but only growing at 2 . The question is whether the project feature enhancements will feel future growth, where something is going on innovation, although apples approach, which is drastically reducing prices to feel the next phase of growth, work . That is the big question. Thank you very much. I hope your hand sorts itself out soon. Lets check in with the Financial Markets and it seems like a feel good friday feeling is washing around thanks to some more upbeat data and trade optimism. Thats been fuelled by a hopes that the uk could avoid crashing out of the eu and news this week that high level trade talks will resume next month between the us and china. The dowjones finished on a high in the last session thanks to a positive report on the Services Sector all eyes on the closely watched usjobs report non farm payrolls out later. That is a really key report. Lets take a look at how european markets have opened. Maybe we cant see that, yes, we can. The positive feeling is continuing throughout europe for 110w. Continuing throughout europe for now. Victoria, lets find out more . Joining us is fiona cincotta, Senior Market analyst at city index. Susannah tees it up for you, jobs figures from the United States . What do we expect and how important are they . This is the most closely watched economic release for the market, it is extremely important data, the idea of how the usjobs market is performing. The expectation is there will be a creation of 160,000 jobs in august. The market is hoping it could be better because of yesterday, we saw some strong data from the us. But there are reasons to believe that it might not actually get to that high level. 0ne might not actually get to that high level. One of the most important things to look at is the Non Manufacturing data, the employment component of that report was actually much weaker than expected, falling to the lowest level in two years. There is a very strong correlation between that and the non farm payroll, we might see some weakness in the jobs report. And when that report came out, because the dowjones to full earlier this week. Let it caused the dowjones to full. We have seen recovery, is that due to fresh talks between beijing and washington . The markets have focused on that for a long time, there has not been much good news as far as those talks are concerned, so the slightest bit of encouraging data and the markets have jumped on the encouraging data and the markets havejumped on the positive sentiment. The safer havens such as gold and japanese yen have moved lower. Thank you very much for now. I know you will come back in a little bit to talk about some of the other stories. Still to come. Its been a week of high drama for brexit. Well get the inside track on all that, and ask if uk and germany are about to go into recession. Thats all with our business editor, simonjack. Youre with business live from bbc news. Can you trust the Online Reviews of the hotel youre looking to book . The criticism of fake reviews on sites like tripadvisor is nothing new but today which . Says the website is still failing to take down bogus or suspicious reviews which are artificially boosting the rating of some of its most popular hotels. Neena bhati is head of campaigns for which . They came out with this report. What is your research and how do you know if these reviews are fake or not . We looked at some of the best rated hotels on chip advisor in popular tourist destinations around the world and found many suspicious reviews that look to be artificially boosting rankings. We looked at these in comparison to five star reviews on these hotels and some three star once and started seeing suspicious patterns in terms of wording and the time these reviews we re wording and the time these reviews were coming on. We think this is a really big problem, people could be relying on these reviews and rankings to book holidays and could potentially be in for a really nasty shock when they get there. Tripadvisor says your report relies on too many assumptions. What you say . We put 15 of the worst offenders to tripadvisor and it admitted that 1a of the 15 hotels had been caught in the last year having fake positive reviews on its site. After we presented our findings, the best ranked hotel in jordan had over 700 reviews removed from tripadvisor and has been brought down in the rankings, so we would say it does not seem as if tripadvisors systems are flagging the fake reviews and it is removing them quickly enough. Thank you for talking to us. There is a story about the visit of the Vice President of the us to talk trade with Prime MinisterBoris Johnson. He gave a speech to Business People on thursday evening. Some comments from one Business Leader saying it was a positive speech, as we are getting used to hearing from mr trump and his senior cabinet members. We will keep across that story and any fresh developments. Youre watching business live. Our top story the former president of zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has died. He was 95 and had been ill for some time. Robert mugabe led zimbabwe as Prime Minister and president for 37 years. A quick look at how the markets are faring. There is a positive friday feeling. There is a positive friday feeling. The ftse 100 there is a positive friday feeling. The ftse100 has dipped into negative territory. Markets in asia we re negative territory. Markets in asia were pretty strong, they performed quite well in the dowjones in the United States last night. That market closed as well on a high following quite a Good Services report. I was iwasa i was a little worried, simon, we could not find you in the building earlier. A big week for brexit . We we re earlier. A big week for brexit . We were below 1. 20 to the pound and we are now above that. These are big moves in currency markets. 0n are now above that. These are big moves in currency markets. On monday that said we are leaving the eu, no ifs or buts, at the same time people are saying theres no negotiation going on. Those things make people think were heading for a no deal brexit, sterling is very sensitive so it did. 0n brexit, sterling is very sensitive so it did. On tuesday night opposition parties got control of the process which would allow them to make a law which would force borisjohnson not to make a law which would force Boris Johnson not to leave to make a law which would force borisjohnson not to leave without to make a law which would force Boris Johnson not to leave without a deal. You saw it flicking back and being more positive. You had the Prime Ministers brother resigning from parliament. It adds to the mood music that everyone is not behind his do or die, leave the eu on 0ctober his do or die, leave the eu on october the 31st. This week, economically, we got very weak manufacturing numbers, the weakest. In years, adding to the general gloom. Separate consecutive quarter ofa gloom. Separate consecutive quarter of a shrinking economy would be enough to call a technical recession, we will not know that until the first week in november that the signs we are seeing are pretty wea k. That the signs we are seeing are pretty weak. It is notjust in the uk, we have had signs from germany ofa similar uk, we have had signs from germany of a similar pattern emerging, it is not just the uk of a similar pattern emerging, it is notjust the uk where this uncertainty is affecting Business Sentiment . Everyone will look to brexit to explain uk weakness, that is no doubt a big factor but not the only one, there is weakness elsewhere in the world. You were talking about the markets being positive because of talk about a breakthrough in china us trade talks, nobody is mocking to see that than germany, which exports an enormous amount of goods and services to china nobody is hoping to see that more than germany. We saw some terrible orders forjamming germany. We saw some terrible orders for jamming manufacturing, their shipments to the rest of the world fell 56 injuly shipments to the rest of the world fell 56 in july shipments to the rest of the world fell 56 injuly terrible orders for german manufacturing. Some people think it is pretty nailed on that germany will enter a recession. The question will be what the central bank will do, people think that next week they will restart their bond buying programme which was shut down a little under a year ago. Germany is the biggest economy in the eurozone. A very timely visit to china by Angela Merkel and his business delegates. I wonder if we will see a softening of the stunts. The trading relationship is incredibly important important. German exports much more to china than the uk does. Angela merkel will be saying what can we do. How much influence she will have on the biggest relationship, you turn into any rock in every crevice under every rock in the economic world at the moment and you feel this us versus china tension everywhere. How much influence Angela Merkel can bring to bring a resolution to that, i think its questionable. And we still have this pressure from President Trump and the head of the Federal Reserve to cut rates. Will he do what the president wants him to do . He has to be seen to be his own man. He is, come on if he ends up own man. He is, come on if he ends up cutting eight, we have seen talk from some of the other tripadvisor governors saying they are getting used to the cut, the closer you get to zero, people get a bit anxious. Central banks can always do something, the fact is you have an inverted yield curve, i will probably be shot for using that expression, governments find it easy to borrow a long way into the future which means people are very risk averse. It is quite an effective predictor of recession, it may well be the economic facts will change and jay powell will come around to that. He will be keen to say i am not doing thisjust that. He will be keen to say i am not doing this just because donald told me. So much to talk about, so little time. Send those helicopters to the studio in a moment well take a look through the business pages but first heres a quick reminder of how to get in touch with us. London, singapore, shanghai, new york. 0ur correspondents have your Business World covered on air, online and on the bbcs news app. Check out bbc. Com business for their insight and analysis. The bbcs business live page has the latest breaking business news. We want your views, too. Get in touch via the business live page, tweet us bbcbusiness or find us on facebook at bbc money. Join the bbcs business conversation. Fiona is back to talk through some of the stories that have hit the newssta nds of the stories that have hit the newsstands today. Lets talk about the announcement from h m which says it will not use leather sourced from brazil in some of its projects. How significant is this . H m gets the majority of its leather from europe. It gets some from brazil but the majority comes from europe. They do not have figures available. This probably points much more to a strong pr element. This is on the basis of discontent over amazon, the wildfires that have been raising and have created complete animosity around the world . Have created complete animosity around the world . It has focused a lot of attention as far as environmental and behaviour is concerned towards brazil. There are Ethical Practices that are more sustainable for the world. H m does receive some criticism for disposable clothing and its rapid turnaround and it is not sustainable. It has launched sustainable. It has launched sustainable cotton . It is moving in that way so i feel it has an element of pr. Facebook is launching a dating service in the us . Would you trust it to find a match for you . There are so many trust issues with facebook about now. The timing does not feel quite right. It is a really big debate, all the different areas facebook is getting into at the moment. Thank you forjoining us, fiona. That is all from us. Have a lovely weekend, see you soon. Hello. It is a bit of a great start, lots of cloud across the uk and we had some patchy rain moving southwards. For many of us, at some point today we are likely to see some rain. The cold front is moving southward, the isobars are quite close together. Quite a breezy day, the wind coming in from the north west. As the rain moves into some parts of england and south wales, as it does, there will be brighter skies developing across northern england, north wales, scotla nd northern england, north wales, scotland and northern ireland, some showers likely this afternoon. Maximum temperature is about 16 to 19 degrees. For the cricket at old trafford, likely to see some rain which could last into lunchtime. It will generally clear away and there will generally clear away and there will be a better chance of drier and brighter weather through the afternoon, temperatures about 17 celsius. The cloud and rain will clear to the south tonight, there could be showers dotted around overnight but generally speaking it is dry and fairly clear into the start of the weekend. Temperatures getting down to nine or ten, perhaps chillier in the north east of scotland. Temperatures about six ounces. For the weekend, scotland. Temperatures about six ounces. Forthe weekend, High Pressure towards the west will gradually move east. It will still give us a northerly wind down the eastern side of the uk, feeling quite chilly down the north sea coast through the weekend. For many of us, at least it is dry and largely sunny. Some showers down the eastern side of england, one of two cropping up in the West Midlands too. Dry with some sunny spells for most, maximum temperatures into the mid to high teens. A bit chillier down the north sea coast, temperatures more likely about 11 to 13 celsius. Into sunday, the High Pressure still extends its influence, it will give more cloud towards Western Areas but with some clear skies through the morning, quite a chilly start on sunday, temperatures quite low, in single figures. Another dry day with sunny spells for most on sunday, simply developing as the day goes on, maximum temperatures between about 15 and 19 celsius. Some rain, promising news for the weekend, with drier weather. Youre watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. The headlines Robert Mugabe, zimbabwes first post independence leader, who ruled the country for three decades, has died aged 95. He secured black majority rule for his country in 1980, but his presidency was marred by economic collapse, corruption and human rights abuses. Here, after a difficult week for the Prime Minister, borisjohnson is in aberdeenshire to address issues facing the Scottish Farming and fishing industries. Iam in i am in peterhead harbour, whether Prime Minister hasjust i am in peterhead harbour, whether Prime Minister has just left following a short tour, head of a major announcement for funding on farmers later on