Seven is the magic numberfor apple. The tech giant reverses its sales slump thanks to its latest iphone reporting its highest quarterly revenue ever. A growing transatlantic divide. The president of the European Council says the new government in washington is one of the biggest threats facing europe. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme the saudi 0il minister tells the bbc where he believes the price of the black stuff is headed. But first after three quarters in a row of falling revenues, apple has delivered a turnaround. High demand for the iphone seven boosted the tech giant and it reported its highest ever quarterly revenues. In the last three months of the year the firm sold 78. 3 million iphones. Thats a 5 rise since the year before. But its results werent all good. Sales in china fell almost 12 tojust over 16 billion. China has proved to be a difficult market with many homegrown rivals that are much cheaper. Dave lee, our north America Technology reporter, is in san francisco. It is nice to see you. They did deliver what we wanted, a turnaround in that falling revenue figure. It is backed up, but how long for . Not for very long. They had a good holiday season, higher than. They removed the Headphone Jack and that proved safe despite suspicions. But apple are now saying for the rest of the year do not expect huge sales. People are expected to hold off for the next iphone in september. It was downcast from last year. But they are happy they reversed the trend of losing growth. A good result for them today but they are still being quite tentative about the future. Also, september is quite an important time, isnt it, because they are expected to launch the next iphone, which will mark ten years since it arrived on this planet. People have High Expectations about what this new phone may offer them. The question is, will they deliver on that . Apple need to. There has a Lwa Ys On That . Apple need to. There has always been a slump just before a new model comes out because people do not want to spend money on a phone and find out it has been replaced in a few months time. People think that this new phone will be very special since it is the 10th anniversary. I think there will bea 10th anniversary. I think there will be a lot of pressure on apple to create something quite remarkable with the new iphone. Especially because parts of the business are growing quite impressively but apple really still does rely on that money coming in from the iphone. If it does not keep that success coming in it will be a real problem for them. All right, dave, thank you very much was staying up for us. See you soon. Does the new Us Administration pose the same category of threat to the European Union as Radical Islam . That is the startling claim made by the president of the European Council, donald tusk. In a letter to eu leaders, he told them to use the change in the Trade Strategy of the us to the eus advantage, saying washingtons protectionist outlook was a chance to look elsewhere forfree trade deals. Meanwhile, president trumps top Trade Adviser says germany is using a Grossly Undervalued euro to exploit the us and its eu partners. Germanys Angela Merkel has rejected the suggestion, saying it has always encouraged the European Central bank to be independent. The United States remains the single biggest economy in the world, worth more than 18 trillionin 2015. The European Unions is second and closing the gap. With me is morris reid from the public strategy firm, mercury, who worked with both the clinton and 0bama administrations. Good morning. A war of words. Good morning. The eu and the us. Not a good way to go. They feel they have to have it tough talk with donald trump. I think it is the opposite. I think they should be more engaging. The eu and the us have so much in common in terms of export and import. They are on the same page. Donald trump is trying to fight people dumping. That is what countries and america want. They have to tone down the tough talk. They should be more engaged. They both need each other. It is interesting. Much of the tough talking is coming from peter, the head of the new organisation of donald trump, the National Trade council, talking about the weakness of the europe, how that benefits germany and Angela Merkel. None of this bodes well for the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, ttip, which 0bama was talking about with the eu. You do not hear much about ttip. It is more about the tpp and now nafta. They are fighting for market share. If you are looking at good competition for the us, especially with auto, it is germany. So they are trying to push things along. They know that Angela Merkel is not engaging with the central bank. The Donald Trump Administration is doing the opposite, trying to intimidate janet yellen. It is interesting. Of course, janet yellen and her team at the imf meet today. They criticised germany with the euro being weak and also japan with the yen and china with the yuan as well. At the end of the day, these are Currency Markets we are talking about. In most cases, governments are independent. They are. When i was in the clinton administration, we worked on strong policy. It is interesting donald trump is pushing hard on this. It has to do with exporting. Donald trump is try to focus on an Export Strategy and manipulate the market is to create an environment for america to flourish. This guy is smarter. He is manipulating people and pushing levers. He knows that he needs to create jobs and exporting creates jobs. The euro needs to create jobs and exporting createsjobs. The euro has needs to create jobs and exporting creates jobs. The euro has gone up 8 since we started. It has worked since we started. 1 . 8 since we started. It has worked since we started. 1 . Thank you. I appreciate you coming in. Let us move on. We have talked about currencies and apple and all that, so currencies and apple and all that, so let us talk about oil now. The saudi 0il minister has told the bbc that 0pecs historic agreement with non 0pec members to cut oil output could see the Market Balance out byjuly this year. The deal was reached in december after two years of difficult negotiation in a bid to slow the oil price. Speaking to our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, Khalid Al Falih said Oil Producers had been working hard to stabilise the markets. Saudi arabia has always produced in response to market demand. Even in the last two years, our Market Strategy was to sell to customers who requested shipments for the next month to be scheduled. So every barrel of oil that leaves saudi arabias shores has been sent out at the request of a customer. So, come july, the Assumption Markets will be balanced. And if there is an agreement at that time to see the ceiling lifted, saudi arabia will be responsive, rather than constrained, in meeting those customers demand. I would not expect an all out flood of the market in july. I would not expect an all out flood of the market injuly. What i would not expect an all out flood of the market in july. What we i would not expect an all out flood of the market injuly. What we want to see, in the First Quarter is a lwa ys to see, in the First Quarter is always tough, but over the six months, what we want to see is a large reduction in global infantry is to bring it back within the five year range. Inventories. If we can do that, we will allow the market to do its thing and that will allow markets to continue. In other news the on line retail giant, amazon, says it is investing 1. 5 billion building an aircargo hub in kentucky. The facility is expected to employ more than 2,700 people, and will support the firms growing fleet of cargo aircraft. The markets. A budget day in india we will wait for that. The Federal Reserve is meeting in the us later today. The oil price is declining. Poor results from Exon Mobile Out of the us. That is how the markets are trading. Hong kong open today for the first time this week. I will see you soon. Mps will debate today about leaving the eu. Chris mason reports. Heading home after 12 hours of debate. Midnight in westminster with another hour of discussion to follow today. This is a debate with fire and passion. Some long speeches. And some very short ones. Thank you, mr speaker. In my opinion, the people have decided, and i am going to vote accordingly. Laughter. That eight second speech best sums up the mood of mps however they voted in the referendum. But not everyone is convinced. The new government has acted as if the vote in the referendum gives them carte blanch to have the most extreme arrangements for leaving the eu. But it only asked whether people wanted to leave or stay. It did not talk about the arrangements the uk should adopt. She is one of a few dozen labour mps who could vote against starting brexit, but ministers are confident they will win easily. Many mps who passionately campaigned for remain, will support starting the brexit process, even if they are irritated by the claims of some. Please do not insult my intelligence by pretending we are going to sign a suite of trade deals on day one of leaving the eu. And mps return here this morning to pick up where they left off. Chris mason, bbc news, at. Westminster. The top stories this hour donald trump has delivered on a major Election Campaign promise and nominated a conservativejudge to fill the vacancy on the us supreme court. Neil gorsuch, from the denver federal appeals court, is a9, if confirmed by the senate, he could sit for decades. The Un Security Council says its concerned about the Dangerous Deterioration in Eastern Ukraine and called for a halt to the violence. At least 13 people have been killed since sunday, sunday. 0ur News Review starts withjudge gorsuch. President donald trump has nominated 49 year old judge neil gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. There are nine members in total. The New York Times website describes mr gorsuch as reliably conservative, but not someone known to be divisive. The die welt website has german reaction to comments made by Donald Trumps top trade advisor, peter navarro, who Claims Berlin is exploiting the us and other eu countries by grossly undervaluing the euro. The accusations saw the euro jump to an eight week high. In the daily telegraph, Scientists Say theyve developed mind reading technology. The device has been tested on people unable to speak or move. Suffering from locked in syndrome. It measures Blood Oxygen Levels in the brain, to work out whether the person wants to answer yes or no. Its rise of the machines in the Financial Times today. It looks at how computer based hedge funds that use algorithms have for the first time joined a list of the all time top 20 best industry performers. It writes about how technology is challenging human investing. And hold em orfold em . Also in the ft, an Artificial Intelligence system has won 1. 8 million worth of chips against the worlds top professional poker players. Joining us is broadcaster henry bonsu. Good morning. Good morning he is 49 and just 12 days into his presidency. Donald trump has made this nomination and its a lifetime position. It is. This guy could be influencing the culture