a family run fragrance firm has won a king s award for enterprise after growing exports 500%. we ll speak to the boss. could an easing of tensions between the world s economic superpowers be on the way? in a major speech in washington on thursday, us treasury secretary janet yellen has called for a constructive and fair relationship with china, saying a decoupling of their economies would be disastrous for both sides. secretary yellen also said she plans to visit china for talks. us china relations are in their worst state in decades with the biden administraton enforcing a strict export ban on advanced technology to china, which accuses washington of trying to stifle its modernisation. from new york, our correspondent samira hussain reports. it has been five years since the united states imposed tariffs on billions of dollars of goods coming in from china. they not only have trade relations but diplomatic relations but diplomatic relations between the two countries have
i had to put my scarf on earlier today, and i think many others might have to dig out the thick coats in the coming days. it will turn chilly, even wintry showers across northern parts of the uk, but today, we have a tale of two halves. beautiful weather across scotland and northern ireland, but across england and way is, this sneaky weather front has been pushed england and way is, this sneaky weatherfront has been pushed in by quite a strong easterly wind. you can see on the radar where it has rained in the last few hours across parts of england, into wales as well, but the cloudless skies in place across scotland and northern ireland. it is also very gusty across the pennines in the north of england all the way from merseyside towards particularly cumbria, gusts of wind up to gale force. here is that tale of two halves. today in some parts of western scotland, high teens, perhaps nudging up to 20. by sunday, i was talking about coats and scarves, and the northerly wind, an
on pay and conditions. it has been the greatest experience of my entire life, my own children and family notwithstanding! and a hollywood ending, perhaps, for wrexham, looking to win a return to the football league this weekend. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the justice secretary and deputy prime minister dominic raab has resigned from his posts a day after a report investigating bullying allegations against him was handed to the prime minister. mr raab had promised to step down if the inquiry found against him, and in a statement he said it was important to keep his word. but he s claims the investigation hasn t been fair, calling it kafkaesque , and accused the inquiry of making the threshold for bullying so low that it would encourage spurious complaints against ministers. with the very latest from westminster, here s our political correspondent, iain watson. let s make him our next prime minister. please welcome rishi sunak. he minister. please welco
welcome along to the programme. let s start with the champions league as we now know, the semifinal line up. manchester city will play real madrid after completing the job in germany. against bayern munich in the quarterfinal. while it is inter against ac milan and the other semi after they held off benfica. jill linsky watch all of the action unfold. and joins us now. good to see you. manchester city had a commanding lead to take to munich and the got the job done. munich and the got the “ob done. ., ,, ., ., ., done. professional “ob for manchester done. professional “ob for manchester city h done. professionaljob for manchester city and - done. professionaljob for manchester city and an i manchester city and an intimidating place at the alley on serena. they drew on the night but that 3 0 lead people to up in manchester in the first like more than enough to see them through this quarterfinal and into the semifinal to play real madrid. the same team that beat them a
welcome to bbc news. muslims around the world are preparing for eid al fitr, a religious festival which marks the end of the holy month of ramdan. but in some countries, conflict and poverty have made that celebration all but impossible. some of the images we are about to show you are distressing. in yemen, at least 78 people have been killed in a crush at a school in yemen s rebel held capital, sanaa, after hundreds crowded into a narrow street on wednesday night to get hand outs of around $9 from a merchant during a charity event for ramadam. i ll be speaking to a yemeni journalist and our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. but first, another muslim majority nation, sudan where people have been desperately trying to leave the capital, khartoum, amid another day of fighting, fearful about dwindling food supplies and the collapse of medical services. nearly a week of fighting between rival military factions in sudan is now thought to have killed at least 330 pe