President trump is in the uk meeting allies at a nato summit in london this week. The labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has welcomed the us president with a letter, demanding that he will not push medicine prices up through a post brexit trade deal. Dominating trumps agenda, though, are threats posed by china, including its dominance of 56 telecoms networks. America has warned its allies against using equipment made by chinas huawei, saying the kit could be used by beijing for spying. These concerns stem from a chinese law that requires Domestic Companies to co operate with the government on security matters. Critics saying that this law could compel huawei to be a vehicle for spying. The Company Denies the allegations made by washington. Meanwhile, germanys chancellor Angela Merkel has also sounded a warning, saying europe a key part of nato needs to have a unified policy on the rollout of the next generation sg networks to address espionage concerns. Mike weston is director at advisory s
From day one really has been staying on the sidelines protecting the protesters is now implementing at the station by the authorities to open roads but i must tell you even the security agencies in this country there are divided some are allied with certain political factions and we saw this for ourselves the other day when these i add to riot police were forced to push away supporters of the government some of them used Excessive Force because they did not like the other side while others stayed back refusing to use force so like Muhammad Said sectarianism is very deep in this country people still identify themselves with their sect and people will side with their sect if they feel that theyre coming under attack so this is why this crisis is very dangerous in a country like lebanon in a country which has seen a civil war in a country which has seen. Political crisis every few years so the divide is the the street is divided and it is not clear what is going to happen next ok thank yo
We start in sydney where we could be seeing the dawn of a new era of ultra long haul commercial flights. In the last few hours a boeing 787 belonging to Australian Airline qantas has landed after flying non stop from london to sydney. It left heathrow around 6am yesterday flying almost 18,000 kilometres over 19 hours and 19 minutes. Its part of a bigger project looking at ultra long haul flying, made possible by the boeing 787 and rival airbus a350 long rangejets. 0ur correspondent lukejones was one of just a0 passengers and crew on board. They were all subject to rigorous testing to assess the impact of the flight on their health, wellbeing and body clock. Lets get more on this story lets speak to luke hearing you go through those statistics again, i am feeling tired all over it. Did you think you would be safe and did your friends and family feel worried 7 be safe and did your friends and family feel worried . Nobody was worried about me but it was absolutely fine because of it was q
Less bright than they might appear in the German Economy thats according to a survey of chief Financial Officers conducted by Management Consultancy to lloyds it found a shop drop in both investments and recruitment which levels the lowest in 7 years the Auto Industry engineering and chemical sectors of the most pessimistic especially in investments the Banking Sector trails in recruit but the survey showed c f os were most concerned about a full kastrup in domestic consumption in the coming year just digitisation came out as the one area they are still happy to invest in. Lets go to Chelsea Delaney of financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea just how bad is the situation because i mean germanys just narrowly missed a recession it is basically stagnating wouldnt investments from both the public and private sectors be exactly what the doctor ordered. Well thats what economist investors have really been begging for over the past couple of months investment is really the really the be
Over brexit. Australia, brazil and new zealand are asking for trade compensation from the uk and the eu over brexit disruption. Plus running rings around the competition. Well be taking a look at the essential sport item that managed to become an every day fashion must have. From your phone to a postbox, well find out why Old Fashioned postcards still seem to have a future in the digital age and why that could be good for our Mental Health. And a new Study Suggests those long meetings at work are more about therapy than solutions, so we want to know, do you think meetings are meaningless or play an important part of work life . Let us know, just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. A warm welcome to our new business show, and we start today in sydney, where we could be seeing the dawn of a new era of ultra long haul commercial flights. I think we can cross straight to luuka jones, if he is still awake you have been awake Something Like i9 you have been awake Some