In the first wave of the pandemic while the south east was hardest hit in the second wave the heatwave across the uk has been continuing and this afternoon northern ireland has broken it s all time temperature record for the second time in 5 days. The gb women s football team off to a flying start at the tokyo olympics with a 2 nil win over chile good afternoon. we cannot go on as we are the words today of the brexit minister lord frost, demanding a rethink from the european union on britain s post brexit trading arrangements with northern ireland. The government has called for significant changes to the deal negotiated only last year but it s held back, for now, from the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal. The european commission vice president has flatly rejected the uk demand for a renegotiation of the northern ireland protocol a protocol which requires checks on goods coming in from mainland britain. Chris page reports. Northern ireland has always
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the regions banks, credit agricole reports today. anna: a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak: europe. i m anna edwards. manus: breaking news, credit agricole. anna: numbers from credit agricole, they look to be a little light, third-quarter revenue numbers, 4.58 billion against an estimate of 4.70 4 billion, although the trading revenue is one of the issues here. we have a drop of $.28 in trading revenue, down by 28%. they were hit by slower bond trading, lower volatility on that side of the market. we know that story very well. there are some upsides to the story coming to this morning. we re seeing if there s any strength there on m&a advisory. will look for more details. m&a also a big story, i should say. could credit agricole be interested in doing a deal with commerzbank? we ll see what comments we get from them on that front. abn amro, when and how quickly will the government release more of their holdings? third quarter pretty much matched analyst estimates. a lit
japan crawls out of recession with growth slower than expected. how convincing is japan s exit from recession? a lot of economists saying that this is a disappointing figure and yet it shows a slight improvement. it shows a slight improvement, but in many ways, what this number is about is the evils of raising taxes in a deflationary environment. most economists would agree that raising sale taxes in april of last year was a poorly timed move. in many ways, consumer demand has never quite recovered. when you look at the enthusiasm toward abenomics, you don t see a lot of it here in japan. a lot of it is investors overseas who are looking at the different plans the prime minister has put together. when you talk to households here, corporate executives there is a lot of concern about economic headwinds that are increasing, not decreasing. in many ways, this economic number is not terrible news, but it is a reminder that japan is limping out of recession at best. how much pr