And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexicos buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. And after a few hours, the Mexican President pushed back, saying he wont come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. Not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. And hes now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. Nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. Donald trumps new executive toy. His first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us president ial power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the Mexican President were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. His plane will Stay Grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next week was abruptly
Backed a cross party amendment saying that ministers should guarantee eu nationals right to stay in the uk. He comes bearing gifts. The Saudi Arabian king riots in indonesia where he is expected to pump money into the countrys oil sector. And the owners of snapchat see their Company Valued at 24 billion in a share sale. Welcome to Asia Business report. It has been a highly anticipated state visit. Saudi Arabias King Salman is in indonesia as part of Multi Stop Tour around asia. The saudi king is expected to announce Investment Deals totalling more than 20 billion. Around 6 billion of that will be pumped into state owned refineries, and it is the second oil deal we over saudi arabia this week. Earlier the country invested 7 billion into a Refinery Project over in malaysia. Saudi arabia is the worlds biggest exporter, much of its crude going to customers in asia. I asked why saudi arabia is so particularly interested in this region. Saudi arabia has a lot of money to throw around. It wou
Of the European Council donald task that the sovereignty of gibraltar is not up for negotiation during the brexit talks. Lets cross over life to singapore for the latest business news. Face to face for the first time, as xijinping and face to face for the first time, as xi jinping and donald face to face for the first time, as xijinping and donald trump meet in mar a lago. And we look at how a Government Crackdown in india is affecting the Worlds Largest exporter of buffalo meat. Welcome to Asia Business report. The chinese president has arrived in the United States for a meeting with his counterpart president donald trump. Mrtrump is counterpart president donald trump. Mr trump is hosting xijinping at his mar a lago resort in florida. The meeting today is the very first time they are talking in person. Theres lots to discuss. Security, are both men in agreement on how to handle north korea . And on. Can these dealmakers avert a potential trade war . Joining us with some a nswe is we t
this annual security conference here in singapore. and what we re anticipating is with his arrival, he will be bringing europe s deadliest conflict right here to the heart of asia to an annual gathering which is attended for the most part by defense chiefs from around asia and dominated by the ongoing rivalry between the us and china. so you ve had the us secretary of defense, lloyd austin meeting with his chinese counterpart here yesterday. there are clearly disagreement it s when it comes to the war in ukraine, for example, this morning we heard a chinese people s liberation army officer in a question in an answer period asserting laying claim to the argument that beijing has made in the past, that the war in ukraine was caused by the expansion of the nato military alliance. austin responded saying
respectfully, i disagree he argued that the war would started in his words, when vladimir putin, the russian president, launched an illegal invasion into ukraine, where upon the audience, applause plotted. i ve never actually seen a reaction like that at one of these annual gatherings. so this is going to be a moment for zelenskyy to meet face-to-face swift leaders here in asia, presumably with the us defense chief, and they have met before in the past, but also to make a case two liters in asia, about the ongoing conflict here. and certainly when you have some governments in the region, china in particular, which is a close close ally of russia china, we ve heard calling for peace talks between ukraine and russia, but just yesterday, the chinese foreign ministry, kim, announced that it would not be participating in p talks