welcome to bbc news. our top story today: the us defense secretary says he had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighterjet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the drone which is thought to be twelve hundred metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defense secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. as i ve said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly into operate where ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale has this report from kyiv. this is the kind of unmanned aircraft that crashed
north, temperatures will fall away under the starry skies, and we re looking at a fairly widespread rural frost at the very least. so we start off on a rather chilly note first thing sunday, quite a keen wind coming through the north sea as well for eastern areas, still that brisk ish wind towards the north and west. but for mostjust a day of dry and bright weather with hazy spells of sunshine for the most part. and temperatures will obviously not be as high as today because they re starting at a lower level, about eight, possibly ten degrees celsius in east anglia. but some pleasant feeling weather, light winds, if you re out and about. during the evening and overnight, we do pick up a little bit more cloud ahead of the next weather system in the north and the west. so it won t be quite as cold for the far north west of scotland, northern isles, the west of northern ireland. but elsewhere, another cold night and this time it will be frosty further south as well, possibly one
to the country torn by internal conflict. you are watching bbc news. now, it s talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. the great global divide is the world economy drifting away from us dominance, as some of our biggest emerging economies are showing us what economic growth is all about? india, it s sitting pretty at the top of the pack, growing faster than any other major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the
primetime can t find a single victim here. it doesn t look like anybody was physically injured. doesn t look like the irs was cheated. where s the crime? a lawyer paid a woman and a business reimbursed the lawyer? that s it? then the company filed the payment as a legal expense and just threw it in the filing cabinet? but, calling a payment to a lawyer a real expense instead of a legal reimprisonment is worse than hurt here in new york. never ever put your payments in the wrong ledger. bragg calls that falsifying a misdemeanor with since when did democrats become sticklers for bookkeeping. what letter did hunter file the chinese diamond under. the biden administration took millions from china before an election, lied about it, didn t pay taxes on it. that seems a little worse. the trump organization isn t even publicly traded. and no campaign funds were used. what was trump supposed to do? write a giant sweep sized check and hand it to stormy in times square. trump is a b
President xi told Secretary Blinken that china and the us should be partners rather than rivals. Mr blinken for his part raised concerns over chinas support for russia in its invasion of ukraine. He also raised what he described as chinas unfair Trade Practices in a number of Key Industries that will drive the 21st century economy. Solar panels, Electric Vehicles and the batteries that power them. China alone is producing more than 100 of Global Demand for these products, flooding markets, undermining competition, putting at Risk Livelihoods and businesses around the world. Now, this is a movie that weve seen before, and we know how it ends, with american businesses shuttered and american jobs lost. President biden will not let this happen on his watch. Lets speak now to our north America Business correspondent, erin delmore. In the background to this meeting was a warning we heard from President Biden recently that more tariffs on chinese imports could be on the way. What does this me