sitting australian prime minister anthony albanese becomes the first sitting australian prime minister to march in sydney s gay and lesbian mardi gras. he has described it as a celebration of modern australia. you are watching bbc news. now, 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. counting the cost of war as ukraine marks a year since the invasion, we re going to take a look at the toll it s taken on the economy. ukraine s vast farms were feeding the world, but the country is now reliant on billions of dollars of help just to get through every month. ukraine s finance minister tells me how he s kept the economy functioning despite the missiles and the deliberate targeting of infrastructure, including the power grid. also, i m going to be hearing from a leading business voice on how private companies have managed to keep doing business in a war zone and how t
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
well, i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are, an it energy watcher from greenpeace and the vice president of a huge multinational who specialise in internet connections and data centres all around the world. also, can you help heat a city by streaming the latest cat video? i m going to be catching up with the big boss of one of europe s top power companies capturing waste energy to warm your homes. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, all of our lives are moving more and more online and more and more of that life is now in the cloud. we store our photos, ourfamily memories, our shopping lists, and our endless, endless emails to this other place. but the cloud is not some bunch of mist floating in the sky. no, it s a vast digital infrastructure huge networks of cables and processes, the cogs behind the machine powering our online world. and housing all of this are dat
i m going to be discussing it with these three, there they are, matthew plosser from the new york federal reserve, liz lumley from the banker magazine, and frederic malherbe from university college london, who thinks central banks should consider more radical steps to get the banks to pass on better deals for savers. plus, the boss behind the trains of tomorrow. my interview with the global ceo of one of the world s biggest train and tram makers, on the future of transport across the world. wherever you arejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello, and warm welcome to the show. you know, across the world s most powerful countries, the cost of borrowing money has been going up. central banks, they ve been raising the interest rates to tackle inflation. and while banks have been lightning fast in passing on those rising rates to those who borrow from them, those who save with their banks, well, they ve not been seeing the same immediate reaction. if they want hig