Bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Nintendo flips the switch in china, and it is teaming up with tencent. The World Trade Organisation in crisis as the world shuts down its appeals court. Good morning, asia. Hello, well. Thanks forjoining us for this edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets start off with the gaming sector, because japans nintendo is officially launching its popular switch gaming console in china today. Interestingly it is teaming up with tencent, perhaps the biggest Gaming Company in the world. The japanese giant is best known for games and characters like mario and pokemon which are popular in the mainland, but it doesnt mean that it wont be a challenging environment for the company. To curb gaming addiction, children under 18 are banned from playing online between 10pm in the evening until 8am in the morning on weekdays, in addition to regulation, consul gaming is not as popular in china. Most
In Eastern Ukraine by the end of the year. Millennials get tough on climate change, which could hit some big polluters in the pocket. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, Nintendo Switch launches in china today, but for under 18s, gaming is off limits between 10pm and 8am weekdays. So, is this a good idea . Should other countries crack down on late night gaming . Get in touch. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Police in new zealand are to launch a criminal investigation into the deaths of five people following a volcanic explosion on white island. Eight people remain unaccounted for and aerial reconnaissance flights have detected no sign of life there. Eight people remain missing and doctors treating the 31 injured in the accident said almost all had suffered burns, some so severe, they may not survive. Ican i can confirm now that we will commence a criminal investigation into the circumstanc
Across the north west of scotland. A chilly and frosty start, but remaining cool. Very blustery for scotla nd remaining cool. Very blustery for scotland and Northern Ireland with Winds Continuing to pick up. With increasing winds and cloud, not quite cold but further chilly conditions for the south eastern pockets with frost in any clear spells. Firstly, big changes. Low pressure begins to take over. A blustery day. Thursday. Persistent rain piling into western scotla nd persistent rain piling into western scotland could lead to localised flooding by the end of the day. Showers into western england and wales but also sunshine and a mild day, particularly in the north and west. Friday, a mild start in the south. Unsettle, outbreaks of rain showers and sunshine in the afternoon. Io 13 degrees showers and sunshine in the afternoon. 10 13 degrees in the south. Turning fresher as we head onto the start of the weekend. Quite blustery showers. High pressure licking from the west for saturday.
France and keep us dry, but it could go as far north as wales, the midlands and east anglia. At the moment the best guess is between these two solutions where we see the rain mainly affecting southern counties of england. Away from that band of rain it is a dry day with just a scattering of showers across the northern North Eastern areas. By sunday the low pressure has moved well away from the uk, in towards the mediterranean. And High Pressure really is beginning to dominate. It is not completely dry everywhere, there will still be themselves around because northern scotland, wintry at times, maybe for the northern isles, certainly over the high ground in scotland. There could be some fog patches to start the day elsewhere but for the majority a lot less rain than we have seen over recent days and weeks. Mostly dry with sunshine but feeling cold, temperatures 4 seven celsius was up this autumn the jet stream pattern has often look like this, with a big ridge to the west of the uk. We
News is coming into us of an earthquake near yeovil in somerset s. Reports are varying as to the strength of the earthquake. Some are saying it has measured 4. 5 on the Richter Scale and others are saying it measured 3. 4, but nonetheless we have got some comments from people in the taunton, yeovil and bridgwater areas. If youve ever wondered what its like to be at home when an earthquake of this kind of magnitude strikes, well, here you go 0ne witness said they initially thought it was the rumbling of a passing tractor but the dogs reacted and it was unnerving and apparently the shower door rattled. Another person said the bed shook. The daughter thought a lorry was going but they walked past and there was no lorry and a wooden board on its side did fall over upstairs. Someone else reported it sounded like a collision on the road, a kind of whoomp noise with a hanging of medals rattling on a door handle. Someone else reported nothing fell off the shelf but the cat wasnt happy. Someone