President trump, whos on his first state visit to china, has watched a military honour guard in the heart of beijing after he was greeted by the chinese leader, xijinping. The two are now holding talks at the great hall of the people. Our correspondent, Aleem Maqbool is in beijing too, travelling with President Trump. The president will be very keen to come away from beijing with some progress, surely, on north korea and trade. What chance of either of those . Well, he will claim lots of progress on both regards, i am sure, but if it is about coming array with something intangible and then he may well struggle. It has been interesting but four months through the Election Campaign and his administration he spoke about how tough it would be with china. We heard his first remarks in our. He was sitting opposite the president of china at the beginning of the bilateral talks and his opening comments were rather fawning. Bilateral talks and his opening comments were ratherfawning. He bilater
Megan murphy. Lets talk about a story in japan. This is interesting because there is quite a bit of potential turnover and tension within the political structure in japan. Shinzo abe, the Prime Minister of japan, is a man of personal fascination to me only because i think people still underestimate the scale of the challenges facing him economically and demographically. She has one of the biggest problems in japanese politics, which has traditionally been accusations of cronyism and corruption. It got a lot steeper. We can overemphasize how steep the economic challenge has been. He is famous for his three errors. He has reduced unemployment, but low deflation and persistently low inflation continues to hobble the japanese economy, which has demographics tremendously unfavorable in terms of its elderly population. It takes a Social Security bill to take care of them as they get older. They faced tremendous challenges on that, and things he have tried to jolt the economy have been uneven
Megan murphy. Lets talk about a story in japan. This is interesting because there is quite a bit of potential turnover and tension within the political structure in japan. Shinzo abe, the Prime Minister of japan, is a man of personal fascination to me only because i think people still underestimate the scale of the challenges facing him economically and demographically. She has one of the biggest problems in japanese politics, which has traditionally been accusations of cronyism and corruption. It got a lot steeper. We can overemphasize how steep the economic challenge has been. He is famous for his three errors. He has reduced unemployment, but low deflation and persistently low inflation continues to hobble the japanese economy, which has demographics tremendously unfavorable in terms of its elderly population. It takes a Social Security bill to take care of them as they get older. They faced tremendous challenges on that, and things he have tried to jolt the economy have been uneven
By almost every measure america is a better stronger place than it was when we started, in 10 days, the world will witness a hallmark of democracy. No, no, no, no, no. The peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to the next, i committed to president elect trump that my administration would ensure the smoothest possible transition just as president bush did for me. Maria look at president s legacy coming up sign for struggle retail this morning walmart set to cut another 1,000 jobs shift to ecommerce weighing on one of the Largest Companies volkswagen reportedly close to deal over emission cheating scandaling the automaker will pay a fine more than 4 billion dollars, details this morning on that settlement coming up, check about Global Markets steady ahead of Donald Trumps News Conference this morning, start of earnings season as well kicking off friday with banks take a look at futures so close to dow to,000 higher opening all expected to be higher at the open, che
We are having Breakfast In America and apparently this is what President Obama has at this restau ra nt. President obama has at this restaurant. We are talking to voters about what his legacy will be in the week that he leaves the white house. In sport the british number one Johanna Konta moves safely through to the second round of the Australian Open, beating Kirsten Flipkens in straight sets. And are we swapping Two Fat Ladies for a Skinny Cappucino . The research looking at how our high Street Entertainment venues are changing. And carol has the weather. Good morning. It isa it is a cold start to the day across east anglia and the south east with some frost and patchy fog but we will see some sunshine. For the rest of the uk it is cloudy, much milder at patchy rain and drizzle around. Ill have more details in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. The Prime Minister will today set out her vision for the terms of britains departure from the European Union. Th