General motors is hoping to get the all clear for the sale of its loss making brand opel. But is the traditional car industry coming to an end . Well get a hands on look at the latest in driverless technology. Welcome to World Business report. Im rachel horne. Today the Eu Commission will decide whether or not to give the green light to General Motors for the 2. 5bn sale of its european operations. Gm is hoping to offload vauxhall and opel to the psa group thats the French Company which owns peugeot and citroen. Its easy to see why General Motors wants to sell their european operation, which is dominated by opel, has lost about 9. 1 billion since 2009. If successful, the deal would make psa the continents second biggest car maker after volkswagen and ahead of french rival renault. Opel employs 38,000 people across europe but its feared the sale could put thousands of those jobs under threat with workers in the uk and germany considered to be most at risk. With me is anna marie baisden,
The cost of a degree. Students from the poorest backgrounds could leave university with debts of over £57,000. Also coming up, its day three of wimbledon. First up on centre court this afternoon isjohanna konta, who plays donna vekic, the player who beat her in the final of the Nottingham 0pen Last month. And Mark Cavendish is out of the Tour De France, following a crash which saw his sprint rival peter sagan disqualified from the race for his involvement. Good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. Its understood the goverment is to send a taskforce in, to take over parts of Kensington Council, in the wake of the grenfell fire tragedy. It is thought the Housing Department and other departments will be run by an outside organisation, but the council itself will not be taken over. Most of the families who lost their homes are still living in hotels, despite government pledges to rehouse them all by today. There was anger and frustration at a meeting with police and the westminster c
Its100 years since women were allowed tojoin its100 years since women were allowed to join the uk armed forces. We found out what has changed between their women who served them and those who serve now. Good morning. Its friday 7th july. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has met russias president Vladimir Putin face to face for the first time. The two leaders shook hands at the 620 summit in the german city of hamburg. They are due to hold further talks later. Ros atkins is in hamburg. Welcome to the vast Conference Centre in hamburg, where the g20s summit is taking place. The leaders are here and ready to start negotiations, moving to what they hope will be a communique on saturday afternoon with commitments on some of the most pressing issues oui on some of the most pressing issues our world is facing. There had been broke out last night and into this morning. The German Authorities are telling us that over 70 Police Officers have been injured in the la
Today. It has finally happened, donald trump and Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the 620 summit in hamburg. Donald trump called it an honour, the russian president said he was delighted to discuss things personally. In the last few hours we have heard that they agreed a ceasefire in south western syria, which will come an effect on sunday. But a discussion on Russian Meddling in us elections last year is reported to be robust. The bbcs North American editorjon sopel reports. Its hard to overstate the significance of this meeting, this handshake. Two men with Nuclear Arsenals who could blow the world to pieces. Two self proclaimed tough guys who like to win. But today at their first face to face meeting, they were the epitome of restraint and respect. Thank you very much, we appreciate it. President putin and i have been discussing various things and i think its going very well. Weve had some very, very good talks. We are going to talk now and that will cont
The heavy fighting, pretty much every car and every building has been wrecked. Travelling the route of the new silk road. We have a Special Report on the trillion Dollar Project linking china and europe. With no other Country Offering a big idea right now, this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The Donald Trumps son, his Campaign Manager and his son in law, talked to a well connected russian in a meeting billed as a chance to get damaging information about hillary clinton. Thejune 2016 meeting is the first evidence that people in Donald Trumps inner circle did talk to russians with the intention of getting dirt on mrs clinton. Donald trump jr has now confirmed both the meeting and its agenda. So is this meeting evidence of collusion . Or was it simply a chance for some legitimate Opposition Research . And how damaging is it to the president . All questions for congress and the Special Prosecutor who are i