Theresa may is coming under increasing pressure to adopt a tougher line during brexit negotiations as she prepares to travel to brussels tomorrow, for talks with the president of the european commission. She is hoping Jean Claude Juncker will signal that sufficient progress has been made to allow negotiations to begin on trade and the uks future relationship with the eu. Yet some leading brexiteers have written an open letter to mrs may setting out their demands. Heres our political correspondent, alex forsyth. When these two meet tomorrow it will take more than polite greetings. His verdict will be crucial in deciding if they have edged close enough together on key issues for eu leaders to agree to Start Talking trade when they meet later this month. Meanwhile, a handful of brexit backing conservative mps have increased the pressure on the Prime Minister, signing a letter setting out their demands including a promise that the European Court ofjustice will cease to have any jurisdictio
Of chinas communist party. Testing the limits of artistic freedom. A controversial new film on tsar nicolas ii finally hits screens in russia after months of bitter protest. Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond one hundred days hello and welcome, im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. President trump has difficulty telling the truth, hes not a good role model for children and he is debasing america. Those arent ours views, they are not the views of a democrat, those are the opinions of a Top Republican in washington. Senator bob corker is retiring next year but until then he is speaking his mind on the subject of donald trump. The powerful chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Gave a series of interviews on us tv today in which he came close to saying he doesnt even fully trust mr trump with the Nuclear Codes. Its not the first time the two men have tangled, but it is the most explosive. Here he is earlier today. Its a sad place from my perspective
Manus you are welcome. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Our flagship morning show. I am manus cranny in the city of london. Anna edwards is on her way to the Supreme Court on the article 50 rolling. This is philips which has itselfed it divested an organization. The Fourth Quarter adjusted comes in at a billion euros. In line. It is a slip below. A billion euros is what we earned in the Fourth Quarter. It will maintain a dividend of 80 Cents Per Share in line with what the market had anticipated. They still have a shrew a huge the diagnostic business what will happen with it in terms of the u. S. From once to make America Great. Will that force people to buy shares in something other than phillips. Have a conversation with the ceo very shortly. Market, there is one pervasive theme. The dollar is offered. It all comes back to last week donald trump talking in the wall street journal and overnight it treasuryews of the secretary nominee. From time to time an excessively strong dollar,
And, political scandals hitting korea. Just under 30 minutes to go before we get underway here in hong kong. Them markets. No trading in taiwan, we normally would have at the start of the session because it is the lunar nor year new year. The nasdaq, hitting the record highs. Regionrong start to the with stocks extending the global rally overnight. Over 1 with copper, aluminum and iron ore jumping there. It is green across asia, looking at this thing equity markets here. The nikkei up 1 here with a weaker yen. For, stellar numbers december. This is the picture. I want to mention quickly today. , falling. 6 one of the worst performers so far. Looking at what is going on with the cost, given that gdp figures , despite the economy growing at the slowest rate in over a year. Up a quarter of a percent, giving the rising the hp, and the like. A look at the aussie dollar. We did get australias fourthquarter inflation coming in lower than forecasted. After the announcement, we did get a drop.
Good morning from westminster. The bill giving theresa may the power to trigger the formal process of leaving the eu has cleared its final hurdle in parliament, and will now become law. The Brexit Secretary, david davis, said the uk was on the threshold of its most important negotiation for a generation. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Contents, 118, not contents, 274, so the not contents have it. With those words the government achieved what the Supreme Court told ministers they had to, parliamentary approval to start brexit. The debates here in the House Of Lords and in the House Of Commons are, for now at least, done. One thing came out very clearly in all the debates. It is uncertainty that is bad for business, it is uncertainty that is bad forforeign nationals in the uk, it is bad for uk nationals resident in eu countries. I think the quicker we get on with this process the better. The House Of Commons had overturned two suggested changes to the plans new Law Guar