And the latest World Surf League event. Lets return to the referendum in turkey. This result means president erdogan could be in power until 2029. Earlier in his career, mr erdogan said, democracy is like a bus. When you come to your stop, you get off. Evidently, his stop is some way down the road. And even before this result, he was a giant of turkish politics. In 2001, he founded thejustice and Development Party of the akp, and Development Party, or the akp, as we often call it. He became Prime Minister in 2003 and then president in 2014. That was a year after nationwide protests at the alleged authoritarianism of his style of government. There was International Condemnation over the governments response to the protests. Then lastjuly, there was the attempted coup, and a widespread crackdown has followed. While all of this has been playing out, turkey has taken in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. Its also experienced an increase in terrorist activity, primarily conducted by
12 people were burned in the attack, two of them seriously. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News with rico hizon live from singapore. World business report. From korea to japan, security and trade are high on the agenda as us Vice President mike pence head to tokyo. And we find out what sort of food the movers and shakers of asia it for breakfast. Eat. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Its a tuesday. Welcome to another edition of Asia Business report. Im your host, rico hizon. Thank you for joining us. Fresh tensions between the us and north korea, the us Vice President mike pence has warned pyongyang that president trumps result should not retested. North Korea Remains defiant, telling the bbc they will continue. Not only security is at the top of the agenda when mike pence arrives injapan today. The us will also want to talk trade, especially with agriculture and auto remaining key sticking points. Be Vice President will certainly bring up the fact that the United States wou
The government says standards will go up because the content is more rigorous, and that bright pupils will have a better chance to shine. Our education editor, bra nwen jeffreys, reports. The new system has more grades and replaces letters with the numbers nine to one, with nine being the highest grade. Its all change for gcse maths and english this year. Numbers, not letters, for grades and new, tougher content for the exams. Would that be ok, to do that . So, umi is getting extra help from her tutor, something many families cant afford. Even so, shes anxious about the exams. Its quite daunting, because lots of my teachers dont. Theyve never taught it before, so theyre not used to the new syllabus thats coming in. Her mum, kelly, is trying to get her head round it all. A grade 4 will be the same as a c or above. And a top grade of 9 will be higher than an a. She doesnt mind the exams Content Being made harder. But to bring in a new Grading System and make the whole Exam Structure toug