Speaking last week, Mr Draghi highlighted limited innovation, high energy prices and a Skills Gap as part of the problem. Sarah hall is professor of economic geography at the university of cambridge. Shejoins me now. What are you expecting with this report . From what we have heard and briefings we expect a very long Document But One that potentially struggles to be really clear on how some of thoseissues really clear on how some of those issues could be tackled. For some reason that is really obvious and quite clear why that might be the case. Some of the challenges the us facing is very similar to other advanced economies in Europe And North america including the uk. For example, how do you drive up competitiveness as a regal thorny challenge that is hard to address. I think i will be looking out for what the report says around improving competitiveness, crucially how that might be financed, that is a really big questions. And how the eu and through this Report Mario draghi suggestin
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
is a coume our reliance on what you do. there is a coume of our reliance on what you do. there is a couple of things our reliance on what you do. there is a couple of things they re - is a couple of things they re worried about. china s economy is not performing very well right now and the government would like to reassure businesses particularly foreign businesses that now is a great time to invest and should be expanding your operations in china. business confidence particularly foreign business confidence in china, has been dented of the last four years because they have been a number of crackdowns on the acts of private businesses so this is a message that businesses need to hear. that is the short term concern for the government. but there is this broader issue of the way the global economy right now does seem to be factoring into blocks centred on the us, the western powers and centred on china and china s leadership wants to portray china as the bit that is open
submitted a bid to buy manchester united bbc sport understands that a rival bid was also tabled by ineos, owned by british billionaire, sirjim ratcliffe, before friday s deadline. now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer, there had been rolling sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to f