The firm that promises to make employing people easier. Hell explain how. Today we want to know, what are your questions about brexit . Well be answering your questions on this fridays edition of Business Live. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start of course with brexit as the massive task now begins of agreeing the terms of britains departure from the european union. Theres a huge amount at stake for businesses here in the uk and across the remaining 27 eu countries in the form of a trading relationship Worth Hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A failure to strike a trade deal would be damaging to all sides. But who really has the upper hand . Lets look at the numbers. In 2015 the uk exported 274 billion worth of goods and services to the eu. Thats 44 of all the uks exports and represents 13 percent of the entire british economy. Lets look at it the other way. The eu exports far more to the uk than vice versa 360 billion worth in the same
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With complicity in the murder of samuel paty as the teachers funeral takes place in paris. Starting with some breaking news now. Out of the United States. Officials from the fbi have held a News Conference in washington on what they call an Election Security issue and saying that the us, according to the us, iran, russia obtained Voter Registration information and lets see what that means. Our correspondent hello. What is happening. The fbi have announced that theyre going to hold this press c0 nfe re nce theyre going to hold this press conference very short notice and its going to be in about 15 minutes and we are waiting. They had this press conference where they had obtained information that both russia and iran had obtained voter information and on iran, they have evidence that iran was sending spoofed e mails trying to intimidate voters and undermine confidence in the election and damage president donald trump. Im russia, they said they did not have evidence that russia was doing
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Talks to try to agree a post brexit trade deal between the uk and the European Union have concluded with both sides saying there are major differences to bridge. The british Prime Minister, borisjohnson and the European Commission president , ursula von der leyen, met over dinner in brussels. Both have agreed talks on a deal will continue until sunday, when a Firm Decision will be made. A source in mrjohnsons office said he didnt want to leave any possible route to a deal untested. Without a trade agreement, tariffs will be imposed on goods from the start ofjanuary and trade will be disrupted by increased border checks. Our europe editor, katya adler, gave us this update on the events of the evening. She said it was a lively and interesting discussion. Weve heard from the uk that it was a frank discussion which would imply that it wasnt necessarily so friendly. I think both sides totally agree that gaps still remain. As you
Loans is now a broken promise. Its just wrong. Its wrong on so many levels. Glor and, the exhibit traveling to the u. S. For the first time with a vital message. Do you think this could happen again . Yeah. Because people forget history. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. And this is our western edition. And the gloves came off today. The House Speaker accused the attorney general of breaking the law. The Justice Department called that reckless. William barr said he would not appear today before congress and he kept that promise. His seat sat empty at the house hearing on the mueller report. He objected to the democrats plan to have staff lawyers question him. One democrat taunted barr with a prop chicken and k. F. C. Nancy cordes has more. He lied to congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Reporter the House Speakers accusation ricocheted across washington today the Justice Department calling it reckless, irresponsible, and false as the man in question sk