Go to the bbc news website. The address is bbc. Co. Uk news. Or download the bbc news app. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. A dispute between south korea and japan, south korea removed from the list of favoured trading partners. And singapore s super penthouses. A look inside some of the so called little red dots. High rise luxury homes. Japan s decision to drop south korea from its list of favoured trading partners comes into effect today. It means japanese exporters will have to make sure their goods do not benefit sole s military or weapons industry before they can be sold there. Tokyo has already imposed tighter regulations on exports to south korea including material is critical to making memory chips and displays. Companies like samsung, they are the hardest hit. They manufacture more than 60 of memory chips globally and the first 20 days of this month alone we have seen Semiconductor Sales plunged 30 . In this tit for tat move, not south korea says it
Is there live in an attack air in techie that japans Prime Minister says he expects south korea to work on rebuilding trust after seoul ended an intelligence sharing agreement between the neighbors this comes amid a trade route and a dispute over compensation for South Koreans who were forced into war time labor by the japanese government bride reports from Seoul South Korea says it had been hoping until the last minute to avoid pulling out of the pact blaming japan for whats now become the most serious deterioration in relations in decades young japan created a green change in bilateral Security Cooperation we have determined it would not serve our National Interest to maintain an agreement to exchange sensitive military information. The intelligence sharing agreement was set up 3 years ago to counter the nuclear and missile threats from north korea its breakdown comes at a time of increased missile testing by pyongyang what anymore because the south korean decision completely misjudg
The chances do you think of a breakthrough. Well it depends what you mean by a breakthrough its quite possible although were not expecting a press conference that there will be some sort of agreement in the next few hours on what we believe president mccraw is going to suggest some months allowing certain countries for a limited time to purchase Iranian Crude Oil because at the moment those purchases are under those u. S. Sanctions so they want theyre suggesting that there are waivers brought in at least for a just for a limited time so that discussions with the iranian government can begin in earnest of course theyre well aware also of the tensions in the gulf with the seizure of those tankers they want something the french government wants something that they can bring to the table at the g. 7 meeting this week a. Its micro himself admits that there are divisions within the g 7 over iran but whats not clear right now is whether such proposals will get any headway with President Trump
But the good news is the severe storms have continued to ease as weve gone through the last few hours so some if you but hopefully nothing more than that big sway the crowd heading across said the northwest pushing through the u. K. But in between all this cloud some very nice areas of weather this is a view in the english countryside heading down tools of. Sunshine within the clouds now as we continue into friday there is more rain and some thunderstorms quite scattered but along the line of the alps and that rain and just pushing further tools east rather murky day across into west and central ukraine kiev weve got. And then the next system really is waiting in the wings across northern sections of the u. K. This is where as hes in pretty strong winds and also the chance of more rain but not just that what we have got between the systems is some very warm as a look at these how much is 32 celsius in paris 28 in london 30 in these how much is are actually as much as 8 degrees above th
The countrys economy as president hes gutted funding for brazils environmental and forstmann agency and he now says without offering evidence that environmental groups set the fires themselves the world. Now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight criminal fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise theres nothing you can do now nongovernmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow. The hash tag pray for amazonas has been trending on twitter and other World Leaders have reacted as well our house is burning literally tweeted french president emanuel macron it is an International Crisis hes called the members of the g. 7 summit to discuss the amazon fire at their. Coming meeting this weekend. Castro aljazeera washington ok lets go to the whos in brazil is the one doing the as stated done your lie understand that the area that y