First shots were fired. Good morning, everybody. It is june 3rd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett. Earlier this morning President Trump land in the uk for the start of a three day state visit as part of a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday coming up on thursday. Prior to leaving the president previewed his trip. Well be going to the uk. I think it will be very important. It certainly will be very interesting. Theres a lot going on in the uk. Im sure its going to work out very well for them. As you know, they want to do trade with the United States. And i think theres an opportune for a very big trade deal at some point in the near future and well see how that works out. Our country is doing incredibly well. Our businesses are doing well. Well clog up the border. Stop the border. Mexico is making hundreds of billions of dollars for many, many years. And they have to do something about the border. Everyone is coming through
The labour party is to meet to agree the rules for its leadership contest. Five mps sir keir starmer pictured here clive lewis, lisa nandy, Jess Philipps and Emily Thornberry have so far entered the running to succeed jeremy corbyn. More on our website, bbc. C0. Uk news and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Oil prices sizzled. How high will they go as tensions reach fever pitch tween the us and iran. Australian bushfires rage on. We find out how to months of deadly blazes are exhausting sources and its economy. Hello and welcome to this monday addition of Asia Business report. We start with a growing conflict between the us and iran. Oil prices have been rising even here in asian trade, and that is after tehran announced it would pull out of a nuclear deal with world powers. This is where they are trading at the moment as you can see, like crude at 64 moment as you can see, like crude at 61; a barrel. The move comes after the death of a top Iran
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