the uk has struck a deal to join a trans pacific trade pact consisting of 11 countries. together australia, brunei, canada, chile, japan, malaysia, mexico, new zealand, peru, singapore and vietnam account for 13% of global gdp. the pact called the comprehensive progressive agreement for trans pacific partnership aims to cut or reduce 95% of import charges or tariffs. but some will be retained to protect sensitive domestic areas. the initial gains for britain will only be marginal, as it already has free trade deals with 9 of the 11 countries involved, and the government s own estimates show being in the bloc will only add 0.08% to the size of the uk s economy. joining me now is marco forgione, dg of the institute of export and international trade. how big a win is this for britain? victoria, this is a huge achievement to the uk. there are three areas we need to look at whenjudging are three areas we need to look at when judging what s been approved. the first is the e
million. hello and welcome a long, this is world business report, i m ben thompson. starting in the us where one of the most closely watched media trials in decades has been delayed. ajudge in delaware announced late on sunday that the $1.6 billion defamation trial by dominion voting systems against fox news and its parent company would start on tuesday instead. that has now been confirmed. the lawsuit alleges that the broadcast of the reputation of dominion by repeatedly airing lies about its vote counting machines and election fraud in the 2020 us presidential election. let s cross live to wilmington where michelle fleury is in delaware where the trial was due to start. we say was due to start, lots of people keeping a very close eye on this but they will have to wait possibly a bit longer. this is very high stakes media trial, people are calling this one of the biggest media trials in decades. judge erick davis just convened the court right now to explain the delay. he sai
oscar pistorius, the former paralympic sprinterjailed for murdering his girlfriend, has been denied an early release from a prison in south africa. the parole board said he hadn t completed his minimum detention period. at 10pm, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, click. plenty on the menu this week. yeah, paul s with the robots that help blind people to pack and stack. and ai helps jamie oliver cook up some spanish. spanish dubbing. meanwhile, would you let lara cook you dinner? oh, the stench! that is absolutely overwhelming! it s leftovers again. i think i ll go for takeout. it seems that the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence recently. it s chatgpt this and ai art that. you can have conversations with it, you can be creative with it and the recent release of gpt ll seems to be displaying levels of understanding of questions and images that are astounding the experts. this is the uk s national centre for
facing a far lower ranked team. this was a chance to see a different england line up. katie robinson making her debut in front of a 32,000 strong crowd, and she made an early international impact. a perfect ball in to set up england s first. defender rachel daly enjoying a spell up front. but then controversy. the ball looked to have gone out before italy crossed. then dismay as the ball clearly did bounce over the goal line. oh, the goal is given! but no var, no whistle and italy had equalised. that looks really close indeed. england s response was quick, daly and the perfect position once more. another victory for manager sarina wiegman. and with the world cup this summer, a positioning headache from the player of the match. jane dougal, bbc news. england are through to the semi finals of the t20 world cup after the west indies secured a dramatic final over win against pakistan. the windies total of 116 was built upon their three top three batters. they contributed 72 run
killed more than 16,000 people. translation: this was a beautiful area, all down turkey houses, all down turkey street. all destroyed, unfortunately. there s been an increase in people taking up treasure hunting in the british countryside but should their discoveries be finders keepers? and queues as far as the eye can see. british children and teachers returning from half term school trips in europe are hit by long delays at calais because of a strike by uk border staff. this is bbc news. i m rich preston, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. just days before the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine, western leaders have appealed for countries around the world to unite in providing long term military support for kyiv. speaking at a security conference in munich, rishi sunak said russia was betting the west would lose its nerve and now was the time to double down and provide more weapons. a separate meeting of g7 foreign mi