We start in china where as youve been hearing telecoms giant huawei has launched a new legal challenge against the us. Its appealing a decision last month to stop us mobile phone companies from using government grants to buy its equipment. It follows a similar legal challenge in may against a ban on Us Government agencies from buying its kit. Lets get more on this story from our correspondent in shanghai, robin brant. What does huawei hope the practical effect of this will be . What do they hope to achieve with this challenge . They want to overturn a ban and we will have to wait and see what the us court of appeals thinks about that. But what it is also trying to do is demonstrate that it has the resources and the desire to push back and there is also a Public Relations exercise ongoing here, one in which huawei is spending a vast amount of money as it continues, frankly, in its fight with the Us Government. This is a fairly technical moved today, the second attempt in a year by huawe
Well be live in shanghai. And its been a hard days night but sony finally seals a deal to sell beatles merchandise see you in court well talk to the man looking to revolutionise the way we access legal services. And today as a local hardware shops christmas video starring a two year old has captured peoples hearts and costjust £100 to make we want to know. Are you influenced by christmas video ads . Do they make you buy . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. If you havent seen that video ad james mentioned, its the nicest thing, i guarantee it. We will show you it later. But starting this morning we start this morning looking at investment for small and medium sized businesses. They are arguably the backbone of any economy but new Research Suggests firms known as sme s are struggling to get investment because they are seen as a risky bet by big banks. Analysis by the experian Credit Rating agency has found there are 1. 6 million sme s in the uk
Would be leaving the eu. The other news this afternoon there are reports of fighting in syria despite turkeys agreement to suspend its military offensive against the kurds. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane dougall. Plenty of rugby to keep us occupied this weekend. Yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him ina fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him in a full strength side for the quarter match against france in the robbie world cup, well be hearing from head coach. Thanks jane and chris has all the weather hows the weekend looking . The weekend is looking a bit better, lots of showers around on sunday, less on sunday. We will be looking at hailstorms that have hit cornwall recently. Good afternoon and welcome from westminster, where the Prime Minister is in a race to try to persuade mps to back his new Brexit Agreement before tomorrows vote in parliament. Borisjohnson says hes very con
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