And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexicos buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. And after a few hours, the Mexican President pushed back, saying he wont come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. Not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. And hes now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. Nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. Donald trumps new executive toy. His first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us president ial power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the Mexican President were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. His plane will Stay Grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next week was abruptly
And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where donald trump began his day by pushing mexicos buttons a bit over who will pay for his border wall. And after a few hours, the Mexican President pushed back, saying he wont come to the us next week to attend a meeting with mr trump. Not to be outdone, mr trump then stood in front of republican lawmakers and said any such visit would be fruitless unless mexico agreed to foot the bill. And hes now threatened to impose a tax on mexican imports to fund his border wall. Nick bryant has more on this cross border spat. Donald trumps new executive toy. His first ride today on air force one, that potent symbol of us president ial power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the Mexican President were at the centre of a diplomatic storm. His plane will Stay Grounded after a summit between the two leaders scheduled for washington next week was abruptly
Google parent, out of ode, gives its forecast. Alphabet. Hideo kojima ta kes forecast. Alphabet. Hideo kojima takes us on a tour of his studio. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Im rico hizon. Thank you for investing your time with another Asia Business report. Its a friday. We start with googles efforts to diversify away from its main Search Engine business. It is beginning to pay off. Alphabet said profits rose by 8 to over 5 billion. It was lower than we expected. I asked our reporter how the core business, google, has been performing. Google is about how many ads can be put among the search results. 36 more people are clicking on the advertisements than last year. That isa advertisements than last year. That is a good sign. More people clicking on them. But as the Company Continues to move over to the mobile world as opposed to the desktop Search Engine, it is finding advertisers are willing to pay less for those advertisements. That is happening more. The amount they want to spend