Frances newly elected president Emmanuel Macron faces a diplomatic challenge as he meets with russias vladimir putin. But the countries do have deep economic ties. It used to call itself the worlds favourite airline, but with Flight Disruptions entering a third day, few of bas passengers are likely to agree. Welcome to World Business report. Im jamie robertson. In a minute well have Special Report from sri lanka on why the country is selling chunks of its infrastructure back to the country that built them, china. But first, today the new french president Emmanuel Macron will meet with his russian counterpart, vladimir putin. The kremlin was hoping that the meeting would take place under rather different circumstances in the recent French Election campaign, mr putin had voiced his support for the eurosceptic candidate marine le pen, who lost to mr macron. Nonetheless, the relationship between france and russia remains important to both countries. France is russias biggest foreign invest
And a romcom with a diference boy meets girl, and girl falls into a coma in the big sick. Well get film critic james kings thoughts on this and the other releases in the film review. Good evening. In the past few minutes, the government has announced that an independent review will be carried out into Building Regulations and fire safety, because of the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in west london, which killed 80 people, raised serious questions about about the fire safety of high rise buildings and led to the widespread testing of cladding, like that used on Grenfell Tower, on other buildings across the country. Also in the past few minutes it has been confirmed that 82 buildings have failed those new fire tests for cladding. That includes these in salford. 47 of them are in local Authority Control run by housing associations. All the details of the findings of those particular tests have only just been released, just in the last few minutes. So our correspondents arejust reading few
With solutions. And in politics, as everyone around this table knows, words are important. So what does a seamless border mean . What does it mean if you cant treat it the way you used to . What does it mean if, for example, the Customs Union isnt there any more . Hes clearly very worried about trade. That is one of the things he was talking about. This is not new, but the way in which the irish governments concerns are being addressed is new. It is interesting because there are two things, there is the border, the economic border, and then there is the more abstract and metaphysical border, which has divided the island since independence and was the source of the civil war that went on, the troubles, and that seemed to be having less importance and now it is suddenly important again. But there is another border, which is irish goods usually coming by ferry over into the island of britain and then they go across britain and on into the continent, and if that changes, how will irish goo
With solutions. And in politics, as everyone around this table knows, words are important. So what does a seamless border mean . What does it mean if you cant treat it the way you used to . What does it mean if, for example, the Customs Union isnt there any more . Hes clearly very worried about trade. That is one of the things he was talking about. This is not new, but the way in which the irish governments concerns are being addressed is new. It is interesting because there are two things, there is the border, the economic border, and then there is the more abstract and metaphysical border, which has divided the island since independence and was the source of the civil war that went on, the troubles, and that seemed to be having less importance and now it is suddenly important again. But there is another border, which is irish goods usually coming by ferry over into the island of britain and then they go across britain and on into the continent, and if that changes, how will irish goo
To dateline london. Im jane hill. This week, were discussing irelands growing fears about the brexit negotiations. What should the world do about venezuela and north korea . And is the duke of edinburgh setting the tone for us all by not retiring until the age of 96 . My guests, not quite 96, any of us. Brian oconnell, the irish writer and broadcaster. The algerian journalist, nabila ramdani, and michael goldfarb. A very warm welcome to all of you. So the brexit negotiations are on hold for the Summer Holidays. No more talks for the next few weeks. That hasnt stopped the new irish Prime Minister from making his opinions known. He made a speech this week, calling for unique solutions to preserve the relationship between the uk and the eu after britain leaves. Brian, youre not long back from dublin. Just how worried was the administration . It is a distinct change of tone from enda kennys time. Leo varadker has decided, probably correctly, to distance himself from the uk. Enda kenny, at