Good afternoon. The United States and china have agreed to resume talks to ease the trade war between the worlds two largest economies. Us President Donald Trump and chinas president xijinping reached the agreement at the 620 summit injapan. Mr trump also said American Companies can once again sell products to the chinese tech giant huawei, after an effective ban on such sales was introduced in may. From osaka, nick bryant sent this report. This was the day when the 620 summit of the worlds wealthiest nations essentially became a g2. These talks between donald trump and xijinping, by far the most consequential meeting of this global gathering. It ended with a ceasefire in the trade war, an agreement to restart talks that fell apart last month. But the us president made a major concession, lifting some restrictions on huawei, the chinese tech giant at the centre of whats felt like a commercial cold war. We had a very good meeting with president xi of china. Excellent, i would say excell
Welcome to bbc news. Snow and ice are causing more disruption in parts of the uk today. The a yellow warning is in place for snow and ice in parts of Northern England, the north midlands and scotland throughout the day. The met office says delays to road, rail and air travel are likely and is warning of possible power cuts. Glasgow airport says operations have restarted after being temporarily suspended earlier. Snow can look so pretty sometimes between all the chaos can cause. Flights were temporarily suspended at Glasgow Airport after heavy snowfall overnight. Things are operational again and they have apologised for any disruption and the advice is to check with your airline for updates. Snowfall of five centimetres to ten centimetres as expected in parts of Northern England with love to 15 centimetres possible over Higher Ground and subzero temperatures have been recorded overnight with those of minister of degrees celsius in northern scotland. We have been bracing themselves in le
Reporter the estimated 4. 5 billion raised would go to fund more than 30 different projects from the marin sonoma narrows to more of those new b. A. R. T. Cars. This is a christmas tree. Theres something for everyone. Thats intentional. Its how politics works. Reporter critics say the mtc shouldnt be trusted with more money. The question is how has mtc done in the past . Have they made lives better for the people of the bay area . My answer is absolutely not. Reporter but business groups are already lining up to campaign for the measure. Together with our Coalition Partners the Bay Area Council and spur we are already working hard to build a diverse, well funded and Effective Campaign that will be able to display the benefits of our improved projects. Reporter now heres the second part of this whole toll hike package. A lot of the money goes towards some really big ticket items that we talk about all the time, but no one has an idea how to pay for it, right . Another tube under the bay
Unexpected rant about gridlock in washington. Boy, was he well hear what he said. Well let you listen to it. And wells fargo shares are under pressure after the banks disappointing revenue numbers. The companys cfo will join us. And after the bell, paypals chief executive officer will join us in a cnbc exclusive. That stock hitting an alltime high earlier in the wake of its new apple partnership. Well get more details in the next hour. Lets start though with this news that broke in the last hour regarding sprint dow jones reporting that the Telecom Giants chairman engaged with Warren Buffett and cable mogul john malone about a cable investment those talks reportedly happened in sun valley, idaho, at the ellen and Conference Company conference where Julia Boorstin has been packing up and getting ready to go and hang around, julia. There may be more news breaking here so we all know that they were there but you havent been able to confirm whether the conversations we were talking about t
Attempt to do something that hasnt been done in over 100 years. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This may go down in history as one of the most incompetent coverups weve ever had. Were now learning the conference was attended by more people than previously disclosed. This is a phishing expedition. Its clearly designed to stop the donald trump agenda. What law has been violated. Theres not a legal violation with the meeting. The deception is mindboggling, and there are still people out there who believe they were making it up, and one day theyre going realize were not. An explosive and deadly fire erupted at a condo in hawaiis kankak ckankakee beach. A drug deal gone bad. A sinkhole took down two homes just north of tampa, florida. The people of paris closed out bastille day with fireworks. President trump spending time at his golf club in bedminster while the u. S. Open is under way. Take a look what happened in taiwan. I just saw that little