In business, the fed cuts rates but not enough for President Trump. He accuses Chairjerome Powell of having no guts, no sense, and no vision. Good to have you with us. It is now thursday. The week is whizzing by. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in business briefing, we take a look at huaweis latest smartphone. Its launched today, but due to the us ban its unlikely to have google apps. So wed like to know are you still interested . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Canadas prime Ministerjustin Trudeau has apologized for wearing brownface make up to a private school gala in 2001. Back then he was working as a teacher at that school. The photo obtained by Time Magazine shows mr trudeau at a party which was themed arabian nights. He is wearing a turban and robes with his face, neck, and hands completely darkened. Our north america correspondent david willis reports. The photograph app
at night. this is today cost germany with the temperatures dropping at night and towards the end of the week those high temperatures across more central and eastern parts of europe. so this is literally a wave progressing against europe and the peak that lasted a couple of days across our neck of the woods for the many major towns and cities across europe having a sustained period into the 30s. so not the a0 degrees they are getting, we had something out of this world for our climate but still lead to high 30s in other parts of europe and that across the mediterranean even hotter. today temperatures may peak 30 degrees across east anglia. we would normally call that hot but our perspective has been changed. these temperatures could spark off some welcome rain and many of us would appreciate some rain. some welcome rain across eastern and south eastern areas through the course of the afternoon and this evening. try elsewhere today and tonight. a pretty warm night and tomorrow
Bring some localised damage and disruption, gusts up to 75mph for a time. We start off with some sunshine across scotland and much of england, you will be wondering what the pot is about, but further west we have got the Heavy Rain Piling in. The winds really start to pick up in the afternoon with those damaging, disruptive gusts and there will be large, battering waves pummelling the coastline, of around four or five metres pummelling the coastline, of around four orfive metres high. Four or five metres high. Temperatures four orfive metres high. Temperatures about 15 22, breezy with just the occasional shower across east anglia and South East England. Going through wednesday night, the heavy rain and the strong winds for scotland and northern england, the last dregs of that system pulling out of the way. What follows on thursday, Another Band Of Rain Coming off the atlantic, this one has the remains of storm ophelia, which was affecting the us over recent days. It will be bringing so
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Sevenoaks, south east of england, notably kent. Sevenoa ks, and around south east of england, notably kent. Sevenoaks, and around maidstone, a lot earlier. Snow coming and going through the rest of the day as well. And through the rest of the week. More Severe Weather to come, more weather warnings from the met office, more travel disruption, significant wind chill. If you think it is called now, wait until tomorrow. The winds from siberia, the beast from the east, heading our way. These are the snow showers we have seen over the past few hours. Temperatures barely above freezing in most areas. The snow in wales should move away. The snow pushing west. Overnight, more eastern areas seeing more frequent snow showers. Some further west but also clear skies as well. The snow easing in the south east of england, heading through the English Channel to parts of devon and cornwall later in the night. Other widespread frost. Of devon and cornwall later in the night. Otherwidespread frost. Down