Business. Trade etensions between china add the west are running high particularly over the effect that chinas production of Electric Vehicles has on the international market. Tesla, for example, is already struggling to compete with big chinese players such as byd. Later the European Commission president , ursula von der leyen, will take part in talks to resolve frictions over this particularly over chinese subsidies. The eu wants to fight the corner of european manufacturers hoping to sell their cars both to european consumers and globally. And, of course, theres irritation about chinas perceived tollration of russia since its full scale invasion of ukraine over two year guise. Plate macron will voice european concerns about that but those words theyre not likely to upend the current world order. Xi faces australian uphill task. Thats according to the assistant professor ferenczy in the university of taipei. I dont think the effectiveness will be likely, i dont think that this will s
As a model of peaceful co existence. What does he want from the visit . Good morning and thank you for the invite. The Chinese Administration has a twofold agenda. Normalising the relationship with europe. Europe has lodged a sequence of blow with china and some practices of trade. And on the political side, with the ukraine and russia block and the European Countries are, lets say, quite upset by the fact that now some companies in china are supporting. , Russian Companies are supporting the russian war effort and this is clearly a problem. The second thing is clearly the huge and massive Trade Imbalance between europe and china which is something that the french president as pointed out as something that needs to be dealt with in the short term. figs needs to be dealt with in the short term short term. As we were mentioning short term. As we were mentioning and short term. As we were mentioning and you short term. As we were mentioning and you alluded to that, several European Count
Noon, and a few minutes after that, the Party National secretary confirmed that there was only one nominee who had reached the threshold of 100 backers across 20 local branches of the party, and that was john swinney. 0f local branches of the party, and that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that followed the decision last week of our potential rival, kate forbes, to declare that she was not going to contest this Leadership Challenge with mr swinney. Now it Isjohn Swinney who will be taking over. He has led the party before, from 20002004. He has led the party before, from 2000 2004. He resigned after poor Election Results, but since then, he is a different man, a lot more experienced, 16 years in the cabinet. He says he will govern from the moderate centre left. We expect him to set out more details here at Glasgow University in a speech this afternoon of how he might do that. Of course, he does need to be elected as first minister. He is not automatically b
Been speaking for a few minutes. We will hear more on what he says later. If no deal is in place by the end of today, Government Agencies will begin shutting down injust under ten hours time thats midnight local time. It would mean hundreds of thousands of federal employees sent home without pay. Much of the attention is focused on the republican speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Heres what he had to say earlier. Because the senate cannot act in time, the government would shut down. The house is going to act so government will not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. The house is debating over the Funding Plans now. And Hakeem Jefferies, democratic Minority Leaders has been speaking in the last few minutes. We are here at this moment on the brink of a shutdown that was entirely unavoidable and has been brought to us by the extreme Maga Republicans who have decided that rather than pursue
Nagorno karabakh was controlled by Armenian Separatists for decades, but is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan. The United Nations says its sending a mission to the region this weekend, to assess the humanitarian situation. The team will look at the needs of people remaining in the territory as well as those who are on the move. Azerbaijan has said it would allow such a visit to take place. Heres more from dickran khodanian, a Freelance Journalist currently in goris. Im actually in goris, which is 30 minutes right after the illegal checkpoint that azerbaijan has set up. As you can see behind me, there are a few tents set up. As of now, theyre reporting that around 100,000 armenians have entered the republic of armenia. And just to give you an idea, the population of goris is 20,000. So one of the first stops is the city, because this is where they are registering. This is where theyre getting a media assessment. And this is where theyre being then later sent for accommoda