ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than a dozen ministers if you add up the ministers on each side, gathering for a one day get together. it ll be about half an hour chat, i would have thought, bilateral, as they are known diplomatically, between the two leaders. lots on the agenda. ukraine, obviously, central. there s a sense that with the northern ireland brexit deal that the relationship is a bit better than it might otherwise have been. quite a lot in personal terms of similarity between the two leaders. both former finance ministers, both former investment bankers. current nerves. ner
major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the big winners post pandemic. but can they keep their lustre in a shaky global economy? i m catching up with the big boss of the world s biggest diamond supplier. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, back in 2001, a directorfrom goldman sachs, jim o neill, now lord o neill, coined the phrase the brics, an acronym for what he gauged were the countries with the highest growth potential that would dominate the glo
in a mosque in pakistan, at least 59 people have died and more than 150 have been injured in a suspected bomb attack. three years to the week when the uk left the european union, is it now possible to measure the economic impact of brexit? # well, i heard it through the grapevine.# and we remember barrett strong, the man behind much of the motown magic. and coming up on the bbc news channel. jarrod bowen on target for west ham against derby county in the fa cup with the winner taking on manchester united in the fifth round. good evening. for the first time in 20 years, firefighters and control room staff in england, scotland, wales and northern ireland have voted to go on strike. the main dispute is over pay, and the result of the ballot was overwhelming. the fire brigades union said while the mandate was very clear, it would not announce any dates for strike action until it had held talks with fire service employers in all parts of the uk. it s the latest in a series of pay
north, temperatures will fall away under the starry skies, and we re looking at a fairly widespread rural frost at the very least. so we start off on a rather chilly note first thing sunday, quite a keen wind coming through the north sea as well for eastern areas, still that brisk ish wind towards the north and west. but for mostjust a day of dry and bright weather with hazy spells of sunshine for the most part. and temperatures will obviously not be as high as today because they re starting at a lower level, about eight, possibly ten degrees celsius in east anglia. but some pleasant feeling weather, light winds, if you re out and about. during the evening and overnight, we do pick up a little bit more cloud ahead of the next weather system in the north and the west. so it won t be quite as cold for the far north west of scotland, northern isles, the west of northern ireland. but elsewhere, another cold night and this time it will be frosty further south as well, possibly one
to the country torn by internal conflict. you are watching bbc news. now, it s talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. the great global divide is the world economy drifting away from us dominance, as some of our biggest emerging economies are showing us what economic growth is all about? india, it s sitting pretty at the top of the pack, growing faster than any other major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the