sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. we start with what is a defining week for manchester city. they could be english premier league champions at the weekend but before that, they have the chance to reach the champions league final on wednesday. real madrid come to manchester with the tie all sqaure at 1 all from the first leg. it s the only major trophy manager pep guardiola s yet to win at city: my legacy is already exceptional already. we have been here many times already, we are not stupid to know how important it is to our games, edit one of the most important maybe one of the most important games, we cannot deny that. manchester city and real madrid will know their opponents in the final before they kick off because the first semi final second leg is later on tuesday between the two milan sides. trailing inter 2 0 from the first game ac milan are boosted by the return of rafael leao who is back in traning and expected to start in
the euro zone trade surplus. a better net trade result in the first quarter came mainly from higher exports of machinery, vehicles and chemicals and a drop in imports of energy. imports from russia, once a key supplier of oil and gas to the eu, were 72.1% lower in the january march period than a year earlier as the eu stopped buying most of its energy from moscow following the russian invasion of ukraine in late february 2022. joining me is sylvain broyer, chief economist emea, s&p global ratings. what to be make of these numbers? a pretty anaemic growth figure. there are a few positives, pretty anaemic growth figure. there are a few positives, the pretty anaemic growth figure. ii” are a few positives, the european economy has avoided recession, there is an upsurge in demand partly related to the opening of china and the european industry and job creation are strong. the outlook for the second quarter and third quarter is still 0k, the second quarter and third quarter i
that amounts to more than a 10th of vodafone s global workforce, and will affect its firm s uk headquarters and other cities. the company had already outlined plans to cutjobs in germany and italy. ceo margherita della valle warned that vodafone s performance has not been good enough . let s speak now to karen egan, who is senior telecoms analyst at the research company enders analysis. thanks for being with us. let s come onto some of the performance issue in a second per first of all the jobs, 11,000 is about a tenth of the workforce, that is a lot of people to lose out of a business. it is workforce, that is a lot of people to lose out of a business. it is and particularly to lose out of a business. it is and particularly as to lose out of a business. it is and particularly as it to lose out of a business. it is and particularly as it comes to lose out of a business. it is and particularly as it comes on - to lose out of a business. it is and particularly as it co
uk unemployment rose to 3.9% in the first quarter, the highest level since the three months to january 2022 and worse than expected. the number of employees on the payroll fell by 136,000 in april, the first drop since february 2021. the number of people not working due to long term sickness hit a new record high. job vacancies fell by 55,000 in the three months to april with 1.083 million job vacancies on average from february to april. the ex boss of audi rupert stadler has made a confession about his role in the vw diesel scandal. this makes him the first former vw board member to plead guilty to knowing about the illegal software being used to cheat on vw diesel emissions tests. stadler has made the confession in exchange for a suspended sentence and a payment of 1.1 million euros. british men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose
authorised by the eu. they ll also have to comply with regulations on money laundering and the financing of terrorism. crucially, transfers of cryptoassets are now to be traced in the same way as traditional financial transactions. the ex boss of audi rupert stadler has made a confession about his role in the vw diesel scandal. this makes him the first former vw board member to plead guilty to knowing about the illegal software being used to cheat on vw diesel emissions tests. if you re in asia, you might have noticed it s warmer than usual recently, with the temperature hitting record highs in places like vietnam and bangkok. from beijing, stephen mcdonnell sent this report. beijing is known for its freezing winters and roasting hot summers.