Coming up the government heads off the threat of a defeat on the queens speech, by offering a concession on abortion rights for women in Northern Ireland. We will be funding her department with additionalfunding so that she can make a grant to the external organisations who will provide these services. The culture secretary says shes minded to refer foxs proposed takeover of sky to the competition watchdog. And is another parliamentary tradition about to disappear, as the speaker hints hes relaxing the dress code . The question of whether that member is wearing a tie is not absolutely front and centre stage. But first, the government has seen off a possible rebellion in the commons by announcing that it will Fund Abortions for women who travel from Northern Ireland to england. A Cross Party Group of mps was threatening to back an amendment to the queens speech put forward by the labour mp Stella Creasy. With a tiny majority in the commons the government bowed to the demand. A letter fr
Chancellor merkel heads to the white house amid growing us complaints that german business isnt playing fair. Plus, a yawning hole in our finances. We lack of sleep could be if . . . G; l . . . inhiieiufefiif billions from the global wiping billions from the global economy. Welcome to World Business report we start in the us where President Trump will be hosting german chancellor Angela Merkel at the white house later. Coming up, singapore has its best month for trade in five years. Now, back to the us, and their meeting w eitfiteetitiq germany later. The two nations are Major Trading partners but theres been growing concern on the us side that their relationship is simply not fair. The rhetoric has raised fears of a damaging trade war. Let me show you why. Last year the us sold 49 billion worth of goods to germany everything from Boeing Airliners to pfizermedicifieif . , that sounds like a healthy figure until you look at this one elli; 531e§3§5§§z5§; thats a lot of bmws not to
Its rare for britains Intelligence Community to make a Public Statement about anything. So the fact that gchq felt it had to rebut allegations that it spied on donald trump shows how seriously they took the comments made by the White House Press secretary, sean spicer. Gchq said the claims were nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored. £225 i292; £553,516 . £52531 777, Downing Street says its been promised by the white house that the allegations wont be repeated. It is an extraordinary claim, that donald trump was bugged by gchq on the orders of barack obama, a claim that has led to strenuous denials from london. It was first tweeted by President Trump who said his phone had been tapped before his inauguration. He said president obama was a bad or sick guy. The Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence. The evidence remains the same, we do not have any evidence that took place. We have cleared that up, we have seen no evidence of that. Where is the president getti