to do with the central bank. and we get the inside track from the boss of dulux paint owner, akzonobel, on why he s fighting off a $23 billion hostile takeover. tonne buchner also tells us what the rise of populism in europe means for big business. also in the news, amazon sjeff bezos says he s selling $1 billion each year, to get into the space race. today we re asking, for your next space holiday, which entrepreneur would you trust to get you there and back richard branson, elon musk orjeff bezos? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to the programme. the world s two biggest economies come face to face later today, when us president donald trump hosts his chinese counterpart, xijinping, in florida. it will be the first time they meet in person. as well as north korea, trade will be at the top of the agenda for theirfirst meeting. it s already an issue that s created tensions between the two. let s look at it in more detail. atjust over $659 billion of goods and servic
strike by the us on syria. we will get the inside track on how facebook is stepping up the fight against fake news and the rest of the week s big tech stories including a story on tesla. talking of fa ke including a story on tesla. talking of fake news it s currently a hot topic so today we want to know which stories have caught you out and how did you realise? let us know, just use the hashtag bbc biz live. a warm welcome to the programme. the us president has been holding his first face to face meeting with his chinese counterpart. trade and north korea were supposed to be at the top of the agenda but the summit has been overshadowed by the us carrying out missile strikes on syrian government air bases. those were in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack this week. in florida, donald trump said discussions with xi had been long and he was confident they would develop a great relationship. they are the leaders of the world s two biggest economies and they have been
end be an agreement between the united states and the european union that means we we are not seeing a global trade war but we are seeing a trade war with the united states and china this is bad but better than a global trade war. chief economist at comerica park thank you for your insights. now here in germany a sentiment among executives improved significantly in august according to the munich based research group its latest survey of company heads shows that they are somewhat more satisfied with the current business climate germany s records trade surplus and the ongoing negotiate negotiations between washington and brussels to avert further friction trade have boosted sentiment this is the first prize following months of weakening business climate. now for more let s bring in our financial correspondent paul brett so standing by the frankfurt stock exchange paul sentiment among german business leaders is picking up what do investors make of it
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Their weight. now, they re notthey a it. not saying anything. i think our support shouldg be on them doing it.it i and i would have supportve sup in chinapo to be able to take ot to be able to take china and do we need to do with china? mr. armstrong, you would not support an increasine in funding to ukraine? i would not. and i think that this is disastrousuppors, that we wou are protecting against an invasion across somebodyld elses border when we should use those same military resource s to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border here in the united states of america. we are driving russia further into china s . the russia china alliance is the single greatest threat face. hina a and i find it offensive thatl we have professional politicians. find i the stage that will make a pilgrimage to kyiv to their pope zelenskyyt , without doing the same thing for people in maui or the south side of chicago or kensington.oing for i think we have to put the interests of ameri
The economic people are being given the ball because biden wan wants to run for election on a good economy. i mentioned when we were speaking at the beginning of the show about the fact that candidate joe biden was very forwardly named into making china a top priority if he won, which he did talking about china america being more competitive with china and confronting china on some of its human rights abuses. take a listen. i spent more time with xi jinping than any world leader had by the time we left office. this is a guy who has doesn t have a democratic with a small d bone in his body. a thug who has a million uyghurs in reconstruction camps, meaning concentration camps. we have to make it clear they must play by the rules. period, period, period. i think biden now that he s running for re-election he understand this is a place where