Business stories. We start in saudi arabia as the Worlds Biggest Oil Company Aramco is set to announce its latest Half Year Results in the next half an hour or so. Last year, aramco netted record profits of over 160 billion, buoyed by soaring energy prices. But in may this year, they reported that profits dropped by nearly a fifth in the first three months of the year as the gloomy Global Outlook saw oil prices drop. To tackle this, saudi arabia has been cutting production to the tune of1 Million Barrels a day. They started in july and have now extended to september. The oil price has since been creeping up. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Sameer, nice to see you. 160 billion is so much money made in a year. What are they expected to say in the next half hour . Expected to say in the next half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching up half hour . Sally, ithink it is matching up to half hour . Sally, ithink it is ma
the defence secretary grant shapps said the royal navy is working on a new dragonfire laser weapon to complement its existing weaponry, the sea viper air defence system. that s to be upgraded with a new warhead and software to counter ballistic missile threats. here s grant shapps. we have, for example, the largest ships that we have ever put to sea in the aircraft carriers. i toss it off, i think, 13 frigates and destroyers which are under commission at the moment. we are modernising the navy, going throughjust massive through just massive capitalisation programme and just this morning, for example, i have been on x, twitter, yesterday, the results of a new weapon which is a laser weapon called dragonfire, capable of doing what those men and women on hms diamond have been doing, with the sea viper missile system, and doing it with a labour laser instead to bring down incoming so the technology is also moving on very fast, as well as the investment. economists have warned
hello, i m katty kay live in windsorfor the big lunch in celebration of the coronation. people have been gathering here all day long. later on there will be the coronation concert. and then there was the royal walkabout. the prince and princess of wales came out, came tojoin them at and princess of wales came out, came to join them at the lunch, said hello to a lot of people. this is a lot we have been seen from catherine and william, getting out and mingling with the public. all it is like all an effort to make this monarchy more accessible. a much more human side. fans to see them. and one point, someone who is having a cocktail at the picnic. gave a little shot of it to prince william, it was called purple reign. he said it was called purple reign. he said it was called purple reign. he said it was delicious and gave a shot of it was delicious and gave a shot of it to catherine. right now, if you look here, where i am, the crowds would have been waiting all the time out
look, willie. can you imagine? no. like, waking up every morning there. what a view mika has. again, i don t know about the satellite dish, but, you know, when she sees a ram, she goes out and moves it a little bit west, picks up, yeah. some people have the red zone package. mika gets out there game to game. if the team gets to the red zone, she turns it in that direction. you can watch the end of the game. okay. i ve never been invited up there. wonder what it looks like. i haven t either. sometimes she lets jack go up to move the satellite dish. jack, upstairs, downstairs. no. oh, ms. mika. funny with the two of you in new york city saying all this. ridiculous. are you up there? she s up there, straight up. no, this is not. do you see the cup? 15 years of this, 15. 15 years. you know what? it keeps getting easier every day, baby, doesn t it? no. wow, just wow, okay. look at that, the sun. i want some cat stevens. morning is broken, come on, l
prince george, princess charlotte, and prince louis there in shops you can hear the planes were already got wipe off so this should be over 30 aircraft taking to the skies subject to whether as you can imagine, we re looking at what it s like clinic three, flying over buckingham palace prince louis, not looking at impressed, yes. i m sure so we re gonna get some faces soon, right and of course we ve mentioned that there are so many who are are looking to see how well the king and princess catherine are? of course, they re both living with cancer, undergoing treatment for cancer the specifics undisclosed, but on our conversation about his slim down monarchy, this is especially slim considering the dozens of people we have seen on that balcony in years past yes. i mean, if you take us back to 2016 with hamas mystic realism the seconds, there were i think more than 40 people on that balcony, a much bigger royal family with prince andrew, his daughters were often on the bal