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the full effect of higher rates has yet to be felt but households and businesses are coping. for now. plus ripe for transformation. how developments in al are starting to bear fruit in the push for more sustainable agriculture. we are looking at the top business stories. we start in beijing where china s president, xijinping is hosting european union leaders for their first in person summit meeting since 2019. and there is one huge number that is looming over the talks. 400 billion euros. that s roughly the size of china s trade surplus with the eu the difference between what they sell to europe, and what europe sells to china. european commission president ursula von der leyen says it s because of china s unfair support for its industries which means its products are flooding global markets and threaten to undermine europe s industrial base. china says the complaint doesn t make sense when the eu stops it from buying certain sensitive technology such as advan ....
welcome to the journal committed to real report paul incident the plastic supreme court term, and winds on the justices on thursday, unanimously rejected a bit to restrict access to medication used in nearly two thirds of all abortions in the united states, in the court s first ruling thomas is overturning roe v. wade, two years ago. the biden administration is not celebrating that nine zero opinion is it looks to give the issue front and center in the 2024 campaign here s vice president kamala harris on thursday. this is not a cause for celebration, because the reality is certain things are still not going to change. we are looking at the fact that two thirds of the women of reproductive age in america, live in date with a trump abortion bad at this really is not going to change that c1 joining the middle this week, wall street journal dan heninger and crim stressful and editorial board member kyle peterson and kim, this decision was widely feared on the left as ....
and how to stand out in a crowded market? we meet the firm that s using computer games to encourage us to buy more. we ll explain how it works. and as critics blame ba for too many cost cuts we want to know is the golden age of travel over? do you want more frills, not no frills? let us know, use the hashtag bbc bizlive. hello and welcome to business live. the no frills airline ryanair has reported its latest set of financial results. europe s biggest carrier by passenger numbers announced a 6% jump in full year net profit to $1.46 billion. ryanair‘s performance is a sign that its cost cutting measures are helping the business compete as overcapacity continues to dog the industry. earlier, we spoke to neil sorahan, rya nair‘s chief financial officer. we saw our unit cost dropped by 11% last year. excluding fuel, they were down 5%. so we are seeing unit cost savings coming through on all lines. there is a huge amount of uncertainty about brexit. there is no direc ....
can unlock growth in our economy and improve the quality of people s lives across the country and building afairer lives across the country and building a fairer society. increasing the national living wage so increasing the national living wage so people on the lowest pay see their wages go up as the economy strengthens and ensuring that every child has access to a good school place. i will make more progress before i give way again, creating a world class before i give way again, creating a world class system of technical education so all young people have the vital skills they need to do the jobs of the future. acting to make market fairers, by tackling unfair practises wherever they are found. the prime minister mentions opportunity, does she agree one of the opportunities we must deliver is to allow more young people to get on the housing ladder? will she increase house building to 250,000 homes a year which is a bolder and a much more ambitious commitment than th ....
of detoxing withjuice. the founder of nosh detox will be in the studio with us. and ten years on from the beginning of the credit crunch, we want to hear your memories of the crisis and how it affected you. let us know. use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. get in touch with your memories. i know for us, it was the start of ten long years of covering the stories and the repercussions of it. this week the main stock markets in the us have had another record run and london s ftse 100 flirted with breaking into record territory. it s a far cry from ten years ago when the global credit crunch began. ten years ago today 9th, august 2007 banks suddenly found that they had billions of dollars in toxic debts that customers couldn t afford to repay. so overnight, they stopped offering loans. the financial crisis that followed cost the british economy over £7 trillion in lost output that s close to $10 trillion. for the us economy, the cost hit a ....