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hello and welcome to bbc world news. president trump has now said he would be willing to meet the north korean leader, despite weeks of tough talk against the pyongyang regime. in an interview with bloomberg, mr trump said he would be honoured to meet kim jung un in the right circumstances. but then speaking to fox news, the president reverted to a stronger line, calling north korea s stance on its missile programme inflammatory and very threatening to the united states. he said he d take action if he had to. barbara plett usher reports. during the election campaign, donald trump said he might be willing to sit down for a burger with kim jong un. but he dropped that notion of burger diplomacy after the north korean leader declared he was working on a missile powerful enough to hit the united states. you do you have to do, and you don t talk about it. so when people say i was asked a question yesterday, exactly when would you go in? at what time would you go in? i mean ....
today, and in the manifesto, i will be absolutely clear, now, today, and in the manifesto, lam not embarrassed at all. it s been found that a failure to support the family of the anorexic teenager pippa mcmanus, when she left hospital, was factor in her suicide. he was pulled to safety, after 30 hours in the irish sea. we ll have the latest on the surfer, who s lucky to be alive. tributes have been paid to the businessman, shot dead by intruders at his dorset home. police say it was a targeted attack. and paula radcliffe says she feels hurt by the proposals of anti doping chiefs, which could see top athletes losing their world records. ina bbc in a bbc interview theresa may has said that she would be a bloody difficult woman in brexit negotiations and said she d already made clearjean claude juncker would discover that. after reports of a tense meeting between theresa may andjean tense meeting between theresa may and jean claude juncker, mrs tense meeting between th ....
in iphone sales as customers wait for the ten year anniversary phone. we talk you through the tech giants latest numbers. and as the french prepare to make their choice on sunday, we look at the contentious issue of immigration. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme, the impact of trumps visa review infosys says it will hire 10,000 americans. details in a moment. but first, apple is the world s most valuable company and it made another huge profit in the first three months of the year. but it was a bit of a mixed bag. the california based firm sold just under $53 billion worth of products as it continues to dominate the smartphone market. but surprisingly iphone sales actually fell by 1% mainly because customers are holding off purchases while waiting for the 10th anniversary model expected this autumn. they still sold over 50 million of them though and more of their expensive seven plus smartphone. apple shares were down 2% in a ....
it says authentic stolen documents have been mixed with fake ones to sow doubt before sunday s run off vote between mr macron and his far right opponent, marine le pen. thoma fessy is in paris where he has been gauging the mood of voters. it s election season in france and at this satirical theatre, comedians take a swipe at the politicians running for president. with the many twists and political scandals, this campaign has given them fodder for their work. we don t know who will be ourfuture president. we re scared about that. so we really need to laugh. it is an exceptional election. neither of the traditional parties that have governed france for over half a century is represented in sunday s run off. instead, the 39 year old centrist who wants to break down the lines between the right and left, is now the favourite against a far right candidate. translation: both candidates have a different vision of democracy, of the country and the people. humour is the best way ....
emmanuel macron wins the french presidency, but that may prove to have been the easy part. we assess how his en marche! movement hopes to tackle the huge problems of the french economy. and president trump wants to cut red tape to get drugs on the market faster, but the pharmaceutical industry is wary of presidents bearing gifts. so now let s focus on the business implications of that result in france. we ll look at all the market reaction as well in this of world business report. so, he got thejob. emmanuel macron is to be the french president. now the hard work begins. his first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. the outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. as we ve highlighted before on this programme france has had a high unemployment rate for many, many years. currently it is about 10% of the workforce, or 3 million people. that co m pa res ....