Or so they say. The Foreign Ministers of the worlds seven biggest economies begin to arrrive in lucca, italy, and free trade is high on the agenda. The highway code in the sky. We look at singapores efforts to regulate the airspace for drones. Im aaron heslehurst. If you got eight minutes, stay where you are, give me eight minutes and ill give you a fascinating snapshot of the world of business and money but. We start in italy where the Foreign Ministers of the worlds biggest economies meeting in the historic city of luca. This year italy holds the presidency of the g7 group and rome has already made it clear that one of its priorities is fighting all forms of protectionism. But hang on, why does it matter to all of us . Well, its important because the g7 accounts for just over 46 of the worlds wealth. This meeting is important because its in preparation for next months leaders summit. Last month the host, italian Prime Minister paolo gentiloni, laid out his g7 plan by saying one of th
To know for the trading week ahead. Investing in the future. Later in the programme well speak to the boss of a company hoping to develop the next generation of coding geniuses. And also today, do you hate mondays . Ido the green party in the uk want to introduce a three day weekend. Would you want one, and would you work longer hours to get one . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. How about if you still work longer hours but you still have to do a five day week . That sounds like what we do here welcome to the programme. We start in italy where the Foreign Ministers of the worlds biggest economies are meeting in the historic city of lucca. This year italy holds the presidency of the g7 group and rome has already made it clear that one of its priorities is fighting all forms of protectionism. But why does it matter . Well, its important because the g7 accounts for just over 46 of the worlds wealth. And this meeting is important because it comes before next months leaders summit. Last mon
Thank you, mike. This has been a terrific session. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] that is live at noon eastern here on cspan. Institute hosted this discussion on how religion factors into u. S. Diplomatic efforts with islamic nations. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I would like to welcome you to the middle east Institute Panel on preventing violence in the name of god. Religion and diplomacy in the middle east. I would like to issue a special welcome to our cspan viewers this morning. Series one second diplomacy and religion. The first, we held a month ago featuring the cardinal and ayatollah taking up topics from a religious point of view. Today, we take it up from a diplomatic perspective. Things have changed regarding religion and statecraft in u. S. Diplomacy, particularly in the department of state. Madeline albright records in her memoirs the mighty and the almighty, many pract
Emerges. We start with this morning, nbcs jay gray. Reporter anger and emotion boiling over again in baltimore. To this point theres been no answer to their question and very little information. We have exhausted every lead at this point in time. Reporter as the task force investigating freddie grays death turned over findings to state prosecutors, Police Acknowledge the van transported gray the day he was severely injured, made four stops on the way to the police substation, not three as they originally indicated. This new stop was discovered from a privately owned camera. Reporter a report in the Washington Post citing a sealed Police Document says a prisoner briefly in the van can gray heard him banging against the walls and he was intentionally trying to injure himself. Donte allen was the man on the other side of the van wall. He said he never saw gray and all he heard was. Boom, boom, this little banging. He also denies ever trying to say gray was trying to heard himself. Instead
Welcome to our viewers in the United States, canada, and around the world. We start with breaking news. New cases of covid19 are escalating so rapidly in the United States that the office of the u. S. Vice president has been directly affected. Two senior aides to mike pence have tested positive in recent days. Pences office revealed the chief of staff mark short has began quarantine and the Vice President and second lady tested negative. And cnn learned another senior pence adviser tested positive recently. Its not clear exactly when. The record spikes in recent days paint an ominous threat more than 167,000 new cases in just the past two days. If julys surge was a category three, whats looming could be a category five. At the polls with barely one week until the election, trump and pence cant afford to let up. In wisconsin the president falsely blamed the nations high death toll on a flawed counting system. If somebody has a really bad heart and theyre close to death, even if theyre n