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now it is time for world business report. battling to boost prices. opec meets to check who is sticking to the rules on production cuts, as the price of oil continues to flag. and the business of birth. we take a look at the cost of delivery around the world, starting in turkey, which has the highest rate of c sections in the world. welcome to world business report, i m sally bundock. also in the programme: financial markets start the week on a high in asia. and south korean courts are holding their closing arguments in the trial of samsung s jay y lee. for most of us, a lower oil price is a good thing. it means it costs less to fillup ourcars, and if you run a business, transport and energy costs are cheaper. but for the countries that sell oil, lower prices is a real headache, which is why opec, the cartel 01:14 leading producers, has been trying to push up prices. today and tomorrow, they are meeting in abu dhabi. since january, opec and 11 other oil producing countr ....
against so called islamic state in iraq s second city, mosul. they ve taken the city s airport, a key staging point in the battle to drive militants from the western half of the city. our correspondent quentin sommerville was there as iraqi government troops fought their way in. before the attack came the rockets and artillery. it s day five of the offensive to retake western mosul. slowly, the forces make their way past a suspected is car bomb, torched en route. these armoured columns are now moving forward to mosul airport. the attack for the airport is under way. all night long, we ve heard coalition aircraft and iraqi artillery slam this area just to the north of us. the onslaught had cleared this village of is fighters and civilians. it s eerily quiet as the men proceed on foot. a local man tells the special forces there were up to 100 is here yesterday. they ve hidden bombs all over. so the men took to higher ground. and we followed at a safe distance. as the day ....
looking as though they are credible, their vote potentially is vulnerable. leave voters may well be defecting to the conservatives. but of course what is also intriguing about this is the swing you point out, that 6% swing to the conservatives, is actually bigger than you are currently seeing in a national polls. labour there for might want to say the local circumstances in copeland were particularly difficult but the reason why the local circumstances in copeland were particularly difficulties because of jeremy corbyn s reluctance about the nuclear industry, which in some voters minds is probably also tied to the fact he s also anti nuclear weapons. so although the difficulty might be local, i suspect for the critics of mr corbyn inside the labour party, they will be saying, look, this is exactly the problem withjeremy corbyn s look, this is exactly the problem with jeremy corbyn s leadership, thatis with jeremy corbyn s leadership, that is taking stances on issues th ....
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we are here in london. i m guy johnson. i m francine lacqua. happy new year to everyone. what are angela merkel s contingency plans for grace? that is a question that is dominating the currency markets this morning and is sending the euro lower. driving the news is a report over the weekend that says merkel could look at a greek exit. let s go to hans nichols with the very latest. what are we to believe? we basically have three different lines from the german government officials in germany on the report. the first is that saturday night line. that was a nondenial and i ll saying they don t comment on speculative reports. then, last night, we had the economy minister and junior coalition partner. he would know about internal planning inside the finance ministry. he said there were no contingency plans. this morning, we have a member of angela merkel s party, the party chairman essentially, saying he can t imagine there being contingency planning. what we don t have ....