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the inside track on britain s productivity riddle and what the us fed s latest minutes tell us about where the world s biggest economy is heading with our economics correspondent, andrew walker. one factory in sweden has started burning unwanted clothes to make clean energy instead of using oil and gas. and as black friday sees people grabbing bargains on new clothes, what do you do with your old ones? let us know. just use #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. don t you say i should have burned that tie! it s the friday after thanksgiving and for millions of americans that means one thing shopping. black friday has come to signal the start of the christmas shopping season with big discounts to tempt buyers. and, as with so much else, what started in the us, the world s biggest economy, has spread rapidly around the world to become one the busiest times of the year for the global retail business. there have already been queues at us shopping centres. altoge ....
will have more later. and tomasz has got the winter weather. that is a big car! certainly not mine. it is in the north where it is really cold, even some icy stretches overnight tonight. thank you very much. also coming up. it never left me, i cannot stay away from it. look who s back. tom baker, the longest serving doctor, films new footage to complete an episode abandoned because of a strike at the bbc. good afternoon. more than 180 people have been killed in a militant attack on a crowded mosque in egypt. the country s president is holding an emergency security meeting. it happened in the northern sinai region when armed men stormed the building and detonated a bomb during friday prayers. one report says the target of the attack appeared to be supporters of the security forces who were attending prayers. it s the deadliest attack yet in the three year insurgency in sinai. we will be live at our correspondent in cairo very shortly. zimbabwe has a new president. emmers ....
plan of action with international ambitions. but what it speaks to is something much more personalfor each of us. that is the impulse to ca re each of us. that is the impulse to care for and nurture our own surroundings. to protect what is vulnerable and precious. to safeguard and improve on our inheritance to pass on something of significance to those who come after us. significance to those who come after us. it what is roger scrutton has described as the gold awards which serious environmentalism and serious conservatism point namely home, the place we are and share and defines us, that we hold in trust and that we don t want to spoil. 0ur goal is a healthy and beautiful natural environment, which we can all enjoy and which we can be proud to pass on to the next generation and this plan is how we will achieve it. thank you. applause. now, i will take a number of questions from the media. i saw laura s hand go up immediately. thank you prime minister, happy new year ....
and the markets in europe are all higher on the day following a bumper session in asia. and working part time but shining all the time. we ll speak one woman whose built a successfuljewellery business that counts the duchess of cambridge amongst its customers, despite only working part time. as we ve been hearing, smartphone sales are in decline. today we want to know have we reached peak smartphone. why and when do you upgrade? let us know just use #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. many of you have been in touch already about smartphones, keep your comments coming in, we will share them later in the programme. it s shaping up to be another big week for brexit. in a few hours‘ time, the leader of the labour opposition, jeremy corbyn, is set to increase the pressure on prime minister theresa may when he calls for the uk to have full tariff free access to european union markets after brexit. in a speech, mr corbyn will call for the uk to stay in a custo ....
markets. and we ll be getting the inside track on one start up that is taking used batteries and giving them a second life. as the boss of united airlines, we wa nt to as the boss of united airlines, we want to know when have you wished you d apologised sooner? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to the programme. as south africa s president jacob zuma celebrates his 75th birthday, the festivities may be rather more low key than usual. in less than a week, the country s members of parliament are scheduled to hold a vote of no confidence against the president. why? it comes after he ousted some of his key political opponents in a recent cabinet reshuffle. today, members of the public are expected to take to the streets in protest at the move, but mr zuma s decision also has big implications for the economy. south africa has been downgraded to junk status by two of the leading debt ratings agencies, fitch and s&p. they argue that the reshuffle will hamper the count ....