shrank unexpectedly by 0.3% in august. manchester crown court hears how a nurse, accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward, tried to kill a premature baby girl on two consecutive night shifts. after the latest russian attacks on ukraine, nato says sending air defence systems there is a top priority. blood supplies fall to a critically low level in england, prompting nhs blood and transplant to declare its first ever amber alert hospitals may have to postpone some elective surgery. and scientists successfully transplant tissue from a human brain to that of a newborn rat and say the hybrid organoids can not only play the 1970s video game, pong, but will also help with research into brain disorders. but will also help with research we but will also help with research will be talking live the we will be talking live to one of the experts involved. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has said she ll absolutely stick to her promise not to cut public
debt crisis in greece is back in focus. we ll tell you all you need to know. and we ll be getting the inside track on one man s effort to make musical millions. it might look like a kids toy, but with some of the biggest names in music want to get their hands on it, we meet the man behind the lightblock pad. so today we want to know, what was your first musical instrument? did you learn at school? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to business live. violin. it was good, bad and ugly! we begin with us president donald trump who is about to leave saudi arabia on his way to israel. that s his next stop on his foreign tour. over the weekend in riyadh he signed agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars between saudi and american firms. the deals are said to be worth more than $350 billion over the next ten years and build on america s decades long alliance with the world s largest oil producer. now saudi arabia is trying to diversify its economy away from
from the peak in may. taking the human out of human resources. we meet the woman who s software aims to automate the personnel process in the vibrant nigerian economy. today a survey reveals that four in ten millennials have no pensions savings so let us know. who or what will look after you in your old age? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. sally, i ll look after you in your old age. it will probably be a robot, he will do a betterjob of starting the programme than i did. we start in brussels where as you ve been hearing european union leaders begin a two day summit. top of the agenda of course brexit after formal talks on the uk s departure from the eu began this week. but there are different views around europe on what brexit should look like let s take a look. the new french president emmanuel macron wants to keep britain a close partner saying the door remains open to the uk changing its mind about leaving. for germany s chancellor angela merkel it s about mai
now it s being re negotiated. and markets pretty non plussed by the latest white house chaos, which could be the most telling thing of all, investors growing immune to the ups and downs of washington. and we ll get the inside track on the batteries that could power the future. we ll find out how batteries will not only power our cars, but our homes too. and anything else you d care to mention. and as students in the uk get their exam results today, we want to know, do qualifications still matter? did you flunk school or college but still do 0k? where did your grades get you? let us know, use the hashtag, #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. failing migrate five piano exam is what has got me here today. (!) failing my grade five piano exam. welcome to the programme. we begin in the united states where pressure from the business community has become too much for president trump, and he s been forced to disband his manufacturing council. the announcement came via
award winning business leader who took over a waste management company at the age of 19. also today ryanair profits are down but passengers are up. fares continue to fall. so do you still have the cheap flights bug? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. if you are planning your holidays, why not tell us where you are off to? welcome to the programme. the political events of 2016 may have ignited an unprecedented period of uncertainty for the global economy but one thing that appears to remain unaffected is the growing appetite of chinese investors. last year chinese investment in the us increased by nearly 190 percent. meanwhile, chinese investment into europe grew by 90 percent. all of this gives the impression 2016 was a good year for western economies when it comes to foreign investment. so will this trend continue? well the uk is about to begin a two year period of brexit negotiations and this echoes wider concerns over the health of the european union. france, germany and