A european car colossus in the making. Frances Peugeot Citroen is poised to buy General Motors european business, including the opel and vauxhall brands. Chinas premier cuts the Economic Growth target for this year. We look at the risks to the worlds second largest economy. Welcome to World Business report, im sally bundock. Also in the programme Deutsche Bank plans to raise billions of euros in a share sale. Details in a moment. General motors is set to announce a deal to sell opel and vauxhall to psa group, the French Company that owns peugeot and citroen. Both companies are hosting a Press Conference in paris later this morning. Buying gms Loss Making European Operations will make psa the continents second biggest car maker, after volkswagen and ahead of french rival renault, and it will be a giant. Last year psa and gm europe sold a combined a5 million vehicles, and posted revenues of 71. 6 billion euro. But the deal has already raised fears in the uk the jobs of 4,500 workers at v
Donald, you are a snivelling coward, Leave Heidi The Hell alone. Prime minister theresa may attends her last summit of eu leaders before brexit talks. Will britain really be landed with a 60 Billion Euro divorce bill . Well hearfrom berlin. Well speak to Donald Trumps preferred choice for uk ambassador to washington, nigel farage about his friendship with the president. And were in arkansas to hear from the voters the president calls the Forgotten Men And Women of america. Im katty kay in washington, christian frasers in london. Are we seeing the return of american hard power in the middle east . The United States has just sent some 400 troops to syria to fight against so called Islamic State. The deployment is made up of marines and army rangers who are there to help capture the is stronghold of raqqa. They reportedly arrived in the past few days to establish an outpost from which they will be able to fire artillery at is positions around 20 miles away. The White House Press Secretary
Trade in baby chimps. One of the great artists of his Generation Tributes are paid to the british painter sir Howard Hodgkin, whos died at the age of 8a. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news theres an away goal for Manchester United in their Europa League last 16 tie. But theyre held to a draw by russians fc rostov. Good evening. The Prime Minister has insisted that the controversial change announced in the budget to increase National Insurance for Self Employed workers is simpler, fairer and more progressive. Theresa may refused to accept that the government had broken a Manifesto Pledge, saying the promise had only extended to one kind of National Insurance. But the move has angered a number of conservative backbenchers and been roundly criticised by labour. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Brussels is rarely a place where british Prime Ministers can find a retreat, but theresa may entered discreetly into the summit, in a hurry for the talks. Not for her the grand arr
comparing coronavirus mask-wearing to nazi practices of forcing jews to wear yellow stars. house minority leader kevin mccarthy says greene is wrong in her decision to make the comparison is appalling. democrats are calling on greene to resign. the warren county kentucky sheriff s office says a suspicious package sent to the home of republican senator rand paul appears to contain a nontoxic substance. paul tweeted monday he takes such threats seriously and that he has been targeted multiple times. paul s wife tweeted that she, quote, got the death threat letter and called the fbi. wrestler turned actor john screen that is back peddling furiously and taking heat for it cena referred to taiwan as a country during an interview to promote his latest movie fast and furious 9. he then apologized to china, which considers taiwan its sovereign territory.
an all time low pro-government turkish newspapers repeatedly run front pages criticizing and even personally insulting chancellor merkel accusing her of nazi practices. now it seems the turkish government is looking for a fresh start and academicians turkey s film a e.u. affairs minister in one bausch is among those who want relations to improve the war in syria the unpredictable us president and the currency crisis provide plenty of reasons for turkey and germany to work together he says this is his wishlist for the machal adlon meeting myself more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation and to be more. optimistic about turkey s prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president. she can