to allow millions of tonnes of grain exports from ukraine is extended just a day before it was due to expire. and chipping away at a new trade deal, the uk bets big on a semiconductor agreement with deal, the uk bets big on a semiconductor agreement with japan. hello, welcome, this is world business report, i m ben thompson and good news for the world, that is how the un secretary general as described an agreement with russia to continue allowing ukrainian grain exports via the black sea for another two months. the existing deal was arranged lastjuly, designed to tackle a global food crisis that was caused by russia s invasion of ukraine. one of the world s top grain exporters is of course ukraine. that deal was due to expire today, thursday. here is what the un chief had to say about the importance to world food supplies. these agreements matter for global food security. ukrainian and russian products feed the world. with the black sea initiative more than 10 million tonnes
you re with bbc news, these are the headlines. president biden has arrived in japan, to meet with the country s prime minister ahead of the annual g7 summit taking place in hiroshima. controversial actorjohnny depp tells the bbc his return to the big screen is not a comeback because he never went away. the un describes a two month extension to the black sea green deal is a good news deal for the world. it had been due to expire on thursday. and rescue operations are continuing in northern italy after heavy rains caused deadly flooding. ten yea rs ten years ago, fergus walsh a medical editor became the first person to take part in the world s biggest scanning project. biobank was created to better understand how the body ages by taking detailed images of the brain, heart and pounds to find new ways of treating and preventing disease. now a decade on, fergus has been back to face the scanners again to see what s changed. mapping the ageing human body. it s nearly a decade since
thatis pubs that are now coming back and that is great news for those communities, but of course this is a press release sent out by heineken, who now own thousands of pubs and this is something that s previously the government was concerned about having such dominance, so we are concerned about the dominance that heineken has in the pub sector, it is not healthy, it is not good for smaller brewers. we see cases around the country were heineken tenants are being pushed out. we are concerned about the way that heineken is behaving in some of those cases. heineken is behaving in some of those cam- those cases. explain to us how independent those cases. explain to us how independent pubs those cases. explain to us how independent pubs have - those cases. explain to us how independent pubs have been i those cases. explain to us how - independent pubs have been affected during the past few years, obviously after the covid lockdowns as well as the cost of living crisis? it is
along with nearly 500 councillors. mr sunak has said those losses were bitterly disappointing. yesterday the former home secretary suella braverman said the prime minister had to own the results and change course. i think he needs to show people that he really cares about some of the things that he s talked about. he needs to actually lower taxes i in a way that people will feel, i not tweaking around the edges. if he s serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on legal migration. he needs to take us out of the - european convention on human rights. that s how you actually send i the message that he s serious about stopping the boats. and while some are urging mr sunak to change position, others in the conservative party are clear that their best chance is to stay firmly in the centre ground. so while any imminent threat to eject mr sunak from here seems to have gone away, the long term pressure on him to change conservative fortunes has not. for labour, this week
discover who will. subscribe to delete documentary on you to. the moon roof. germany is a country where people love to complain i m married to one of them a complainer that is a german if those flashy trains of there s a just a couple minutes late there s the collective huff of discontent along the platform and even if they are on time then they re too full all the children at three loud the trains are some of the quietest in the world things function in germany it s
one of the world s top economies yet complaining is a national pastime little rich germany is one topic i ll let any german complain about as much as they want and that s connectivity is a pain in the neck trying to get a good internet connection in my apartment or elsewhere in berlin and if you travel out of the capital things generally get even worse and that s terrible for small and medium sized enterprises here many of which have located in rural areas the thing is patchy coverage can cost the company a lot of money