about support for taiwan in the event of a piercy attack. clifford hart, national security council s china and taiwan director formally, thank you for speaking to us. we will find out very soon if us presidentjoe biden talks about taiwan and the south china sea in remarks he is expected to deliver after talking to china s president, xijinping. they talked forfour china s president, xijinping. they talked for four hours at an estate near san francisco, they took a nice stroll in the garden afterwards as well. this of course is the first meeting between the two leaders for a year and a day. they last met in bali at the 620 last year. and we may be seeing. no, not president bidenjust and we may be seeing. no, not president biden just yet. you are looking at pictures of the press conference, where we are expecting us presidentjoe biden to deliver remarks after his meeting with china s resident, xijinping. this meeting comes after a year, the first face to face meeting they ve had
Negotiations and look at where the new government goes from here with our Business Editor, simonjack. We usually ask you a twitter question, but today the founder of amazon has one for you what should he do with all his money . Jeff bezos has posted a request for ideas from The Public For Philanthropy Inspiration what advice would you give . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Good to have you with us on Business Live. We start in greece, which has edged back from the brink of financial collapse once again. Late on thursday after months of wrangling European Finance ministers, together with the International Monetary fund, finally agreed to give athens its latest slice of bailout money. And theres a hint it could get some relief from its crippling Debt Mountain next year. Lets show you the details. Greece will finally get this 8. 5 billion euros part of an 86 Billion Euro bailout plan agreed in 2015. It is the third it has had. It will come just in time, as greece faces 7. 3 billion euros
Issue that weighs on them is this something that theyre thinking about you know they think about pensions they think about education they think about digitization in germany where behind on that they think. About the International Situation with lydia putin and mr elder one and mr trump thats what varies them bricks it is very far from my constituents minds in the west of germany so in terms of a no deal brags that it will have no effect on germany feel it will have an effect on our businesses because britain is an important Business Partner it will have an effect on people students who attend British Universities for example ive come from a University Town these are the ones who are going to be affected but by and large generally speaking the broader public in germany i feel will not you know feel a dramatic difference how do you see things evolve well im an optimist by nature and so i believe and having spent a couple of years in the e. U. Indeed i know that deals always reached at t
is rupert wingfield hayes. ruppert, these reports coming in on the last hour or so, what more do we know at this stage? we know a lot more. we have video and photographs from the scene that show former prime minister shinzo abe standing on a street corner giving us stump speech, he has been doing this over the last few weeks, elections are being held on sunday for the opera house and he spent all over the country giving these features. suddenly from behind he was approached from behind he was approached from behind he was approached from behind by a man who pulled out a gun, it looks like it was some sort of sawn off a shotgun, and fired at him twice. he went down onto the ground, clearly had been hit, bleeding from the chest. his security team pounced on the man very, very quickly but it was too late, he had discharged his gun. mr abe was treated at the scene by paramedics and put an ambulance and taken to a nearby helicopter where he was