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the white house tells mexico and canada it won t cancel the north american free trade agreement, but will renegotiate it. the peso and canadian dollar soar. plus, is it terminalfor alitalia? italy s flag carrier battles to stay in the sky as its rescuer pulls the plug. welcome to world business report. i m aaron heslehurst. also coming up, raking it in, but are they worth it? top bosses face their shareholders amid growing concern over excessive boardroom pay. we start with president trump, because once again he s taken the business world by surprise. the white house has confirmed it has told the leaders of canada and mexico they won t be scrapping the north american free trade agreement. but instead they will seek to renegotiate the terms of it. that has sent the canadian dollar and mexican peso soaring. president trump has repeatedly vowed to pull out from the 23 year old trade pact with the two neighbouring countries, calling it ‘the worst trade deal in history . h ....
i m alan little. my guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. he entered a seminary at the age 01:14, intent on becoming a monk. he rose to become the leader of the anglican church in scotland. but he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. he finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. so did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. at the age 01:14, you left your working class home in the west of scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. to train, in effect, as a monk. what was that like? it was lovely. i was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. the hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this idea of the lone ....
after an epic nine month battle the iraqi government has declared victory in mosul the northern city that was overrun by so called islamic state three years ago. the country s prime minister congratulated government troops even as gunfire suggested there were still pockets of resistance. the landmark victory against the militants has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians and driven almost a million people from their homes. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, sent this report from mosul. what was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble, every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. we joined the sea rch and rescue teams looking for survivors. but, more often, they are just recovering bodies. with the heat, there is also the strong smell of decay. ali s hoping against hope that his brother and his family are still alive. their house was hit in an air strike just a few weeks ago. it was being used by islamic state fighters. ali says h ....
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