of 3 million euros in cash to prince charles by a qatari sheikh. clarence house says all the correct processes were followed. good evening to you at home and good evening to you so lots to get this we will get cracking straightaway and start with a front page of the financial times covering this g7 summit going on in bavaria today and we are covering it here on bbc news. look at the headline they have picked out there, g7 aims to hurt russian war chest with price cap on crude exports will stuck any talk us through what is going on here? yes. through what is going on here? yes, so what all of through what is going on here? yes, so what all of the through what is going on here? yes, so what all of the bits through what is going on here? ye: so what all of the bits of world leaders gathered in the bavarian alps for the summit and the ft look at the story about kind of conversations about limiting the amount of money going to russia and honestly we have seen huge sanctions
by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. these strikes are not only a bid to derail reforms that are critical to the network s future and designed to inflict damage at the worst possible time. iam in i am in the devon constituency which has been conservative for 100 years. we will hear for the labour candidate where it may not be so certain that it will stay that way. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. good afternoon. borisjohnson s ethics adviser, who resigned last night, has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position. in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures, understood to be on a trade issue, which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code. lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting
but is that now unravelling, and how much damage could it do to the global economy? amid growing hostilities, politicians, they ve been putting up more barriers to trade, in particular when it comes to the technology of the future. in may, the us slapped a range of new tariffs or import taxes on china, hitting products including electric vehicles, their batteries and solar panels. and the european union, it s announced new tariffs of up to 38% on chinese electric cars, which are set to come into force onjuly 4th. now, if talks fail to solve the differences, china, it s reportedly looking at tariffs on europe s farmers, including the pork industry, as well as french cognac and luxury cars. so, why is all of this happening? well, the world s two biggest economies want control of the technology of the future, and in the west, at least, politicians want to protect jobs in the hopes of winning votes. china heavily subsidised all of these products, pushing chinese companies to prod
but this move could also be in breach of wt0 rules and so it was something that the prime minister possibly ethics adviser who reside quite recently and this was part of the conversations that triggered his resignation, that he thought it was wrong for the prime minister to knowingly breach international rules. so there is quite a couple get a political row going on there, but these are attempts by downing street and the prime minister to get on the front foot a bit in policy after weeks and weeks of political difficulty. the after weeks and weeks of political difficul . ., , ., ., difficulty. the ft as he won t want to look at this difficulty. the ft as he won t want to look at this story difficulty. the ft as he won t want to look at this story that - to look at this story that i mentioned earlier and i want to ask you, the little story on the left hand side, wallace rises up ranks inventory popularity stakes. what is going on? interesting as for months