0:00:00 > 0:00:03And the top story here in the UK.
0:00:03 > 0:00:06The government says MPs will be given a take-it-or leave-it vote
0:00:06 > 0:00:08on the final Brexit deal before the UK leaves the EU.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23Resident Ron heads back home to the US from Asia with billions of
0:00:23 > 0:00:26dollars' worth of contracts for American companies but could he
0:00:26 > 0:00:30sealed a deal with China? -- President Trump. And the numbers
0:00:30 > 0:00:33don't like, wearable technology telling sports coach is how hard
0:00:33 > 0:00:45their teams are working. Welcomed Asia Business Report. I am Sharanjit
0:00:45 > 0:00:50Leyl. It's been a world wind --a whirlwind tour of Asia for President
0:00:50 > 0:00:55Donald Trump, a difficult task to reassure America's allies in the
0:00:55 > 0:01:00region, persuade China to pressure North Korea and demonstrate the US
0:01:00 > 0:01:11is still willing to do business with Asia. I spoke to Ian Bremner earlier
0:01:11 > 0:01:16and asked how successful his being. It was moving forward with the
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP 11, which does not involve the
0:01:20 > 0:01:24United States. Trump did get a number of headline bilateral
0:01:24 > 0:01:30investment deals signed, some of which are new, some not. Not
0:01:30 > 0:01:35unusual, a lot of presidents do that. China, Trump has said, and I
0:01:35 > 0:01:39think this is a victory, he's gotten the Chinese to do more in punishing
0:01:39 > 0:01:43the North Koreans are a number of things they have done to upset the
0:01:43 > 0:01:48need -- the international community, nuclear missiles, the Chinese
0:01:48 > 0:01:52supporting Trump and the Chinese are upset with Kim Jong-un but in terms
0:01:52 > 0:01:57of access of American corporations to the Chinese market, intellectual
0:01:57 > 0:02:01property being stolen and technology transfers, most importantly what the
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Chinese are doing in IT and technology, the Americans are
0:02:04 > 0:02:08getting nothing of what they want and certainly in terms the trade
0:02:08 > 0:02:15deficit. No movement.We know there has been billions of dollars of
0:02:15 > 0:02:19deals announced. What that goes some way to plucking that huge trade
0:02:19 > 0:02:25deficit?Not really. These ideals which are going to play out in
0:02:25 > 0:02:30headline numbers which are great. Some of them need to actually get
0:02:30 > 0:02:34implemented. We see the final numbers usually are not. They
0:02:34 > 0:02:39initially announced. That's not unusual for Trump. It happens all
0:02:39 > 0:02:43the time with presidential visits. Under mentally, the importance of
0:02:43 > 0:02:46trade architecture being driven everywhere but the United States is
0:02:46 > 0:02:51much more impactful on things like trade deficits that any one-off
0:02:51 > 0:03:00deals.Would you agree that Trump's America first policy is essentially,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03by nature, protectionist?Is turning his back free trade? It's
0:03:03 > 0:03:11interesting. I would say more economic nationalists. He wants a
0:03:11 > 0:03:15bilateral trade deal which is more attractive for the Americans. Shinzo
0:03:15 > 0:03:21Abe is one of Trump's best friends, if not best friend internationally,
0:03:21 > 0:03:30and said absolutely not.That tells you a lot of what you need to know.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34That was Ian Bremmer talking about those deals. Max Morrison is here
0:03:34 > 0:03:38with a more detailed look.You heard him saying that the headline numbers
0:03:38 > 0:03:45are good. Donald Trump fancies himself as the dealmaker in chief.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49The headline figure is quite significant. The lion's share coming
0:03:49 > 0:03:57from China including some blue-chip names like Boeing and Qualcomm.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Japan and Vietnam's and South Korea.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Japan and Vietnam's and South Korea. The Philippines is work in progress.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08They have made promises, no hard deals coming through. It is
0:04:08 > 0:04:15business. The men around of understanding. Deals down the road,
0:04:15 > 0:04:20not legally binding. These things don't happen overnight. They take
0:04:20 > 0:04:24legal groundwork. If you look at one particular sector, and that is
0:04:24 > 0:04:30energy. Major deals were announced. The biggest of them, $43 billion
0:04:30 > 0:04:35into Alaska and if confirmed, it is significant because given all the
0:04:35 > 0:04:38political concerns over Chinese companies investing in America, that
0:04:38 > 0:04:43such a deal would go through. An analyst I spoke to earlier said a
0:04:43 > 0:04:51lot of this was for perception. Good politics, we will see if it's good
0:04:51 > 0:04:56business.Of course. We know with Donald Trump, is America first
0:04:56 > 0:05:01polity is geared towards bringing jobs back to America. Are any of
0:05:01 > 0:05:02these
0:05:02 > 0:05:03jobs back to America. Are any of these deals going to achieve that?
0:05:03 > 0:05:08Jobs, absolutely. He loves to say bringing jobs back to America. That
0:05:08 > 0:05:13Alaska project we were talking about, up to 12,000. But the energy
0:05:13 > 0:05:19analyst I spoke to say there has dashed those were American
0:05:19 > 0:05:24construction jobs, 4-5 years, laying cement and welding and steel, they
0:05:24 > 0:05:30are not long-term jobs. Again, perceptions, look at all these jobs.
0:05:30 > 0:05:36Long-term, not as much. You mentioned Qualcomm. They are in the
0:05:36 > 0:05:42news because they have turned down a $130 billion bid and this could set
0:05:42 > 0:05:52the stage for a bitter fight in the world of mobile technology.
0:05:52 > 0:05:59Singapore-based Broadcom made the offer at the chief of Qualcomm says
0:05:59 > 0:06:08it undervalues the company. Shares in Barbie toymaker Mattel had jumped
0:06:08 > 0:06:21over rumours of a takeover by Hasbro. Last month, shares in both
0:06:21 > 0:06:26Dell after the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. And but Coyne has bounced back
0:06:26 > 0:06:34after losing more than a third of its value in three days. -- ??MACRO1
0:06:34 > 0:06:43or two. A planned soft -- Bitcoin. A planned software upgrade provided
0:06:43 > 0:06:49issues. Australia's business confidence surged to its highest
0:06:49 > 0:06:55record October, with strength of sales and profits seen across a
0:06:55 > 0:06:58range of industries. The National Australia Bank survey showed its
0:06:58 > 0:07:02index of business quadrupled in the long-run average however this is in
0:07:02 > 0:07:06stark contrast to the mood of consumers who are greatly concerned
0:07:06 > 0:07:14about rising utility costs. In the world of professional sport, elite
0:07:14 > 0:07:17athletes and their coaches know that even the smallest difference can
0:07:17 > 0:07:21actually translate into a significant advantage and a
0:07:21 > 0:07:25little-known Australian company is scoring big, designing a new way for
0:07:25 > 0:07:31coaches to train their teams by using wearable devices. We look at
0:07:31 > 0:07:38how technology and sports is changing the game.
0:07:38 > 0:07:45In again, in again. Be patient, be patient.
0:08:03 > 0:08:09With these things, what we could not do before, if there is a low
0:08:09 > 0:08:12intensity of training and you come to him after and you say, look, you
0:08:12 > 0:08:16have to push again, it is coming, you are not doing anything. Today,
0:08:16 > 0:08:39nobody can hide any more.That it is a game-changer for sports,
0:08:39 > 0:08:42especially elite sports. Technology has given a new dimensional to the
0:08:42 > 0:08:57world of football.They capture the signals of the GPS or the American
0:08:57 > 0:09:00and Russian satellites and from there, they capture all the
0:09:00 > 0:09:21movements of the players on the pitch. Crunching numbers, it is very
0:09:21 > 0:09:25small. And this shows how high the play was working.You don't
0:09:25 > 0:09:30necessarily want to look at the distance. Another player runs from A
0:09:30 > 0:09:44to B, 50 metres, might sprint, jump, jog, and they calculate that.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49Staying with sport, the first time in 60 years, Italy has been
0:09:49 > 0:09:54eliminated from the football World Cup finals next year in Russia. The
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Italian team who were four times winners of the World Cup and you can
0:09:58 > 0:10:04see them here trading, they were held to a 0-0 draw by Sweden in the
0:10:04 > 0:10:20play-offs. But have a quick look at the markets.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30We are also expecting retail sales number later in the day from the US.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31And that is it for