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This is Business Live from BBC News with Susannah Streeter | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It's Budget Day in the UK with the Chancellor poised | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
to deliver an "upbeat" speech, but how much money has he got | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Live from London, that's our top story on Wednesday, 8th March. | :00:18. | :00:35. | |
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
will the Treasury provide a Budget boost to cushion the blow? | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
We'll speak to an expert for her predictions. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Also in the programme, crossing borders and crossing lines! | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Chinese Telecom giant ZTE has been handed a fine for violating | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
We'll be live in Asia for the latest. | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
This is the situation on the financial markets as they open in | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Europe. Investors look ahead to the UK Budget. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
What's the secret behind the world's most successful brands? | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Is it simply a case of advertising spend or is there more to the story? | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
We'll speak to one of the industry's leading experts | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
It's International Women's Day so let us know who's your most | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Perhaps it's the head of the world's most powerful Central Bank? | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
Or maybe it's Mary Barra, the boss of General Motors? | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
In a few hours time, the UK's Finance Minister | :01:38. | :01:57. | |
or Chancellor as we call him here, Phillip Hammond, will deliver | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
the country's final Budget before the Government triggers Article 50, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
and Britain begins its negotiations to leave the European Union. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Despite the ongoing uncertainty over Brexit, | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Philip Hammond received an eve of Budget boost | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation | :02:17. | :02:17. | |
It now expects growth in the UK of 1.6% this year, | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
up from its previous estimate of 1.2%. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
In theory this means more tax revenue for the Treasury | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
and more money flowing in to the Government's coffers. | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
Despite this, economists are not expecting a spending spree | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
when Mr Hammond announces the UK's fiscal plans for the coming year. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Instead, he's expected to put the additional funds to one side | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
in a Brexit war chest as Britain prepares for its divorce | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Nevertheless, one area which may receive some more attention | :02:45. | :02:56. | |
are the so-called business rates paid on commercial property. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Despite the Government's reassurances that Britain | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
remains open for business, some companies will see | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
more than a 40% rise in their property rates. | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
To help cushion the blow, the Treasury has already | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
announced a $4.4 billion transitional relief fund. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Also there may be some extra money found for social care in England. | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
Hetal Mehta, Senior European Economist, Legal | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
and General Investment Management is with me. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Good morning. So, as ever, we're all trying to figure out what's in the | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
Budget as it were hours before he delivers his speech to Parliament. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
What are your thoughts? So I think one of the key things is that the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
economy has performed much better since, not just the referendum, but | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
even since the Autumn Statement we had last November. So the Chancellor | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
has a lot more wriggle room. The tax revenues have been higher so he | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
could use that, but I think he has been quite clear that he is unlikely | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
to go on a spending spree. He will keep that money in reserve. Brexit | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
still hasn't happened yet so if and when the economy does deteriorate | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
then at least the Government has got something up its sleeve at that | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
point in time. Is he wise to do that at this point, do you think? I think | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
so. I think, you might as well, given that the economy is better, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
keep the money in reserve. We noted back in November that there is a | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
little bit of a discrepancy in terms of the projections further out so | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the economy was expected to continue doing very well whilst the deficit | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
was going to narrow significantly. Whereas actually this extra money | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
could go to help smoothing that profile out and make the numbers | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
more credible. So he is bound to talk a lot about the state of the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
economy being better than we all thought it would be, but the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
uncertainty ahead because of Brexit. How uncertain is it in your view? | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Are we any clearer at this point than we were say late summer of last | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
year or are we still as much in the dark? We have had a lot, there is a | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
range of outcomes being narrowed. After the referendum people were | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
questioning who will the Prime Minister be? Will it be Boris | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Johnson? Could it be someone else? Will this trigger another election? | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
A lot of those outcomes have been narrowed, so some uncertainty has | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
been taken away, but we have very little clarity on what negotiating | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
stance of the EU will be going into the Brexit discussions. So in terms | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
of news about spending and which departments will get money, this | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
time, it is likely to be fairly small and token and many are | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
actually say he's storing up all the cash for a big splurge before the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
next election which is kind of after the Brexit negotiations as well? The | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
timing is actually quite interesting. As you say, 2019, it's | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
when the UK is due to leave the EU and that would be the time that | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
typically governments do go on a spending spree one year ahead of an | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
election and particularly given the Prime Minister has talked a lot | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
about helping people who are just about managing. People who are being | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
hit by the inflation squeeze, we may see a few small measures there just | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
to alleviate that stress, but I think a big give away is further | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
down the line. All right, thank you very much indeed for sharing your | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
thoughts. And needless to say, we're going to be all over this today on | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
the BBC! Whether you like it or not! If you tune in to us, this is what | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
you will be getting online, on radio and on television. There is a lot of | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
reporting going on about the changes to business rates. That's caused a | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
backlash among many small businesses. They're going to see | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
their rates go up, but they have been promised some kind of | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
transitional relief. Keep it with us if you want to be across the UK | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
Budget. China posted its first monthly trade | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
deficit in three years in February as imports surged at their fastest | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
pace since early 2012, driven by its strong demand | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
for commodities from iron ore China's February exports | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
unexpectedly fell 1.3% from a year earlier, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
but imports expanded 38.1 percent, Chinese telecom giant ZTE has been | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
fined $1.1 billion and will plead guilty to charges that it violated | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
US rules by shipping US-made It is as a result of negotiations | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
between the telecoms giant and US officials. It is the largest fine | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
imposed by a US Government in relation to breaking US sanctions. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Let me break down the numbers, ?900 z that's how much ZTE have to pay | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
right now. Another 300 million has been suspended for seven years | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
depending on how the company complies with the plea deal. ZTE is | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
accused of buying US components and putting them into ZTE equipment and | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
shipping them off to Iran and North Korea, it included routers, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
microprocessors and servers. ZTE is accused to have bought the parts in | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the US, these are restricted for export because of their potential | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
for military use. The Chinese company also sent about 283 of these | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
shipments to North Korea. On top of that, they lied to US officials | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
while the officials were investigating the company. ZTE does | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
say it acknowledges it made some mistakes and it is working prards z | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
towards improving its procedures. Back to you in London now. Thank | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
you. Insurers rose after Congress | :08:25. | :08:44. | |
introduced the Bill intended to replace the Affordable Care Act. | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
Let's look at Europe. The main stock markets fell on opening. Investors | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
are waiting, of course the UK Budget. Some more positive | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
production data from Germany did provide some reassurance after some | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
poor factory numbers came out yesterday causing concern about | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
perhaps brakes being put on Europe's largest economy. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Samira Hussain has the details about what's ahead on Wall Street Today. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Coming up on Wednesday we see just how robust hiring has been in the | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
private sector in the US when the ADP national employment report is | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
released. This is the precursor to the jobs report issued by the | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Commerce Department and it often gives us sort of an idea of what we | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
will see on Friday when that latest jobs report is out. Now economists | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
believe the private employers will have added about 190,000 jobs in the | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
month of February after adding 246,000 jobs in January. The annual | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
shareholders meeting for the Walt Disney company takes place in | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Denver. In February, the Chief Executive said he is open to | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
extending his term as the head of the company. Offering investors a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
sign of potential stability at the media company as it reported a dip | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
in quarterly advertising revenue at ESPN. Now, remember ESPN is the big | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
money maker for Walt Disney. Joining us is Richard Hunter, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Head of Research, Wilson King Richard let me welcome you as the | :10:22. | :10:33. | |
first male on Business Live. That's not by design. That's how it is on | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
this programme on a daily basis. Richard, talking markets, of course, | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
it is Budget day in the UK. Are you going to be hanging on Hammond's | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
every word or is it not that big a deal today? I think generally | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
speaking what happens with the Budget, it has implication for | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
specific sectors usually for example, alcohol companies, tobacco | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
companies, house builders. The usual reaction? Usual reaction. In terms | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
of the macrostuff, the wider picture, it tends to be more of a | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
currency story than moving equity markets apart from those specific | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
sectors. I think it will be one that is going to be closely followed | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
because at the moment the market is scrambling for any clues as to what | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Brexit might actually mean. The pound being at seven week lows. What | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
kind of currency movements might you expect? Currency market apart from | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
being the biggest in the world is something of a zero sum game. As the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
dollar strengthens something else has got to weaken and sterling is | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
tending to be in the firing line because of this uncertainty around | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
the referendum. Also, the fact that markets are in a wait and see mode | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
anyway because of next week, the US Federal Reserve meeting. Most | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
believe rates will go up next week. I feel there is a bit of fear in | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
markets. The fact that this global rally that we have seen from | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
November last year when Donald Trump won the US election is perhaps | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ending and therefore, what's going to happen next? Is it going to be a | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
small correction? A big crash? People are worried. The problem | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
we've got is the US markets, which, of course, have an impact on global | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
sentiment have been hitting record highs and a lot of that is basically | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
trying to anticipate the boost to the US economy, depending on what | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Trump comes out. That's very well, but we have yet to have any real | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
detail in terms of tax cuts, infrastructure spending and so on. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
So, what increasingly we are afinding, of course, we're kind of | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
balanced on a knife edge because there is a lot that needs to be | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
delivered now to catch up with the expectations that the markets have | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
already priced in. Richard will be back. He'll name his most | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
inspirational female leader in business. Do tell us yours. We will | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
hear from Richard. We will hear from you hopefully. | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Still to come, what's the secret behind the world's | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Is it simply a case of advertising spend or is there more to the story? | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
We'll speak to one of the industry's leading experts | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
You're with Business Live from BBC News. | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
Controversial security firm G4S has published their first set of full | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
year results since the riot in their Birmingham prison in 2016. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Revenues have risen 6.6% and profits are up 9.4%. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Theo Leggett is in our business newsroom. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
You have been cumplging the numbers. Theo, what else do they show? Well, | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
these numbers, if you take away all the reputational issues facing G4S | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
they are looking good. This was the first increase in revenues for four | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
years for the company. Pretty healthy figures. Only increased by | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
1.5% in the UK. That's one of its weaker regions. Remember, this is a | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
colossal company. Where it is doing best is the United States where | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
revenues were up more than 12%. And pre-tax profits up around 13%. So | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
good there. The company says the improvement is largely down to a | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
restructuring effort which it launched three years ago which | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
included selling off non performing businesses, trying to win new | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
contracts well, while at the same time retaining existing contracts | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
and that does seem to have reaped rewards. But it is G4S, it is a | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
controversial company and what there doesn't seem to be any sign of in | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
the results is any mention of the Birmingham Prison riot last | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
December. You might remember the Justice Secretary Liz Truss said | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
that G4S would have to pay for the cost of introducing special crack | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
squads of officers who are brought in to quell the riot. There has been | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
controversy over its handling of children's services, some of its | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
detention centres. G4S in the process of goating rid of that | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
business. These results, they just show the financial figures which | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
look robust. The reputational problems still exist. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
As ever, we give you no warning about this next question! So we're | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
asking today is stands out in business in terms of women leaders? | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Who is that for you? Mary Barra. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
There are women standing around, generally to make the cars look | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
good. But she has succeeded in a man's world. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Good for you, thanks for sharing. We have asked for your inspirational | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
women in business, send them on Twitter, a lot of stories on the | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
website and stories other than the Budget, this is about record sales | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
for Nintendo witch. Read all about it. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Our top story: In a few hours' time, the UK's Finance Minister - | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
or Chancellor, as we call him here - Phillip Hammond, will deliver | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
the country's final Budget, before the Government triggers | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
And Britain begins its negotiations to leave the European Union. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Despite the ongoing uncertainty over Brexit, Philip Hammond received | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
an eve-of-Budget boost from the Organisation for Economic | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
It now expects growth in the UK of 1.6% this year, | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
up from its previous estimate of 1.2%. | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Philip Hammond is due to address Parliament in a few hours' time. | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
We'll have more coverage of the UK Budget both on-air and online. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Now, if you're old enough to cast your mind back at least 40 years, | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
you might be able to recall a time when the concept of "branding" | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Yes, branding is more than just a name, it's now a whole industry, | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
covering everything from corporate strategy and design to the value | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
And it is, of course, everywhere - from the TV or smartphone you might | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
be watching this programme on, even to the name BBC itself. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
And our next guest knows a thing or two about the concept. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
In 1974, John Murphy founded what was then | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
the world's first name creation company, called Novabrand. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Five years later, it became Interbrand, as it moved | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
beyond coming up with names to create a whole brand | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
image for its clients, a story told in his new book. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
That is certainly a brand name you have, with! How did it begin? You | :17:20. | :17:37. | |
started this name creation organisation and when was it that | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
you realised you could put a value on the brand itself? I was working | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
for Dunlop and I was desperate to get out and is to start my own | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
business. This was in the mid-19 70s. I had a problem at the Dunlop | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
finding an international name for a new product, new tyres. I thought if | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
I had that problem and nobody could help, the advertising agencies, | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
nobody, so I started this naming the business. We saw top names. We did | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
the trademark law and we added graphic design. And I started to | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
realise we were doing more than just being, what we might call | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
wordsmiths. We were creating things called brands. And the word brand | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
was little used. They were product managers in business, but not brand | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
managers. And I realised we were creating personality of the product. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
And people like the advertising agencies, they were given this and | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
they had the job of communicating. We were at the start of the process, | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
we were brand creators. So at the time, even with the first to do | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
this. This is back in the 1970s, no internet, no social media, no means | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
of communication from that point of view. How did you get it out to | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
companies like Mars who became your clients at that time? It was mainly, | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
we spent hours with trade lists and we typed up lists and we photocopied | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
them and we sent mailshots out. And we did a lot of PR. We were very | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
nicely treated by the financial and the business press, but they all | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
thought we were a bit loopy. We were the funny slot. But there was always | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
somebody who had a serious problem, they had just launched a new | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
product. And the day they were launched, they got a writ from | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
somebody saying, the name you are using is ours, and they came to us | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
to solve their problem. Did you predict it could become as big and | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
important and industry as it is now? I did not have the slightest idea, I | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
just wanted to make a living and to survive at first. Increasingly, and | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
you that what we were doing was important and increasingly, this | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
sounds big headed, what the advertising industry was doing was | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
trivial. We were the ones at the start of the process, we were | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
creating the brand, their job was simply to think up some adverts. And | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
at the time, the city did not factor in the value of the brand in their | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
valuation of companies and their assets. No, the brands were simply | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
regarded as goodwill, there was this catchall phrase, goodwill. And we | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
came up and said, no, goodwill in the case of many companies is mainly | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
brand names, it is the brands, and we can value those and put a | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
monetary value on them. Your company started in the UK and expanded | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
globally and it went from several numbers of people working for you in | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
many cities around the world and you sold that business at the age of 50 | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
and you have bought brands and you own a beer company. I bought one | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
brand, which would Plymouth gin, with two friends and we sold it. And | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
about the same time, I started a brewery which I still own, Saint | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Peter's brewery. Is the theme here alcoholic beverages? I did have a | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
certain interest in the subject! My latest is Male grooming. The beauty | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
business. Yes, Andy chain of barbershops, which is going | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
gangbusters and I have bigger brand owners. Real fun! So you sound like | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
a serial entrepreneur. Thank you for coming. We appreciate your time, | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
really interesting. Thank you. Carlos Ghosn, one of the most | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
influential leaders in the global auto industry, made headlines a few | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
weeks back, announcing he'd give up his role | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
as Chief Rxecutive of Nissan. He remains chairman of the Japanese | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
car maker, but the reshuffle is to allow him to focus on Nissan's | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
alliances with Mitsubishi We caught up with Mr Ghosn | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
at the Geneva Motor Show and asked about his new roles | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
and responsibilities. On the 1st of April, | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
I will be Chairman of Nissan. So when you say 'in your new role', | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
I'm going to obviously be much more involved into the business | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
in Renault, while in Nissan and Mitsubishi, I'm going to be more | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
supporting the management team and guiding them for | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
the growth of the company. But I feel good about what's going | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
on at the level of the industry. I think we're going to | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
have an environment - yes, competitive, yes, | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
difficult - but it's a good environment because we're seeing | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
growth and a lot of opportunities. What other business | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
stories has the media been Joining us again is Richard Hunter, | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Head of Research, at Hello, Richard. We have been asking | :22:44. | :22:57. | |
all morning, who is your most influential women in business, who | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
you think is a shining light, what have you come up with? I think you | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
would be hard-pressed to better Janet Yellen in the United States, | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
and in terms of Europe, somebody like Christine the guard, head of | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
the IMF. And in the UK, if you want rape from loving success | :23:15. | :23:44. | |
Wall Street journal looks at the expense of problem of but a look at | :23:45. | :24:08. | |
theMarch following Donald Trump's election as US President. Today, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
they are supposed to take a day without women's only have a sense of | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
the cost of not having women in the economy. A lot of women cannot take | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
off. The goal is to show the world what life would be like without | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
them. The problem is, as the article says, the kind of executives, not | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
difficult for them to go missing 24 hours, but at the other end of the | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
food chain, as a's had they cannot afford to do. A nice idea, but might | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
have limited success on that basis. Today is the day night he says it | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
will shrink a high-performance huge up for Muslim athletes, for women | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
who face barriers in sport, why has it taken until now to launch this? I | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
totally agree. It is one of the more obvious things, you would have | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
thought. And in terms of the design, they are making it super stretchy so | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
it can be personalised. And with the Middle Eastern climate, it is one of | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
them all breathable technologies, given the inevitable higher | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
temperatures. But the question has to be, why so long? You have two | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
daughters? What are they up to, their aspirations? One is travelling | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
the world and she is in New Zealand. The other is at home developing | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
applications to become a programmer, running internet companies with her | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
other half. So maybe next year, I can mention her as well. Many | :25:51. | :25:51. | |
thanks. It was a very mild start across | :25:52. | :26:11. | |
Southern parts of the country this morning, but rather cloudy, damp, | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
outbreak of light rain. Through the day, a 3-way split, Southern areas | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
cloudy and damp, | :26:21. | :26:22. |