30/06/2017 BBC Business Live

Live from London, that's our top story on Friday June 30th.

Scores of flights will be cancelled over the 16-day walkout,

with many asking if the cost-cutting is worth it.

as the week draws to a close, we assess the fallout of the major

cyber attack that hit businesses around the world.

And the markets? Yesterday, Europe had its worst day for about nine

months and today, not looking quite so bad but the FTSE is still down.

We will be looking at the figures. And we'll wrap up the tech stories

with our guru Rory Cellan-Jones - Also, as packets of Weetabix are

fine for Google. Also, as packets of Weetabix are

inhabited New Zealand, we want to know what you can't live without

when you go on holiday. Is it your pot of Marmite

or your tea bag? Let us know.

Just use the hashtag BBCBizLive. We start with more problems

for British Airways. Thousands of passengers

are learning that their flights have been cancelled

because of an unprecedented 16-day strike by some cabin crew,

which begins tomorrow, July 1st. On Thursday, BA said most flights

will operate as normal, but it has cancelled a number

of long-haul departures Short-haul and flights from other UK

airports are unaffected. The Unite union says cabin crew

who have taken industrial action over pay in the past

have been "blacklisted" losing benefits like staff travel

concessions and bonuses. BA estimates around 8% of its total

cabin crew will walk out. To limit the damage,

the airline is merging some It is also talking to other carriers

such as Qatar Airways, which owns one-fifth of its parent

IAG, about using their services. Well, upsetting its customers again

is the last thing BA needs after a major IT crash last month

stranded 75,000 passengers. The financial cost

was some $100 million - but the cost to BA's reputation -

possibly much greater. Alan Bowen from AGB

Associates is with me. He is an airline analyst. This has

really become a very entrenched stand-off, hasn't it? And it is more

than just pay which is at stake. Yes, it started with pay. It relates

to cabin crew who began work after 2010 and they are on a very

different and much lower pay scale than staff who were there before.

But that has been resolved but BA took the view that because they went

on strike, they would lose all the additional benefits they are

entitled to. What will happen now? This is coming right in the middle

of the holiday season, really, at the start of it, anyway. How much

disruption is there going to be? Interestingly, BA seems to have

leased aircraft from Qatar airlines. Interesting choice. Indeed, we are

aware they are bringing in nine aircraft to operate flights which

they might not be able to operate themselves. The number of staff

going on strike maximum appears to be about 1400 and they have a total

of 15,000. Their intention is to operate as many flights as possible.

They have promised but we will have to wait and see whether it happens,

that they will get everyone everywhere they want to beat but

they've cancelled about six long-haul flights in the next seven

days. On short-haul, their aim is to ensure they operate at least one

flight per day on all routes so you may have to fly at a different time

but their intention is to get everyone to their destination.

Interesting choice of Qatar airlines given that they have been isolated

in recent political events. Indeed, Qatar has its own problems at home

and it is also a shareholder in IAG, the holding company of BA and for

the Middle East, this is low season because temperatures are very high

and people are not travelling. It is a win-win from that perspective.

Let's talk about BA's reputation because it was traditionally seen as

the flagship carrier, a step up those budget offerings but it feels

like all the recent headlines have been about cost-cutting and its

consequences. How the airline being viewed? Orange Mackreth a lot of

people are beginning to wonder whether it has still been the

world's favourite airline, it cut food and drink from short-haul

flights so you have to buy a sandwich on board if you want it. It

has upset most of the travel agents in Europe with an announcement they

are going to charge additional fees for travel agents to book them from

the 1st of November. And obviously, we had the disaster on the bank

holiday weekend. It is not looking great. Thank you for joining us.

Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

Deutsche Bank has again rejected demands by US

House Democrats to provide details of President Donald Trump's

Deutsche Bank has loaned the Trump organisation millions of dollars

The European Union is appealing a recent World Trade Organisation

ruling in favour of the US over its state aid for Boeing.

Earlier this month, a WTO dispute panel found the US had dealt

with all but one of the instances of illegal subsidies

Two Montessori schools in New York won't let parents

pay by credit card - but they will now accept Bitcoin.

The schools added the option after a growing number

The decision comes as more and more places -

including universities in London and Greece -

no longer accept the digital currency as payment.

Have you ever paid for anything with bit groin? I certainly haven't. Me

neither, I would not know where to start. Let's take a look at some of

the stories on the business Live page and let's talk about rasp

reply, the computer. I thought you were bringing in pudding! It is a

microcomputer and the company behind it said they had no idea it would be

so big. It has sold 14 million of these tiny microcomputers, mainly

aimed at schools but they have now gone into a number of businesses and

industry as well and rasp reply has just won a top innovation prize from

the Royal Academy of engineering. -- Roseberry pie. Rory is going to

bring us in one. But not edible, sadly.

A Chinese bank and a shipping firm have been hit with sanctions

by the US over allegations of support for North Korea.

Let's get more with Tim McDonald who's in Singapore.

Tim, this is a real ratcheting up, perhaps in relations with China by

the US? Well, it is interesting you say that. In fact, the US has kind

that it not really so much about sending a message to China as just

focusing on the entities involved. In this case, as you've mentioned,

two Chinese citizens, a shipping company and the back, which the US

says are connected to North Korea's weapons programme, the bank of

Dandong which the Treasury Department has zeroed in on is for

all intents and purposes just a local Chinese bank, not well-known

beyond the city of Dandong itself but it's on the border with North

Korea and one of the few places where there is significant traffic

into and out of the country and the US says about 17% of its

transactions are with entities that have US or UN sanctions on them for

connections to North Korea's weapons programme. The US once again says

this is about sending a message to China, as well as the entities

involved. They continue to work with John on this. -- this is not about

sending a message to China, just the entities involved. They are

continuing to look at the entities which may be helping North Korea.

Thank you for joining us. The markets in Asia followed

the mood of Europe and Wall Street yesterday,

trading down - why? Those signals from the world central

banks that the almost decade-long era of low interest rates,

cheap money, is slowly and, given that the markets

are susceptible to sentiment, you might expect the optimism

to have a positive impact, but some investors are concerned

that the world economy might not be able to take the

interest rate rises. Europe yesterday had its worst day

for about nine months, and the Dax. A few months ago but it is down and

the FTSE is down. Let's go to Wall Street and see what is happening

there. US markets should be quiet on Friday

ahead of what is likely to be a long weekend giving the 4th of July

public holiday on Tuesday. Still, there is some economic data for

investors to consider. The University of Michigan consumer

sentiment index is released and the last reading this index showed

consumer sentiment at its lowest level since the presidential

election in November. Economists are not expecting it to have risen

significantly. There are no big company earnings out but that does

not mean you should not keep an eye out on energy stocks. On Thursday

afternoon, President Trump gave a speech boasting of the strength of

America's energy industry and claiming new initiatives would be

coming to boost power, natural gas and oil production. Maybe that will

bring some cheer to investors in those industries.

Michelle Fleury in New York. Joining us is Jeremy Cook,

Chief Economist, World First. Rachel was talking earlier about the

impact on the financial markets, particularly European indices and

Asian indices and the US, the fact it looks like it is the end of the

era of easy money but what is happening to the currency? It is and

some currencies, the euro and sterling, normally during the summer

doldrums, everything trades sideways but this is the time where central

bankers around the world have decided to inject a bit of

volatility into the markets. Sterling and the euro have both

gained in the past week as the bank of England and the ECB respectively

have said we should be getting prepared, or certainly policymakers

at the central banks are saying getting prepared for rate rises.

They are happy with where rates are at the moment but they want to say

rate rises are coming soon. Explain why that is. If the dollar is more

in demand? The best way to think about currencies is like savings

accounts. Where are you going to put your money? If I gave you both

?10,000 now, I'm a generous guy, and said you could put it in a savings

account, savings account that pays you 2%, or 4%, you will put it in

the one that pays 4% but if they both pay 2% and you think the second

one will hike in interest rates, more money will flow into that so

investors are looking at it that way. Excellent interest -- excellent

explanation. And data coming out of China as regards to factory output,

what is that showing? Manufacturing PMI rising a bit so this is

sentiment in the manufacturing industry in China, the largest in

the world, the second largest economy in a while and if they are

doing well, that should flow through the rest of Asia and Manufacturing

is normally the first thing to roll higher in a new input or spurt of

economic growth. If China is doing well, hopefully the rest of Asia is

doing well and a lot of the economic centre of gravity has shifted there,

given the pick-up of Southeast Asia in the past ten or 20 years. Thank

you for joining us. And I know you will come back to talk through some

of the other stories in the papers. Some interesting ones. What can't

you go abroad without? Have a thing. Still to come - record

fines and cyber attacks - it's been a big week

in the tech world. We'll make sense of it

all with the man in the know, our technology correspondent,

in a few minutes. You're with Business

Live from BBC News. A survey of UK consumer confidence

suggests it has fallen to the lowest level since last June's referendum

on European Union membership. Researchers at GfK,

which conducted the research, found that the biggest drop

was in people's willingness And later today, we find out

the final figure for economic growth in the first quarter of this year,

which was revised down to 0.2%. Well, let's get more with our

business correspondent Theo Leggett. Let's start with the growth figures.

Remind us what figure we were given initially at where we stand at the

moment. The figure we were given initially for the first quarter was

0.3% compared to the previous quarter. That has since been revised

down as more information comes in, to 0.2% and we are expecting it to

be finalised at about that level and that is a significant slowdown from

the tail end of last year when the figure was 0.7%. Any indication that

consumer confidence is declining is worrying because it suggests that

could weigh on growth in the future. That is true, the consumer

confidence... But are there other indications of why that is? Several

factors could be at play. One of them is clearly uncertainty caused

by the general election. If you compare this survey with another one

that came out earlier in the week from YouGov, that suggested that

consumer confidence was reasonably stable up until the election and

then declined quite dramatically afterwards but you have to factor in

other matters as well. The decline in the value of sterling since the

referendum last year, that is starting to feed through to

inflation. One thing we are seeing in this survey is that people are

becoming more reluctant to spend on big-ticket items like washing

machines and pieces of furniture. The simple reason is, those things

are becoming expensive. If they are imported, they will certainly be

more expensive. There's pressure on wages as well, wage growth is not

what it once was. The combination of things getting more expensive and

people not feeling they are going to get any wealthier, that may be

suppressing consumer as well. -- consumer confidence. Thank you for

joining us. Another story we want to tell you

about on the business page, Trinity Mirror has allocated more money to

phone hacking claims, setting aside an extra ?7.5 million to cover

claims related to the hacking of phones which adds to the ?26 million

it had already earmarked to pay for that. It has settled cases with

dozens of celebrities, the newspaper group.

Our top story - British Airways prepares for a major walk-out

by cabin crew that will ground some of the carriers' scheduled flights.

It comes only weeks after an IT glitch caused chaos for the airline.

A quick look at how markets are faring.

It is red across the board at the moment. The FTSE 100 down and there

are concerns about the era of easy money coming to an end that has

affected the stock markets and the currencies.

And now let's get the inside track on tech.

This week, Google was slapped with the EU's

largest ever fine for distorting the market.

The European Commission fined the tech giant

$2.7 billion after it ruled the company had abused its power

by promoting its own shopping comparison service

And a large-scale cyber attack involving malicious software

disrupted firms' computer systems, hitting Ukraine especially hard,

but spreading to countries as far apart as Norway and India,

Let's find out more with our technology correspondent

Let's start with this cyber-attack, it seems as though it was mainly

targeted on Ukraine, but spread out. When glitches, the patches weren't

put in places that's right? When it first happened, we thought is it a

repeat of that attack we saw around the world. It does appear to be

similar, but different in crucial ways. Yes, it appears to have been

targeted at Ukraine and there is suspicion being thrown at Russia,

but the technique is different. It looks like the other one. But it is

actually wiping data. It is not actually they think about gaining

money, it is a malicious attack which indicates it could be

state-sponsored. But it hit a Russian airline. Once the attacks

are out there, their effects can be unpredictable. Now that Google fine,

higher than many people expected. Yes it was a real marker for how

determined the European competition is and it has opened up a split

between Europe and the United States. Europe says we are complying

competition law. Voices from America saying, you're biased against our

successful company. All the company has done is be the best in its field

and used its skills to conquer a market. Europe believing that Google

is abusing that dominance in one area to spread into other

businesses. Remind us what they did? It is about shopping services, put a

name of a product into Google, put in leather shoes and a box comes up

with adverts and when you click on one advert, Google earns money.

Other price comparison sites are available, but you will struggle to

find them in a Google search. I spoke to companies who say their

businesses have been affected and other search companies, by the

practices. It is difficult to get back into the market. Could it lead

to more innovation in Europe. The argument from America is the

opposite, it is punishing innovation and the European commission doesn't

understand how business works. Google says people have a choice and

they say their big rival is Amazon and you go there. Perhaps there

could be more competition do you think in certain areas of the world

where the dominance of Google has been reigned back. The bigger

picture, experts say this is possibly the wrong target and there

is the dominance of three or four American technology giants and

concern around the world the regulators need to do something to

hold that back, to attack that, otherwise we won't see the

innovation we expect. Thank you. We are going to be talking about

Raspberry Pis. It is not a dessert. It is a tiny computer launched in

2012 in an attempt to change the way children understood computers and to

get them programming. It has had a bigger effect than expected, the

reason we are talking about it is last night it was awarded the

biggest annual prize for engineering, the prize that has been

won by Rolls-Royce and lots of huge projects, it has won it, because it

has gone beyond being an educational tool and it is ending up in

factories, the 40 million that are sold are ending up in factories. It

started off to encourage children to get into coding. Yes it had modest

ambitions and they expected to sell tens of thousand, it is a charitable

aim, the bigger project is encouraging kids around the world to

get into coding. So just a great example of how something can snow

ball, a bit of engeneral youty, came from -- ingenuity. Have you coded

with it? Yes I'm very inexpert, but I did manage to make a radio with

this. I was very proud of myself. So you're never too old to learn. That

is what I'm told. Thank you. In a moment we'll take a look

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Jeremy is back to look through the papers.

We will start with that cyber security story, this is is an

innovation that happened to bark cards in -- bank cards in France,

where the three little numbers on the back, there is a computer screen

on the card. That is incredible and the numbers will change on an hourly

basis, if somebody finds your card there is a number that is always

static. So this is to try and cut down the online fraud, which has

boomed, as we have decided to shop more and more online, I think, it is

something like 28% of all US commerce is online at the moment. So

imagine the size of the Amazons and that when it gets to 50%. But the

fraudsters are taking advantage. Interesting this has come from

France, actually chip and pin was first developed in France you go to

France and think what is this? And it took us a few years. You go

around the world and chip and pin which we treat here in the UK and in

Europe as de facto and contactless, in the United States for example,

you still have to sign for things. There is a long way for the security

protocols to become the same. But this is fighting the fraudsters. Now

Weetabix has been seized in New Zealand. In a breakfast bowl battle.

Post-Brexit relations with New Zealand are already fraught. We

asked our viewers to tell us what they can't go without. This has been

shipped to New Zealand to be sold in a ship in Christchurch. Alan said,

HP Sauce, crumpets. One said my lap top. One said, are they impounding

Weetabix to try and stop The British Lions. Yes we will need all the help

we can get on Saturday. This is about Weetabix and Weet-bix that is

the New Zealand version. There are hundreds of packets. 300 boxes not

being served into this small business, A Little Bit of Britain,

that sells things to ex-pats there. This is a portion of just, I'm

looking at it through t kaleidoscope of Brexit. We will have to sign

deals to stop this. There will be trade marks that exist any way. Yes,

but in the grand scheme of things, these businesses don't just exist in

New Zealand, there is a very big one in New York which I pop by and you

see people buying 12 pound boxes of Yorkshire tea. One says, when I go

abroad, I must are a a packet of digestive biscuits. . I have to have

cheese and onion crisps. Don't eat them on the plane. Thank you for

coming in. There will be more business news

throughout the day on the BBC Live web page and on World Business

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