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This is Business Live from BBC News with Susannah

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Latest growth figures from the world's second biggest

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Live from London, that's our top story

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China grows faster than expected - but will measures to rein in debt

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put the brakes on the world's second biggest economy.

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The UK's Brexit secretary urges for both sides

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to get down to business - as the second round of formal talks

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This is how the European markets have been faring so far, the FTSE

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100 in positive territory following on from a record close on Wall

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Street on Friday. And the transformation

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from sugary sodas - to sparkling water -

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we'll be talking to And Game of Thrones -

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the penultimate series of the blockbuster tv series

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is kicking off. It's reportedly worth

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a billion dollars a year. We want to know, are

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you still gripped and why? China's economy is the focus

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of attention today. It has grown more than

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expected in the second quarter of this year -

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by 6.9% - this matters because the country is regarded

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as the world's factory. It's also the world's

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second biggest economy. As you can see here, it's a far cry

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from how things used to be - this shows how for much of the last

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25 years, China has been One of the big worries

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is this number. 258% is the size of China's debts

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compared to its economy. That means it owes more

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than two and a half time Much of the debt is linked

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to the red hot property market which the government

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is trying to cool. The cost of new housing in major

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cities rose 10.4% in May. The government also looks

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likes it is succeeding This year Chinese firms have spent

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$75.2bn on foreign merger and acquisitions which is down

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almost half on the same Financial regulation has

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become a top priority This weekend he's been at a meeting

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of regulators in Beijing where he called for the country's

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central bank to take a bigger role Stephen McDonnell is our

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Beijing Correspondent. We just heard a run through the

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numbers, the second-quarter figures coming in slightly ahead of

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expectations but to what degree can we trust the numbers? That's a very

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good question. I was going to save the government will be very happy

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with these figures, better than expected at you have to take into

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account that some analysts don't trust the GDP figures in China.

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That's because some provinces inflate their own performance to

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appear better than they have been and others play it down because they

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want to attract top from central government and there's been all

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sorts of problems in recent times, getting the problems is to tell the

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truth about GDP figures. Nevertheless I think the trajectory

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is probably right, it's down on what it was in years gone by that people

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should also keep in mind it's coming off a much bigger base. Imagine, six

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and a half percent growth now is probably better than 8% growth some

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years ago because it's coming off so much more and really, economists

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have been saying China was growing too fast anyway, that was part of

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the problem. We heard before the problems of debt, housing prices,

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problems with pollution, all to do with breakneck growth, they've got

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to slow it down and the country is dry to do that, the government dry

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to Tay Bridge so the economy doesn't collapse, it can slow down to a

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manageable level and keep going at something more like, 4% or less.

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There are still concerns the amount of money being put into zombie

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companies, those which aren't creating much, what is planned as

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far as the government is concerned to try and crack down on these and

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limit them? One of the indications that worried people is capital

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flight for example, seem as a big food of no confidence in the Chinese

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economy. Look how many companies and individuals are dry to get money out

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of the country, the government is dry to calm down the horses. They

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are worried about overpriced housing, the value of the local

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currency, dead is a huge problem. I know I keep saying one thing and

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then another but the thing with debt here is that it's a bit different,

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it's old within the Communist Party if you like. Some would say it's not

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as big a problem as others would think because it's kind of like the

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Catholic Church, one part of it going the other arm of the Catholic

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Church monies so if they really want to sort it out in the end, they can.

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But we have to see to what extent this country can maintain its growth

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and in the long run, shift from relying so much on exports and keep

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building up the middle class here and pushing for more of a domestic

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consumption driven model. The Chinese economy going through this

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big period of adjustment, Stephen, thank you.

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

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Brexit Secretary David Davis has called on both sides

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in the negotiations on the UK's departure from the European Union

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Mr Davis is in Brussels for a second round of formal talks on Brexit.

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He said his priority was to "lift the uncertainty" for EU citizens

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living in the UK and Britons living in the EU.

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A major cyber attack could cost the global economy around

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$53 billion dollars - according to research

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That's roughly the same cost as Superstorm Sandy,

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the hurricane that hit the east coast of the United States in 2012.

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Sony is in the final stages of buying believed digital according to

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Japanese media. Sony will get a majority stake and the transaction

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is expected to come to a close later this year. Lots of stories catching

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our attention on the business website. This one in particular. The

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city envoy saying France wants a disruptive Brexit, hoping to disrupt

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London's role. This is according to the City of London envoy to the EU.

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Jeremy Browne saying venture parodies seeking destruction, in

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favour of the hardest Brexit to take opportunity to win business for

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Paris. And much more on the business life page, we'll be bringing you

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some other highlights throughout the programme.

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South Korea has announced the biggest rise in

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Leisha Santorini is in Singapore - why such a big raise now?

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In short it's because South Korea's new President is trying to get

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people to spend more in order to reduce the economy's reliance on

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exports and that's why they are raising the minimum rate wage next

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year by 16% to $6.60 per hour, the biggest jump since 2001. The

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President wants to increase it further in the coming years to about

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$8 80 by 2020. The decision to increase wages wasn't easy, it took

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more than a month of negotiations between business and labour groups,

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businesses oppose a large increase to wages because they say it will

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hurt profitability and it will be to job losses. The trade unions say

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higher wages are needed to ensure families have a minimum level of

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dignity, both sides coming to a compromise and part of that entails

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giving small-business owners financial aid in order to help

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offset the wage increase and that's going to be paid for by the

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government as well. Thank you. Let's check in with the rest of the

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financial markets. The Nikkei is closed

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for a public holiday today. It will be interesting to see how

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investors will react to the news that Sony is in the final stages

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of talks to acquire French music distribution

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providing Believe Digital. Other indices have mainly risen

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in Asia following another record However, Shanghai stocks fell

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after the data came through showing China's economy grew more

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than expected in the second quarter. It's because, as we were discussing

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earlier, about those ongoing concerns about China's debt burden

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and the lack of reforms many This is what it's

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looking like in Europe. EasyJet's share price

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has fallen after news its Chief Executive Carolyn McCall

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is to head up the UK broadcaster ITV and its shares

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have risen as a result. We'll talk more about that in a

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moment. After that record close for both

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the Dow and the S 500 on Friday, Michelle Fleury has the details

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about what's ahead From banking to consumer goods to

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the tech sector, we learn a lot more about the help of corporate America

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this week as firms continue to report quarterly profits. This

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Monday the world's largest money manager Blackrock leases its

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second-quarter profits, at the end of the previous quarter it had by

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$.4 trillion worth of assets under management. Netflix is piling up any

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nominations, investors in the streaming service hope its strong

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content will lead to more than just critical accolades when it reported

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quarterly profits this Monday. It shows like 13 reasons why and

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stranger things, Wall Street expects Netflix to report substantial growth

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in the number of viewers signing up for its servers. The company is

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projected to have added 600 and the 1000 subscribers in the US during

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the quarter. Thank you. Joining us now is David Buik

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from Panmure Gordon. Good morning. Ladies, what a joy.

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Let's talk about what's happening on the markets. Trading in the narrow

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band but lots going on. There is a lot of business going on, it's

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interesting, a feeling which Michelle referred to, that the

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quarter earnings in the United States will be quite good. We had

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three large banks on Friday all beating expectation, whose one

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junior members club that people didn't like, the fact trading

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revenues in the large banks, down 19%, JP Morgan down 6%, Citigroup,

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but the real bread and butter and King was in grade order and the

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prospect of higher interest rates in the United States looks good but

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these shares have rallied between 23-35% since the 8th of November

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last year. It is interesting given the fact tax cuts promised are still

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some way off, even so... Infrastructure spending still miles

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off. The expectation is there because Janet Yellen and said she

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hopes to raise interest rates slowly and stop quantitative easing, not

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stop it but Tay Bridge as far as she can. Do you think the Brits we

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should keep an eye on going forward, as far as US stocks are concerned?

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Obviously Netflix today, a lot of other companies like Johnson and

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Johnson, I want to see how they are getting on, what we want by the end

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of this week as a prop church of exactly how all the sectors have.

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We've heard about financial, some of the consumers will say Johnson and

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Johnson, we need to know about groups like smaller companies. I

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want to ask you about smaller stock, the sale of food group to Unilever.

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What the company has had to do in the same way as Unilever did was

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focus on key businesses. They are about to pay 18 billion dollars for

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a main food operator, they have got to make room for that, cut back as

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much as they can, hopefully selling things like Coremans mustered,

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Unilever is the favourite but cannot be ruled out, wholemeal foods that

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make spam, I don't think and I didn't think people make that any

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more. Keep an eye on the spam! Thank you so much. You're going to stick

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around and take us through some of the other stories, David, great to

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have you here. The transformation from sugary

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sodas to sparkling water. We'll be talking to

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the head of Soda Stream. You're with business

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live from the BBC News. The final route for HS2 be announced

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later. Carillion is amongst the companies awarded the contract ?7

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billion, information on around 16,000 jobs. Joe Lynam has much

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more. It's Britain's biggest investment

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ever in public transport. HighSpeed2 is designed to cut

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journey times and increase the number of passenger

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seats between London It's been six years

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in the planning but now the first construction contracts have been

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signed, and they're worth ?6.6 billion, which the government says

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will support 16,000 jobs The first trains aren't

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expected to run, though, until 2026, by which time they hope

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to carry 300,000 passengers per day. ?50 billion on a track

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of this nature... The Stop HS2 Campaign

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in the Chiltern says it will only benefit the richest in society

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and the corporations who build it. And reports on the weekend said HS2

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could end up as the most expensive Even so, the muddy work of spades

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in the ground begins next year for what the government

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calls "The backbone Let's check in with

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the financial markets. We have an update on the BBC Online

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website, ITV naming easyJet's Carolyn McCall as the new Chief

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Executive. As we were saying earlier, on the back of this story

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we saw that ITV shares have rallied whilst easyJet's have taken a slump.

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Carolyn McCall appointed adds the new Chief Executive of the

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broadcaster ITV, having formerly been at the budget airline easyJet.

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There's been a lot of speculation on this move already affecting the

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share prices of both the companies. Now we have that story confirmed.

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Much more on the BBC website for you, including the Biz live page.

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Overseas landlords shun the UK as tax changes bite.

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China's economy grew at 6.9%, higher than many forecast. It's trying to

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rein in debt. Let's check in with

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the financial markets. The Nikkei is closed

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for a public holiday today. A quick look at how

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the markets are faring. Today we are going to get busy

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with a fizzy, a slogan that was made to sell sugary sodas,

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which is now being used to persuade consumers to switch

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to sparkling water instead. Soda Stream originated in 1903

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with the first apparatus that It reached maximum popularity

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in the 60s and 70s, aided by the tag line that we mentioned,

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as bottle shops became hangout In 1991, the drinks-maker

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was purchased from Cadbury-Schweppes In 2014, the company switched focus

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from the overcrowded flavoured drinks market to sparkling water

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with an environmental plastic-free emphasis,

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a shift that saw a quadrupling We are joined by Daniel Birnbaum,

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CEO of Soda Stream. Thank you for coming in and bringing

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some freshly carbonated water for us. We have been mentioning how long

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soda stream has been around, 100 years, but there's been a see

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change. You were known for sparkly, fizzy sweet unhealthy drinks but now

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you are making the shift into healthy sparkling water. How are you

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managing to get that message across? That's right. Soda stream is a brand

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in transition and we used to be a fizzy drinks maker. Then in 2014 we

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announced a strategy to focus on sparkling water. Today we are the

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largest sparkling water brand in the world, three times the size of San

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Pellegrino. We are one of the fastest growing brands in the world

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so something is work, here. It's about the consumer, voting against

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sugar and disposable plastic bottles. This bottle can make 30,000

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litres of sparkling water, 3,000! In a world where we are creating so

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much trash, it's a billion and a half disposable bottles every single

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day are manufacturered and used, which is incredible. This waste is

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going nowhere. All the plastic that's ever been created in the

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world still exists. In the garages up and down this country, there'll

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be lots of redundant soda streams. I have one in our house because I had

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one when I was growing up and there is a sticky residue in the

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cupboards. What is the market now, not children any more? There are

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millions of soda streams in homes because everyone used to have one.

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It's easy and convenient, you save money, you are healthy. Or just

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drink tap water? Exactly. It's cheap and safe. While we have the

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companies out there, the bottled brands led by Coca-Cola and Nestle

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that are seducing customers into believing tap water is unsafe and

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they should pay money for the bottled waters, at soda stream, we

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are saying drink tap water. If you want the bubbles, we have a device

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to help you do that cheap and easy. There are a lot of markets that you

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are not going into because you are dubious about the quality of the tap

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water? Well, no, we are already in 45 countries in the world, the

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fastest growing... You are not in China or Brazil? We are in Brazil.

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In China we are waiting because we have so much growth potential where

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we are. 60% of our revenue comes from Europe, the largest market is

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Germany. We expect the UK to vote against plastic waste and drink tap

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water and if they want bubbles use soda stream and bring in their old

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machines, we'll give a heavy discount on a new device. I want to

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ask you about controversy that's surrounded the firm and it's also

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the track fill which was located, there was a boycott at one point.

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What have you done to try to tackle that issue? That is true. We used to

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have a factory in the West Bank in Israel. We shifted that factory

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because we grew so much, we needed to relocate. What we do is, we do

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the economy of peace. We reach out to people from both sides of the

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conflict, Palestinians and Israelis. We employ 2,000 people in Israel and

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get people to know each other and live together and respect each other

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and celebrate coexistence. I invite you to come and visit the factory

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and you will see what peace looks like and we are proud of that. It's

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a big claim. It is. Thank you very much for coming in. Thanks for

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having me. Online shaving subscriptions are out

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there now. Products like shaving foam and gel can be delivered to

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your home. The CEO secret team have been

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talking to the man who has been behind this. Focus on your

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priorities. My days can be really busy, filled

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with meetings, runs around from place-to-place, I wake up, I'm on my

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phone seeing what happened overnight. My daughter comes in and

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joins me, grabs my phone and starts to try to eat it which is usually a

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good reminder, I try to schedule blocks of time, one or two hours of

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uninterrupted time, pretend like it's a meeting. It's hard to get ten

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things done when you are trying to juggle all ten done at once. It's

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easier to get two or three things done if you can create time and

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space to focus on the two or three things.

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Let's see what other stories are being talked

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Joining us again is David Buik from Panmure Gordon.

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Lloyds says cyber attack comed cost $120 billion, the same as Hurricane

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Katrina, but there is a caveat. It says it's very difficult to try and

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assess the costs really? It's impossible, but what I'm really

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pleased about is the Chief Executive of Lloyds of London has thrown not a

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pebble in the water but a bolder, saying Guys and Dolls, if you don't

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watch out, this is what can happen. So you cannot do enough in terms of

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security. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 cost about $105 billion and there

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was a more recent one in 2012 which cost about $50-$60 billion. There

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are two areas where we need to be careful. One is the business of the

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cloud. That could cost $53. The figure varies between 15 and 120

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billion dollars, the second most likely is computer operating systems

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where they think the loss could be as much as 28.7. We had the national

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health system hijacked last time and we got away with murder thanks to

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the young fellow coming out of the clouds from nowhere. It was

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extraordinary. Lucky. It won't be as lucky as that next time. Is it

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Governments that need to act or... And corporate people and the

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computer companies. It's a full-on job. I want to ask you about what we

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have all been talking about, the fact that here in the UK tonight we

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can watch the first series of Graham of Thrones, we asked our viewers if

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they were excited. Nicholas says too much gratuitous sex and violence,

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not seen any of it. Derek says I wish the books stayed ahead of the

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series. And Trevor says the greatest TV series of all-time. It's a

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money-spinner if nothing else? There are 30 million people that disagree,

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of course, you know! 8.9 million watched the last episode and this is

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the seventh series. Keeps running. Never beat Sopranos in a million

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years. There you've got it. Thanks for coming in.

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There'll be more business news throughout the day on the BBC live

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web page and on ward business news report.

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Some warm, even hot temperatures in the first part of the week. The risk

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of a thunder storm

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