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Now for the latest financial news and World Business Report. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Europe holds emergency talks on making its airports safer - | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
amid growing concern from the travel business. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Plus - fighting for the 35 hour week. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
France braced for more protests over reforms to the country's labour laws | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
Also in the programme China's second largest | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
steel producer says its upping production this year even though | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
We start with the travel industry and growing concerns | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
Later today officials from all over the region will hold | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
an emergency meeting in Amsterdam to assess whether security can be | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
It follows the Brussels terror attacks last week, as well | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
as the hijacking of an Egyptian airliner on TuesdayIt's a major task | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
as the hijacking of an Egyptian airliner on Tuesday. It's a major | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
- the European Commission's Aviation Security committee will be | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
It's thought talks will focus on the departure halls - the areas | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
people enter before going through security checks to the "air side." | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
That was where two bombs were set off at Brussels Zaventem airport | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
last week Some security analysts have asked whether Europe needs to | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
follow the lead of countries like Russia and Turkey - where passengers | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
are often screened before they even enter the airport building. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Some in the travel industry though are concerned this could have | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
a huge impact in terms of delays at Europe's busiest airports. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
And they question how effective it would be anyway. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
He's what travel journalist Simon Calder had to say. | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
ACI Europe which represents the airports said do not do this. You | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
will just move the Roblin elsewhere. If the airports want to avoid having | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
rules imposed by politicians, then they are going to have to do | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
something smarter. Alan Bowen is from AGB Associates - | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
which provides legal advice to Good morning. A lot of discussion | :02:22. | :02:36. | |
has been in the public arena since the events in Brussels and then what | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
happened this week with the landing of the aircraft in Cyprus. I think | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the hijacking this week has caused a great deal of concern. How did the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
passenger get on-board with something that looks like a bomb and | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
how did he get access to the cockpit. What is likely to be the | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
outcome of these discussions? I think the real issue is the issue of | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
intelligence. We will see more sharing of intelligence. They are | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
proposals of directives for airlines to pass on information. We are | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
hopeful that will get past in the next couple of months. The big issue | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
is whether we make changes in the airports themselves. The explosions | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
in Brussels to place landside, with people who have note ticket. That | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
would mean putting in cheques at the front door and that could be an | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
issue and many apples have combined transport hubs. Heathrow have lines | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
that go directly from the platform to the terminal. They would have to | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
be major structural changes to ensure 100% security. Is it likely | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
to be a Europewide direct on how airports operate all will it be up | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
to national governments? I do not believe it is an issue that should | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
be imposed from Brussels or Amsterdam. However a look at what is | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
best practice and how those who are not reaching the standards can | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
perhaps be assisted. What do you think is the best thing to do was | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
make is it practical to screen everyone as they walked through the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
door? At the moment the answer is no. In Tel Aviv they do that now but | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
you have to be there at least three hours before departure is and the | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
interrogation can take ten minutes to an hour per person. Heathrow had | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
2500 people travelling in a couple of days, -- 25,000. You cannot do | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
that. You need to find a balance between security and convenience. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Just to say, when we get any news out of the meeting in Amsterdam, we | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
will keep you across that. We're also in France | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
which is braced for more strikes and protests today over proposed reforms | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
to the country's labour laws. The Government wants an end to | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
the rigid 35 hour working week - the shortest in any European | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
country - which it says is helping These were the scenes last week | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
when the Cabinet agreed to the reforms, which now have to go | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
before parliament. Bosses would be able to ask staff to | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
work 48 hours in a week, or even 60 in special circumstances | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
- but only if they still average 35 Today's action looks set to cause | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
disruption to public services, public transport and even TV | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
services around the country. Here's our correspondent in | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Paris Hugh Schofield. Today is the real big test for the | :05:54. | :06:08. | |
French Labour law. The unions have promised a big turnout on the street | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
and if they can bring the numbers out, they still have a chance to put | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
pressure on the government to change the text yet again. That's not | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
forget, the government has already substantially watered down this | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
deal. The aim of the reform to the Labour code was to make it easier, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
less scary for companies to take on staff and at the beginning, business | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
was very much in favour but since then, the government has removed a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
lot of the key provisions which has angered business without | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
particularly satisfying the left and the union who want the whole thing | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
scrapped. When you reminders are coming in as to how desperate front | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
needs reform. Unemployment figures show there are 3.6 million people - | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
a record - out of work. Other countries have the same problems. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Other countries are bringing down unemployment. Not France. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Let's go to Asia now where there is news of plunging profits | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
and falling prices in China's huge steel industry. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Ali Moore is following it for us in our Singapore office. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Ali, this is very relevant in terms of what's happening to | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
China is constantly accused of causing disruption worldwide. It is | :07:24. | :07:41. | |
very relevant and very much the backdrop of what is happening in UK. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Chill announcements today - -- two announcements. They are finding it | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
very tough. At the same time, they have been forecasting total steel | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
production by 20%, even though prices are going to stay low. China | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
is pumping up rather even though they are not getting the return and | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
the UK is feeling that with Tata Steel's decision. This is the group | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Chief executive talking about how conditions have changed. In the last | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
few years, we had significant oil capacity out of China which has | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
flooded the market so the dynamics of the steel industry globally has | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
changed significantly compared to the time of acquisition. The Chinese | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
government is aiming to shut around 150 million tons of capacity but | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
right now, this is a very crowded market. Too much supply and to few | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
buyers. Let's quickly show you financial markets... We come to the | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
end of the first quarter of 2016. What a three months it has been. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Japan is up just slightly. We have about 20 minutes trade to go but | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
having said that the clocks changed so I could be wrong, apologies for | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
those watching in Japan. The yen is still pretty strong. Good to see | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Japan keeping its head above water. All these markets have been buoyed | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
still by the comments we had from Janet Yellen earlier this week. We | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
will discuss that in a bit more detail in a few moments. | :09:47. | :09:50. |