:00:00. > :00:00.Those are the latest headlines from BBC News.
:00:00. > :00:00.Now for the latest financial news with Aaron Heslehurst
:00:00. > :00:25.The French agree to build Britain's first new new-clear power
:00:26. > :00:29.But now the Brits want more time to think.
:00:30. > :00:32.Plus - five centuries in business but now banking on a rescue.
:00:33. > :00:41.The perilous state of the world's oldest financial institution.
:00:42. > :00:56.This is just a bite-size snapshot of all the latest in the world of
:00:57. > :01:00.business and money. Also coming up: Will the Bank
:01:01. > :01:03.of Japan turn on the money It could end up as one of the most
:01:04. > :01:12.expensive structures ever built. It would certainly be a massive,
:01:13. > :01:14.multi-billion dollar gamble for the companies and
:01:15. > :01:16.governments involved, We are talking about Britain's first
:01:17. > :01:27.nuclear power station in a generation, the
:01:28. > :01:29.proposed Hinkley C plant Late on Thursday the board of French
:01:30. > :01:34.energy giant EDF narrowly approved the $24 billion project,
:01:35. > :01:36.despite fears it could In fact, two senior executives have
:01:37. > :01:49.quit over all of this. Now, the UK Government says
:01:50. > :01:52.it won't make a final Because of the vast cost,
:01:53. > :02:00.a third of the investment The state CGN group will put
:02:01. > :02:07.in almost $8 billion, that's The Chinese hope it will give them
:02:08. > :02:15.an in with the UK government Hinkley C would provide
:02:16. > :02:24.3,200 megawatts of power. That would supply 7% of the UK's
:02:25. > :02:29.total electricity requirement. It's enough to make 85.3 million
:02:30. > :02:43.cups of tea at once. Or to keep the lights on in 48.5
:02:44. > :02:46.million homes around the UK. to charge 640 million iPhones
:02:47. > :02:58.all at the same time. In return for their
:02:59. > :02:59.massive investment, the French and Chinese
:03:00. > :03:01.would get a guaranteed price for the electricity
:03:02. > :03:04.the plant produces. That price is this -
:03:05. > :03:08.about ?92.50, or $121.68, per megawatt hour of electricity
:03:09. > :03:17.for a period of 35 years. this is more than twice
:03:18. > :03:24.the current market rate, another one of the reasons
:03:25. > :03:26.it is so controversial. Dr Paul Dorfman is from
:03:27. > :03:41.the Energy Institute The delay from the British side, is
:03:42. > :03:45.this a Brexit issue or a new government going, we just need a bit
:03:46. > :03:53.more time to think about this? Yes, it's good news. The deal, as you
:03:54. > :03:56.say, is deeply problematic and it looks like our government is
:03:57. > :04:04.thinking again. There are lots of reasons for this. The reactor that
:04:05. > :04:08.his bill is the same brand of reactor that has failed in
:04:09. > :04:13.construction terms, both in Finland and France, where it is about three
:04:14. > :04:21.times over time and cost. That will be a problem in itself, right? This
:04:22. > :04:26.is a plant that has failed? It is certainly a failed reactor. The
:04:27. > :04:31.failure of the construction of this reactor has essentially bankrupted
:04:32. > :04:37.EDF's construction arm, which will have to be bailed out by the French
:04:38. > :04:43.government. Can I just ask you this. Time is short. Some will say this is
:04:44. > :04:48.a 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem and locking in
:04:49. > :04:53.at prices for the UK government, to pay the French and Chinese, locking
:04:54. > :04:59.in a rate that is more than twice the market rate today for 35 years,
:05:00. > :05:08.that is absurd, isn't it? It does seem to be absurd and there are
:05:09. > :05:12.problems with it. For example, this is all the UK government has to find
:05:13. > :05:19.low carbon energy. Fortunately, nuclear by about 2020 will eat all
:05:20. > :05:23.of the framework. So if you are wondering why we have seen the
:05:24. > :05:28.decimation of nuclear solar, wind, UK gridlock grid, that's why. If you
:05:29. > :05:33.are talking about energy in the round, a recent report has said that
:05:34. > :05:37.renewables account for all of the increasing global power generation
:05:38. > :05:42.in 2050, so that's a 70% in wind and about 32% in solar, with China
:05:43. > :05:46.leading the way. Thank you very much. Short and sweet, but we
:05:47. > :05:48.appreciate your time. In Italy, there are growing fears
:05:49. > :05:50.about the health of Tonight, after the US markets close,
:05:51. > :05:57.the EU will publish results of the latest so-called
:05:58. > :06:04.bank stress tests. Those are basically to test if banks
:06:05. > :06:08.can withstand the financial crisis. are expected to be the major source
:06:09. > :06:22.of concern, as Theo Leggett reports This is the world's oldest bank,
:06:23. > :06:27.founded in 1472 it originally provided small loans to Tuscan
:06:28. > :06:32.farmers. Now it is Italy's third-largest bank and is in
:06:33. > :06:37.trouble, weighed down by a huge fort stomach portfolio of loans that may
:06:38. > :06:41.never be repaid. -- huge portfolio. There are about 600 banks across the
:06:42. > :06:45.country and more local branches than pizza restaurants. Many of them are
:06:46. > :06:51.struggling because customers can't repay their debts. Across the
:06:52. > :06:57.sector, depending on which metrics you look at, there are 360 billion
:06:58. > :07:04.euros, which makes up about one fifth of the country's GDP and about
:07:05. > :07:07.20% of all loans in the country. Here in this northern Italian town
:07:08. > :07:12.they know exactly what can happen when a bank gets into financial
:07:13. > :07:15.trouble. Last deal on local bank was one of four which had to be bailed
:07:16. > :07:20.out by the Italian government. But the price of that they allowed under
:07:21. > :07:26.EU law was that investors had to lose money and in Italy bank
:07:27. > :07:33.investors are often ordinary savers. One of them is Roberto. He and his
:07:34. > :07:37.wife lost 24,000 euros they had invested in the bank. Now he's
:07:38. > :07:45.fighting for compensation. TRANSLATION: It doesn't matter what
:07:46. > :07:50.had -- whether it is 100 or 1000 euros. We are talking about our
:07:51. > :07:53.money, money that we made from hard work and sweat. It is my money and
:07:54. > :08:00.the Italian government has stolen it from me. This is a relatively small
:08:01. > :08:05.bank. ??Monte dei Paschi is a lot to go. If a solution to its problems
:08:06. > :08:08.can't be found in the private sector the government may have to step in
:08:09. > :08:12.and many more ordinary people could lose their money. Experts fear that
:08:13. > :08:21.could cause political up rural, possibly threatening the government
:08:22. > :08:25.and the Prime Minister and sending shockwaves through the entire EU.
:08:26. > :08:28.To Asia now, where all eyes are on Tokyo,
:08:29. > :08:30.specifically the Bank of Japan which has just wound
:08:31. > :08:39.Karishma Vaswani is our Asia business correspondent.
:08:40. > :08:45.All of these huge expectations on the bank of Japan and they came out
:08:46. > :08:49.and said, we will do something, we will continue pumping money into the
:08:50. > :08:53.markets. That's about it, and nobody likes that at the moment. You are
:08:54. > :08:56.absolutely right. I think this is being read as a major
:08:57. > :08:59.disappointment. Investors were looking for some sort of major
:09:00. > :09:05.effort by the bank of Japan and the central bank of an to show that he
:09:06. > :09:15.was trying to support the Japanese economy. -- bank governor. Japan has
:09:16. > :09:19.been in a two decade-long slump. Prices are low, wages are low and
:09:20. > :09:23.the problem is that no matter what the central bank and the government
:09:24. > :09:26.has thrown at this problem, massive, billions of dollars worth of cash
:09:27. > :09:31.and money and stimulus, even pushing interest rates further below zero,
:09:32. > :09:36.nothing appears to be working. Earlier in the week we saw a move by
:09:37. > :09:42.the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced plans for a $265
:09:43. > :09:46.billion stimulus package. He says details of that will be released
:09:47. > :09:50.next week. And it looked at the time like he was saying to his friend at
:09:51. > :09:57.the central bank, now show your cards. Well, it hasn't impressed
:09:58. > :10:01.investors at all. Nothing has worked in the past and nothing will work in
:10:02. > :10:07.the future, until economic structural reforms! Economic
:10:08. > :10:10.structural reforms. The Nikkei is down just over 1% and the Japanese
:10:11. > :10:12.yen has gone back up again. That continues to hurt the Japanese
:10:13. > :10:12.economy. Don't forget you can get in touch
:10:13. > :10:16.with me and some of the team I will be back to look at some of
:10:17. > :10:25.the papers from around the world. The UK's first maternity service
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