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Now for the latest financial news with Sally

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Mexico's economy and foreign Ministers brace for talks with US

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trade officials as President Trump tells car makers they must build

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A warning from Lego that more must be done in China to stop

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counterfeiters as its own master builder struggles to tell a fake

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Japan enjoying lower or ill prices with a trade surplus for six years.

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Mexico's Economy Foreign ministers are due to meet top US officials

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later today as they brace for the renegotiation of NAFTA -

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the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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President Trump is pushing to bring more manufacturing jobs back

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He's already met with the heads of Ford, General Motors

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and Fiat-Chrysler - telling them they must make more

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Taking a look at this graph - you can see its exports to the US

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have surged since Nafta came into force in 1994.

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Mexico now sells more than $270 billion worth of goods

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It's thought talks between Mexico and the US will focus on so-called

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'Rules of Origin' - which limits the proportion

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of a product which comes from outside North America.

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If limits were tightened, it could boost manufacturing

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But can this be achieved in production lines with incredibly

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complicated supply chains like the car industry?

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With me is Anna-Marie Baisden, Head of Autos at BMI Research

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Good morning. Bosses of the three carmakers in talks yesterday and

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lots of information coming out. Give us your take on how negotiations are

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going? What we heard was largely to be expected. It was very generic,

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looking forward to working with the Administration and really we could

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not expect too much in terms of commitment because they have very

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little to go on themselves in terms of what these trade policies might

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be. We have had some change of mind where they talked about keeping jobs

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in the US and doing less in Texaco for top any us saying it is

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windowdressing, it is not a big shift in policy. Not at all. It was

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mostly the timing of the announcement. Most of these were

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already in the planning of stop it was more a story of not as much

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demand for these cars. They are still moving production focus to

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Mexico just not with the extra capacity. These rules of origin is

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going to be critical. 62% of a car has to be originating from North

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America. That could be upped to 80% or more. With the car industry, it

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is difficult to establish with components moving across the border

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many times. This will be one of the most complex elements. Components

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will cross the border several times and you also have the US component

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manufacturers supplying to Mexico which could also get hurt if you

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start increasing tariffs to and from Mexico. You can see US businesses

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being heard. How will it play out. President Trump once more jobs in

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America but it is easier said than done in a critical and complicated

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industry. These big three carmakers not alone in Goa were either

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bankrupt or on the brink of it? Absolutely. They were making cars

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that were not selling very well so you could see a situation where if

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they are forced to open new plans, they could start edging back to

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overcapacity. The small cars produced in Mexico are ready in

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declining sales in America. Do you want them to be producing things

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that are not selling in. I am sure we will be getting news and tweet

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from Washington as the day progresses following the talks

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between Mexico and the US officials. Lego - the Danish-owned toy company

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has told the BBC that authorities in China need to do more

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to tackle fake goods - after the man in charge of Lego's

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huge new factory in China failed to spot a fake piece

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from the real thing. Lego is currently involved in legal

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action against one Chinese manufacturer it claims

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is ripping off its products. Here's our Shanghai

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Correspondent Robin Brant Billions and billions of these

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little elastic bricks have been sold the world over and out Lego is

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betting big on China. What started out with handcart bricks in Denmark

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in 1949 is now a $100 million state-of-the-art operation near

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Shanghai but they are not the only ones doing it. Is this Lego? Copies

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like these and fakes and counterfeit our prolific in China. Lego is

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currently suing the firm producing this copycat. How is the user to

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spot the different? We asked the experts.

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If you have to ask me to guess I would say this one, maybe. Which one

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do you think is a real? You think this one is real. Correct. The truth

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is, they look and feel almost identical. So good even the boss of

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the new factory cannot tell. Have a look at that for me. What do you

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think of that? It looks like a mini figure to me. What do you think of

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him? Which one is yours? Have a guess. I would say this is housed

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and this is not. This is Lego. That is not Lego. It is trying to be

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Lego. Lego is not the only foreign firm investing big in China but

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having trouble with local copycats. Land Rover is made here. These

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assault particularly well but the British firm has been powerless to

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stop this, cut away, this is similar on the inside and very, very similar

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on the outside but a lot cheaper. This is the copycat that caught

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people out. You can buy these on Aly Baba. The twin maker is still

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pursuing manufacturers in the courts because even the boss cannot tell

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the difference. I have so many of those in my house

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and I shall they are all genuine, but who knows!

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Let's head to Asia - Japan has posted its first annual

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trade surplus since the Fukushima disaster.

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Rico Hizon is in Singapore - Rico how did Japan pull it off?

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The numbers in Japan are surely in January. Surely! That is good news.

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Yes, and it has been a long way. A combination of soaring exports and

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lower energy prices and the depreciation of the yen. They fell

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by nearly 16% due to the falling cost of crude oil and liquefied

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national gas which left Japan in an almost $36 billion debt. The 2011

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Fukushima disaster sent the import bill soaring as it turned to pricey

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fossil fuel alternatives and exports rose in December for the first time

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in more than a year. This could be a good year once again for the

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Japanese economy. Let's keep the fingers crossed that this could be

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sustained. Let's quickly show you markets. Markets across Asia having

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a real boom. Japan boosted by the news about the trade surplus.

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MPs have stepped up demands for the government to publish

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its plan for Brexit in a formal policy document.

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The demands for a white paper, including from some Conservatives,

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follow yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.

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Theresa May must give parliament a vote before triggering Article 50,

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the formal process for leaving to the EU.

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It's thought legislation could be introduced as early as tomorrow.

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Here's our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

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After the judge is ruled only Parliament could start except, today

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a warning from MPs not to try to derail the plan. -- Brexit. Article

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50 is at the start of the process and it must be put before MPs and

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laws. What lies ahead? The government says the legislation

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paving the way for Brexit will be tabled within days and voted on by

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both houses of parliament. Theresa May wants Article 50 triggered by

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the end of March then Britain has two years to leave the EU. There can

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be no going back. The point of no return was passed in June of last

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year. Labour said they will not block Article 50 but one to amend

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the bill, giving MPs more control. If necessary, there will be

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hand-to-hand combat. We need to make sure we get the best deal on behalf

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the country and she cannot say she acts on behalf the country. Theresa

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May also faces opposition and some of her side. For now, at least

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ministers believe they are on track to get Brexit triggered by the

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spring. Coming up at six o'clock

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on Breakfast - Dan Walker and Louise Minchin will have

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all the day's news, They'll also have more on a delayed

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upgrade to the radio system, used by the emergency

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services in England, Scotland and Wales, that may cost

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taxpayers ?475 million The top stories this hour: American

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media say President Trump will sign an order tightening security along

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the Mexican border on Wednesday. He is also said to be seeking

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tougher visa regulations for citizens from seven

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Middle Eastern and African, Mr Trump tweeted that it would be

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a big day for national security. The Israeli government has approved

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plans to build 2,500 more homes on occupied Palestinian

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land in the West Bank. It is the second such announcement

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since President Trump took office. Palestinian officials say it

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will fuel extremism and make any Several MPs from the governing

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Conservative Party have supported calls from the Opposition

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for the British Government to formally set out its negotiating

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position on leaving Ministers are preparing to bring

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forward draft legislation, following a ruling in

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the Supreme Court on Tuesday that Parliament needs to vote in favour

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before the Government can trigger The French President,

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Francois Hollande, has been meeting leaders of Colombia's

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largest rebel movement, the Farc, at a rural camp

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in the west of the country. Mr Hollande, accompanied

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by President Juan Manuel Santos, offered financial support

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for de-mining programmes The Telegraph leads with yesterday's

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historic UK Supreme Court ruling. Only through Parliament can there be

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a vote on whether the Government can The judgement means the Government

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cannot begin talks with the EU until MPs and peers

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give their backing. The Guardian says US

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President Donald Trump has infuriated environmentalists

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by signing executive orders that support two controversial

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oil pipelines. The new Republican President

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backed the Keystone XL The Arab News reports that Israel

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has approved the construction of 2,500 settler homes

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in the occupied West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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said they had agreed to the move The Independent says close to ?8

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billion was wiped of the market value of BT, after the UK

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telecommunications giant said accounting errors in its Italian

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business are far greater The Guardian business pages say

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Citigroup is deliberating over which new EU financial

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centre will relocate The banking giant is in discussion

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with Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany

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and the Netherlands. Pretty much the whole of the EU, it

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seems, write? -- right? And finally, hit Hollywood film

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musical La La Land has scored Only two other films,

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Titanic and All about Eve, Joining us is Cornelia Meyer,

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who is CEO of MRL Corporation, Good morning to you. Morning. Have

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you seen the La La Land? No. I am not a big movie-goer. This whole

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Brexit thing, and the Supreme Court ruling, apart from what it means for

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Brexit, it is also very momentous in terms of saying who has real power

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in the United Kingdom, and Parliament was told you will be able

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to vote. Yes, but I think the Supreme Court was quite clear they

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can't overturn the verdict of the people. It is a matter of process.

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It is Parliament needs to give its blessing to triggering Article 50.

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So there is another review of Article 50, but it was not a ruling

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that said, OK, you can now sort of negate the will of the people, who

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sadly wanted to leave the EU. The issue, though, is about the law,

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isn't it? The fact that a lot of EU law is law in the country, domestic

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law. On the point is that ministers cannot change the law that has been

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approved in the UK Parliament without the approval, without an act

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of Parliament. So that was the actual issue, wasn't it? It was an

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eight issue of law. It was an issue of law and process. The government

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has said they will make the EU laws our own laws and deal with it later

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on. What I find interesting is how... One of the things is also,

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they said Parliament should get a say. They said the government didn't

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have to go to the devolved powers. So they didn't have to go to

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Scotland and Wales, and so on, to get the go-ahead to trigger Article

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50. That was very important as well. Here we come to the fallout. We have

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Nicola Sturgeon from Scotland, Tim Farron from the Lib Dems and Jeremy

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Corbyn from the Labour Party and how they will be able to potentially

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affect how the government goes about negotiating Brexit. Because they

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have their own ideas. They have their own ideas, and it is good we

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are a democracy and good we are discussing it out, but we had a

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referendum. And I was a firm remainer, we had a referendum and

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said leave. We probably have to leave, and it is a bit disconcerting

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when certain parts say let's have another referendum. Referenda are

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not things you can do and do until you get what you want. They are not

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asking for another referendum, but a route to stay in the single market,

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do you see what I mean? It is how we leave, but the Lib Dems asked for a

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second referendum. Some of them even asked for a second referendum. Says

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a lady from Switzerland, where they have referenda every other day! That

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is a different story. That is part of the problem, because we don't do

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referenda here so often. That is why we had to go back to the Supreme

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Court to get a ruling on how do we now deal with a referendum? OK,

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Donald Trump. Do you want to take this? We know what the story is, the

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controversial pipelines. Barack Obama didn't want them, Donald Trump

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wants them, and also coal and that sort of thing. I think those two

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pipelines I would not be against those two pipelines. Let's not

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forget, Barack Obama only nixed the Keystone XL pipeline just before the

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Paris agreement, so he had a better position. What I am worried about

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is, some of the things he wants to do may not necessarily be bad

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things, but the way he goes about it, the way he rams everything

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through, I have one, and now I can do whatever I want. I am very

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fearful of a huge backlash against the oil industry and against other

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energy industries, you know, in the next three to four years, because it

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is just round down. When you swing the pendulum too much to one side,

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it usually swings back quite violently. That sort of where I

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would stand on this. Arab News. Israel approves 2500 new settlement

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homes in the occupied West Bank. That is their headline, talking

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about the announcement from Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. Give us your

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take on this. It is to do with President Trump. It is to do with

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President Trump, who is clearly one of the most pro- Israel presidents

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there ever were. Two of his advisers, his son-in-law and Steve

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Bannon, are very much pro- Israel, pro- settlement. It is also, as your

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correspondent said, to do with internal politics in Israel. What it

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means, it is very bad for everybody who believes in a two state

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solution, this is very bad for a two state solution. Because it infringes

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on what is Palestinian territory. And the question is, how do you get

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to a lasting peace? Most people see a two state solution, including the

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Secretary General of the UN, C at two state solution as the way to get

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there. And if that is the objective, this is very bad news. A couple of

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days before this BT wiping off a brilliant pounds of its share value,

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I heard that BT broadband's prices are going up. As a BT customer I

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thought, well, that is the market, but I wonder if it knew it was about

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to become public? Probably not, but what this shows is that you really

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need to have, as a company, you need to get your account is clear. And

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when you have bad news you need to make sure you understand that the

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bad news is, and you communicated immediately to the market. Because

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this drip, drip, and then we were wrong, that totally goes against

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investor confidence. And having 20%... It was a shocking

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announcement, and the market reacted accordingly. 20% of the market

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value. And it was, because they first said it was 145 million, and

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then it was sort of four times more. So I think that is... That shows

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that when you have bad news, it is very important that you first get

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your together, and that you communicate effectively. Shall we

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move on to... You want to look at films? We have to talk about

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Citigroup, and then the Oscar nominations. Quickly on Citigroup,

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it will be very interesting to see how Citigroup and other banks,

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fearful of the passporting rights within the EU, my favourite is

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Dublin. The Frankfurt people think Frank that is so good but the

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trouble with Frankfurt and Paris is that the Labour laws are so

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difficult. Once you have hired someone it is very hard to fire them

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again and if you have a trading room you need to be able to immediately

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hire our lot of people and then immediately let go of them.

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Financial markets are fickle, and your headcount has to reflect that.

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So Dublin is probably the easiest to do those sorts of things. Do you

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like musicals? Yes, I do like musicals. Did you ever see Titanic?

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I did when it came to the small screen. And La La Land has equalled

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the number of nominations of Titanic and All About Eve. I did enjoy it,

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but because it has had so much publicity and has all these awards,

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I expected to be completely wowed, and I wasn't. At as you said, when

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we had a quick chat before, Hollywood loves Hollywood. It is

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about Hollywood, so of course they love it. Thank you very much indeed.

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The film I would choose to take you to is Predator versus Aliens on a

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massive screen. See you soon. Wednesday will start quite windy

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across northern and western parts

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