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A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. As more millennials put off parenting and plump for pets, the ft reports almost half have gone into debt at the vet. Would you put a price on your pup . Or take out a credit card to cure the cat . Let us know, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Australias Prime Minister Scott Morrison has cut short his vacation as extreme heat and fires ravage parts...

Electronic devices, we will be using microphones for tonights q a after the presentation. Cspan is recording so it would be excellent if everyone could use the microphone to question so we could have the audience track and if you purchase a copy of tonights book we have plenty on to and on hand. Tonights speaker is chung min lee, author of the hermit king the dangerous game of kim jong un. In this comprehensive study of north korea, chung min lee puts kim jong un illuminates how the family is re...

Purchased. All right. Tonights guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. In this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leaders motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. Drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and the International Institute of strategic studies shows how kims aggressive standoffs with world...

Christopher ford is the assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea, and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center. My name is brian finlay. Im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. ...

Written for billionaires and delivered for billionaires. Meanwhile, labour has pledged to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. In other news, voters in hong kong have turned out in large numbers to vote in local elections, seen as a test of support for the territorys chief executive, carrie lam. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Lets...

In topjobs in business, a government backed review has found. In the ftse 350, only 25 women are in chair roles, with even fewer chief executives. The guardian business pages report that landsec, the Property Company which owns Shopping Centres such and Westgate Oxford and bluewater in kent, has slumped to a first half loss after being hit by store closures as retailers battle Weak Consumer Spending and a shift to Online Shopping. And finally, are you among the thousand people in the uk still wa...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the members of the peoples house begin the day, grant them an abundance of your grace. May they be filled with the spirit of wisdom, patience, and good will toward one another and the issues to be addressed this day. Bless them, o god, and be with them and with us all this day and every day to come. An may all...

Full steam ahead. To save this somerset beauty. Weve had hurdles, weve had challenges. We are going to be open. Also on the programme. The book boom in cornwall. Cupboards full of dead kindles. People have gone back to books. And 3. 5 billion a year, the pension benefits going begging. I didnt know a thing about it. Hello. Changes imposed by the bbc mean thousands of people over 75 are going to lose their free tv licence. Thats controversial enough. But its also highlighted how billions of pound...

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some k...

The stoxx 600, let me walk you through whats going on. Thats the reaction to the payroll this afternoon, a blip on an overall negative chart. It was the nonmanufacturing ism number that really spooked the markets. Wednesday was a really tough day for european markets. Since then, weve been bumping along the floor. The market down at the moment by about 3. 1 for the week. A look at the individual movers today. Stocks are higher, but it is a relatively small moose versus the losses we had ash rela...