anniversary of the death of elvis presley, we head to manila where the king s music lives on. it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in new york, where donald trump has made a fiery and at times angry defence of his reaction to the clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. he had been hoping to talk about his plans for america s infrastructure, but instead was drawn into a series of exchanges with journalists on why he had not issued an immediate condemnation of racist and neo nazi groups. in response, he seemed to hold civil rights groups equally to blame for the violence. what i m saying is this. you had a grip on one side and you had a grip on the other and they came out each other with clubs, and it was dishes and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. but there another side. there was a grip on their side, you can call them the left, you ve just called them the left, you ve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other gr
by one role. henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. the show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. it was a far cry from winkler‘s own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. how did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days? henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. i am happy to be here. let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen? no. i was hired as a fringe character with six lines. i would work one day a week. i would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldn t play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. and then remember, we did it with one camera. like a little movie. we shot 12 slows
glad you could join us. it s 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in new york, where donald trump has made a fiery and at times angry defence of his reaction to the clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. he had been hoping to talk about his plans for america s infrastructure, but instead was drawn into a series of exchanges with journalists on why he had not issued an immediate condemnation of racist and neo nazi groups. in response, he seemed to hold civil rights groups equally to blame for the violence. we had a grip on one side of the group on the other and they came out themselves with clubs and it was vicious and horrible. but there was another side. there was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you ve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. so you can say what you want, but that s the way it is. reporter: on both sides, sir? you said there was hatred and violence on both sides? i do think there s blame, yes. i thi
barriers. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. negotiators from the us, canada and mexico meet today to lash out a new north american free trade agreement. one of the world s biggest shipping companies releases its latest earning numbers. what will this tell us earning numbers. what will this tell us about the state of global trade? good morning, asia, hello, world, glad you could join us for asia business report. i m rico hizon. later today in washington, dc the first round of negotiations will start for nafta, the north american free trade agreement, a pact between canada, the us and mexico. the us president made a campaign to promise to renegotiate the deal signed in 1994. any other disagreements are between the us and mexico, but there are also issues in canada, one of them softwood lumber. to get to the root of this problem we sent our correspondent to the state of maine. there s a lot of uncertainty. nobody knows where this will go. there s