financial markets as they open in europe. investors look ahead to the uk budget. what s the secret behind the world s most successful brands? is it simply a case of advertising spend or is there more to the story? we ll speak to one of the industry s leading experts later in the programme. it s international women s day so let us know who s your most inspirational woman in business? perhaps it s the head of the world s most powerful central bank? or maybe it s mary barra, the boss of general motors? just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to the programme. in a few hours time, the uk s finance minister or chancellor as we call him here, phillip hammond, will deliver the country s final budget before the government triggers article 50, and britain begins its negotiations to leave the european union. despite the ongoing uncertainty over brexit, philip hammond received an eve of budget boost from the organisation for economic co operation and development. it now expects growth
meet the woman who started it all. lucas is the first baby with down syndrome to represent gerber. this picture courtesy of cook s we agree. saying that s really . i m heading to the white house where see you later this afternoon. appreciate you joining us for this packed hour. tuing it over to ali velshi and s ruhle. who doesn t love a gerber baby? love that baby lucas. sweet pea. morning, everyone. i m ali velshi. i m stephanie ruhle. it s wednesday, june 6th. mexico firing the latest shot in the escalating trade war between the united states and the allies. how is this goingo play when the president sits down with the leaders of those countries on friday? how many people are in on forming this tariff policy and who is in charge? that s a great question. in fact, what you see right now is a big split inside the
guns. we begin with the latest escalating trade war between the united states and the top trading partners including some of the closest allies and this one co
Stolen. no arrests or injuries. congressional republican also soften legislation to punish chinese telecom giant zte. house and senate lawmakers working on a defense bill adopted a house version of a measure excluding zte from u.s. government contracts but allowing it to do business with private companies in the u.s. the senate version called for the restoration of a full ban on zte that the trump administration first imposed. then lifted. the pentagon considers that company zte a national security threat. the company was found guilty in 2016 of repetedly skirting american sanctions on iran and north korea. in tonight s whatever happened to segment america s space dominance. 4 years ago today, two americans became the first men to land the space craft on the moon. now, a half century later,
Whenever he said the summit was back on and he didn t want to use terms like maximum pressure any more. he is indeed not scripted. kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you. joining me now is jeff flake from arizona. he s a member of the foreign relations committee, also the judiciary committee. sir, thank you so much for being with us this morning. thank you for having me on. you have a big day on the senate floor. you are i do want to talk to you of course about a number of things, tariffs, zte, the north korea summit but i want to talk to you about what you re going to do this morning. you re going to speak on the senate floor. it s really it s a rebuke of these tariffs. it s a rebuke more largely of the president s protectionist policies and you are going to say, according to what you put out, quote, this is not grown up leadership. you re going to talk about, his, quote, incoherent policy utterances and you will warn that the u.s. is turning its
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