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Youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 9am in north east australia, where whats being described as a Monster Cyclone is due to make landfall over the next few hours. Tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have been evacuated from coastal areas amid warnings of Winds Gusting up to 250km h and dangerous tidal surges. Trees are already being blown down by the wins. Cyclone debbie has been upgraded to a category four...

Youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 9am in north east australia, where whats being described as a Monster Cyclone is due to make landfall over the next few hours. Tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have been evacuated from coastal areas amid warnings of Winds Gusting up to 250km h and dangerous tidal surges. Trees are already being blown down by the wins. Cyclone debbie has been upgraded to a category four...

♪ jon: the 20 summit takes place this week in japan. well be keeping an eye on the meeting between president trump and chinese president xi jinping and whether it helps ease trade tensions between the worlds two biggest economies. greg talcott has more from hong kong. >> reporter: jon, this city, this region are set to watch very closely the talks on the sidelines of the g20 summit later this week between president trump and chinese president xi. there is a whole lot at stake. for example, lea...

A.m. >> i disagree because after market hours so it doesnt cause a huge disturbance. neil: but when it comes to that extent on monday morning what do you envision? >> then there would be panic thats what i envision. markets would be down. >> but i think that there is no information in this. >> its market positive because youre not dragged through the course for the next two to three years. neil: well there are other investigations going on. >> well we know that and weve also seen actually theres...

Trouble. apparently its not the first time they tried to bait him. >> trump has been trading tariffs with china this week. were getting closer to trade war. today he proposed an additional 100 billion dollars of tariffs on chinese goods which just about everyone on both sides thinks is a terrible idea. yesterday he defended the plan by highlighting our trade deficit. when youre already $500 billion down you cant lose. which is the trump company motto. >> and that is tonights last word. up next, ...

Time for tonights last word. >> according to the washington post, advisers are concerned that robert mueller told president trumps lawyers he is only a subject of the russia investigation to bait trump into an interview that could put him in legal trouble. and apparently its not the first time theyve tried to bait h him. >> trump has been trading tariffs with china this week. were getting closer to a trade war. today he proposed an additional $100 billion of tariffs on chinese goods. everyone on...

Time for tonights last word. >> according to the washington post, advisers are concerned that robert mueller told president trumps lawyers he is only a subject of the russia investigation to bait trump into an interview that could put him in legal trouble. and apparently its not the first time theyve tried to bait him. >> trump has been trading tariffs with china this week. were getting closer to a trade war. today he proposed an additional $100 billion of tariffs on chinese goods. everyone on b...