Making sure everyone gets in on the act. Well meet the woman putting disabled Actors Centre stage. Supermarkets say were buying more organic fruit and veg. Do you think its worth the extra money . Do you buy organic . Let us know. Just use the hashtag, bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. The us Vice President mike pence meets the president of the European Council donald tusk in brussels this morning. They will try to mend fences after throwing rhetorical Fire Crackers at each other in recent weeks. While mr tusk described trump as a threat to europe, mr trump has praised the uks decision to leave the union and angered many nations with his travel ban. Between them, the us and the European Union are the worlds two biggest trading blocs. Figures from 2014 put the value of all goods and services traded between them worth over 1 trillion. And that favoured the eu. It sold 91 billion more stuff to the usa than the other way round. Something the Trump Administration would like to change. And since 2013, the eu and us have been trying to broker a free trade deal, the so called transatlantic trade and investment partnership, ttip, that would eliminate tariffs and reduce regulation. But President Trump has said nothing about it since his election. Many though expect ttip to be scrapped. Where differences have emerged, its been over currency valuations, car exports and financial regulations. Leslie vinjamuri is an associate fellow of the us the Americas Programme at the chatham house, a thinktank here in london mike pence has been in europe for a few days, talked us through how it is going . The Vice President was at the munich security conference, the premier meeting of ministers and notable officials across the world. He spoke about americas commitment, reaffirming it to nato, but he did not speak about the eu which left a lot of european leaders concerned. He is going to brussels today. There is a broader question about whether or not there will be some concern about whether america will try to amend the unravelling of the eu. President trump has been supportive of brexit, talking about a bilateral trade deal with the uk. There has been no clear commitment to supporting a multilateral vehicle through the eu. Donald trump is opposed to multilateralism and has sought to work by naturally with most of the countrys partners. The focus of the visit by mike pence has been about security, nato, but there is a lot of overlap between security and trade. Prior to him coming, the conversation between the us and europe has not been good. It has been unsettling for most of the european leaders, the idea trump gave the Interview Injanuary and said nato was obsolete. And put europe on the back foot, saying, you must increase your Defence Spending if you want us to be committed to nato. This weekend, renewed pressure for europe to step up and those states not hitting the 2 of gdp the spending on defence to really step up. There is a broader conversation which is who is really in charge . Donald trump has not stepped up in the same way to affirm that commitment to nato or the eu. A lot of people are watching this to see who is really running the ship will stop so much uncertainty from the us. Very unnerving for europe. The visit today is very important. The other thing i mentioned was the transatlantic partnership, donald trump hasnt said much about that since taking office. Do you think there is any hope for any sort of trade deal between the us and the eu . Or is that i get out of the water . think ttip is probably very unlikely to move forward. The Trump Administration has been very relu cta nt administration has been very reluctant to push forward new Multilateral Trade deals, it has pulled out of asia. Ttip is unlikely to move forward. What we are likely to see is, whatever talks go on about trade, it will be with this agenda of american interests must come first. What does that mean . We dont know yet. A lot coming out of the Trump Administration is rhetorical. We havent seen very significant effo rts havent seen very significant efforts in terms of legislating or pushing forward policies. A lot of uncertainty, we are still operating at the level of what will the stated commitment be, on trade. But Little Movement so far. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing your expertise. We shall keep you across any news that comes out of that meeting today between donald tusk and mike pence. It will be interesting. In other news. Japans Trade Deficit grew by more than expected injanuary to about 9. 6bn, largely because of the increased cost of oil. Nonetheless, exports increased by i. 3 , despite a fall in Vehicle Sales to europe and the united states, amid concern of protectionist trade policies from President Trump. The latest numbers mean japans Trade Surplus with the us has fallen again. Ride sharing service uber has opened an investigation into allegations of Sexual Harassment made by a former employee. The boss Travis Kalanick said there was absolutely no place for the type of behaviour detailed in a blog by former engineer susan fowler who left the company in december. It is likely to bring a renewed focus to sexism in Silicon Valley with several commentators suggesting online that her experiences were instantly recognisable to other women working in the tech industry. A lot of news on our website, quite interesting is the story our second headline, kraft heinz has decided it is not going to go ahead with a better or renewed offer for unilever. That has had an Immediate Impact on the shares on the Financial Markets. Some are saying perhaps it is the previous experience of cadbury that was snapped up by kraft heinz which they have impacted on this deal. This paragraph saying, kraft heinz will find it difficult to win over uk politicians because of concern about what it might mean for british jobs. More analysis on that as well. A new zealand judge has upheld an earlier court ruling that flamboyant Internet Entrepreneur kim dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the us to face criminal charges. Christine hah is in singapore. What more do we know . Basically, he was the founder of the now defunct mega upload. Com. Five years ago the us authorities shut down that site. Putting some 15 charges against him of racketeering, money laundering, Copyright Infringement amongst other things. The new Zealand High Court has said he is not guilty of Copyright Infringement and cannot be extradited under that. But he can still be etched Dieted Under Conspiracy to commit Copyright Infringement, that goes for his other co defendants. All four say they will appeal this case. The defendant says he expects this case to go on for another two years, this Extradition Court case. He posted it as a david angella case. We will see whether he, his case. We will see whether he, his case stands up against the law. Christine, thank you very much for that. Lets ta ke that. Lets take a look at how the markets are doing. Asian markets were mixed as Political Uncertainty globally kept the mood cautious. Japans nikkei went flat after domestic data showed exports disappointed in january. Us Financial Markets will be closed for a long weekend holiday, leaving trading in asia muted. European markets starting the new trading week with gains at the open of this morning. Worth watching what happens to unilever shares after us Food Company Kraft Heinz withdrew its proposal for a 143 billion merger. Unilevers shares jumped 13 on friday on news of the bid. Looking ahead. Lots of corporate results due out this week. The uks big banks will report their annual profits, including hbsc, rbs, lloyds and standard chartered. Also due out, results from the Big Mining Companies including bhp billiton, glencore and anglo american. Us Stock Markets are closed today for the president s day holiday. But heres Michelle Fleury in new york with the details of what to look out for later in the week the question is will they be able to build on the gains last week, the major indexes have been buoyed partly by Donald Trumps promises fewer vacations and tax cuts for businesses, all happening against a backdrop of an improving us economy. That progress was pointed to, but the dangers of waiting too long to raise Interest Rates. Investors will be looking at the latest Federal Reserve meeting the clues of any imminent hike. On the economic front, wall street will be looking at plenty of data on the Housing Market and an insight to the Housing Market and an insight to the manufacturing sector, look out for the report for february. Wrapped up only that, freezing in new york. Joining us isjessica ground, uk Equities Fund manager at schroders. Quite a bit going on. Let us Talk About Kraft Heinz and their pull out of pursuing unilever. Interesting, a Swift Reversal of intentions late yesterday. That was because kraft heinz really did want to lose unilever, they felt it had to be an agreed deal partly because unilever has those iconic brands, partly because kraft heinz have a mixed track record having shut down those cadbury plants. I suspect when it became clear unilever was less than enthused, they decided not to go ahead. Unilever shares down 8 this morning, no surprise. They were up over 10 on friday on news of a possible take over. A bit ofa possible take over. A bit of a round trip on the situation. Mentioning the results we are expecting later this week, the big banks, Big Mining Companies, that will all move the markets presumably in One Direction or another. They are large parts of the markets, two different trends, with the commodity markets, compared to a year ago were the figures were so low, Commodity Prices are much higher. We are still looking for evidence the management teams are disciplined, keeping a lid on costs, not having that boom and bust mentality. The banks, it will be interesting. Particularly some of the forward looking indicators for the consumers, high levels of indebtedness, employment is high which is great but there could be Interest Rate highs is on the horizon, so it will be interested to see what the banks do on that side. Thank you for now, jessica will be back soon. We will be talking about organic food sales. Do you buy organic . Sometimes. Do you . Me too. I try to grow my own. The last organic vegetable ive bought was properly. Still to come. A question of equality, well meet the woman making sure disabled actors get their turn in the spotlight. Online retail giant amazon has said it will create 5,000 new full time jobs in the uk this year. The jobs will be across the business in the london head office, edinburgh Customer Service centre, and in three new warehouses. Lets speak to natalie burge. Tell us lets speak to natalie burge. Tell us more, why is amazon investing so much in the uk . Amazon is committed to the uk. It is their second Largest International market after germany and they view the uk as a very strategic market. There is a lot of overlap between us and uk consumers. They see it as a very familiar market when it comes to rolling out some of the big us initiatives. They see the uk as an International Launch pad and thats why, if you look over the past year, we have seen the launch of amazon fresh, their Online Grocery service here in the uk. They delivered their first order by drone before christmas last year and we have seen the roll out of their virtual personal assistant. So theyre clearly doing a lot in the us and they view the uk as a gateway to the international market. Thats interesting the creation of newjobs, thats interesting the creation of new jobs, because the thats interesting the creation of newjobs, because the other direction that amazon has been going in is using these drones for deliveries and there has been a lot of talk about drones perhaps taking thejobs of some of talk about drones perhaps taking the jobs of some Delivery Drivers . Yeah, i mean, you know, drones are certainly part of their fulfilment offering, but the more significant pieces is the fact that they are opening three new Fulfilment Centres in the uk and itjust shows they need additional warehouse capacity. Drones will be part of it, but i think if you look at what theyre doing in terms of they are seeing growth in their own products, but they are seeing growth in their third party sellers, their market place vendors and this is really significant because from a consumers point of view, they go to amazon. Co. Ukfor consumers point of view, they go to amazon. Co. Uk for assortment. Youve got 150 million products on this website and if theyre able to have access to the products and also have the benefit of amazons speedy delivery, well, it is a win, win. I think it is quite significant. Thanks, natalie. Lots more to discuss on our website. Take a look and news about bovis setting aside more money for customers. Youre watching Business Live. Our top story, the us Vice President mike pence is holding talks with eu leaders in brussels today. It comes at a time of growing uncertainty over relations between the worlds two biggest trading blocs. A quick look at how markets are faring. It is president s day in the united states. No action there later on today, but european markets are pretty flat. As ben and jessica were saying earlier, lots of corporate stories coming out as the week progresses so there will be plenty to chew on as the week progresses. All this week were looking at the relationship between disabled people and businesses and how they work for each other. An estimated 1. 2 billion people around the world have some form of disability. But they still dont always get access to the same opportunities as everyone else. Well, one Talent Agency is trying to change that when it comes to acting and modelling. Visable people was founded in 1994 and became the worlds first agency to represent disabled artists. It now handles the careers of dozens of actors and models, and says it helps put disabled people into Mainstream Media focus. So it has got its Clients Roles in top bbc shows like casualty and eastenders as well as on tv ads for Big Companies like the british Supermarket Chain sainsbury and the mobile phone provider vodafone. Joining us is louise dyson, founder and ceo of visable people. Good to see you. Good morning. Just tell us, you started in good to see you. Good morning. Just tell us, you started 119911, good to see you. Good morning. Just tell us, you started in 1994, 23 yea rs tell us, you started in 1994, 23 years ago, why . At the time i owned a model agency. It was a big agency. The biggest outside london. We had all sorts of different clients and one of them was a manufacturer of mobility equipment. And they decided that they wanted to begin to use genuinely disabled people to model their products and i didnt know any. And we decided to organise a competition, nationwide, to find people who had modelling potential and also who had disabilities and we had the most fantastic response. We had the most fantastic response. We had over 600 applicants which was just wonderful. Very high standard. So thats how it all started 23 yea rs so thats how it all started 23 years ago, but youre still the only agency in the whole world that represents disabled actors, models, representatives, for various areas of work. Why is that . I think the reason we are owe the only agency that only has disabled artists and model and covers every area of the work is because most agencies tend to specialise. You will have an agency that perhaps just has presenters and an Agency Thatjust has voice over artists, an agency that has model, an agency that has models. Because it has been a case of trying to create a market from scratch, it has been a case of also having to be good at all things. So we have different people who are capable of doing the different kinds of roles and i suppose in that case it all has to come under visable people. The reason there arent any other agencies doing what we do because it took 15 years before it was even faintly profitable really. It was a conscious decision not to have the word, disability In The Name Of the company, wasnt it . Why would we . You were saying to us, you know, you think that the term, disabled is outdated and unhelpful . I think the word disability and disabled doesnt conjure anything exciting. I have got fantastic people who have got energy, and beauty and skills and you know the world disability doesnt really help that. Where do you see the business going . What kind of hopes and dreams do you have for the future of it . I think one of the most exciting developments has been the increase in the number of bookings weve had from other countries. And the exciting part about that is that it means that the message, the whole point of visable is to change the mindset on disability. If we succeed in doing that in other parts of the world, that in other parts of the world, that means were achieving our aim really, but i do envisage opening up in other markets. It means opening other markets. We did have to create the market in the uk to begin with and it means rolling that out into other countries. But you personally had to be extremely, you know, you had to be extremely, you know, you had to be extremely, you know, you had to really persevere in this because it has taken awe long time. Youre only faintly profitable after 15 years in trying to build this business and yet you stuck at it. Were you not tempted to just. No. Pull the plug . No, iwas were you not tempted to just. No. Pull the plug . No, i was never tempted to do that. It was such a great idea. It was a great idea because of the power it has to influence peoples thinking. It is all about, it is specifically not a charitable venture, although i would describe visable as having social enterprise conditions, in that we have an objective which is for something good, notjust about the bottom line, but at the same time, it really does, it influences peoples thinking. Louise, thank you for coming in today and sharing. It is very, very interesting. Louise dyson of visable. It is a deliberately funny spelling. Well, it works. Well done, thank you for coming in. In a moment well take a look through the business pages, but first heres a quick reminder of how to get in touch with us. The Business Live page is where you can stay ahead of all the days breaking business news. We will keep you up to date with all the latest details, with insight and analysis from the bbcs team of editors right around the world. And we want to hear from you, too. Get involved on the bbc Business Live web page bbc. Com business, on twitter bbcbusiness and you can find us on facebook at bbc business news. Business live on tv and online, whenever you need to know. Jessica ground, uk Equities Fund manager, schroders is back. Jessica so the guardian, organic food sales are soaring as shoppers put quality before price. How long will that last, we wonder . Well, quite interesting because in the last financial slowdown we saw shoppers move to discounters and to cut back on eating out. But i think that weve got to divorce the cyclical from the stuck turl. There is this long term trend towards cleaning eating, healthy eating, instagraming yourfood, cleaning eating, healthy eating, instagraming your food, but as consumers spending power comes under pressure from higher inflation they start to cut back and it will be interesting to see. We had a few tweets about this. We asked do you buy organic or not . Grumpy pete said no, it is a waste of money. Jerome said organic veg, but only if it is in season and not flown in. It may taste better, but it is too expensive in the uk. Jessica . taste better, but it is too expensive in the uk. Jessica . A mix and match. There is a massive debate in our newsroom about this with one of our producers saying it is a con u nless of our producers saying it is a con unless you buy it from the farm. Lets look at bill gates. This is really interesting, the Financial Times bill gates is calling for robots to pay taxes. What is he talking about . He is pointing out that the rise of robots is going to cause a lot of disruption for Labour Markets and make a lot ofjobs obsolete. He is pointing out that employment produces a lot of tax for government. Hes saying lets tax robots and use that money to retrain workers. In a nutshell. As you can tell were both humans by how the programme has gone we will see you soon. Have a really good day. Bye bye. Hello. Its a mild start to the week across just about all parts of the British Isles and it stays that way across central and southern areas for the first half of the week which you will notice we bring somewhat colder air into northern parts of britain as we get on towards wednesday. We will come to that in a second, but all of this mild air comes at a price. Sunshine in short supply as we feed a lot of moisture in from the atlantic. The cloud really quite thick and low in the atmosphere across the welsh hills. Murky for a time too across the south east until somewhat brighter skies begin to emerge across parts of the East Midlands and maybe the eastern side of wales too. At the same time we will have rain across Northern Ireland into the north west of england, up into the Southern Uplands of scotland and then further north, somewhat brighter skies moving in for the afternoon, but watch out for the strength of the wind for a time here. Eastern side of the pennines, gusts could be pushing on towards 40mph and 50mph and the winds easing as the rain slumps further south allowing brighter skies in across scotland and maybe just before dusk into parts of Northern Ireland too. All the while in the south, unsees bli mild. Temperatures well on into the teens. And well keep it mild in the south during the course of the night. A front waving its way across the central and southern parts. So a great shield of cloud with the mild west to south westerly breezes will help keep the temperatures up. Were looking at seven, eight, nine celsius, maybe ten celsius. Further north, the temperatures in the countryside could and the scottish glens get down to close to zero. Tuesday, not a great deal changes in the south. Still that Weather Front there or thereabouts. Murky fair particularly in the west. Further north, somewhat brighter and drier. The temperatures across the piece are still above what we would expect for the time of year. From tease on into wednesday, the eye catcher for Northern Britain is that major area of low pressure with major winds in its circulation. They will affect the north of scotland, gusts of wind 60mph to 70mph. Further south, it remains mild, wet and breezy. Hello. Its monday, its nine oclock, im victoria derbyshire. Welcome to the programme this morning. Amys place the Recovery House Changing Lives In Memory Of amy winehouse. Sitting where i am today, i am not that long sober but i have made it so far, that you forget my life was sitting in a Homeless Hostel planning how to kill myself. I was very, bitterly, bitterly suicidal, depressed. My world basically collapsed. The drugs take over. Weve had exclusive access to the rehab centre for women under the age of 30. Also on the programme people convicted of Animal Cruelty and killing animals face a maximum Prison Sentence in england and wales of six months. This morning, there are calls for that sentence to be
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