PM May Urges EU Leaders to Set Out Brexit Plans
Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May uses a Friday dinner in Brussels to personally ask EU leaders to reveal their Brexit plans. The BBC's Kevin Connolly, who is at the summit, considers whether Mrs May has any chance of getting any movement out of the other 27 leaders.
Also in the programme, Marie Keyworth travels to Senegal to investigate how climate change is threatening a town called Saint Louis and the BBC's Will Gompertz speaks to Hollywood actor Tom Hanks about his debut novel, The Uncommon Type.
Roger Hearing is joined for comment throughout the programme from Hong Kong by deputy Asia finance editor for The Wall Street Journal Andrew Peaple and from New York by Julie Hansen, CEO, Babbel US.
(Photo: British Prime Minsiter Theresa May. Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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