
French President to warn G7 over trade tensions
The French President Emmanuel Macron says he will warn the G7 of growing trade tensions.
The French President Emmanuel Macron is going into a potentially fractious G-Seven summit saying he'll do everything he can to get the top industrial countries to agree a strategy. He said he'd try to convince the G7 leaders that tensions, especially trade tensions, were bad for everybody.
Also in the programme: How Bangladesh is planning to persuade hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar; The Brazilian military has been deployed to fight hundreds of new fires reportedly burning in the Amazon region; And NASA investigates what may turn out to be the first crime in space.
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