2024-12-05
26 分钟French Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces no-confidence vote after using special powers to force through a social security budget bill. We get the latest. Also in the programme, we go to South Korea, where the political turmoil continues as protesters and unions demand that the president resign or be impeached for his botched attempt to impose military rule. And the messaging app Telegram has agreed to take action to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse imagery online, after years of ignoring calls to do so. But how will it do it? We find out.
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This is Andrew Peach with World Business Report, here on the BBC World Service.
Today, with the French government on the brink of collapse, we'll talk to the leader of the construction workers union and assess the wider economic impact.
We are seeing higher borrowing costs for the French government, for French companies and for French households, and that will undermine what already were very weak growth dynamics.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, unions threatened strike action to try to force the President to resign.
We'll hear why the messaging app Telegram has finally agreed to prevent the spread of child abuse images.
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It's 44-330-67-83033 or email world businessbc.co.uk we'll start in France, where the minority government is on the brink of collapse.
Today.
The process now underway at the national assembly will almost certainly see Michel Barnier become the shortest lived prime minister since France's Fifth Republic was established in 1958.
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