Begin the trading week. In positive territory. We will talk about what will move them later in the week later in the programme. We are joined by a french entrepreneur described as a Rock Star In The World of proud funding. She will reveal to us her latest plans shortly. And the winner is. La la land. Moonlight . Sort out the autocue what a night. What is your Warren Beatty moment . Get in touch. Welcome to the programme. One of europes biggest mergers looks like it is off. The London Stock Exchange and its german rival the Deutsche Boerse say their coming together is unlikely to be approved by the European Commission. The merger was supposed to be worth just over 30 billion and would have created a giant trading powerhouse that would better compete against its big us rivals. When they announced the deal last year the two Companies Said together they should be able to make cost savings of 475 million a year, about 20 of the combined groups operating costs. They had already agreed to sel
we ll explain the reason for the free fall. plus, a thousand ships, a million people, queen elizabeth s diamond jubilee kicks off today. we have team coverage bringing you one of the biggest celebrations in modern history. an incredible story of heroism and self-sacrifice. how a man born with no legs and arms saved his family from a ranging inferno and now he fights for his life. good morning, everyone. i m rob marciano in for randi kaye. thanks for starting your day with us. a speck tlark fall from grace for a man who was once a trusted ail lay of the united states and was one of the world s most powerful leaders. an egyptian cord has sentenced hosni mubarak to a life in prison in the killings of unarmed protesters in egypt s arab spring last year, but initial joy has turned to fury and calls for mass protests calling for a rise in muslim brotherhood who has hilt sights on the presidency. cnn foreign correspondent ben wedeman is live watching all of this. reporter: w
political reporter shannon travis. it is a long way to november. not that long a ways away. but we re already seeing some major shifts in the campaign, aren t we? reporter: that s right, don. leave the primaries behind. all that stuff is all behind us. this is a new day. mitt romney is probably feeling like a new man. you re already seeing the party from conservatives, maybe some independents starting to coalesce around him now that he s officially clinched the number needed to become the nominee. again, it will be official in tampa, in florida. but he s pretty much going to be the nominee. another thing that we saw happen as he clinched the nomination was on wednesday, president obama gave mitt romney a phone call. happened wednesday morning. we got word of it a little bit after. but both sides tell us it was a very brief conversation between the two men. they wished each other well. they said let s have a healthy debate. they talked a little bit briefly about their famili
continues. what we ve learned is that afghan security forces are being led by afghan national police. this is significant because nato and part of the transition made it clear that they re intent on positions more and more authority towards afghan forces. today was actually the first day of the transition period to be extended over the next two years. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. the murdoch phone hacking scandal in britain has claimed its first public official. just hours ago, britain s top cop suddenly resigned. his resignation comes on the same day police arrested a top murdoch executive. let s bring in cnn s atika shubert. atika, is there a connection between the resignation and the arrest of that top murdoch executive? well, there are basically two different strands of the same scandal. in the place of sir paul stevenson, the topmost senior police officer here in britain, he basically resigned because of increasing intense scrutiny over th