I am Francine Lacqua. Also coming up, we try out the bendable sunglasses that kids cant break or lose. This is serious business. My children love destroying sunglasses, anything they can get their hands on. Plus, the church of buffet. The oracle of omaha has inspired thousands of investors. We sit down with one of his most faithful followers. First, a bloomberg exclusive. We have been speaking with italys newly appointed finance minister. He told us he would welcome further depreciation of the euro but he doesnt expect it to happen. Offario draghi has taken the table the risk of the breakup of the eurozone. This benefits all eurozone members including italy. Italy are growing again, exiting the recession. The challenge for italy is to make that growth which is too fragile, much more consolidated and resilience. This is where a italian policy comes in. Broad and launching a ambitious structural reform reform ascluding tax well as measures to boost economy in the short term. We strengthe
Troops on the ground. The changing landscape of barclays bank, aaron. Absolute his. Thats 19,000 jobs to go as it cuts Investment Business right in lauhalf. Its part of the boss here Anthony Jenkins who wants to return to good old traditional bankin banking. Hello. It is midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington, 2 00 in syria where a huge explosion devastated the government held area of the Northern City of aleppo. Syrian state tv and rebel groups say the explosion caused widespread damage. Reports suggests it flattened the hotel used by government troops. Its called the Carlton Hotel next to the Medieval City citadel. This picture has been published by opposition activists reportedly showing smoke rising from the city. Rebels planted explosives underneath the hotel and detonated it remotely. Lets get more from beirut and lebanon. What is the latest you hear paul, about how this came about and in terms of casualties . Theres a claim from the rebels theres 50 casualties on the go
A warm welcome back to countdown. I am anna edwards. Lets tell you what is coming up later this morning on the pulse we will be joined by the former tesco boss. He will discuss one of his newest ventures and share his thoughts on u. K. Business. Before all that, lets get back to our top story. What has been taking place in turkey. Prime minister erdogan has declared victory in local elections. Lets get to istanbul where we are joined by Elliott Gotkine. A huge victory for Prime Minister erdogan. Alongside thening mayoral candidate for a stengel where he won for istanbul where he once ruled the roost. His party was very much in play here. Questions, wasd he going to win more of the vote, would they hold off, would they hold onto istanbul . The answer to all of those questions, yes. He has scored the political equivalent of a hat trick. He felt emboldened yesterday when he came onto the dock any outside his headquarters in the turkish capital to greet thousands of cheering supporters. He
We will tell you all that and more over the next hour. Lets get headlines from su keenan. Thanks. Twitter is seeing user growth slow and shares are falling in afterhours trading. The lowest level since its ipo. Twitter membership reach to every 5 million, but with user growth slowing, down from the third period. Ebay forecast sales it may miss estimates. Between 4. 3e billion4. 4 billion. Ebay shares down in trading as well. The nba commissioner made a historic announcement today regarding Donald Sterling. I am banning mr. Sterling for life for any association with the Clippers Organization or the nba. He would urge the board of owners to force a sale. Those are the top headlines. Back to you. Lets get some insight on the latest results from twitter and ebay. Joining now from new york is Scott Kessler at s p capital iq. Joining us from los angeles, paul sweeney at bloomberg industries. And joined by cory johnson. Lets continue the conversation about twitter. What are the three things p
19,000 jobs. The biggest shakeup will be in the banking sector. Also coming up this hour eight european nations are coming together to try to get a handle on islamist radicals. We have more on the strategies to stop the growing ranks of western youth joining jihad egroups in syria. And football history made here as helen acosta helena costa becomes the highest rating woman to lead a mens team. The voting in the ukraine will go on this weekend as planned despite Vladimir Putin calling on the separatists there to postpone. That announcement came from the selfstyled leader of the rebel donetsk peoples republic. Robert, what more can you tell us . As you said, the selfstyled president of the peoples republic was speaking on the 17th floor and he said the vote would go ahead, the referendum would go ahead on sunday despite the appeal of Vladimir Putin for to be postpone. He said the reason for that was the ledger is arnie in place and they had gone so far that they could not betray the trus