On a hostage situation in a sydney cafe entering its 10th hour. Is in sydney. What is the latest . Unfortunately, we havent had much of an update in the last couple of hours. It has been three hours since we saw two of those hostages escape , or at least were released. They looked terrified as they ran through the doors of the lindt cafe in sydney. About an hour before that, there had been three men that escaped. An update into get about 15 minutes from the New South Wales premier, and the Police Commissioner. Hopefully, we might get a little bit of an update. They certainly have been keeping everything under wraps. We heard from Deputy Commissioner Catherine Byrne saying that they are going to monitor social media feeds to get more of an indication as to what may have prompted these hostage situations. They have also indicated that the gunman is known to police. They wont be releasing the name for their purposes. Im sure that the area around the cafe is in lockdown. What about the res
We are live in athens. We are getting some breaking news from germany. They are breaking in with an expected. In terms of assessment, we are expecting 110, in terms of business climate. We are also trying to deal with the greek question. Overall, Current Assessment is much better than expected for the month of january. The coalition for greece and a challenge for europe. The vote leaves in two seats with a mandate to build a coalition dedicated to ending austerity. Guy johnson is on the ground. This is a historical vote. It is. The vote has gone as anticipated. He did a little better than anticipated. This morning, in athens, there is a conversation taking place between them and the independent greeks. Nobody saw this as a central case. They are towards the righthand side of the political fringe and antiausterity and very much taking the line that they want to see a hard negotiation with the troika. That is the reason the markets are down. A fascinating story is emerging. Maybe not the
Also live as results are expected to start coming in state by state in the president ial election. Goodluck jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari are in the tightest race since the end of military rule 60 years ago. Also another crucial day for greece. Lucy the greek Prime Minister right here. Theyve submitted their new reform plans just in the nick of time. Now, if these plans are accepted by its creditors and the rest of europe, theyll release the next big chunk of rescue cash. But let me tell you, time is ticking. Come april, greece will run out of this. Welcome to gmt. It is 1 00 p. M. In switzerland and 12 00 noon here in london. The last audience with the queen for David Cameron. Campaigning for the u. K. General election is finally under way. Polling day is in 5 1 2 weeks. At the moment the result is too close to call. Well, lets take you straight to phillipa tomas. Too close to call, unpredictable. Does it feel exciting . Reporter it really does feel very exciting lucy. I was standing
Greek officials have persuaded german light creditors they are serious about delivering the. Guy even though both sides have had their redlines, there was common ground. Lets get to tom. Red lines by necessity are inflexible. But there is common ground. Francine lets go straight to tom in brussels. Theres still a very tight timeline. Do we have a more positive tone . Tom yes. We are looking at the timeline of six weeks. But there has been this rapprochement after the acrimonious meeting they had in riga three weeks ago. The euro group coming out with a statement saying they are seeing positive intent from the greeks. No details on the policies. Though there was a little bit of detail from the european commissioner of economic and financial affairs, who said there had been son movement on vap, some movement on the management of greek revenue. It has given britain space, possible a couple of weeks to the greeks who are being propped up by the ecb. The ecb less likely to strike to tighten
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