I am anna edwards. Lets get you the latest on what is happening with the greek story. Lets show you what has been happening on the euro. This is the euro against the dollar. We have seen the rhetoric continuing on both sides. Mario draghi says ball is in greece escort. The finance ministers are planning a Conference Call today ahead of that meeting on thursday. That is something to watch out for. That was surrounding a story in germany that suggested the eurozone ministers are getting closer to coming up with some sort of emergency plan for any grexit situation. As you can see the euro bounced and we are at the 112 mark. That takes us to our twitter question. In terms of following the great twitter story, who should make the next move to resolve the greek crisis . Lets recap the u. S. Markets. European markets were week as a result of the greek news flow and that fit into the u. S. Session. We had manufacturing data out of the u. S. Which missed estimates. We had two days of fed meetin
Hearing from some the biggest names in aviation. The ceos of airbus and airasia will be on the pulse this morning. Greeces finance said creditors must take his countrys proposal seriously if they want to break the deadlock. After the European Central Bank President mario groggy said greece needed to take the necessary steps and the ball was squarely in the greek government. To get more we are joined by hans nichols in berlin. What are the creditors plans and greeces plans and how far apart . Hans they seem far apart. We see a lot of reports at least one important report talking about plan b if theres going to be an exit and capital controls on greece. And the greek plans and according to mr. Varoufakis editor interview is we will not be coming to the table with a new plans. More work needs to be done and they need to take our initial proposal seriously. It does not like greece will show up with a new planet which everyone is expecting them to do and amending them to do a new plan which
This is al jazeera live from doha. Also ahead catalonia leader feel sick hour five if the region has declared independence saying he wants more talks with the Spanish Government the Philippines Army announces a major victory in the battle against isolating fighters in the south and. Anger and sorrow somalis are in mourning after at least two hundred seventy six people were killed in a bombing in mogadishu. Thank you for joining us the Iraqi Military says its forces have captured the k. One base from Kurdish Forces just outside the city of kirkuk the iraqi army and allied forces are advancing on the city and have also taken a gas facility to the south coke is a disputed area and the Kurdish Regional government believes it should be part of its territory for it has more from erbil in northern iraq. We understand that this offensive is focused on oil fields to the north west the self all of the oil rich city of kirkuk and also the k. One military base q on military bases taking control of
Rolls out the red carpet for u. S. President donald trump but tense talks still lie ahead the two powers are at odds over trade and cracking down on north korea. I am a layla the rockets a pleasure to have you along in germany could be the first the e. U. Country to allow people to register as a third gender in the countrys top court ruled that present laws discriminate against intersex people and that official documents could either recognize a third gender or move gender entries all together now the government has also has until the end of twenty eighteen to draw up new regulations. Fine you can hardly believe it. The years of fighting for a third gender have finally been rewarded and. There are lots of places in society where theres a split between the sexes. So i have to ask myself again and again how do i define myself do i try to fit in or do i trust myself not to do so and how are people going to react and. Its an issue that directly affects van year and around one hundred sixty
Discriminate against intersex people also coming up in the u. S. Voters elect the first openly transgender politician in virginia the democrat down to ram as alstad a pro trump incumbent republican democrats are celebrating a sweep of state and local election victories and paradise lost or fail will the latest mass leak of financial papers lead into a crackdown on tax havens well have an exclusive interview with the European Unions tax chief Pierre Moscovici see. Im bringing off its good to have you with us germany could become the first european country to allow for a. Third gender on birth certificates the countrys top court today ruled that present laws discriminate against intersex people now those are people who have a mixture of male and female sexual traits the court said that official documents should either recognize a third gender or remove gender altogether the change from binary gender choices to three choices is scheduled to take effect next year. I can hardly believe it t