In the next hour Prince William speaks out about his mothers death. Prince william says the shock of losing her is still with him 20 years on. You never get over it, its such an unbelievably big moment in your life, that it never leaves you. Police want to question the boyfriend of a Reality Tv Star Arthur Collins about an acid attack at a london nightclub. Sam warburton of wales is named as captain of the British And Irish Lions for their tour of new zealand this summer. Our main story at five. Mps have voted overwhelmingly to back the Prime Ministers call for a General Election on june the eighth. They backed the motion by 522 votes to 13 easily surpassing the two thirds majority of all mps needed to trigger the poll. Theresa may says a conservative victory would give Britain Stability during and after brexit. But The Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, told the commons voters would have their chance to pass judgement on the conservatives record on austerity, the nhs and child poverty. Alr
A. M. In london. It is just gone midday. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. It is a session where the markets must be questioning whether this trumpet rebound has been getting a little bit ahead of itself. This is upse half a percent. Elsewhere around asia we see quite a bit of the selling. Pressure,te a bit of pressing pause on the declines we have been seeing. Tracy in the middle east, we will take a look at the stocks we have had. It is just under two hours away from the opening of the emirate market in dubai. Here is what the benchmark index closed out yesterday. Dubai some fireworks in stocks in particular and abu dhabi, up 2 each on their indexes. A lot of that coming through on optimism about further mergers in the industry. Dow was up 2. 4 almost yesterday. Quite a big move here in the region. Lets take a look at how the rest of the trading day shapes up. In the meantime, first word news. Boj has announced its first operation cut, and unlimited amount of bonds at a fixed
But that pause ended when the Palestinian Militant Group hamas rejected the truce and fired off rockets. Nhks craig dale is following developments. Officials with hamas said that the egyptian proposal fell short of what they were looking for. They have been pushing for israel to ease its blockade of gaza. And they want the israelis to release imprisoned hamas members. Hamas fighters launched 120 rockets at israel shortly after the israelis accepted that cease fire proposal. One of the shells killed an israeli man. He is the first israeli fatality since the attacks began. The israelis responded with more air strikes. They are going after what they call terror targets in gaza. They argue that hamas keeps its rockets and command centers hidden in densely populated areas. These air strikes have killed 190 palestinians and wounded 150 others. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli Soldiers will continue to act with great force. He says israel will strike whoever tries to harm israel
Charge a Police Officer in the killing of an unarmed teenager. We will be live on the ground in ferguson. Welcome to countdown. It is 6 00 here in london on this Tuesday Morning. Not going to rush. That is the message from one of the key figures as the European Central bank speaking exclusively to bloomberg. He says the ecb will look at all the options to try to stimulate europes economies by buying new assets. He told Francine Lacqua that asset purchases would be up for discussion at the banks december meeting. We are ready to do more if needed. We will be watching the situation extremely carefully. We have been discussing it and there is unanimous agreement in the council that there will be situations where we would have to do more. The market interpretation is now you feel more comfortable doing more than you did weeks ago. Is that fair . I think we do remain dependent on the data. We have to watch the economy wey carefully and understand are not going to rush to a new decision with
Right now im going to yield the floor, as they say in the senate, to our distinguished guest speakers, bob kerrey and jack danforth, who together spent more than 30 years i guess in the United States senate and served as governor, for bob kerrey, and attorney general, for dan for jack danforth. I will yield the floor force much time as you may consume. Great. Well first off its great to be with jack again. And let me try to be relatively brief, ive been out of the senate for 13 years, but the first most important question for the American People to ask and answer is do we have a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, particularly the candidates, and especially the press its just the candidate, is there a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, why pose any solution . One of the challenges we have, happen to think we do have a big problem and that its a demographic problem. It wasnt caught by liberals or conservatives. You cant blame it on anybody. Its demog