Wreath for australias unknown soldier as he begins a short secondment to the countrys military. Also in the program, alice is here with all the business. Youre looking at greece first of all . Thats right. Weve heard from Yanis Varoufakis the greece finance minister, saying his government will honor all of their obligations and his own words, reform greece deeply. And of course the head of the International Monetary fund says shes happy to hear it. Hello to you. It is midday in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. And 2 00 in yemen. For 12 nights the coalition of gulf states led by saudi arabia backed by the u. S. Have been targeting the Houthi Rebels who ousted yemens president. Well, that leaves thousands of people desperately short of food water, and medical splice. The u. N. Estimates, 500 have been killed. And as katarina mow reports, the is situation is getting worse. Reporter its a desperate situation for those who cant escape yemen. In the city of aden people risk their lives jour
Here are the stories we are watching ahead of the closing bell nomura is suspending a debt trader, matthew katz has been trading federalize Loan Obligations backed by highyield debt. The suspension is tied to his activities at rbs and nomura. This is according to a person with knowledge of the move. He is affected he is expected to plead guilty. This is for transactions backed by everything from mortgages to corporate loans. And though international is making a takeover offer for sale x pharmaceuticals. That is topping billions agreements to pay 158 a share. New york citys first new golf course in 52 years is scheduled to open on april 1. Now i know where my dad will be. Its accepting its first online reservations today. Its a collaboration between donald trump and Jack Nicholas making it the most expensive public golf facility ever built in the u. S. We have less than an hour ago hour to go before the close of trade. Scarlet fu is looking at the action on the street. Scarlet nothing l
Mark hello and welcome to countdown. Manus also coming up on countdown today, as the first person faces trial for alleged libor ratereading, we take a look at how the billions of dollars collected are being spent. It is probably something you would not expect. That story later in the show. Mark shall we bring the numbers from ryanair . Fullyear earnings jumping. Profit after tax gaining 66 . 867 Million Euros. That is 247 Million Euros higher than the top end of predictions made the previous year. Fiscal 2016, the airline is predicting profit of 940 million to 970 Million Euros. The company is ramping up winter capacity and seeking to the were a new generation of passengers with a softer approach. It raised its guidance to 2015 earnings five times. It is targeting major european airports and looking to tempt passengers away from Network Airlines like lufthansa air france, klm group. Joining us is carry longer. The big driver of this was the number of passengers, the increase in passeng
The italian market on reports that an offer for a merger was turned down. And iraq gains ground from isis. The situation have never reached this point. The whole of iraq should be a red line. Isis should not be able to take it over. This is the new strategy and the International Coalition should follow in the region. Greece has warned once again that it could default on its debts. The countrys interior minister says athens does not have enough money to pay loans due to the imf in june. Unless a deal is made on its International Creditors on funding. Speaking on local it television the money wont be given because its not there to give. Lets have a look at the greek yield curve as we look at things this morning and we are looking once again at yields slightly elevated, the tenyear 11. 4 and the five 16. 5 and two year, 24 . Mean while, the countrys finance minister has insisted greece has taken huge steps forward in trying to reach a deal with its creditors. Greece has made enormous stri
Mark welcome to countdown. Caroline im caroline hyde. Mark we look ahead to the last u. K. Gdp release ahead of next weeks general election. Manus we are waiting for numbers which is going to be health care and consumer business. There radically they radically changed the shape and focus on the 25 Million Health market. We are waiting for those numbers to come through. Organic revenue, we are waiting for, but expecting just over 5 billion euros. Lets keep an eye out for those numbers. Meantime, there is only one corporate story and that is apple. Barn storming numbers all due to the iphone 6 and 6 plus sales. Caroline has the breakdown. Caroline it was a blowout in the second quarter, fiscal secondquarter. They have yet more cash to splash. 70 billion. Lets look into the stellar report because profit really did escalate. We saw profit jumped some 33 bringing in 13. 6 billion. That beat analyst estimates. Sales went up 27 . It would have been even higher if it was not for the strength o