Hello. Welcome to countdown. Its just gone 6 00. A bloomberg reporters are standing by ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Thethan ferro is watching numbers from airbus breaking right now. Can they boost business . Elliott gotkine has the latest from tel aviv. We have some big earnings interviews for you. Company earnings this hour, we will have an exclusive interview with the companys ceo. Chiefchat with the executive of the second largest u. K. Homebuilder. More on his companys latest its of the uks largest professional Recruitment Agency also reporting today. Will join the second hour on countdown. Lets get the breaking. Airbus releasing its numbers as we speak. Just reporting those numbers and Jonathan Ferro is here to bring down the details. Income, revenue coming in five percent higher. 59. 3 billion euros. Income rising by 22 . Fullyear earnings interest before tax, 3. 6 billion euros. Dividend to . 75. The game for the charges, here we go. 434 million charge
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We see how the luxury carmaker is luring customers with exotic test rides. Looking forward to that. First an exclusive interview with frances finance minister pierre moscovici. We spoke with him in washington dc about everything from the u. S. Debt ceiling to emerging markets. He says he is not concerned about turmoil in the letter. [indiscernible] about 0. 4 tos 0. 5 over the first quarter. I dont know what the figure will be exactly. I guess it will be around that. Now, the eurozone as well as the france economy have got off the recession. Rate is about 1 per year. It is not enough. It is better than the recession but it is not enough. We want to speed up. This is why the president launched what he called a responsibility pact with the firms, in order to give them more capacity to reduce the cost of labor, to have a better taxation for the firms, to also simplify the access to regulation, to have also a more flexible labor market. This is what we are working on. With that we will be
This is bbc news. Im simon mccoy. The headlines. A £4 billion cut in vat to kick start the economy but some Companies Say they need to keep the cash to stay in business. Were looking to pass some of that on to customers, but i think we are in survival mode right now. What it allows us to do is comfortably put on larger discounts, so we are passing it on. The Health Secretary says the government has ruled out making masks compulsory for Office Workers in england. Borisjohnson confirms therell be an independent inquiry into the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic but not now. China warns of retaliation over huawei, as President Trump takes credit for the decision to exclude it from the uks 56 network. The biggest easing of lockdown restrictions in scotland is under way the first minister says its the riskiest stage to date. Facing another lockdown blackburn is given a deadline to deal with a rising tide of coronavirus cases. And the statue of slave trader Edward Colston is
Restaurants, hotels and gyms could look like with social distancing. As premier League Players return to team training, three clubs report positive covid 19 tests, including one player at watford, the restart could well be pushed back. Good morning. Today could well prove to be the warmest day of the year so far as temperatures push some of us to highs of about 28 or 29 degrees. For all of us, its going to be dry, sunny and warm except the final from scotla nd sunny and warm except the final from scotland with some rain. More later. Its wednesday 20 may. Our top story the world war ii veteran captain tom moore is to be knighted for his Fundraising Efforts for Nhs Charities, after a special nomination from the Prime Minister. pres2 he walked 100 laps of his garden in time for his 100th birthday last month, this story has been a ray of light in these dark times. With the country and much of the world on lockdown, a familyjoke saw tom moore, whod served as a captain in the Second World Wa