Thousands of people are pouring into the confident and being shuffled into the continent and being shuffled from border to border. A proposal to try to end the chaos in burkina faso following the coup detat. Amnesty to military leaders who seized power. Also coming up, it was a groundbreaking night at the emmy awards with viola davis becoming the first black woman ever to win the best actress prize. Billions have been wiped off the value of volkswagen after it admits cheating in an environmental test in the United States. We will have details with stephen carroll. Claire youre watching france 24. Greeces far less far left party has swept victory. Winning more than 35 of the vote. Alexis tsipras will once again lead the greek government despite a record poor turnout at the polls in a painful austerity deal struck with creditors. Reporter greeting his supporters at happy man, Alexis Tsipras is poised to be greece cost next Prime Minister after his party gain majority in sundays election.
We are writer in london. I am guy johnson. I am francine lacqua. Dublin is going digital. The largest tech summit kicks off. 20,000 of the top tech entrepreneurs and celebrities are expected to flock to the 2014 web summit. Caroline hyde is there. She joins us now. Give assistance of the scale of the event. It is phenomenal. In four years, it has gone from 400 people to 20,000. It is warming up now. A few people getting strong coffees after a night on the town. There is a pub summit that goes on as well. Taking in a few whiskeys. They are revving up to network. 80 six different countries. Helping the economy of dublin boosted gigabyte 100 Million Euros in these few days. You have the elite of tech. The peter kilo who founded kiehl, who founded paypal. We are talking to ever note and other celebrities like eva longoria of desperate housewives and she will be taking the stage. So popular is this event that forbes wrote a style profile about what to wear or not to wear. You have to be sha
In the midst of allegations of corruption. Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the program. Japanese shares are on the tear. We are joined from hong kong with the latest. The market didnt get everything done on friday, did it . It is getting the job done. It has been rising. It reached a six year high closing 3 higher. Brokerages and consumer lenders led the game along with exporters. It was more than twice the 30 day average and it was closing 3. 3 higher. Itone point during the day, surged above 17,000 for the First Time Since the financial crisis. It closed out the best twoday gain in six years. It could not get the job done. Holidayy was a public in japan so we were seeing a lot of movement today. Saying itecurities was such a big impact from that additional easing that the that not everything could be priced in during one gain. The fact that japan raised its target for annual purchases of japanese government bonds to ¥80 trillion while tripling its purchases of real estate. T
Im guy johnson. And im francine lacqua. Talks are ongoing between greece and the euro area today as the greek government looks to carve out a new bailout contract. Lets get straight to hans nichols in brussels. What is the most Important Development in the last 24 hours . Good morning, francine. They do have these technical conversations going on for a longterm program. They want to agree on all the numbers. Eu officials, technical advisors, and greek officials. They are going to have a political agreement. We dont have a political agreement yet. We have an agreement to go through the numbers and continue the negotiating process. They need the same data sets and that is why we need to have thats why it is important that you do have these numbers. Angela merkel is positive. She says that mr. Tsipras was someone that she could work with. We gave each other a friendly greeting. I congratulated him on his election win. I told him that from my side we want to work well together. We will tak
Being estimates on quarterly sales. We will have an exclusive interview with the companys chief executive. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And im anna edwards. I am anna edwards. The governor of swedens Central Bank Says he is ready to expand his Bond Purchase Program and will not rule out intervention on his countrys currency. You never know. We are in a very uncertain world. That would not be our first choice, but never say never. It has been a tumultuous week for europe on two fronts. Gridlock talks over the future of greeces a program. Bailout talks have resumed in hopes of a new contract. And a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine was the result of over 18 hours of negotiations in minsk. The collapse of previous provinces has left the eu skeptical to leaders threatened russia with fresh sanctions should the ceasefire collapsed. Lets get to hans nichols who is following this story on both fronts. What is the latest from the leaders in brussels . Grexit good morning. It is cautious