Plus, two of americas bestknown newsreaders are to step down for very different reasons. Brian williams has been suspended for misleading the public. Jon stewart announces that the time has come for him to move on. We begin with a developing story off the italian coast. 200 migrants are missing and are feared dead. The migrants left libya on sit saturday on flimsy boats. Nine have survived and were rescued by the coast guard. Details are still upcoming. Ukrainian peace talks. Francois hollande and Angela Merkel are trying to come up with a lasting ceasefire agreement between Petro Poroshenko and vladimir putin. The latest diplomatic push comes as washington says it is considering sending weapons to ukrainian forces. Earlier today, there had been doubts as to whether the meeting would even take place. The four heads of state have confirmed their presence. I think the first thing that will be part of this agreement would be a ceasefire, to get the guns stopping firing in the east come on
Central japan is a step closer. The ukrainian and russian president versus agreed to a deal to end the fighting in eastern ukraine. Vladimir putin says the cease fire will begin sunday. Putin and his ukrainian counter part spent 16 hours together. They talked through the night with mediation from the leaders of germany and france. Poroshenko says hell sign the deal. The rebels also agreed to sign. The separatists have been battling Government Forces since april of last year. More than 5300 people have been killed. A shell killed a number of people at a hospital inspect city of donetsk. The woman in the nut rage case has been sentenced to a year in prison the the case sparked interest around the world, but they only had the chance to film the bus believed to be carrying the women cho hyunah. Show cho had faced criminal charges violating Airline Safety laws. She felt the attendant was violating the airlines protocol on serving nuts. Chos lawyers down play the charges. They said the plane
Targeted. Also on the way for you, no new deal on great debt. Talks with eurozones finance ministers fails to reach an agreement as greece reaches closer to bailout limbo. Stephen carroll will have more in business without any 50 shades of grey frenzy continues. We will take a look at the rising effect it has had on sex toys. More on that later this hour but first our top stories. World leaders seem cautiously optimistic after a night of peace talks on Eastern Ukraine. Leaders from russia, ukraine france, and germany reached a deal to end the fighting with prorussian separatists in the east. More than 350 people have died there in 10 months of fighting. Here is more now from the russian president Vladimir Putin. It has not been the best night of my life, but morning is a different matter because in spite of the difficulties we have encountered during discussions, we were able to agree on many points. Incidentally, i believe the length of talks is linked regretfully with keyievs refusal
Producer reports earnings just a week after it has sold its north sea business. Will economic sanctions way on its bottom line . We bring you those numbers in just a moment. Welcome to countdown. I mark barton. And i am anna edwards. Also, we will speak to greg keeler. Breaking numbers from rwe. Lets bring those to you. We have some fairly good guidance in terms of how the numbers of 2014 were going to shake up. Not surprisingly, they are somewhat in line with estimates. Net income has come in at 1. 28 billion euros. That is exactly in line with estimates. A little higher up the profitlost account, that is 1. 73 billion euros, nicely ahead and estimate of 1. 659 billion euros. Because of what is happening to energy prices, just last week, they sold their north sea business. They sold it for just over 5 billion euros, trying to mitigate the Falling Energy prices as they go. Concern from the u. K. Government about how the sanction environment against russia might impact on the north sea
And indeed, through all of business. I want to get to pimm fox, who is in our new york newsroom with top headlines. Pimm and todays speech Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen says Economic Conditions may warrant an Interest Rate hike this year. But she says the rate increases will be gradual. This is janet yellen speaking today. Janet yellen the activity appears to be closer to its potential than it was a year or two ago. The economy in an underlying sense remains quite weak by historical standards. Pimm yellen also said the Federal Reserve policy will evolve based on Economic Conditions. Senator Chuck Schumer of new york emerging as a likely successor to the Current Senate democrat leader harry reid. Harry reid says hes not going to run for a sixth term in the senate. Reid endorsed Chuck Schumer and the chambers number two democrat said hes not going to see to the top job. The Germanwings Airbus copilot who apparently crashed flight 9525 on purpose was suffering from an unspecified