At this hour, at least right now, there are some modest advances. Germany up by about 14 points. Ftse up by 8 points and in france, the cac up by about close to 10 points. In geopolitical news, we are watching the situation in ukrai ukraine. The Ukrainian Government warns a ceasefire with pro russian fighters would end tonight. If the two sides failed to reach a deal on lastminute talks. Meanwhile, there are reports of heavy fighting around separatist strong holds in the eastern part of that country. Its a situation we will continue to watch. Andrew, right now, baub back over to you. Dupont is cutting its Current Quarter and profit forecast. The company says sales in its agriculture and chemicals unit increased at a slower pace than expected. Nike, posted better than expected quarterly results. The company spent aggressively on marketing ahead of the world cup. Demand for nike apparel and footwear rose. World cup, its the first time nike is sponsoring more National Teams than adidas. N
In tripoli with the latest, plus, forced to use the back roads where in the indian city of kolkata where the bicycles have a dividing opinion. Well, we begin this news hour in tunisia where people are voting and its seen as a test to the transition to democracy and 2011 uprising against the former uprising inspired demonstrations across the arab world and struggled with political turmoil and faltering economy and violence and we report. Reporter violence and instability are large in a country casting a historic vote. Security forces track a group of people with spouses in a house in the capitol tunis and they stormed the hide out killing most of the fighters including five Women Police Officers say were armed and planning to disrupt the elections. This is the leader of the secular tunisia call a party likely to make significant gains. Members of the former government and of president abdereen also taking part in elections and one is command who served as defense and foreign minister. T
A fool english breakfast. If you ask me, the beach is always the best place to be in summer. You expect to see sand waves, blue skies. But if you happen to be where artist tail young son is, you might also encounter his beach animals. The dutch mens complex moving sculptures look as though theyre powered by electricity, but theyre actually moved by the wind dance and uses simple materials pvc on cable ties to build them. And humbly says, they work thanks to physics, but to see them move elegantly along the shoreline, its clear their feats of engineering with almost touch of magic, see for yourself. Ah, the invasion of the strand beasts or beach beasts on the coast of slaven again and the netherlands is an impressive spectacle. Indeed. They run crawl and fly powered only by the wind. Somehow it is ideal. Anything my head and i cannot think about anything else any more. So its a like a malady like addiction. I would say. Dutch artist and tinkerer, tail johnson is their creator. He starte
2month sitin. And ben braid brie a newspaper editor dies. We look at his golden era this exclusive report from iraq the army is trying to take back tikrit from i. S. I. L. With the help of progovernment militia, iraqi forces recaptured three towns. Together with baiji its among the armys key goals. Al jazeera has obtained exclusive access to the action imran khan has that report. Reporter battling i. S. I. L. Requires patients and sometimes hitting odd targets. This is a makeshift road block boobytrapped with explosives. It takes a lot of fire to clear it. This is the latest iraqi Army Offensive to secure the main highway between tikrit and baghdad. Along the way they have retaken villages from i. S. I. L. , who have fallen back to positions closer to tikrit. I. S. I. L. Cant go near a 5km radius around the villages that we control, yet they are still circling, reassuring the people of these towns and villages that they are safe. Take tikrit will not be easy. Hard core fighters will be
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