I am francine lacqua. A flurry of bank news. Standard chartered has named a new box, bill winters. War on the this. Caroline hyde. Caroline, everybody has been sinking about who will take the job winters has been a perennial for every bank to be the next boss. You wonder why this one. They say in a statement that he is a globally respected banker and he has the right skills to drive it and conduct. Standard chartered has seen a series of scandals notably sanctions violations. This is why bill winters is coming in as a new ceo. He was really coceo of jpmorgan and went to set up his own asset class in 2011. There you see it. On the biggest independent commission on banking. A man who knows regulation, a man who knows response to the new working environment. Every single tank these to be negotiating. Every single bank needs to be negotiating. The logs ever serving ceo in u. K. History since the longest serving ceo in u. K. History. He almost tripled the assets to 90 billion. Very focused
At the moment. From lebanon two bombs exploded in beirut. Detonated within metres of each other in a southern suburb close to the Iranian Cultural Center and embassy. The red cross say two have been killed. 35 have been wounded. Stefanie dekker joins me now from beirut. Stefanie dekker, tell us what more do we know about the explosions. What we see is tense. There are conflicting reports. It was a car and a motorcycle, and also two car becomes. This news is coming in. We see wreckage of a car, in tront, as you said, of the Iranian Cultural Center. There is a flag on top. Building. This is a densely populated area. Its an apartment. I can see a shop and jackets. This is very much heavily populated and leaves people concerned. There has been around seven explosions since hezbollah said it was fighting. These scenes showing the implications its having in the country. Stephy, tell us more about where the bombs went off. In other words, tell us about the neighbourhood. Well, this is a shia
And why wild weather is plaguing the u. S. And europe. The ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych says antigovernment protesters have crossed the limits. After 24 hours of violence in which 25 people have been killed. Russia said it will not intervene after the worst clashes since the protest began in november. Several countries are considering sanctions. This morning in you ukraines independence square, tension is building as protesters gather ahead of another day of demonstrations. The smoke that you see there, burning tyres of barricades. Extra police have been brought in to calm the situation after at least nine officers were killed in the bloodshed. It appears the protesters are not prepared to back down. Police gained some ground. The aftermath has left the square looking like a battle zone, with black smoke and flames coming from makeshift barricades and buildings. At the peak of the violence on tuesday night demonstrators used whatever they could get their hands on as weapons ag
We dont have trading in tokyo. It is the emperors birthday. John, good morning. Japan is closed or the emperors birthday today. China stocks are gaining. Apple as well and also foxconn part of that. Japan is closed. U. S. Gdp better than forecast. More details on what is happening as far as asiapacific stocks. Lets get back to our top stories. Apple finally signing a long awaited deal to get iphones sold through china mobile. Stephen engle is our china correspondent and he is in beijing. This is a long time coming. It is a pretty significant deal as well. X years six years worth of negotiation coming to fruition. Accessll give apple to access to customers on chinas biggest wireless at work. China telecom corp. The china apple have been offering since about 2009. Telecom has offered it since march of last year. The big stumbling block for apple and china mobile has been mobiles insistence to have apple make a handset that could be used on the Homegrown Technology that china mobile was f
Bloomberg reporters standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Ryan chilcote has the details on rising tensions in ukraine. Jonathan ferro is digging into samsungs second straight decline in profit. Tensions heightening again after armed men stormed government offices in three cities in Eastern Ukraine. Ryan chilcote this here with the story. If you take the surrounding area, youre talking about a couple of million people, the fifth biggest city in the country. Donetsk is an interesting place. It is very important to ukraine. Ukraines secondbiggest city. Armed men moved in. You were running battles throughout the night. The ukrainian interior ministry, representing the federal government, has just posted that they have taken that building back. We will have to check that. Then there is another city called lujan scott luhansk, another building was taken. Not sure if theyre Still Holding it very all in all, this is an area that includes 10 millio