Become a valuable resource. And intelligent windows heating and cooling with glass facades. Welcome to the show. In many countries farming has become an industrialised process. Machines do the work and chemicals are used as both fertilizers and weed killers. But more and more people are rejecting industrial agriculture. Today were asking why and what are the alternatives. Here in normandy is back in a small plot of land thats been called frances most successful alternative Vegetable Farm the land was bought by charlotte and now they create a in two thousand and three they wanted to start a new life as organic farmers got to larkham us when we started out people said you cant feed the world with organic farming we were confident that you could but first and foremost we wanted to be selfsufficient lou and thats what i mean we didnt have a clue at first people thought we were just a city people dreamers but eventually they were impressed with our productivity. At first paper in concentrat
Election points to a grand coalition. Coloring Deutsche Bank. After lowering its stake, the chinese conglomerate hna turns to them to help hedge its stake in the german lender. Half an hour till the european open. Look at where we see futures trading after the gains yesterday, futures are up today and a percent mispriced is indicating again at the open. Pretty decent gain across european indexes, with the exception of the ftse which is open lower. E to everyone else looks green on friday. Treasuries, we are holding at a level of 2. 9 . This is a threeday chart of the treasury yield and you can see that after a big gain on valentines day, up to 2. 9 , we are holding their. , ones coming down a tick basis point. Otherwise, it looks like levels will stay high on this friday. Charthere is only one column i want to point to, the Foreign Exchange markets. 1. 25dollar pushing through yesterday. 1. 20 why 40 1. 2540. The base of the trend is 1. 0 586 where we are trading on yen. Will we push b
Mark welcome to surveillance, im mark barton in london. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 9 , rising for the fourth day in five, contract for the best week since december, 2016. The european gains surging 2. 8 . Year, coming. S. 10 down today, breaking below 2. 9 , is where we are today. We closed above 2. 9 percent yesterday, the highest level since december 2014. Today, export and import data. Spot indexrg dollar is lower today by about 0. 25 . Sincee lowest level december 2014. A growing number of economists forecast the fed will step up the pace of rate increases. The u. S. Twin deficit becoming a likely catalyst for a new wave of dollars selling after a brief respite, i say a brief respite in february. This is coming up on surveillance today. We talk with the chief executive of metro bank. Withr, we talk the 10 year ylagos. Mateos taylor riggs joins us from new york. Reporter the u. S. Senate has blocked four immigration proposals, leaving a bitter impasse over how to protect 1. 8 million
The iraqi army says its launching an offensive to retake the city of haditha and its nearby dam. Iraqi and u. S. Helicopters are targetting spots around the city. Kurdish forces have retaken the gaza mountain. It fell to to the Islamic State group in june. Iraqs government says it can beat the Islamic State group, but with hope. If we want a remedy for this council, there must be help from the global system, and if there is help from the american time, well target in a shorter time. Jane arraf is in baghdad. How significant now that u. S. Strikes are targetting some of the western provinces like alan bar . Hugely significant. Its the first time the u. S. Launched air strikes in the area, which is an important area, since troops left in 2011, it signifies a widening of that campaign. Its not far from the syrian border, and it is the site of a dam which is the second biggest hyd hydroelectric generate and can flood large areas, all the way to baghdad, if the gates are open. Haditha has b
That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing and assigning risk, arguably the most essential aspect of the program is neither reliable or consistent. To that point the blue rhino facility exploded scented fireballs into the night sky and it was not determined by dhs to be high risk. But i believe with a lot of work and smart people in this program, we can do better. That is why we have called on the president to bring together experts to tackl